T1 - Past Y4 Notices

8 October 2025

In English, we have read the first two chapters of ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ and are writing informal letters from the perspective of the main character Lila.

In Maths, we have been using the formal column method to add 4 digit numbers.

In science, we have been learning about pitch, frequency and volume and how the vibrations causing sounds change to create loud and soft, high and low sounds. We used musical instruments and other resources to explore this.

In humanities, we have been learning the difference between facts and opinions.

In PSHE we have continued our focus on ‘wellbeing’ and learned different breathing techniques we can use to help us feel calm and in control.

In art, we have created different shades, tints and tones of the same hue by mixing black, white or grey to a primary colour.

Homework will be set on Sunday and will be due on the following Sunday. All instructions can be found on Google Classroom.

This week, your child has been given a homework book where written homework can be recorded from now on. Please ensure that homework is completed using a pencil.

Reading - Please read for 20 minutes per day and record this in your P.O. Please record the book title and page numbers and ask an adult to sign it . For this activity, your child should be reading their book from the reading room with a colour level.

Spelling - Spelling lessons are on Tuesday. Your child will receive their first words this week. They need to learn these in preparation for their test the following Tuesday.

Maths - Please log in to MyMaths using the login details in your PO and complete the activities that have been assigned to you.

English - Please read the text about Amelia Earhart and then answer the comprehension questions. Please write your answers neatly in your homework books.

Uniform

Please can you remind your child to bring school shoes to change into after their PE lesson and a gentle reminder that the school uniform policy is black socks for boys and white socks for girls.

On Mondays and Wednesdays the children in Year 4 have PE lessons and can wear their PE to school. They must bring their uniform to change into after their PE lesson, this includes bringing their school shoes to change into after the PE lesson.

On Sunday, they have swimming and should wear their uniform to school, not their PE kit.

Please label all of your uniform, PE kit, swimming kit and water bottle

Parent Teacher Meetings

Please remember to sign up for the Parent Teacher Meetings being held on Sunday 12th October and Tuesday 28th October.

1 October 2025

Welcome to Week 6 in Year 4!

In English this week we have started our new book, ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ by Philip Pullman. We started by making predictions about the characters and plot, based on the evidence presented on the front cover. We also looked in detail at the character of Lila and made inferences about her personality. We then went on to look at the features of a letter in preparation for writing informal letters next week.

In Maths, we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.

In Humanities, we have looked at what life was like for sailors on the explorers’ ships of the 15th century and in science, we made string telephones and discussed how sound can travel through solids.

In Art we painted the colour wheel, using primary colours to mix secondary and tertiary colours.

In PSHE, we have discussed our rights as children, the difference between a ‘right’ and a ‘want’ and how, with every right, there comes a responsibility.

Homework will be set on Sunday and will be due on the following Sunday. All instructions can be found on Google Classroom.

This week, your child has been given a homework book where written homework can be recorded from now on. Please ensure that homework is completed using a pencil.

Reading - Please read for 20 minutes per day and record this in your P.O. Please record the book title and page numbers and ask an adult to sign it . For this activity, your child should be reading their book from the reading room with a colour level.

Spelling - Spelling lessons are on Tuesday. Your child will receive their first words this week. They need to learn these in preparation for their test the following Tuesday.

Maths - please complete the Infinity Quiz based on number lines. All instructions on how to log in can be found on your child’s Google Classroom.

Humanities - Your child has been asked to research one of the explorers on the given list. Detailed instructions have been given on the Google Classroom. They should present their research using 2 pages of their homework book. They should think carefully about the arrangement of the double page and how the information can be presented in an attractive, eye-catching way., with a portrait of the explorer and a map of their route.

The children have been very excited to begin ECAs this week and are getting used to the new routine of where they have to go at the end of the school day. To help them remember, please can you fill in their Enrolled ECA's on page 2 of their POs? Many thanks for your help with this.

