Belle Vue Primary School

Children Year groups

Welcome to Year 4!

Academic Year 2025-2026

We are Miss Winwood, Miss Hackett, Mrs Hart & Miss Harris.

We are really excited to be teaching your children in Year 4 this academic year.
When we are planning new exciting activities, Mrs Silwood-Monk and Mrs Huggins will be teaching PE. This is currently on Thursday afternoons.

Please do not hesitate to contact us via email at info@belle-vue.dudley.sch.uk or leave a message with the office on 01384 389900 if you have any questions.

Miss Winwood

4W Class Teacher

Miss Hackett

4H Class Teacher

Miss Harris

Teaching Assistant

Mrs Hart

Teaching Assistant

The 'Belle Vue Way'

Our three school rules are:

Be Ready
Be Respectful
Be Safe

We also have four listening skills that we actively teach across school. These are:

Good listening is…sitting still
Good listening is…staying quiet
Good listening is…looking at the person who is talking
Good listening is…listening to all of the words

Important Information

PE kits need to be in school for children to use on Thursday afternoons. Please remove earrings if children can not do this independently.

Swimming dates -

Autumn Term 2025

Reading

Writing

Maths

Autumn 1 - Our next class novel is 'The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe' by C.S.Lewis.

In class, we teach reading every day through choral reading of a variety of different texts and extracts, checking for fluency, understanding of vocabulary and helping the children to understand a wide range of texts through key questioning.

The children will have a reading book that they bring home every night, selected from a key reading stage. Please could you ensure that they bring this in every day as they will read in class daily. It is important that your child practises their reading daily for around 10 minutes to build upon their fluency and comprehension skills.

During the first part of the autumn term, the children will be focusing on their sentence skills ready to use in their independent writing. As a part of the writing process, the children will review their work and make changes and revisions.

During the autumn term, Year 4 will start their place value learning focusing on numbers over 1,000, partitioning numbers, ordering and comparing numbers and rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000.

We will also continue to learn and practise our times tables (up to x12) in preparation for the 'Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check' (MTC) in June 2025. Please use TTRockstars at home for additional practise. The 'Soundcheck' game mode is a practise MTC for children to get used to the pace and input of answers.

In addition to daily maths lessons, children will focus on their arithmetic skills.

TTRockstars

Handwriting
Handwriting will be taught every day using the 'Letter-Join' handwriting program. The children will be expected to use joined handwriting, leading to a cursive style by Year 6. It is a key component in developing children's writing. Throughout these lessons, the children will be taught about letter families, number formation and High Frequency Words.

It would be extremely beneficial if you could support your child with their handwriting at home too. Simply follow the code below to access a range of activities to practise their 'letter-joins'.

Spelling
Spelling will be a key aspect of developing writing skills and will be taught daily. Twelve spellings, linked to phonics sounds, will be learnt each week and will be found below.
Spelling tests will take place on Friday and include the 12 words learnt that week and other spellings from previous weeks for recapping.

Wider Curriculum

AUTUMN TERM

Science: Biology - The Human Body

Religious Education: Culture & Religion - Multifaith unit

PSHE: Relationships - positive friendships including online

Geography: Spatial Sense

Computing: Coding

French: Welcome To School

Art: Light

Music: Musical Structures

PE:

Forest School - Dates to be announced (please look out for messages from us)

DT - Focus Weeks - every term

Homework

The children are currently bringing home a Maths activity, which is linked to their learning in class. We encourage your child to work independently in the first instance, and then go through it with you afterwards. If your child finds a question tricky, we ask that you put a star shape next to it, so we are aware and can reinforce back in the classroom.

Homework is to be handed in by Friday morning. Each child is awarded a team point for returning their homework.

Any questions, please do get in touch.

Homework is set in accordance with our SMART policy (please see the policy on the website). We expect all children to be practising their spellings and multiplication skills at home each week using the suggested websites below. On some occasions, we may send out homework documents to further support skills and concepts that they will have already encountered in class.