Year 4 Blog Friday 26th September 2025

Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 4:52pm

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. Look up any words you are unsure of in a dictionary.

Spellings

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

kindly           slowly           loudly           comically      crossly

quietly         angrily         happily         sleepily        hesitantly

gently          simply          humbly         nobly            sarcastically

basically       quickly         dramatically           frantically             worryingly

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 5’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 60 and back again

0     5     10      etc                    60     55     50  etc

Now try counting in 50’s from 50 to 600 and back again

50   100    150    etc                  600   550    500

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 ‘studio’ session – please log on and have a go! This will help you to build up your Rock Star status

Why not challenge someone else in Year 4 to a ‘Rock Slam’.

This is a competition and you can set a score for them to beat. You don’t need to be online at the same time.

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 and 1000

Our Learning this Week

In English, we analysed the features of an informal letter.

We then planned our own letter from Michael to his best friend Eddie, which outlined the countries we had visited and the adventures we had had during our sailing trip around the world.

In Maths, we added and subtracted multiples of 10 to 3 digit numbers (eg 342 + 250 and 528 – 340).

See the pictures in our gallery which demonstrate how we answered these using place value counters.

In addition, we used a number line to solve addition or subtraction calculations which required mental partitioning.

In RE, we talked about how Abraham is a model of prayer and how we can use prayer in our everyday lives.

We also discussed and found definitions of the words - virtue, faith, hope and love.   

In P.S.H.E, we learnt how to calm our amygdala and practised our ‘happy breathing’.

Following this, we thought of a time when we could use ‘happy breathing’ to help our amygdala stay calm when the danger isn’t real.

In Science, we recapped the 5 animal groups (amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles) and gave examples for each group explaining our reasons why.

We then looked at how we could group plants and sorted plants into flowering or non-flowering categories.  

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Violet Ca

Super Learner: Oscar

Superstar Writer: Hunter

Bookworm: Oliver

Mathematician: Daisy

Special Mentions: Lottie for beautiful manners

Evelyn and Eliza for thoughtful RE work

If you are able, please bring a harvest donation in for the Harvest Festival next Friday

The Year 4 team