Year 4 2024 - 2025

Mrs Wiskow

I am passionate about education and try to make learning fun in my classroom. Children need to be motivated to learn well. Outside the classroom my other passion is for horses of which I am lucky enough to own two. I also have a Rhodesian Ridgeback called Kito.

Mrs Pecora

Hi! I am Mrs Pecora - part of the Year 4 dream team!
Besides teaching, my passions are exercise and eating! Luckily they balance each other out - most of the time. I also love the arts - drama, dance, painting, etc so I will be looking for plenty of opportunities to use those in my lessons.
I am looking forward to a fun year learning and getting to know and teach all your special little people.

Welcome to Year 4

Welcome back! We hope you’ve had a wonderful Easter holiday and enjoyed some quality time with family and friends.

We have an exciting term ahead, packed with engaging learning opportunities. This term, we have a geograpy focus investigating biomes and understanding the significance of the rainforest.

Our class text this term is Where the Forest meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker, with a focus on non-fiction writing. This will tie in with our geography and science topics. We wil be looking at the features of information texts and creating our own non-chronological reports about different aspects of the rainforest.

Where the Forest Meets the Sea : Baker, Jeannie, Baker, Jeannie: Amazon.co.uk: Books

In Maths, we will continue with our Maths - No Problem! scheme, which encourages problem-solving through real-life contexts while reinforcing key concepts from previous years. This approach ensures that children build strong mathematical foundations.

Alongside all of this, we are very much aware of the importance of children being happy, safe and secure in school and to help us do this, we follow our Hearts and Minds curriculum. More information about our Hearts and Minds curriculum can be found using this link: Hearts and Minds.

Thank you for your continued support. We are looking forward to another exciting term!

Continuing the Learning Journey...

Week Beginning: Monday 19th May 2025

HALF TERM NEXT WEEK (No homework over the holidays - just keep reading and practising your times tables)

Maths: Estimating length; revision; and looking at angles

English: Studying our text: Where the Rainforest meets the Sea - Researching and recording information about aspects of the rainforest

Geography: Understanding reasons for food choices such as the impact on the environment and fair trading and investigating Rainforests

Hearts and Minds: Managing our mental health such as sadness

Science: Living Things & Their Habitats - Endangered Animals

Design and Technology: To add cladding to a frame structure

PE: Outdoor games (Tuesdays and Thursdays)

Weekly Reminders:

PE days for the summer term will be Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please could children come to school in their PE kits on these days with long hair tied back.
Homework will start the first week back after the holidays. It is set on a Monday to be completed by the following Monday: Atom Learning Maths, Reading and PAG. Spellings are separate. Spellings and sentences will come home on a Wednedsay and are due in the following Tuesday.
Please ensure your child is filling in their reading diary on a daily basis.
Practise timestables on a daily basis using Times Table Rockstars.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to write in your child's reading diary and it will be responded to ASAP.

Renaissance Link for reading click here.

In order to find year group expectations for maths, please click here, scroll down and click on the overview.

For year group expectations for English, please click here, scroll down and click on the overview.

The expectations for science and the foundation subjects can be found by selecting the relevant heading from here.

To access the Atom Learning homework platform, please click here.

Key Dates:

Quinta Residential - Wednesday 25th to Friday 27th June 2025

Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check

Dear Year 4 parents and carers,

You may be aware that Year 4 children across the country are now required to take part in The Multiplication Tables Check: This is a formal assessment that happens at the beginning of June. The children will be tested on their times tables up to 12 x 12. All children will take the test using an Ipad. There is no set pass mark. However, secure and rapid knowledge of times tables facts are beneficial in many of the areas of maths taught in KS2 and therefore will help the children as they move towards their end of KS2 SATS.

Many of the children are now practising their times tables using TT Rockstars and it is really helping with their progress. Usernames and passwords for this are in the front of your child’s reading diary. We recommend that the children practise four times a week for ten minutes. It is so important to get as much practise in as you can because this knowledge will also be a big help with your maths lessons.

Practice tests can also be found on Educationcity in ‘Classwork’. (The 6 second one is the aim as this is how long the children will be given on the day.)

For more information see the document at the bottom of our class page.

Happy multiplying!

Kind regards,

The Year 4 Team at Rode Heath Primary.

Useful websites: https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student