Year 4 Blog Friday 16th May 2025

Date: 15th May 2025 @ 12:42pm

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 also wrote an article giving our opinion about whether junk food should be banned for all children under the age of 16.

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.

We also considered what taking our First Holy Communion means to us.

In PSHE, we learnt how to better understand our differences.

We discussed how we can use our strengths in different ways and how seeing things from a different perspective is a positive thing.

In Science, we recapped the digestive model from last week.

We then identified how our teeth have different jobs and help break down food.

In DT, we designed and created a product made out of felt.

We started by practising three different stitches (running, backstitch and overstitch).

Following this, we designed and created a useful item – for example, a purse, pencil case or glasses case.

We then evaluated our finished product by considering what went well and what we would change if we were to make the product again. 

You can see some pictures of our finished products in our gallery.

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

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday at the First Holy Communion Masses.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Mark 

Super Learner: Spencer

Superstar Writer: Tiffany

Bookworm: Maisie

Marvellous Mathematician: Evangeline

Special Mentions: Sidney, Emma and Sam

The Year 4 team