Year 4 Blog - Friday 19th September 2025

Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 12:51pm

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

Our Learning This Week

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 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.

Take a look in our gallery.

In RE, we started 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. There are some pictures in our gallery.

In PSHE, we learnt what is real and perceived danger.

In conjunction with this, we learnt what triggers our amygdala ( our ‘alarm system’ which processes and responds to emotions like fear and stress).

In Science, we grouped animals in different ways according to whether they were vertebrates (animals with a backbone) – mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles, or invertebrates (animals without a backbone). 

In Art, we created our own scenes and then sketched them.

We also gave them a title.

Take a look at some of our art work in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Francesca

Super Learner: Emilia

Superstar Writer: Rory

Bookworm: Albie

Marvellous Mathematician: Annie

Special Mentions: Alice for making Y4 a lovely place to be, Violet Co for having beautiful manners

Thank you for coming to the Meet the Teacher Meeting on Tuesday. The slides from the presentation are attached below.

If you were unable to attend and have any questions, please contact the office and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

The Year 4 team

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