Year 4 Blog Friday 27th March 2026

Date: 27th Mar 2026 @ 12:55pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. 

If you find any words you are unsure of, look them up in a dictionary or ask an adult.

Spellings

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

crystal         pyramid       bicycle         gym             symbol

cymbals        hymn            syrup           cylinder       mystery

typical         gymnast       myth            Egypt          gymnastics

oxygen         crypt           lyrics

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s

For example, start at 25 and count to 225 and back again

25  35  45  etc                     225  215  205  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.

Halving challenge

Follow the link below and play any of the halving games – this will help to consolidate our learning this week.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

TTRockstars challenge

A ‘garage’ session

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A division challenge

Our Learning This Week

In English this week, we learnt more about the different types of pronouns – personal and possessive.

Following this, we selected appropriate pronouns and used them effectively in a piece of writing.         

In Maths, we consolidated our learning about halving 4 digit numbers.

In addition, we divided numbers using a mental strategy of partitioning.

We found this tricky, however, having a secure knowledge of our tables helped with this.

In RE, we learnt about Holy Week and compared the events of Palm Sunday with the agony in the garden of Gethsemane. 

In Science, we identified the different types of teeth in humans and their functions:

Incisors – cutting and biting

Canines – tearing and ripping

Premolars – holding and crushing

Molars – grinding food

Wisdom – act as extra molars

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt what makes a good friend and how friends can help us solve problems.

We also showed an understanding that it’s important to show gratitude to friends.

In PE, we demonstrating running and passing a rugby ball.

We then practised using a simple tactic in a game.

You can see some photos in our gallery.

In Geography, we learnt more about the 4 layers of the rainforest.

These are called – the forest floor, understory, canopy and emergent layer.

We researched the condition, plants and animals found in each layer, then wrote information about each layer in our books.

In Forest School, we talked about how to keep safe around the fire. We toasted our marshmallow, when we were invited to do so. Delicious!

On Friday morning, we also attended the parish mass and stations of the cross.

Many thanks to the children from Year 4 who read the bidding prayers so beautifully.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Daisy

Super Learner Award: Alice

Superstar Writer: Annie

Bookworm Award: Bella

Marvellous Mathematician: Rory

Special Mentions: Albie and George – for beautiful and thoughtful RE work

The Year 4 team