Year 4 2025 - 2026

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

We hope you’ve all had a wonderful summer, full of fun, rest and time with your loved ones. We’re so excited to welcome you back for what promises to be an amazing year in Year 4!

This term, our learning will take us on some thrilling adventures. In Literacy, we’ll explore Gorilla by Anthony Browne, a captivating fantasy story that will spark imagination and creativity. In History, we’ll uncover the fascinating world of the Ancient Egyptians, complete with a hands-on Egyptian Day full of costumes and creative activities and a trip to the Bolton Museum to bring our learning to life. In Maths, we’ll continue with our Maths – No Problem! scheme, solving real-life problems while building on topics from previous years to develop strong understanding and confidence.

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We know that happiness, safety and wellbeing are just as important as academic learning, so we’ll be working to make sure every child feels secure, confident and ready to enjoy school life to the fullest.

We can’t wait to get started and share a year full of curiosity, discovery and fun together!

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 20th October 2025

*This week we are mastering the 4 X tables*

English: Writing and publishing our own narratives.

SPAG - Using apostrophes for contractions

Maths: Strategies for subtraction, including the formal column method with renaming (carrying)

History: Ancient Egyptians - Gods & Goddesses

Geography: Locating the longest rivers in the world.

Art: Experimenting with chalk pastels.

Religious and worldviews: Making lnks between different beliefs and religions.

Hearts and Minds: Stranger Danger

Music: Performing ostinatos.

PE: Outdoors on Tuesday (Tag Rugby) and Indoors on Wednesday (Dance).

Science: Sound - How do we hear?

Key Dates:

Egyptian Day Thursday 20th November

Manchester Art Museum - Feb 2026 (TBC)

Quinta Residential 24-26th June 2026

Weekly Reminders:

Homework: Atom online learnng is set on a Monday.
Spellings and sentences are set and come home on Wednesdays and need to be handed by the following Tuesday.
Please ensure children in Year 4 are reading and filling in their reading diaries 4 times a week at home.
Practise and learn the 4 X table.
PE (due to begin the week beginning Mon 8th September) Tuesday - Tag Rugby (outdoor) ; Wednesday - Dance (Indoor) - please ensure children come to school in their appropriate kit with long hair tied back.

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:

Monday 29th September Bolton Museum - Explore Ancient Egypt

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