Year 4 Blog Friday 21st November 2025

Date: 21st Nov 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 find out the meaning of any new words in a dictionary?

Spellings

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

inactive       incorrect     introvert     insecure       intake

immortal      imperfect    immature     impossible    impractical

implant        impatient     impose         improper      impartial

impunity       impassive     illegal           illegible       illogical       

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 9’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 108 and back again

0    9   18  etc                           108   99   90  etc

Then have a go at counting up in 9’s from a different number, for example 32 or 79

32   41   50 etc        

79    88    97  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 ‘battle of the bands’ boys v girls

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on multiplication arrays and the 3, 4 and 8 times tables

Our Learning this Week

In English, we studied different front covers of the novel The Iron Man.

We then made predictions about the story and justified these with reasons why we had come to this conclusion.

In addition, we rewrote the beginning of the first chapter using powerful vocabulary and ideas from the novel.

In Maths, we started our new topic – multiplication. Initially, we used the ten times table to help us work out the 9 times and 11 times tables.

We then learnt how to use arrays to identify factors.

You can see some pictures of using counters to find factors in our gallery.

In RE, we made links between the words of Isaiah and the preaching of John the Baptist – creating symbols to show the links.

In addition, we discussed why we might hear the words of Isaiah and John the Baptist read out during Advent.

We then created a collage in our books which demonstrated the links we had found. 

See our gallery for some examples.

In Science, we constructed and named the parts of a simple circuit.

We made a buzzer work and a motor spin as well as making 2 bulbs light up in the same circuit.

In Art, we continued with our 'exporing pattern' topic.

We were given a rule and created our own desgns from this.

Take a look in our gallery.

This week we also took part in a dance festival (see the pictures in our gallery) and practised our hockey skills in PE.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Evelyn 

Super Learner: Rory

Superstar Writer Oscar and Alexander

Bookworm: Lottie

Marvellous Mathematician: Violet Co

Special Mentions: Eliza and Francesca for beautiful artwork, Violet Ca for bringing in lots of examples of arrays!

The Year 4 team