Just a reminder:

On Mondays and Wednesdays the children in Year 4 have PE lessons and can wear their PE to school. They must bring their uniform to change into after their PE lesson, this includes bringing their school shoes to change into after the PE lesson.

On Sunday, they have swimming and should wear their uniform to school, not their PE kit.

Please label all of your uniform, PE kit, swimming kit and water bottle

Please remember to sign up for the Parent Teacher Meetings being held on Sunday 12th October and Tuesday 28th October.

Medical and dietary needs

Please check that the school has up to date information on any medical or dietary requirements. We will be cooking in some of our lessons and we want to make sure that we accommodate everyone's needs.

24 September 2025

In English, we have written poetry using Joseph Coelho's work as inspiration. Our MORERAPS poem showcases all of the poetic features we have learned - at home, ask us if we can remember what each letter stands for!

In Maths, we have continued with our learning about place value focusing on adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 or 1000 from any number and also using number lines with a variety of scales.

In Humanities, we have found out about the different European explorers who were trying to find a sea route to the East and created a timeline to show their progress.

In Science, we have created a Fair Test to discover if sound does change over distance.

In Art, we have used all of the sketching and shading techniques we have learned to create a portrait of one of the explorers from the Age of Exploration.

In PSHE, we have listened to the children presenting their bids to be Student Leaders.

Homework will be set on Sunday and will be due on the following Sunday. All instructions can be found on Google Classroom.

Reading - Please read for 20 minutes per day and record this in your P.O. Please record the book title and page numbers and ask an adult to sign. For this activity, your child should be reading their book from the reading room with a colour level.

Maths - Please complete the Infinity Quiz. All instructions on how to log in can be found on your child’s Google Classroom.
English - Your child has been asked to write an acrostic poem about an adult at home.

Spelling - Spelling lessons are on Tuesday. Your child will receive their first words this week. They need to learn these in preparation for their test the following Tuesday.

The children have been very excited to begin ECAs this week and are getting used to the new routine of where they have to go at the end of the school day. To help them remember, please can you fill in their Enrolled ECA's on page 2 of their POs? Many thanks for your help with this.

Just a reminder:

On Mondays and Wednesdays the children in Year 4 have PE lessons and can wear their PE to school. They must bring their uniform to change into after their PE lesson, this includes bringing their school shoes to change into after the PE lesson.

On Sunday, they have swimming and should wear their uniform to school, not their PE kit.

Please label all of your uniform, PE kit, swimming kit and water bottle

Medical and dietary needs

Please check that the school has up to date information on any medical or dietary requirements. We will be cooking in some of our lessons and we want to make sure that we accommodate everyone's needs.

17 September 2025

This week, in Maths we have started working in our Maths groups. We have all been learning how to represent and partition numbers up to 10,000.

In English, we have continued our unit on poetry. We have discussed ‘Miss Flotsam’ and compared her to two other less pleasant teachers! We have also written an acrostic poem about a favourite teacher.

In Science, we have learned about solids, liquids and gases and how these affect the speed of sound. We used our bodies to represent the particles of a solid, liquid and gas.

In Humanities, we have learned about the reasons that Europeans wanted to travel to ‘The East’ and we used atlases to help us understand why a sea route was so important.

In Art we have learned how to self and peer assess using constructive language and in PSHE, we have thought about our emotions, focusing on ‘worry’.

Language for Learning

The Language for Learning team would like to welcome you back to the new school year.

We are looking forward to supporting your children’s language learning this term. We have several groups taking place this term to support children with language acquisition which included: Speaking and Listening, Reading, Writing and Vocabulary. Should your child be invited to a small group intervention you will be notified via the Primary Office.

Alongside small, regular groups, in some year groups the team will be supporting children with their curriculum for a unit of work or specific activity. This work will usually be completed in class, however sometimes work may lend itself to being completed out of the classroom, in order to support further with a specific language focus.

