Belle Vue Primary School

Children Year groups

Welcome to Year 4!

Academic Year 2026-2027

We are Mr Bowater, Miss Winwood, Mrs Turner & Miss Smith.

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 Mulligan will be teaching PE and PSHE. PE is currently on Tuesday and Friday afternoons.

Please do not hesitate to contact us via email at info@belle-vue.dudley.sch.uk.

Miss Winwood

4W Class Teacher

Mr Bowater

4B Class Teacher

Mrs Turner

Teaching Assistant

Miss Smith

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 Tuesday and Friday afternoons. Please remove earrings if children can not do this independently.

Swimming - 4B are swimming from Wednesday 9th September - October half term.

- 4W are swimming from October half term - Christmas.

Exact dates will be sent via message closer to the time.

Class Dojo

Messages, information and photos will be shared on the class story page for each class. Please ask if you need a new code to login.

My Happy Mind

Alongside our weekly PSHE lessons, you will have access to some useful MyHappyMind resources that you can explore together at home to support your child's learning and wellbeing. Logins will be handed out shortly so that you can access these resources.

AutumnTerm 2027

Reading

Writing

Maths

Autumn Term - Our class novel is 'The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and 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 autumn term, the children will continue to focus 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 focus on place value, addition & subtraction, area and multiplication & division.

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 2027. 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 a apper copy will be sent home each Friday.
Spelling tests will take place on Friday and include the 12 words learnt that week.

Statutory Year 3 and 4 words

SpellingWordList Y3 4

Wider Curriculum

Autumn Term

Science: Biology - The Human Body

Religious Education: 'Are all religions equal?'

PSHE: MyHappyMind

Geography: Spatial Sense

Computing: Animation

French: 'Welcome to school'

Art: Drawing: Exploring tone, texture and proportion

PE: Football & Dodgeball

Homework

We expect all children to be practising their spellings (these will be going home each week soon) and timestables at home using websites such as TTRockstars and Hit The Button. Children should also be encouraged to read their school reading books for at least 5 minutes per day.

On some occasions, we may send out homework documents to further support skills and concepts that they will have already encountered 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.

Any questions, please do get in touch.

Homework is set in accordance with our SMART policy (please see the policy on the website).