Year 4 Blog Friday 17th October 2025

Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 1:02pm

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 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 8’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 96 and back again

0    8    16   etc                         96   88   80  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 ‘studio’ session to help you build your rock star status

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

There is a competition on Sumdog – make sure you have completed the diagnostic test before the contest starts

Our Learning this Week

In English, we performed the poem ‘The Dinner Lady Dance’ in class – you can see some pictures of us practising this in our gallery.

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

In addition, we researched the meaning of words using both a physical and online dictionary, and then attempted to use them in a sentence of our own.

In Maths, we consolidated our learning about perimeter.

We used what we had learnt to calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes when some lengths were missing.

Additionally, we derived and used addition and subtraction facts for 1 and 10 with decimal numbers (for example 0.1 + 0.9 = 1   and 4.8 + 5.2 = 10).

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

We then sequenced the story with a partner and made a paperchain of the main events.

You can see some of these in our gallery.

                                                                                  This week, 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 started a new topic – places.

We learnt that mental health, just like physical health, is part of daily life, and it is important to take care of both.

We also learnt that everyday things affect our feelings and that it is important to express our feelings rather than keep them to ourselves.

In Science, we created a classification key using post-it notes and yes/no questions.  

In French, we learnt the names of pets and how to say how many pets we have.

In History, we learnt the names of the items worn by Roman Soldiers. 

We then labelled a Roman Soldier to evidence what we had learnt.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Albert

Super Learner: Isla

Superstar Writer: Rowan

Bookworm: Alexander

Marvellous Mathematician: Bobby

Special Mentions: Bella and William - helping to make a beautiful paperchain retelling the story of Abraham and Isaac

Emilia – for being a good friend to everyone in Year 4

The Year 4 team