Year 4 Blog Friday 26th June 2026

Date: 25th Jun 2026 @ 1:25pm

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.

Try and add lots of expression when you are reading and use the punctuation to add pauses.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

accept         except         ball              bawl             berry           bury

grate           great           groan           grown          knot             not

mail             male             peace           piece           scene           seen

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

Now have a go at counting in 9’s from 14 to 113

14   23   32   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

An addition and subtraction challenge using units of measure

Our learning this week

English

We revised different types of sentence (statements, questions, commands and exclamations).

We then wrote our own questions about a chapter using a variety of sentence openers).

We also wrote a diary extract as Barney from the novel which included lots of thoughts and feelings.

Maths

We measured, drew and compared the length of different objects including numbers to two decimal places.

You can see us practising this skill in our gallery.

RE

We learnt about the Byzantine Catholic Church.

We discovered more about Byzantine Icons and Byzantine music and expressed our opinions about these.

PSHE

We discussed why people choose to save or spend money differently and the reasons which may influence them.

We also considered how our choices can affect others and our environment.

Science

We explored how sound vibrations travel through a medium to our ear.

We focussed on the difference between a sound travelling through the air and then a solid.

Have a look at some photos in our gallery.

History

We labelled a hoplite (an ancient Greek Soldier who fought on land) and tried to use the correct historical vocabulary for their armour and weapons.

We also learnt about the Battle of Marathon and wrote a letter from an Athenian army general to the Spartans asking for help!

PE

In our gymnastics session, we practised the arch and dish balances.

We also explored quarter, half and full turns and created a sequence with our partner to perform.

On Wednesday morning, we also took part in Dance from the Heart!

We loved dancing with the whole school and the South Ribble Dance Leaders.

Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week:   Oliver

Super Learner:    Rudy

Superstar Writer:   Violet Co

Bookworm:  Alexander

Marvellous Mathematician: Drew   

Special Mentions:  Bella and Emilia for being great work partners

 Eddie for his beautiful manners  

The Year 4 team