Year 4 Blog Friday 15th May 2026

Date: 15th May 2026 @ 8:40am

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.

Look up any words you are unsure of in a dictionary.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

science        scene           discipline     fascinate     crescent      fascinating

disciplinary  disciple        muscle         scent           scissors       muscles

ascend         isosceles      scenario       scientific     susceptible  transcend

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 6’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 72 and back again

0   6    12   18   etc                    72   66   60 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

You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk

If you practise for 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.

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 ‘battle of the bands’ tournament – Boys v Girls

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A classifying geometric shapes challenge

Our learning this week

In English, we perfected our speaking parts for our Parent Assembly. 

We were also shown a picture of a boat on stormy seas and wrote a story about it using our own imagination.

In Maths, learnt the names of triangles (equilateral, isosceles and scalene) and used the terms regular and irregular.

In addition, we named different quadrilaterals based on their particular properties.

In RE, we explored the text of the Apostles’ Creed and the meaning of the words.

In addition, we have been given a great deal of time to taking our First Holy Communion and what it means to us.

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

We considered hazards at home, fire risks, railway, road and water safety.

In Science, we recapped the 8 main organs and their functions.

We demonstrated how this works using bananas, crackers, water, orange juice, a zip lock bag and some tights.

Have a look at the photos in our gallery.

In our PE lesson, we practised for sports day.

There are some photos in our gallery of us taking part in the different events.

In Music, we learnt the notes F and C on the ukuleles.

We then played a piece of music which practised the notes we have learnt so far.

There are some photos in the gallery.

Thank you for coming to our Parent Assembly om Friday – we hope you enjoyed celebrating with us.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday at the First Holy Communion Mass at 11am.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Jessica

Super Learner: Alexander

Superstar Writer: Noah

Bookworm: Isla

Marvellous Mathematician: Albert

Special Mentions: Rowan – for always being kind and helpful

Emilia – for being a good friend on the playground

The Year 4 team