We also have a website with Tips and Tricks for you and your children to use at home. Click here for the Language for Learning website.

Should you have any questions about the support your child is being offered please do contact the Language for Learning team.

Homework will be set on Sunday and will be due on the following Sunday. All instructions can be found on Google Classroom.

Reading - Please read for 20 minutes per day and record this in your P.O. Please record the book title and page numbers and ask an adult to sign. For this activity, your child should be reading their book from the reading room with a colour level.

Maths - Your child has been given a sheet of squared paper with this week’s maths questions attached to it. This is to give them an opportunity to practise their mental arithmetic..
English - Your child has been asked to learn a poem and perform it. There are some poems related to ‘sound’ in the activity. They can choose one of these, or any other poem that they like. Your child can either record themselves and post a video on the classroom OR they can perform it to the class next week.

OPTIONAL - If your child is interested in becoming a Class Representative for their class, then they need to prepare a short presentation about why they would make a good candidate. Elections will take place on Monday 22nd September in all three classes.

The children have been very excited to begin ECAs this week and are getting used to the new routine of where they have to go at the end of the school day. To help them remember, please can you fill in their Enrolled ECA's on page 2 of their POs? Many thanks for your help with this.

Just a reminder:

On Mondays and Wednesdays the children in Year 4 have PE lessons and can wear their PE to school. They must bring their uniform to change into after their PE lesson.

On Sunday, they have swimming and should wear their uniform to school, Not their PE kit.

Please label all of your uniform, PE kit, swimming kit and water bottle

Medical and dietary needs

Please check that the school has up to date information on any medical or dietary requirements. We will be cooking in some of our lessons and we want to make sure that we accommodate everyone's needs.

10 September 2025

Welcome to Week 3! A nice short week after the long weekend!

In maths, we are learning about number lines and the importance of knowing the value of each interval on the line. On Monday, we went to the Main Hall to create a human number line with the children organising themselves into ascending and descending order in their class and also their houses. We have also learned how to read and write Roman Numerals.

In English this week, we have started our work on poetry. Inspired by the work of Joseph Coelho, we have identified the features of a poem and written our own poems about our hopes and dreams.

In Science we found ways to show the vibrations that create sound.

In Humanities we have been using atlases to identify the equator and the northern and southern hemisphere. We have also been drawing and using the 8 cardinal points of the compass.

In PSHE we have read the book ‘On Sudden Hill” and have discussed what makes a good friend.

Homework will be set on Sunday and will be due on the following Sunday. All instructions can be found on Google Classroom.

Reading - Please read for 20 minutes per day and record this in your P.O. Please record the book title and page numbers and ask an adult to sign. For this activity, your child should be reading their book from the reading room with a colour level.

Maths - your child has been given a sheet of squared paper with this week’s maths questions attached to it. This is based on last week’s learning about place value.
English - your child has also been given a sheet to complete. It has an extract taken from ‘The Wild Robot’ and the children need to make a list of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs from the text. There is a list of adverbs and a short video attached to the homework to help them with the adverbs section.

Just a reminder:

On Mondays and Wednesdays the children in Year 4 have PE lessons and can wear their PE to school. They must bring their uniform to change into after their PE lesson.

On Sunday, they have swimming and should wear their uniform to school, Not their PE kit.

Please label all of your uniform, PE kit, swimming kit and water bottle

Medical and dietary needs

Please check that the school has up to date information on any medical or dietary requirements. We will be cooking in some of our lessons and we want to make sure that we accommodate everyone's needs.

3 September 2025

Welcome to Week 2 of Year 4!

To start our Humanities topic, we had a ‘Hook Day’ where the children went on a treasure hunt around the school to find artefacts linking to our theme. At each of the stops, they had to solve a riddle which gave them one of the nine letters of our first topic: Explorers!

In science, we had fun trying to identify a variety of noises to introduce our first topic, sound.

