Welcome to Year Four 2025/2026

 St. Patrick

Mr Pendlebury is thrilled to welcome our Year 4 pupils! We're really looking forward to the year ahead and can’t wait to see the talents, curiosity and enthusiasm that will light up our class.

Together with our fantastic teaching assistant, Miss Barton-Bates, we’re dedicated to supporting every child, encouraging them to do their very best across all areas: academically, creatively and in personal growth.

In Year 4, we set high expectations because we believe our pupils can rise to the challenge. With dedication and perseverance, great progress is well within reach. Our broad and enriching curriculum aims to foster confidence, curiosity, resilience and compassion, preparing learners for the exciting journey through school.

Your class teacher: Mr Pendlebury

Hello! My name is Mr Pendlebury and I been teaching for 11 years in lots of different types of schools and countries.  I love sport particularly football. My favourite hobby is reading and I hope that I can pass my enthusiasm onto you.  I have a very fluffy cat, who gets up to all sorts of mischief.

Contact details: admin@stmaryslevenshulme.org.uk with attention to Mr Pendlebury.

Key dates:

Year 4 Mass: 21^st October 2025

Multiplication Tables Check: From Monday 1 June 2026.

Year 4 Timetable:

Here is a normal daily timetable for Year 4 students:

8:30: School opens

8.30-8:45: Registration Time

8:45am – 9.00am: Morning activity.                          

9.00am – 10.00am: Maths       

10:00am – 10:30am Religion           

10.30am – 10:45am: Break           

10.45am – 12.15pm: Reading & English

12.15pm – 1.05pm: Lunch

1.30pm - 3.05pm: Reading/Science/Topic/PE/Spanish/PSHE

3.10pm: Prayer and home time 

This will be subject change on a daily basis to accommodate all of our enhanced learning opportunities during this term.

What is our curriculum offer?

Healthy eating:

Most children require a snack at morning break to keep them going through the day.

We encourage children to bring in healthy snacks full of vitamins and minerals containing no added salt, fat or sugar. Many of these will help contribute to their 5 daily portions of fruit and vegetables, keep them alert and help them concentrate. It can be hard during the week to think of suitable items for them to bring in to school, but we are aiming, with the help of the children, to not only support them in making healthy choices regarding snacks, but to also reduce food packaging and waste. Providing snacks in a small, named, recyclable container is ideal.

If you are intending to send in healthy snacks with your child please limit them to the list below. 

• Vegetable sticks – such as celery, cucumber, peppers or carrot, a range of colour ensures different vitamins and minerals. 
• A piece of cheddar cheese or babybel 
• A piece of fresh or dried fruit, high in soluble fibre and vitamins would also be a great snack– pineapple, mango, kiwi, plain raisins, apricots, blueberries, banana slices. 
• Bread sticks, plain pretzels, banana bread, malt loaf, oat/rice cakes and small pitta breads are also good snacks, providing children with carbohydrate to sustain them in-between meals. 
• Homemade snack - flapjacks or other oat/whole grain based snack. These must be nut free. Items brought into school should be carefully checked by you, to ensure this. St. Mary’s RC Primary School has pupils who are severely allergic to a range of nuts. 

We are aiming for a common-sense approach, with the key being to keep it healthy and no chocolate, sweets or crisps.

We need the children to stay hydrated and so please ensure they bring a named water bottle into school daily. Squash and fruit juice are not permitted. We hope that with your help, we can encourage the children to develop healthy eating habits that become a normal part of everyday life. By keeping high calorie snacks to a minimum and establishing healthy eating habits early on, improvements can be made for a child’s quality of life both in the short and long term. 

Frequently asked questions:

When is our P.E. slot?

Our  P.E. slot is on a Tuesday afternoon.  Please refer to the link on this website for P.E. uniform information: https://www.stmaryslevenshulme.org.uk/school-uniform/

We will also be swimming on a Monday afternoon.

When do we bring our reading books and reading records in?

The children should keep their reading records up to date and will be expected to bring them, and their reading book, in every day even if they have not finished their book. This will allow us to monitor how much your child is reading at home. We would like parents listen to their child read, initial their reading record and to discuss their book with them at least once a week. We expect your child to read for a minimum of 30 minutes each evening. This will really help them to make good progress in all aspects of the curriculum.

What is our home learning offer and when is our home learning due in?

Every week:

Spelling - 10 minutes practice every night – pupils learning of their spellings will be on Tuesday

Timestables (TTRS) - 10 minutes every night - pupils learning of their spellings will be on Thursday

Reading - 30 minutes every night – reading record check will be on a Wednesday

Sticky Questions – sent home for discussion on Monday, discussion in class every Friday

Additional home learning may be set to support learning

Children should have their login information for TimesTables Rockstars - this will be stuck inside the front or back cover of their Reading Log. Please let us know if you need another copy.

Useful information:

TENTEN PARENT PORTAL DETAILS

• Parent portal leaflet.pdf