Pine Marten Class
Class teacher’s welcome
Welcome to the Pine Marten class page!
Welcome back to Spring Term 2! Firstly, I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for such a warm welcome back after maternity leave. It has truly been lovely to return. We are so excited to share with you all the wonderful work and exciting things we get up to in Pine Marten Class. We are going to continue having a fantastic year with lots of engaging opportunities for new learning.
We look forward to showing you all the wonderful things we get up over the coming weeks.
Miss Wheelhouse & Miss Pashley
Curriculum news
Curriculum Newsletter:
Year 4 Curriculum letter Summer 1 2026
Home Learning:
All children are encouraged to complete a home learning project to build on their class Geography and/or Science learning. 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. Ideas for projects are on the Year 4 Curriculum Newsletter but you these are just a few options, let your child’s imagination run wild!
Spellings
At All Saints’ Primary School, we follow the Read, Write Inc. spelling scheme in Key Stage 2. This Spring term, we will continue 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 Spring 1.
| Date | Focus | Example Words |
| 5th and 12th Jan | The sound s spelt ‘sc’ | ascend, muscle, scent, descend |
| 19th and 26th Jan | Words ending in ‘zhun’ spelt ‘sion’ | decision, explosion, collision |
| 2nd and 9th Feb | Adding ‘il’, revising ‘un- in- mis- dis | illegible, unclear, incorrect, dislike |
| 15th Feb Half term |
Dates for the diary
PE days: Wednesday (Miss Wheelhouse) and Thursday (Miss Pashley)
Summer 1: 20th April – Tropical World (Habitats)
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), 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