In maths, we have started our unit on place value. The children had lots of fun counting pasta and making groups of ten repeatedly to deepen their understanding of our number system.

In English, we have started with revising four of the word types: nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. The children have identified these word groups in extracts from ‘The Wild Robot’, discussed the purpose of each type and used them to write descriptive sentences.

In art, we have started to learn sketching techniques and in PSHE we have been learning about ‘belonging’.

Reading - Please read for 20 minutes per day and record this in your P.O. Please record the book title and page numbers and ask an adult to sign.

Maths - Please log in to TTRS and spend up to 10minutes each day to earn points for your class team!

Thank you to all of our parents that came to our Meet & Greet session on Monday. We will share the slides with you. If you have any questions at this stage, please email the primary office.

Just a reminder:

On Mondays and Wednesdays the children in Year 4 have PE lessons and can wear their PE to school. They must bring their uniform to change into after their PE lesson.

On Sunday, they have swimming and should wear their uniform to school, Not their PE kit.

Please label all of your uniform, PE kit, swimming kit and water bottle

Medical and dietary needs

Please check that the school has up to date information on any medical or dietary requirements. We will be cooking in some of our lessons and we want to make sure that we accommodate everyone's needs.

27 August 2025

Welcome back to all our returning families, and a warm welcome to all of the new families joining us at BSM! We have had a lovely week getting to know the children, and we have been impressed by how quickly they have settled into new spaces and new routines.

This week our focus has been on settling into a new year, learning new routines and learning about each other.

We have completed lots of ‘getting to know you’ activities and have focused on our learning attitudes and thinking skills; these form the foundations of BSM’s ethos.

In preparation for the Year 4 children bringing their own device to school, we have been learning how to stay safe when using technology and have discussed what personal information is not safe to share when working online.

Reading Books:

Your child will receive one reading book at a time. When they have finished the book, they can return it and choose a new one.

Over the next few weeks, as we assess all of the children’s reading, their reading colour band may change. Your child should read this levelled reading book every afternoon and we ask you to record your child’s daily reading in their PO, including the book title, pages read and a signature.

Please keep books in your child’s school bag, so that we can read with them in school.

Homework will be set on a Sunday and will be due the following Sunday. Homework will be set through Google Classroom. Please join your child’s Google Classroom, either by using this code or by clicking on the invitation email they will receive. Please let us know if you have any problems with gaining access.

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Google Classroom

Homework will be set on a Sunday and will be due the following Sunday. Homework will be set through Google Classroom. Please join your child’s Google Classroom, either by using this code or by clicking on the invitation email they will receive. Please let us know if you have any problems with gaining access.

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4S: ltnolpwd
4R: q5qsmpom

Reading Books

Your child will receive one reading book at a time. When they have finished the book, they can return it and choose a new one.

As we assess all of the children’s reading, their reading colour band may change. Your child should read this levelled reading book every afternoon and we ask you to record your child’s daily reading in their PO, including the book title, pages read and a signature. Please keep books in your child’s school bag, so that we can read with them in school.

Meet and Greet

Our Year 4 Meet & Greet will be held on Monday 1st September, starting in the Oryx Theatre at 4.10pm and then moving to the Year 4 classrooms.

What to wear

Please ensure your child comes to school in their PE kit on PE days (Monday and Wednesday) and they will need to bring their school uniform, including shoes, to change into after the PE lessons. Please ensure they bring their uniform in a separate bag that they can carry to the changing rooms.

On swimming days (Sunday) they should wear their school uniform to school - not PE kit as they did in Year 3.

Their timetables have been stuck in their Personal Organisers and can also be found on the Google classrooms.

Please make sure all uniform, PE kit and swimming items are clearly labelled with your child's name.

Your child needs to bring a reusable water bottle to school every day.

Medical and dietary needs

Please check that the school has up to date information on any medical or dietary requirements. We will be cooking in some of our lessons and we want to make sure that we accommodate everyone's needs.