Create page template with some static contents

First there are a bigger difference between posts and pages and in your case it would be that posts have categories and pages don’t.

Anyway the simplest way to achieve what you described would be to create 4 categories, and use posts.
use the same template for all categories but in your sidebar use category posts widget to list the posts from that category.

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