Year 4 Blog Friday 3rd October 2025

Date: 3rd Oct 2025 @ 8:53am

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 3’s  

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

0    3    6      etc                        36    33     30  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 ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition against Year 5 – please log on and have a go!

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on the 3, 4 and 8 times tables

Our learning this week

In English, we wrote an informal letter as if we were Michael from the novel writing a letter to his best friend Eddie.

In addition, 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 hope to try and use more compound sentences in our writing.

In Maths, we used partitioning and number lines to help us add and subtract numbers when we needed to bridge 10 and 100.

This was quite tricky, but with a bit more practise we hope it will become a little easier.

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

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 learnt what neurons and neural pathways are,

We also learnt how to form good habits and that the more we practise these habits, the easier they become.

In Science, we grouped living things based on their features using classification keys.

In French, we learnt how to name some pet animals eg un chien = a dog and un chat = a cat.

In Art, we began to retell the story of ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ through sketching.  

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: Drew

Super Learner: Violet Ca

Superstar writer: Rudy

Bookworm: Rowan

Marvellous Mathematician: Heidi

Special Mentions: Lewis and Artie for thoughtful RE work

Alice, Violet Ca, William and Mia for keeping the classroom lovely and tidy

The Year 4 team