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                  We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🎄🎉
Have a safe, relaxing holiday and we look forward to seeing you all again in January.                         
                                                                          

Notices:

Thursday 19th - Class Christmas Party - please can your child bring a snack to share with the class. Remember, we are a no nuts school. Thank you!
Friday 20th -  Last Day - finish at 1:30pm

 

Tuesday 26th November was the last swimming session for the autumn term. Lessons will resume again on 14th January 2025.

Creative Home Learning projects are due to be submitted by Monday . We're looking forward to seeing them!

 

Swimming 
                     - Is a statutory part of the curriculum so all children must attend
                     - Please make sure your child's clothes are labelled and that shoes with laces can be tied independently.
                     - If your child is not swimming e.g. they are not well enough, please send a note in to Ms Beatty or Miss Abdullah

New lunch menu - please discuss meal choices with your child so they know what the choice is for that day.

Please remember the children should have a healthy snack for morning playtime. 

 

Glue sticks - Please send in a named one for your child to use.
Water Bottles - Please ensure that your child brings a named water bottle to school with them each day so that they can hydrate regularly throughout the day.

 

Multiplication Tables Check - Please click on the link below to access important information about the Year 4 Multiplication tables check in the summer. 

This noticeboard will be updated on Thursday afternoons to share homework and keep you updated with life in Year 4.

 

Teachers:
Maple - Ms Beatty
Rowan - Miss Abdullah 

Support Staff

Mrs Barrett
Mr Nudds
Mrs Skinner

 

Reading for Pleasure books for class

As part of our focus on reading in school, we would like to develop the lending library of books within each class. This will enable the children to foster a passion and love of reading at Belmont and ensure that they have access to high quality texts.
Please find links to the book list that has a variety of books that we would love to have in class.  Once a book has been donated to the class we will add a tick to show we now have it.  Please check the list to ensure that the book that you would like to donate is one that we don't already have.
These books will be stamped to show who has generously donated them and shared with all the class.
The books come from the Recommended Books for Year 4 List which can be found below.

Y4 recommended book list

 

Love reading 4 schools (Year 4)

Books donated so far

 

Autumn Term

Our topic this term is 'Why Britain?'

The below list is part of an initiative called Word Aware that we are using in school. We thought it would be helpful to share this list with you so that you can use some of these words at home when discussing the topic. If your child speaks a different language at home, it would be helpful to discuss and translate these words using your home language. We may add to this list during the topic as new words are introduced. 

Word Aware - Why Britain 

Y4 Autumn Learning Tree

 

Knowledge Organisers

Further information about the learning in history and geography is available on our new Knowledge Organisers. These are available on the Maple and Rowan Google Classrooms in the Classwork tab.  The link will be updated when the children have joined their new Google classroom. 

Maple Google Classroom         Rowan Google Classroom

 

Handwriting 

As you may be aware Belmont uses a cursive handwriting scheme for those children who can consistently form all non-cursive letters correctly.
Here is a link to the handwriting guidelines to enable you to support your children practising letter formation at home. 

Belmont Handwriting Guidelines

 

PE Days

Rowan and Maple class on Monday. Children are to come to school in full PE kit.

Rowan and Maple class swimming on Tuesday. Please wear full school uniform and bring your swimming kit in a bag. 

 

Weekly Routines

Monday

Bring in Reading Record

Rowan and Maple PE

 

Tuesday

Swimming 

Times table test

 

Wednesday

French - Maple and Rowan

Bring in homework.

Spelling test

Thursday

Music

Friday

 

Calendar/ Key dates

School Diary

Dates for the diary

19.12.24  Class Christmas Party
20.12.24  Last Day
06.01.25  First day back at school
14.01.25  SWIMMING STARTS
15.01.25  Class photos
31.01.25  Thames Explorer Trust Trip
14.02.25  Last day of school 
17.02.25  Half term 
24.02.25  Return for Spring 2
03.03.25  Book Week
06.03.25  World Book Day
12.03.25  Parents' Evening
20.03.25  Parents' Evening
31.03.25  Creative Home Learning due in
04.04.25  Last day of Spring Term
07.04.25  Easter Break

 

Home Learning

For further information about Home Learning and ideas on how to support your child please click here

Reading

Daily (15-20 mins)

Please ensure that all books are recorded in the reading record along with the dates that reading has taken place. Please sign/initial these entries. Comments about the book and your child's reading are welcomed. Three comments per week is ideal.  

Reading records are checked on Monday,  however;  reading books can be changed on any day.

Children may borrow books from the classroom library and the Junior Library.

Please note that children are responsible for changing their own books. 

Grammar & Punctuation

Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling book

 

Spelling

The words are listed below. These words are set on a Tuesday for a spelling dictation task the following Tuesday. 

Year 3 and 4 Word List

Maths

Maths homework book.

 

Times Tables

Children will be tested weekly, in school, on the level they have been given for homework. These websites will help make learning at home fun and maximise results.

Times Tables Challenges can be printed here.  Timestables.co.uk                                                                             Times Tables Rock Stars 

Topmarks Primary Homework Help  Hit the Button 

Creative Home Learning  Details are on Google Classroom.

 This week:

Grammar & Punctuation
Maths:

 

Spellings

Y4 words

Spelling Rule - Words with prefix ‘sub’, 'super' and 'inter'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y4 Calculations Policy

Learning in school this week:
English Historical Texts
Maths

Multiplication & Division

Learning next week:
English Historical texts 
Maths Multiplication & Division
 

French 

French homework is optional but we recommend children use Year 4's French Google Classroom, Linguascope and Belmont's French Website to consolidate what has been taught in class.

French Google Classroom

French Google Classroom

All year 4 children have be invited to their French Google classroom where they can find French tasks and activities. 

Belmont French Website

Belmont French Website

Go to Belmont's French website to find out what we have been doing in class and for extra activities and videos. The French website is updated regularly. Children must login to their Belmont Google account to access the website.

Linguascope

Linguascope

 We recommend children use Linguascope regularly to learn French and other languages. The Linguascope link and log in details can be found in year 4's French Google classroom.