Year 4 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 12:13pm

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.

Spellings

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

Monday        Tuesday       Wednesday  Thursday     Friday

Saturday      Sunday         January       February     March

April            May             June            July             August

September  October      November    December    month

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 120 and back again

0   10     20    etc                      120    110     100 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

TTRockstars is an app which you can download, or you can use the website by following this link https://ttrockstars.com/ and logging in. Your login details are in the front of your Reading Diary.

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 recognising place value in 4 digit numbers

Our learning this week

In English, we used the front cover of the class novel – Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo – to make predictions about the story.

We also met the main characters and read the blurb on the back cover to see if our predictions were correct.

In Maths, we learnt the meaning of ‘place value’.

We used part whole diagrams and partitioning and recombining numbers to help with our understanding of what each digit in a number represents

In RE, we started our new topic ‘Creation and Covenant’.

We listened to the story of Abraham when God asked him to leave Haran and travel to Canaan,

We considered the sort of person Abraham must have been, and how his faith, hope and love gave him the strength to do as the Lord had asked.

In Science, we recapped the 7 life processes using the acronym MRS GREN (movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition).

In addition, we grouped animals according to whether they were a fish, mammal, reptile, amphibian or bird.

In PSHE, we started our topic ‘Meet your brain’.

We learnt how we can train our mind and how our brain can grow, as well as what the different parts of our brains are called.

In Art, we learnt about the work of Laura Carlin and Shaun Tan.

We then practised our shading skills which we will be using over the coming weeks.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Lottie

Super Learner: Eliza

Superstar Writer: Alice

Bookworm Award: Rudy

Marvellous Mathematician: George

Special Mentions: Mia, Evelyn and Noah – for thoughtful and beautifully presented RE work, and Alexander for beautiful manners

The Year 4 team