Year 4 Blog Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 4:22pm

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 spot any coordinating conjunctions (for and nor but or yet so).

Spellings

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

crystal         gym             hymn            mystery       myth

pyramid       symbol         syrup           typical         Egypt

bicycle         cymbals        cylinder       gymnast       gymnastics

oxygen         crypt           lyrics

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 10’s from 268 to 428 and back again

268     278    288    etc             428    418    408  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 perimeter

Our learning this week

In English, we learnt the acronym FANBOYS to help us remember the 7 co-ordinating conjunctions.

The conjunctions are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So. We then practised using them in sentences.

We also wrote a class poem for National Poetry Day on Thursday.

In Maths, we learnt how to measure and draw lengths as properties of 2D shapes, as well as how to measure in centimetres and millimetres.

In addition, learnt that perimeter is the measure of length or distance around the boundary of a shape.

We then applied our understanding to help us calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes.

In RE, we again consolidated our learning of the words - virtue, faith, hope and love.

We then read St John Henry Newman’s ‘Mission of my Life’, underlined our favourite line and explained why we liked it and how we could relate it to our everyday lives. 

In P.S.H.E, we demonstrated our strategies for working on a collaborative task.

This involved choosing a challenge card and creating a human machine with our group.

We all had to work together to achieve the task.

In Science, we recapped the 5 vertebrate groups (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals).

Following this, we discussed the definition of invertebrates and how they can be grouped.

In Geography, we learnt about the water cycle and how water travels from the ground to the sky and back again, over and over.

We learnt the words evaporation, condensation, precipitation and ground water and created our own mini water cycle.

There are a couple of pictures in the gallery.

In French, we recapped animals (un chien, un char, un lapin, une souris, une tortue).

We then sang a song to help remember the animals and played a matching game to show our understanding.

This week, we also attended the Harvest Mass in church on Friday afternoon.

Thank you for your harvest gifts – these will be donated to a local food bank.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week: Devyn

Super Learner: Rose

Superstar writer: Ellie

Bookworm: Isaac

Marvellous Mathematician: Henry P

Special Mentions: Harrison for excellent team work in netball

Amelia C for always being positive and coming into class with a big smile on her face

The Year 4 team