Reminders:

-All children need a swimming cap for swimming lessons on Friday

-Please ask your child if their glue stick  has run out and provide them with a new one if needed

Swimming Lessons

Swimming lessons have now finished for the autumn term and will resume for both classes on Friday January 16th.

Year 4 Multiplication Check 

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

Multiplication_tables_check_information_for_parents

Calendar/Key dates

W/B Monday 9th February: Children’s Mental Health Week

Tuesday 10^th February-Safer Internet day

Friday 13th February 2026 – Half Term

Monday 23rd February 2026 – Spring 2 begins

Thursday 5th March: World Book Day

W/B 23rd March: STEM Week

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 ‘Rivers’

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.

Y4 word aware Spring – Rivers

Y4 Spring 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.

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)

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