Year 4 Blog Friday 12th December 2025

Date: 12th Dec 2025 @ 8:41am

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.

Try and add expression to your reading and think about how the characters might be speaking to each other.

Spellings

There will be no spelling test next week, however, we have included a Sumdog Challenge based on some of the Year 3 / 4 Statutory Words.

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 3’s, 6’s and 9’s and back again using your times tables

For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again

0    3   6  etc                            36   33    30  etc

Then have a go at counting in 0.3’s, 0.6’s and 0.9’s and back again using your times tables as a guide

0   0.3    0.6 etc                        3.6   3.3    3.0 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 some of the Year 3 / 4 Statutory Words

A maths challenge based on using known and related facts to multiply and divide mentally

Our learning this week

In English, we wrote a menu for a special guest – the Iron Man.

We included alliteration in the titles of our dishes and a mouth-watering description of the food. 

We then published our menus.

They have all been included in a book of menus which is on the Year 4 bookshelf.

We are all very proud of our writing this week! Brilliant work Year 4.

In Maths, we learnt how to divide using related facts.

In addition, we learnt how to divide two-digit numbers by a single digit using the chunking method.

Many of us found this tricky as we are not yet fluent with our tables.

Knowing our tables off by heart will help us to succeed when we meet trickier learning and boost our confidence.   

In RE, we made links between the ancestry of Jesus and the Jesse Tree.

In Science, we explored electrical conductors and insulators by testing different materials in a simple circuit.

In French, we continued learning the names of the different rooms of a house and described the locations of family members eg Dad is in the living room = Papa est dans la salon.

In History, we discussed reasons why the Roman Army was so powerful. We concluded that:

Only the strongest men were accepted in the army

They received top training

Their equipment was the best

They used strategic formations

They never accepted defeat

We then created a recruitment poster on Seesaw to entice Roman citizens to join the army.

In Art, created our own patterns taking inspiration from our previous work over the past few weeks.

We will be producing a final piece of work next week.

This week, we also enjoyed our trip to Lancaster City Museum when we met Marcus a Roman legionary.

We learnt a lot the Roman army as well as what life was like during Roman times.

Please remember to bring in a cardboard box and any decorations needed for your DT on Tuesday.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week: Eliza

Super Learner: Heidi

Superstar Writers: Hunter and Rowan

Bookworm: Emilia

Marvellous Mathematician: Bella

Special Mentions: All of Year 4 for fantastic listening during the trip to Lancaster City Museum

The Year 4 team