Year 4 Blog Friday 6th March 2026

Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 12:52pm

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 summarise what you have already read and make a prediction about what you think will happen next?

Spellings

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

division        invasion        confusion     decision       collision

television     mission        fission         submission   supervision

expansion     vision           version        illusion         immersion

corrosion     mansion        pension

Counting

This week, please practise counting in tenths

For example, start at 1.8 and count to 3.5 and back again

1.8   1.9   2.0  etc                      3.5   3.4   3.3  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 ‘girls v boys’ tournament

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on all the times tables

Our Learning This Week

In English, we started our new novel - The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman.

We studied the front cover and labelled what we could see, and then made predictions about what the novel might be about based on our observations.  

In Maths, we learnt how to identify and describe the rule of a sequence and extend the given sequence using this rule.

We also understood the effect of dividing a two digit number by 100. 

In RE, we discussed our gifts and talents as well as the things which make us unique.

Following this, we created a litany which recognised the gifts and uniqueness of friends and family.

In addition, we showed an understanding that loving God means we want to help ourselves and others, using the virtues of faith, hope and love, which have their foundations in God.

You can see some photos of our paperchain links in our gallery.

In Science, we carried out our melting chocolate experiment – which type of chocolate melts the fastest. You can see some pictures in our gallery.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, learnt about first aid and what to do in an emergency. We learnt the acronym HELPS :

H – help

E – explain

L – location

P – pay attention

S – stay calm

In Art, we practised sketching gerberas.

We also practised tints and shades of a colour and then painted gerberas in our books.

Have a look at some examples in our gallery.

On a Monday afternoon, we are also enjoying taking part in Forest School.

It was rather rainy for our session but we didn't mind. We found snails, ladybirds, slugs and worms. We realised that different creatures prefer different habitats, the ladybirds were all found in some long, thin leaves and the snails were all huddled together in a compost bin.

There was also some great child-initiated learning which included a cafe and an outdoor gym.

Some of us made forest eyes with wool and lolly sticks which develops our fine motor skills and it's also a very mindful activity.

Take a look at the pictures in our gallery.

As it was World Book Day on Thursday, we enjoyed reading with Year 2 in the afternoon.

You can see some photos in our gallery of us in our World Book Day costumes, and reading with Year 2.

On Friday morning, we took part in a Wellbeing Festival Day which provided some much needed calm and relaxation after a busy week.

The session included yoga, learning breathing techniques and practised calming movements.

There are some photos in our gallery.

 The Year 4 Team