Year 4 Blog Friday 13th November 2026

Date: 13th Nov 2026 @ 4:02pm

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.

Can you summarise what you have read previously or make a prediction about what you think will happen next?

Spellings

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

perhaps       popular        position       possess        possession

possible       pressure      probably      promise       purpose      

quarter        recent         regular        reign           remember

sentence      potatoes      question       separate      special         straight      

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 9’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 108 and back again

0    9   18  etc                           108   99   90  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. 

WhiteRose one minute maths is a free app which you can download which also has lots of games to help you practice your timestables and 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 the formal written method of column subtraction

Our Learning this week

English

In English, we learnt more about subordinating conjunctions and practised using them at the beginning of a sentence.

We needed to remember to include a comma after the subordinate clause.

Have a look at some ‘human sentences’ in our gallery. 

Maths  

In Maths, we revised and learnt more about the formal written method of subtraction.

We subtracted 4 digit numbers from 4 digit numbers, including exchanging and where there was a zero as a place holder in the number

RE 

In RE, we read 1 Kings 19 4-8 and then retold the story of Elijah’s encounter with God using symbols.

You can see some examples of our work in our gallery.

In addition, we wrote a prayer based on Pope Francis’ 5 finger prayer, which reflects on how Elijah’s words speak to people today.

 PSHE

In PSHE, we identified and described a wide range of feelings.

We recognised that different people can have different feelings in the same situation.

Furthermore, we explained how feelings can be linked to our physical health, and that different people might express feelings in different ways.

Science

In Science, we discussed the meaning of environmental changes and gave examples.

We discussed natural environmental changes and how natural disasters can affect the environment (eg volcanoes, storms, droughts etc).

In addition, we considered how humans can change the environment – for example by over-hunting, pollution and climate change.

  PE

In PE, we practised stopping a ball and pushing it to our partner in hockey.

We put our skills into practice in games.

There are some pictures in our gallery.

 Freddie Fit

This week we were also visited by Freddie Fit.

We enjoyed being put through our paces with fun workouts, and learning how to keep our minds and bodies fit and healthy.

Have a look at some pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Grace

Super Learner: Elyse

Superstar Writer:  Adam

Bookworm: Henry P

Marvellous Mathematician:  Frankie

Special Mentions: Melodie – for great home learning this week

Devyn – for bringing her lovely smile and beautiful manners into class every day

The Year 4 Team