Year 4 Blog Friday 5th June 2026

Date: 5th Jun 2026 @ 12:06pm

Welcome to the first blog of this half term

Home practice

Reading

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

Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

See if you can spot any speech – look carefully at the punctuation used.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

fruit            grammar      group           guard           guide           heard

heart           height          history        imagine        increase       important

interest       island           knowledge    learn            length          library

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 12’s and back again

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

12    24    36   etc                              144   132   120 etc

Now try counting in 1.2’s and back again

1.2   2.4   3.6    etc                              14.4   13.2    12.0 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

You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk

If you practise for 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.

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

‘Soundcheck’ sessions

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A co-ordinates challenge

In English, we wrote an account of our first day back after half term and how everything had changed! What imaginative minds some of you have.

In addition, we started our new novel, Stig of the Dump.

We rewrote some of the first chapter as if we were Barney and drew and labelled Stig’s cave including as much detail as we could.

In Maths, we consolidated our learning about coordinates.

We then extended this learning to translate points from one co-ordinate to another on a co-ordinate grid.

We also learnt what is meant by the term ‘area’ (the amount of space taken up by a 2D shape) and how to calculate it.         

In RE, we started our new topic – Encounter and Dialogue.

We learnt about the conversion of St Paul on the road to Damascus and described his character before and after he was blinded by the light.

In PSHE, learnt how we can ‘Feel good and do good’.

We learnt what ‘big dream goals’ are and why setting goals makes us feel good.

In Science, we constructed and interpreted a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.

In History, we learnt about life in Sparta and Athens.

We compared these two city states and then decided where we would rather live, based on our historical knowledge.

On Friday afternoon, we took part in Tough Kidder.

Wow – what a fabulous afternoon – please have a look at our pictures in the gallery!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week:  Archer

Super Learner:  Georgie

Superstar Writer:  Rudy and Eliza

Bookworm: Archer

Marvellous Mathematician: Mia  

Special Mentions:  Francesca and Heidi for putting lots of detail into their RE work

The Year 4 team