Year 4 Blog Friday 16th October 2026

Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 3:52pm

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 predict what will happen next?

Spellings

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

information            preparation           adoration     sensation               floatation

admiration             exaggeration         hibernation  propagation           imagination

concentration        moderation            education     differentiation      taxation

hesitation              litigation               isolation       invitation

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 4’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 48 and back again

0    4     8   etc                          48   44   40  etc

Now try counting in 100’s from 253 to 1753 and back again

253    353    453    etc              1753    1653    1553  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 the words above

We have been working hard on our basic number facts to help us calculate more quickly and efficiently.

To help with this, a number fact challenge has been created.

Our Learning this Week

In English, we performed the poem ‘The Dinner Lady Dance’ in class using lots of expression.

Following this, we wrote a poem of our own in the same style. 

We also continued reading the novel and wrote about Michael’s feelings at the end of a chapter.

In Maths, we drew bar charts to present data. We needed to look carefully at the scale given and draw the bars accurately.

Additionally, we interpreted data presented in bar charts.  

In RE, we listened to the story of Abraham and Isaac.

We then hotseated each of the characters to find out how they kept their faith, hope and love in God.

We also wrote a prayer to help us reflect on how the virtues of faith, hope and love help us to be a good neighbour.                    

In P.S.H.E, we discussed the Golden Rules and gave examples of what someone would do to ‘show’ that they are ‘golden’. 

We talked about how we will try to spot peers who are golden in and around school.

In Science, we recapped possible groupings for plants (flowering / non-flowering, trunks, no trunks, deciduous / evergreen etc).

We also investigated classification keys and how they work.

Following this, we created yes/no questions to help us create a classification key.  

In French, we continued learning the names for some pets.

We also learnt how to answer the question ‘As tu des animaux?’ (Have you got any pets?).

In Geography, we recapped our learning about the water cycle and looked at the mini water cycles we had created in our classroom.

Have a look at the pictures of our water cycles now they are fully established!  

We also wrote a definition of a river and discovered where it starts, where it ‘travels’ and where it ends.

In PE, we practised bouncing a ball 3 times then passing – this is a skill used in handball.

We then put this into practise in games.

You can see some pictures in our gallery.

In Art, we further explored pattern using lines and shapes in a ‘zentangle’.

There are some examples in our gallery.

This week, Year 2 also came to share their owl factfiles with us.

We were very impressed with their handwriting, facts and jokes!

There are some pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Lydia

Super Learner: Ellie

Superstar Writer: George

Bookworm: Harper

Marvellous Mathematician: Felicity

Special Mentions: Frankie – for being helpful around the classroom

Eliza – for a beautiful prayer based on the virtues of faith, hope and love

The Year 4 team