Year 4 Blog Friday 13th March 2026

Date: 13th Mar 2026 @ 12:48pm

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. Look up any words you are unsure of.

Spellings

You will be tested on the Year 3 / 4 spellings next week. A sheet has been sent home.

Counting

This week, please practise counting in tenths

For example, start at 1.8 and count to 3.5 and back again

1.8   1.9   2.0  etc                      3.5   3.4   3.3  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 words

A maths challenge using place value and known facts to multiply and divide

Our Learning this week

In English, we revised the rules for speech / dialogue and then wrote a conversation between Lila and Rambashi (a pirate and character in our class novel).

We ensured that we used alternative words for said, and that we thought carefully about how each character might speak.

We used human sentences to help us with our learning – take a look in the gallery.

In Maths, we learnt how to double a number with ones and tenths using a partitioning and recombining method.

In addition, we revised multiplying multiples of 10 and 100 by single digits (eg 6 x 40 = 240; 3 x 400 = 1200) and then applied this to multiplying 3 digit numbers by a single digit using the grid method (eg 4 x 237).

In RE, we read the parable of ‘The judgement of the nations’ (sheep and goats) which emphasises that genuine faith is demonstrated through carrying out loving deeds.

In Science, as part of Science Week, we took part in the BBC live lesson about light and moon.

Following this, we completed some activities about light sources, reflection and information about the moon.

We also investigated the probability question ‘does toast always land butter side down?’ We made predictions then recorded the results – have a look in our gallery.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt how to understand and celebrate differences.

In PE, we practised running with a rugby ball. We also learnt how to move into a space to receive a swing pass in a game.

You can see some pictures in the gallery.

This week, we also took part in an energetic keep fit session with Freddie Fit (have a look at some of the pictures in our gallery)

and a lesson led by the Japanese students during which we learnt the meanings of some traditional Japanese patterns. 

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Rudy

Super Learner: Lottie

Superstar Writer: Albie

Bookworm: Jessica

Marvellous Mathematician: Bobby

Special Mentions: Heidi – for being a good friend to everyone and making Year 4 a lovely place to be;

Albert – for beautiful manners

The Year 4 Team