Class 4 2025 - 2026

Miss Hymers

Class Teacher Class 3 and Class 4, Art and Design, Design and Technology

Mrs Glew

Class 4 Teacher, Wellbeing and Fitness

Mrs Rowley

Class 4 Teaching Assistant, Eco Committee

Welcome to Class 4

Mrs.Glew, Miss Hymers and Mrs. Rowley.

Dear Parents and Carers,

As we approach the Summer term, we hope the below information will be useful to you in supporting and sharing what is happening in school with your child. If you have any questions or concerns, please do get in touch via the school office or pop in before or after the school day.

Preparation for SATS will obviously drive the first few weeks of this term, children will be revising and practising their learning in years 4,5 and 6, in Maths and English.

English Literacy

We will continue to inspire the children in their writing with writing related to our new book, The Templeton Twins giving them opportunity to practise their sentence structures, descriptive techniques and use of dialogue in their writing. Scripts and performance will dominate after SATS as we prepare for our end of year show, in which everyone will take a role. We will also explore our history topic of Benin through literacy this term in the book Children of Benin.

Maths
After revision of the year 4,5 and 6 curriculum elements we will end the term with mini Real-life projects related to our year 6 learning, including a focus on graphs, an awareness of budgeting and costing for projects.

Reading
We would appreciate support in ensuring your child reads daily at home, whilst we know that there are many things that compete for your child’s attention, there is also much written about the impact of reading on their future achievement, particularly in their ability to access resources at High School.

Whilst in school, we will be concentrating on reading a wide variety of literature in order to augment their vocabulary. Every child has access to a reading book and are encouraged to enjoy reading in order to bolster their awareness of a variety of writing and expose them to different genres and scenarios. We welcome your support on reading with them, being read to and discussing their books with them. The benefits of reading are not restricted to chapter books, small articles that may interest them (eg The Week Junior) or extracts from factual books are extremely valuable.

Whole Class Reading
We will read either our whole class novel or extracts related to our curriculum subjects daily. Every child will read aloud at least twice a week, this will be a focused read; involving class and partner discussion, quizzes and comprehension questions.

Topic Work
Later in the term in Geography we will be completing a fieldwork project related to mapping within Bretherton, whilst our history work on Benin will be supported by reading the book Children of Benin.

PE
We are looking forward to practising the athletics events for Sports Day, and for dance to help us prepare for the end of year performance.
NB Earrings cannot be worn at any time during PE. Please ensure your child can either remove and replace their own earrings or they take them out before school on the days of PE and put them back in after school.

This term we also look forward to welcoming Magistrates from Preston to teach us a little about law and how it is enacted.

Homework
Homework will continue to be sent weekly on Thursdays, taking on more of a research and presentation style which will be needed at High School. We continue to encourage the children to take ownership of their homework and attempt it independently though obviously we welcome your support and input.

In year 6 we always have one eye on preparing your children for high school and encourage them to take increasing responsibility. There may be times when your child finds a gap in their understanding, please encourage them to talk to us if they need help or it is causing anxiety. Homework is a further opportunity for children to retrieve and revise information and embed knowledge, understanding and strategies though on some occasions may also be research in preparation for something in class. Homework will be set on google classroom so it is easy for both parents and children to find.

Spelling
In addition to the homework above, there will be a weekly spelling focus and list of words to learn, these words will be taught in class and opportunities to practise them provided in school. We welcome your support in learning these spelling patterns at home so that children can apply them confidently in class. The words can be learnt by using the games set on Spelling Shed, learning spelling patterns and using look, cover, say, write.

Snack Time

Children are allowed water bottles filled with water (not juice).

Only healthy snacks or toast are allowed at morning break time, this is now paid termly through the school spider app.

Spelling practice:

Your child has access to Emile.

Maths links:

10 minute tests as recommended at parents evening - CPQ books

https://nrich.maths.org/9413

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular

https://www.khanacademy.org/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/fun-maths-games-activities-for-kids/