Year 4 Blog Friday 16th January 2026

Date: 16th Jan 2026 @ 10:59am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. 

Can you summarise what has already happened and predict what you think will happen next?

Spellings

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

quarter        question       recent         though         regular

reign           remember    thought       sentence      separate

special         through       straight       strange        strength

various         suppose       woman          women          therefore

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 12’s  

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

0    12   24  etc                         144    132    120  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 ‘Battle of the Bands’ tournament – Boys v Girls

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on reading, writing and converting time

Our learning this week

In English, we planned and wrote a diary extract as if we were Lily, the main character in the novel.

We used phrases Lily would have used and included lots of thoughts and feelings. 

In Maths, we learnt how to read the time and write it to the nearest minute. We also learnt how to tell, write and math analogue and digital times.

Please try and practise telling the time at home with an adult.

This week, we also started to explore 2d shape using geoboards – have a look in our gallery.

In RE, we continued with our Galilee to Jerusalem topic.

We listened to and sequenced the story of Jesus healing Peter’s mother-in-law (Matthew 8:14-17), and learnt about what we may see and hear during the Sacrament of Reconciliation

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt why it is important to spot and use our character strengths.

We also learnt how we can use our character strengths in different ways.  

In Science, we started our new topic – States of Matter.

We started by identifying and classifying some solids, liquids and gases.

In History, we learnt how Britain became part of the Roman Empire.

We discovered that it took 3 attempts to conquer Britain and explored reasons why the Romans wanted to invade.

In PE, we worked as a team to create a still, connected shape.

This was an introduction to our dance unit which is based on The Iron Man. Take a look at the photos in our gallery.

In Art, we started our topic ‘the art of display’. We began by questioning the role of a ‘plinth’ in sculpture.

We then discussed how to make a ‘pocket gallery’ and took some pictures of ourselves in various poses.

In Computing, we used the BeFunky app to practise editing a photograph.

We were given 'free rein' to alter the photo, so that we could learn some of the app's capabilities.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Alice

Super Learner: Albie

Superstar writer: Eliza

Bookworm: Lottie and William

Marvellous Mathematician: Bobby

Special Mentions: Lewis - beautiful RE work

Violet, Alexander and Isla for fantastic answers when being hotseated

The Year 4 team