St Catherine's RC Primary SchoolYear 4 2024 - 2025
Welcome to our Year 4 class page! We hope that you will find the information useful.
***Please note our new 'key information' documents for each year group in KS1 and KS2 will soon be uploaded after our 'Meet The Teacher' sessions in September 2024. In the meantime, please take a look at our 'Key Information' document from September 2023 to get a flavour of life in your child's new year group.***
Year 4 Teachers:
Class 9: Mr Westbrook
Class 10 and Lower KS2 Phase Leader: Miss Scott
Higher Level Teaching Assistant: Mrs Thomson
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Shelton
If you would like to arrange an appointment to speak to your child's class teacher please contact the school office on 0161 445 6359 or email the school office at
admin@st-catherines.manchester.sch.uk and they will arrange a mutually convenient time to meet.
Welcome to Year 4's General Class Information page. Here you can find information regarding class trips, P.E. kits, swimming, reading, homework, spellings and times tables amongst other general information that may be of interest.
Swimming
Children participate in weekly swimming lessons throughout their time in Year 4. Swimming lessons this year will take place at Withington Swimming Baths on Tuesday afternoons.
P.E. Kits
Your child must have the following items in order to do P.E.:
St. Catherine's RC Primary P.E. T-shirt (white/burgundy)
School P.E. Shorts/Plain black/grey jogging bottoms.
Trainers (not pumps)
Reading
Each night, Year 4 students are expected to read at home. They will come home with two 'take home books' which comes with a guidance bookmark for parents. These consist of comprehension questions to support understanding of the text. They also choose a book from the main library every Friday.
We would appreciate it if you could sign the reading diary every time you listen to your child read.
We ask that children record their daily reading into their reading record each day, recording the book name and page number.
Suggested Reading list for Year 4 children
Times Tables Rock Stars
Times tables form the basis of a great deal of mathematical learning and therefore it is vital that the children know their times tables and related division facts quickly and off-by-heart. Your child can practice on Times Table Rock Stars using the website or the app. Each child has their own login which they should have recorded in their reading record.
Other resources to support times tables include Hit the Button on Top Marks, the White Rose App and also these songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ11DIySbJ0 - 3 times table
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QU_E0u-tP4 – 4 times tables
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_BJjR9rdwA – 8 times table
Many thanks!