Pine Marten Class
Class teacher’s welcome
Welcome to our Pine Marten class page!
I am so excited to join you on this fantastic learning journey. This year will be full of discovery, creativity and growth as we explore new topics, build on our skills, and have lots of fun along the way. I can’t wait to begin our classroom adventure together and watch you all grow into even more amazing human beings—let’s make this a year to remember!
Miss Pashley
Curriculum news
At a glance – Autumn 1
- Maths: Place Value, Addition and Subtraction
- English: Escape from Pompeii, Romulus and Remus
- Science: Animals Including Humans
- History: What did the Romans do for Britain?
- RE: What kind of world did Jesus want?
- Computing: The Internet
- PSHE: Me and My Relationships
- Music: Shape rhythms
- Art: Sketch work/Clay
Home Learning
All children are encouraged to complete a home learning project to build on their class Geography and/or Science learning and examples or ideas will be posted here once we have spoken to the children about it, along with a date to return these.
The projects are designed to run alongside the learning for a half-term and we will look forward to inviting you into school at the end of the term to share the children’s projects.
Spelling
At All Saints’ Primary School, we follow the Read, Write Inc. spelling scheme in Key Stage 2. This Autumn term, we will start to learn the Year 4 spelling rules, as well as revisiting previous spelling patterns in order to fully imbed the children’s understanding of each spelling rule.
Spelling patterns will be taught over a two weekly basis for the most part, with consolidation added. The following are spellings for Autumn 1.
| Week | Focus | Example Words |
| 8th and 15th Sep | Prefix ‘mis’ | misbehave, mislead, mismatch |
| 22nd and 29th Sep | Words ending in ‘sure’ | measure, treasure, pleasure |
| 6th and 13th Oct | Adding the prefix ‘auto’ | autograph, automatic, autopilot |
| 20th Oct (half term) | Adding the suffix ‘ly’ | sleepy – sleepily, cosy – cosily |
Dates for the diary
PE days: Wednesday pm (Miss Pashley) and Thursday am (Miss Pashley)
Meet the Teacher: 10th September
Parent consultation evenings: 21st and 23rd October
Autumn 2: Class Collective Worship and class visit – 13th November 2025
Links to support learning
Reading
Please encourage your child to read daily for a minimum of 10 minutes. At least 3 reading sessions per week should be recorded in the school Reading Record. Children should all have a school reading book (that can be changed regularly) but should be encouraged to read other material as well.
Read more about English in Y4 in the National Curriculum Programmes of Study
Maths
Your child in Year 4 will be taking the statutory multiplication tables check (MTC) for the first time, in June this year. It is an online test, completed in school, for all pupils in Year 4. Pupils are asked to answer 25 questions on times tables from two to 12. They are given six seconds per question, with three seconds rest between each question. To help prepare your child for this check, we recommend using Times Table Rock Stars (login on inside front cover of Reading Record) – Y4 introduces 6, 7, 9, 11 & 12, as well as building on 2, 3, 4 5, 8and 10 multiplication tables (from Y3 & Y2).
Moreover, written methods for addition, subtraction and multiplication are taught as in the pictures below.
Read more about maths in Y4 in the National Curriculum Programmes of Study