A few reminders are below:

-Reminder children need to be in school for 8:30 this Thursday for our trip to Ufton Court. All children will need a water bottle, packed lunch and coat.

-Use the link below for parent information about the Year 4 Multiplication Check

Multiplication_tables_check_information_for_parents

-A pdf of the home school partnership evening slides are available on Google Classroom.

Calendar/Key dates:

Friday 10th October 2025-World mental health day – Please come dressed in yellow

Wednesday 15th October 2025 – Individual/sibling photos

Thursday 16th October 2025- Ufton court – Make sure to be in school at 8:30

Friday 17th October 2025-Black history workshop

Monday 20th October 2025 -Year 4 Pedestrian Training

Friday 21st November 2025-Staff Inset – No pupils in school

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

Teachers:
Rowan- Mrs Clifton
Maple – Miss Jama

Support Staff
Mr Nudds
Miss Porter
Mrs Abu Zohra

Weekly Routines

Word Aware

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 Vocabulary – Why Britain

Y4 Autumn Learning Tree 2025-6

Knowledge Organisers

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

Rowan Google Classroom         Maple 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

Children are to come to school in full PE kit. Swimming lessons begin next Friday (19th September). Please see the letter sent on MyChildAtSchool (MCAS) for further details.

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.

Dates for the diary

24.09.25  Home School Partnership Evening

16.10.25  Ufton Court trip

20.11.25  Rainbow Theatre workshop- Vikings and dress up day ( in school)

Class reading book for Maple and Rowan.

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

Another useful website.

Love reading 4 schools (Year 4)

We will begin setting homework in the CGP books and setting spellings from next week.

In the meantime, please practice your times tables at home and ensure you are filling in your reading record.

Timestables sheets can be found using the link in the table below.

This week: