Year 4 Blog Friday 10th October 2025

Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 2:59pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. 

Discuss what you have read with an adult. Write down the meaning of any words you don’t know.

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

young           touch           double          trouble        country

courage        colour          couple          southern      encourage

cousins         enough         nourish        countries     rough

cousin          doubling       touched       youngster    troubling

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 4’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 48 and back again

0    4     8      etc                       48    44    40  etc

Now try counting in 10’s from 146 to 326 and back again

146   156    166    etc                326    316    306  etc

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

TTRockstars challenge

A ‘Garage’ session

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on perimeter

There is also a Sumdog competition on line this week!

Our Learning this Week

In English, we read about Michael’s first encounter with Kensuke on the island.

We then planned and wrote a diary account from Kensuke’s point of view.

We tried to ensure we included lots of thoughts and feelings and made it entertaining for the reader.

In Maths, we learnt that perimeter is the measure of length or distance around the boundary of a shape.

We then applied our understanding to help us calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes.

In RE, we listened again to the story of the three visitors who came and told Abraham that he would have a son. 

We drew a picture and wrote a sentence to show our understanding of the story.

In addition, we described the covenant between God and Abraham which included what each promised.

In P.S.H.E, we learnt how to look after our brains and continued to develop our ‘happy breathing’ habit.

In Science, we explored and used classification keys to identify living things.

In addition, we created our own classification key using yes/no questions on post it notes.

In History, we became archaeologists as we looked at different artefact. 

We considered what they were, what they were made of, who might have used them and what it told us about the Romans.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Georgie

Super Learner: Annie

Superstar Writer: Daisy and Eddie

Bookworm: Mia

Marvellous Mathematician: William

Special Mentions: Alexander for thoughtful responses in RE and George for being a good friend to everyone in Year 4

The Year 4 team