Year 4 Blog Friday 30th January 2026

Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 8:35am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

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

If you are unsure about the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary and write out the meaning in your reading diary.

Spellings

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

their           there           they’re        because       does

doesn’t         too              to                two              its

it’s               off              of                where          were

when            went            with             our              are

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 7’s  

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

0    7    14  etc                          84    77    70  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 rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000

Our Learning this week

In English, we consolidated our learning about verbs and then learnt more about adverbs.

We found out that they are used to modify or describe a verb and often tell us how, where or when something happened.

We then practised writing sentences using adverbs both before and after the verb.   

In Maths, we consolidated our 3d learning by identifying and describing the properties of lots of different 3D shapes (eg a cone, a sphere, a cylinder and a prism).

We then started our place value topic by rounding numbers to the nearest 1000.

In RE, we listened to the story of Jesus walking on water and considered why Jesus might have worked miracles.

We also learnt the word ‘incarnation’ and described ow Jesus is both fully God and fully human.

In Science, we explored the properties of a liquid.

We discussed the different types of liquids and found out that thick liquids are called ‘viscous’ and although they pour more slowly, they still form a puddle.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt how to develop an ‘attitude of gratitude’.

This meant that we found out how it feels to give and receive gratitude.

We also learnt what the ‘gratitude domino effect’ is.

In PE, we demonstrated unusual ‘iron man’ style movements to keep in time with others.

In our groups, we worked together to improve and rehearse our dance. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.

In Music, we composed and performed our own arrangements on the glockenspiels.

In Art, we continued with our topic ‘the art of display’.

We continued making our ‘plinths’ and started preparing the pictures of ourselves, so that they stood up unaided.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week: Bella

Super Learner: Francesca

Superstar writer: Evelyn

Bookworm: Archer

Marvellous Mathematician: Noah

Special Mentions: Alexander – for bringing lots of laughter to Y4

William – for thoughtful responses in RE

The Year 4 Team