Year 4 Blog Friday 20th June 2025

Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 12:03pm

Welcome to your Friday 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.

If you find any words you are unsure of, look them up in a dictionary and write them down in your reading diary. You can use them in your own writing then.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

girls’            boys’            babies’         children’s     people’s       mens’

mice’s          foxes’          rabbits’       parents’       dogs’            friends’

cats’            brothers’     sisters’        wolves’         books’          ladies’

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

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

A tenths and hundredths challenge (to consolidate previous learning)

Our learning this week

English

In English, we started to plan a piece of writing about ‘someone special’.

We looked at an example, then planned and started to draft our own piece of writing. 

Maths

In Maths, we have been busy completing end of year tests to demonstrate the brilliant progress we have made this year.

RE

In RE, we explored some artwork of Mary and expressed a point of view about it, listening carefully to the responses of others.

Following this, we created our own piece of work depicting Mary.

PSHE

In PSHE, we learnt how active listening can help us to relate to others.

Science

In Science, we learnt how sounds are made and associated this with something vibrating.

History

In History, we analysed and labelled the main type of Greek solider – hoplites.

In addition, we learnt about the Battle of Marathon and how a small Athenian army managed to overcome a larger Persian army!

Geography

In Geography, we created a poster in our books to explain why tourism is so popular in Greece and the Mediterranean.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week:   Henry

Super Learner:   Franco

Superstar Writer:   Brooke

Bookworm:  Henry

Marvellous Mathematician:  Milo

Special Mentions:   Edward, Alana, Willow and Amelia

The Year 4 team