Year 4 Blog Friday 18th September 2026

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 3:41pm

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.

See if you can spot any nouns – do they have capital letters or not? And if so, why?

Spellings

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

minute         natural         naughty        notice          occasion(ally)

opposite      ordinary       particular    peculiar       perhaps

material       possible       medicine      potatoes      popular

often           pressure      position       probably      possess(ion)

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 120 and back again

0     10    20    etc                     120   110    100  etc

Now try counting from 45 to 205 and back again

45   55   65    etc                       205   195   185   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 – please log on and have a go!

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on ordering and comparing whole numbers

In English, we wrote reasons for and against sailing around the world.

In addition, we collected words to describe Michael’s character.

The information could have been written down in the novel, or inferred – that is, we could work it out from the evidence.

We then wrote a detailed character description of Michael.

In Maths, we learnt more about place value. We started by ordering and comparing numbers including numbers with 1 decimal place.

Then we learnt how to round numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

In addition, we added and subtracted different powers of 10 to and from given numbers using place value charts and counters to help us.

In RE, we retold the story of Abraham and Sarah on a story board.

We recapped the story in our own words ensuring we included some important vocabulary, eg covenant and faith.

In PSHE, we identified our happy places which help our brains to feel calm and safe.

In Science, we recognised that living things can be grouped in different ways. 

In Art, we created a pattern which followed a rule – drawing a line from one colour to another using a key.

Take a look at some examples in our gallery.  

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Eliza

Super Learner: Charlie

Superstar Writer: Frankie

Bookworm Award:  Wilbur

Marvellous Mathematician: Jonah

Special Mentions: Zack W and Felicity – for being excellent work partners

Lydia – for her beautiful manners

Orlaigh – for being a good friend

Thank you to everyone who came to our Meet the Teacher Meeting on Wednesday. We appreciate your support.

The Year 4 team