Welcome to the Year 4 Notice Board.

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

 

📚 Year 4 Reading Books

If your child has not been issued an e-book on the Collins website, this means that they have completed the Little Wandle Fluency Programme.

These children will continue to bring home one library book each week and can choose a reading corner book whenever they have finished their previous one.

We really encourage all children to make the most of our reading corner. We have a great selection of chapter books that are perfect for helping children develop their reading fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and love of reading.

 

Reminders:

All children need to bring in a named glue stick and a water bottle in school

Please ensure your child has a waterproof jacket/coat in school.

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

15.10.26 Ufton Court Viking Trip

19.10.26 Black History Workshop (Rowan)

20.10.26 Black History Workshop (Maple)

Teachers:
Rowan- Miss Rogers

Maple – Miss Jama

Support Staff

Mrs  Atkinson

Mrs  Smith
Mrs  Luiz
Ms  Murugan

Mrs Lofts

Weekly Routines

Monday	Bring in Reading Record with at least three comments.
Tuesday	Both classes will have outdoor/Indoor  PE – come to school in kit. Timestables test
Wednesday	Homework set and due in from the previous week. Spelling test Bring your Ukulele for Music- Rowan and Maple
Thursday
Friday	Swimming kit.

 

Word Aware

Our topic this term is ‘Why Britian’

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 2026-27

 

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 are on Fridays. 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.

 

 

Books we are reading this term include:

Reading for Pleasure

In addition to our reading expectations for Year 4, we also encourage reading for pleasure. 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 you have donated a book, please tick on the spreadsheet for your child’s class 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

Please use the spreadsheets below to tick off any books that you buy for the class once they have been added.

Rowan Class Library Books

Maple Class Library Books

Another useful website.

Love reading 4 schools (Year 4)

 

 

 

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	CGP Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling book
Spelling	The words are listed below. These words are set on a Wednesday for a spelling dictation task the following Thursday. Some of the words tested will be taken from the statutory spellings list, as below. Statutory spellings Years 3 and 4 words
Maths	Maths CGP homework book. White Rose Calculation Policy
Times Tables	Children will be tested weekly on the level that they left off at in Year 3. These websites will help make learning at home fun and maximise results. Belmont Times Tables Challenges can be printed here. Timestables.co.uk Times Tables Rock Stars Topmarks Primary Homework Help Hit the Button
Creative Home Learning	On Google Classroom

 

This week:

Grammar & Punctuation	English CGP Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling book: -Pages 70  and 71 ‘ Prefixes in, il, im and ir’ Due: 07/10/26
Maths:	Please complete the following page in your CGP Maths book: -Page 15 Roman Numerals Also complete the ‘Roman numerals’ task on MyMaths. Due: 07/10/26
Spellings	Year 4 words- Group 1 Spelling rule – Prefix ‘il’ and ‘ir’ different illegible calendar illegal experiment irresistible favourite irresponsible irregular illiterate  Group 2 – (your child’s teacher will let you know if your in that group) food book pool took moon foot soon wood zoo good   tested: 07/10/26

Learning this week
English	Information text
Maths	Place value
Learning next week
English	Poetry
Maths	Place value/Addition and Subtraction