Pine Marten Class

Class teacher’s welcome

Welcome to the Pine Marten class page!

Welcome back to Summer Term 1! 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. I hope you all enjoyed the Easter break and are ready to start the summer term with us. As we enter into the final term, there are still so many exciting topics to learn, as shown in our curriculum newsletter, and I hope you’re all looking forward to discovering the next chapter in your Year 4 journey as much as I am.

We look forward to showing you all the wonderful things we get up over the coming weeks.

Miss Wheelhouse & Miss Pashley

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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!

Spelling

At All Saints’ Primary School, we follow the Read, Write Inc. spelling scheme in Key Stage 2. This Summer 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 Summer 1.

Week	Focus	Example Words
13th and 20th April	Adding the suffix -ion	discussion, admission, impression
27th April	Adding the suffix -ous	dangerous, fabulous, generous, jealous
4th May	Adding the suffix -ure	fixture, adventure, creature, capture
11th May	Words with the ‘sh’ spelt ‘ch’	brochure, chef, chute, chandelier
18th May	Adding the suffix -ian	electrician, magician, musician, politician
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.