Year 4 Blog Friday 28th November 2025

Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 1:10pm

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

irregular                irrelevant              irresponsible         irrational    

irrefutable             irrevocable            submit                   subdivide              

subheading             submarine              submerge              subconscious         

subatomic              subcontract           subordinate           subtitle      

subcontinent          subnormal

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 3’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again

0    3    6  etc                            36    33    30  etc

Then have a go at counting in 6’s from 0 to 72 and back again

0   6   12                                   72    66   60 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 multiplying by 10 and 100, as well as using known facts to work out other multiplications (eg 30 x 6, use 3 x 6 = 18, then multiply by 10)

Our Learning this Week

In English, we wrote questions about a chapter ensuring they were open questions, punctuated correctly using a question mark, and they made sense.

In addition, we explored alliteration. We had fun writing our names and sentences using alliteration as well as a humorous poem.

In Maths, we understood the effect of multiplying a one or two digit number by 10 and 100.

We extended this learning to recognise the relationship between a known fact and a related calculation.

For example, if 4 x 3 = 12, then 4 x 30 = 120 – the answer is 10 times larger.

In PSHE, we started the ‘celebrate’ module.

We learnt about character and character strengths.

We also learnt which strengths we use the most and why it is important to use our character strengths.

In RE, we learnt about the liturgical year – the cycle of seasons which organises the Christian year around the life of Jesus.

We then complete a liturgical calendar using appropriate symbols and colours.

We also labelled the feast of Christ the King, which marks the end of the liturgical year.

You can see some of these in our gallery.

In Science, we recapped what is needed for a simple circuit to light a bulb.

We then discussed the difference between a complete and incomplete circuit, and predicted whether examples of circuits would light a bulb or not.

In Geography, we researched and then discussed the different uses of a river. 

In Art, we created a ‘zentangle’ as part of our ‘exploring pattern topic.

You can see some examples in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Lewis

Super Learner: Mia

Superstar Writer: Emilia

Bookworm: Jessica

Marvellous Mathematician: Georgie

Special Mentions: Alice – for representing Year 4 in the interschool poetry competition.

Rudy, William, Annie, Rowan, Violet Co, Violet Ca, Albert and Rory for representing Year 4 in the interschool dodgeball competition.

The Year 4 team