St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 4 Blog Friday 23rd January 2026
Date: 23rd Jan 2026 @ 10:53am
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.
Remember to include lots of expression when you are reading.
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
measure enclosure picture capture departure
future treasure creature nature leisure
puncture cure pleasure furniture adventure
literature mixture sure
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 7’s
For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again
0 7 14 etc 84 77 70 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 maths challenge based on 3d shapes
Our Learning This Week
In English, we rewrote an extract of the novel in first person as if we were Lord Somethingorother.
We considered how the Lord would speak and what he saw and heard.
In addition, we wrote a postcard from an evacuee, called Barry, to his mother.
We had to think about every word we wrote and tried to include vocabulary from the novel.
In Maths, we continued our shape topic by investigating 3D shapes.
We started by learning how to identify and name different prisms according to their properties.
We then extended this learning to include the names and properties of different pyramids.
In RE, we familiarised ourselves with Matthew 11 1-15 (Jesus’ speech to John the Baptist’s followers) and then made links between this speech and signs that Jesus was the Messiah.
We also read through and discussed the Nicene Creed.
Following this, we chose our favourite phrase and explained what it means to us.
In Science, we classified a range of objects and materials as solids, liquids or gases in a Venn diagram.
In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we started our appreciate topic.
We learnt what appreciation means and the 3 categories (yourself, others, experience).
We also learnt why gratitude is important.
In PE, we continued our dance topic based on the Iron Man.
In Art, we continued making our ‘plinths’ and taking pictures of ourselves in different poses in preparation for our ‘pocket gallery’.
We continued our new topic ‘photo editing’ in Computing.
We learnt how to rotate and crop pictures and then practised editing and recolouring.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Emilia
Super Learner: Albert
Superstar Writer: Marvin
Bookworm: Oscar and Isla
Marvellous Mathematician: Hunter
Special Mentions: Annie – for coming in every day with a big smile on her face
Rory and William – for being super helpful around the classroom
REMEMBER TO TAKE PART IN THE NORTH WEST MATHS CONTEST STARTING ON MONDAY 26th JANUARY
The Year 4 team