Pine Marten Class

Class teacher’s welcome

Welcome to Pine Marten Class Page!

I am so excited to share with you all the wonderful work and exciting things we get up to in Pine Marten Class. It is going to be a fantastic year with lots of engaging and exciting opportunities for new learning. We are a loving and nurturing class and this year we will continue to support the children to flourish and develop both socially and academically throughout their school journey.

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

Miss Wheelhouse x

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Curriculum news

At a glance – Summer 1

Maths: Money, Time

English: When Jessie Came across the Sea, Nonsense Poetry

Science: Living Things and Their Habitats – Classification Keys

Geography: Europe

RE: When Jesus left, what was the impact of the Pentacost?

Computing: Photo editing

PSHE: Being My Best

Music: Recorders (Music and Arts): taught throughout the year by the Music and Arts Service.

DT: Torch making

Home Learning

All children are encouraged to complete a home learning project to build on their class Geography and/or Science learning.

Ideas include…

Research and create an illustrated classification key.

Build a famous European landmark out of old boxes/scrap paper etc.

Use fabric or collage to create a European flag.

These projects are designed to run alongside the learning for a half-term and should be handed in on or before Thursday 22nd May 2025. We 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 Summer term, we will continue learning 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.

Week	Focus	Example Words
21st April	Adding the suffix -ion (2)	Confession, possession, discussion, admission
28th April	Special focus 3 – Possessive apostrophes with plural words	The brothers’ feet were muddy. (more than one brother, both had muddy feet.)
5th May	The ‘j’ sound	adjust, badge, hedge
12th May	Special focus 4 – Homophones	Hear and here, stare and stair
19th May	Adding the suffix -ed (including double consonant)	drop – dropped, peel – peeled

Half-term

Dates for the diary

PE days: Mondays (Mrs Pashley), Wednesdays (Mr Megson)

Spring 2: 27th February 2025 – Kings Hall (School’s Singing Together)

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.