Weekly Newsletters
Friday 9th October 2026
What a lovely week it’s been in Year 4! Our Harvest church service was wonderful, as always, and a good way of reminding ourselves of how lucky we are to live in a place with land to grow crops and services like the food bank to ensure we all have enough to eat.
This week, our students enjoyed acting out the attack of Hannibal on Rome in the Second Punic War – be sure to ask your children if they were Romans or Carthaginians as we marched through the ‘Alps’ of Fermor playground!
We have also begun our new maths unit on addition and subtraction. Although it’s been a while since we’ve explicitly practised these skills, we’re dusting the cobwebs off and starting to remember the addition and subtraction strategies we learned in Year 3.
Next week in maths, we’ll build on the skills we’ve revised this week and continue with column addition and subtraction.
In English, we have spent the week innovating our model text. Each student has chosen one element to change in the story and has been able to practise writing the full story.
In English next week, we’ll start to think about changing more than one element of our model text and creating our own warning stories independently.
Reminders
Please ensure your child is sent in with an adequate waterproof rain jacket – the weather is starting to turn and we want to ensure all our students stay warm and dry on wet days.
Important Dates
October 20th: individual and sibling photos.
October 20th: Parents Evening 3:30-6pm
October 22nd: Parents Evening 4:30-7pm. Please keep an eye out for emails with the link to book your child’s appointment.
Friday 2nd October 2026
This week we have begun to delve deeper into how our model text, ‘The Canal’, is written so we can begin to learn how to write our own descriptive warning stories. For more information on what we’re up to in English, be sure to check out the Story Maps and Model Texts section of our class page. We took a quick break from this story on Thursday, though, in order to celebrate National Poetry Day. After listening to and learning a bit about poetry from Joseph Coelho, we explored writing our own poems through a game: ‘Roll-A-Poem’. Students chose their favourite something, then were prompted on what to add to their poem by the roll of a die. It’s safe to say we have some budding poets in our year group – we can’t wait to see where this could take them in life!
Next week in English, we’ll begin to construct our own versions of ‘The Canal’ with one changed element.
In maths this week, we have learned a new skill: rounding. As with all new things, it takes practise, but we’re getting the hang of it! We are continuing to encourage our students to access Times Tables Rock Stars at home. Today marks the start of a new battle: 4WG versus the reigning champs, 4M! Will 4M keep their streak going? Will 4WG emerge the victor? Hopefully our students are ready to battle it out and find out next week!
Next week in maths, we’ll dive into our new unit: addition and subtraction.
Important Dates
Wednesday 7th October: Harvest Worship @ All Saints. Please arrive at the church for 8:45. If you can, remember to bring a non-perishable food donation to support our local food bank.
Tuesday 20th October: individual and sibling picture day
Friday 25th September 2026
Dear Parents/Carers,
Firstly, thank you so much for your patience with us as we have navigated through our IT changes! We hope for smooth sailing from here on out.
We can’t quite believe how far we are into Term 1, but we couldn’t be prouder of all the hard work our year group has put in already.
This term in English, we are working on writing descriptive narratives. We are basing our work on a short story called The Canal (for more information, please check the Model Texts and Story Maps section of our Class Page). This week, we have been orally rehearsing the story now that we have learnt it by using our story map. This week, we have been working on using descriptive vocabulary in specific sentence structures.
Next week, we'll begin to look more closely at the structure of the whole story in order to know how to construct our own later in the term.
In maths so far, we have been focusing on securing our Place Value knowledge. We're building on what was learned in Year 3 and beginning to work with 4-digit numbers.
Next week, we'll finish our Place Value unit by learning to round.
4WG have been enjoying the new swimming schedule and being able to swim each week. 4M have been lucky enough to take advantage of the lovely autumn weather and have PE lessons outside. We're working on our tag rugby skills - watch this space to see what superstar athletes we're becoming!
As a reminder, students must have PE kits in school on Tuesday and Thursday. We recommend bringing kits in and leaving them in school until the end of the term.
Important Dates
Thursday 1st October: National Poetry Day
Wednesday 7th October: Harvest Worship @ All Saints. Please arrive at the church for 8:45. If you can, remember to bring a non-perishable food donation to support our local food bank.
Tuesday 20th October: individual and sibling picture day