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Year 4

Welcome to Year 4 

 Overviews

 Key Dates

Swimming lessons- Thursday

PE day - Thursday

January 2026

  • Monday 5 Jan – Term 3 Begins

  • Tuesday 6 Jan – Epiphany Mass @10am
  • Tuesday 6 Jan- Romans banquet - dress up day 
  • Wednesday 7 Jan – Trip to Guildhall Museum (Romans)
  • Friday 16 Jan - PTFA: Y3 & Y4 DISCO
  • Wednesday 28 Jan – Parents Workshop: RSHE Tricky Conversations @2.30pm via Teams

  • Friday 30 Jan - Housekeeping Meeting & Parents invited to view books (LKS2 – Y3 & Y4) @3.30pm

February 2026

  • Monday 2 Feb – Candlemas Mass @10am
  • Wednesday 4 Feb – NSPCC Number Dress: Dress up as a Rockstar
  • Monday 9 Feb – Children’s Mental Health Week begins
  • Tuesday 10 Feb – Safer Internet Day
  • Friday 13 Feb – Parent Forum @2pm 
    TAG Day – Wear Own Clothes
    PTFA: Cake Sale
  • Monday 16 Feb – Half Term Begins

  Learning Expectations:

P.E 

For Term 2 our P.E day is Thursday
All children will be expected to wear their PE kit to school on their PE days.

They will keep this on all day, so they do not need to bring in their daily school uniform. All children must wear a white polo shirt (logo optional), burgundy shorts, plain black shorts, or burgundy/black tracksuit bottoms. In addition, the school jumper/ cardigan should be worn to school on these days. 

Reading

It is expected that the children read every day for at least 20 minutes. Some days it would be nice for your child to read to you so that you can ask them questions about the book to test their understanding. It is also a nice time to spend together. Each child will be given a leveled book to bring home and once their book is finished they can bring it back to school to be changed after completing a quiz. Their level will be reviewed termly by the children taking a quiz based on key reading skills. 

Spelling

Your child will receive their spellings on a Friday. They will then have until the following Friday to practise these before their test. Please make sure that your child also understands the meaning of the words they are learning. If your child misspells a word from the spelling list in the Friday test, the way they wrote it will be written next to the spelling in their reading journal so that parents can see the error made and continue to work on this spelling at home.

Maths

In Year 4, we love to work on our Maths skills. At home, we ask children to practice their weekly times tables focus where each week on a Friday we will complete a small quiz against the clock. Their expected at the end of the year to know their times tables from 1 - 12. To support this we encourage children to work on practising times tables out of sequence to help build on their times tables knowledge. The children all have access to an interactive times tables programme called Times Tables Rock Stars (https://ttrockstars.com/)where the children can develop their avatars in a fun way with Maths.  

 Step back in time: Victorian dress-up day

 Celebration of the Word and RSHE