Year 4 Blog Friday 13th June 2025

Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 8:16am

Welcome to your weekly blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

Have a careful look at sentence openers. Are there any that you recognise eg subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, prepositions etc.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

girls’            boys’            babies’         children’s     people’s       mens’

mice’s          foxes’          rabbits’       parents’       dogs’            friends’

cats’            brothers’     sisters’        wolves’         books’          ladies’

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 1/2’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 11 and back again

0    ½   1      etc                                  11    10 ½    10 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

‘Battle of the Bands’ Girls v Boys competition

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

An addition and subtraction with measures challenge

Our learning this week

English

In English, we started a new novel – Bill’s New Frock.

We began by looking carefully at the cover and making predictions about the story. We then read the blurb and considered whether this changed or added to our prediction.

In addition, we retold some of the first chapter as a diary entry trying to include lots of thoughts and feelings.

Maths

In Maths, we used a fraction wall to help us find equivalent fractions.

We also measured and drew lengths in m / cm and mm – this included numbers to 2 decimal places.

RE

In RE, we described what is meant by the ‘communion of saints’ and recognised that the Church teaches that Mary has a special place within the communion as Queen of Heaven.

PSHE

In PSHE, we learnt how to spot dangers and stay safe at home and when we are out and about.

We drew a comic strip about a character to give suggestions about how to stay safe.

Science

In Science, we constructed and interpreted a variety of food chains.

In addition, we observed what had happened to the eggs we placed in different liquids last week.

On the basis of the results, we discussed how these drinks would affect our teeth if we didn’t brush our teeth or look after them properly.

Computing

In Computing, we continued programming using code.org.

We built a game where the player controls a paddle and learns how events, such as pressing arrow keys, cause actions to happen – this was within the context of a basketball computer game.

History

In History, we continued comparing life in Sparta and Athens.

We then wrote a balanced argument to explain which city state we would rather live in based on our historical knowledge.

Art

In Art, we used our perseverance, determination and inventiveness to create a ‘nest’ out of different materials.

We worked hard to create a nest shape and then our instinct and intuition to create the sculpture.

Take a look at our pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week:  Sam

Super Learner:  Amelia

Superstar Writer:  Alfie

Bookworm: Evangeline

Marvellous Mathematician: Bertie and Jack

Special Mentions:  Joni and Josh M

The Year 4 team