Year 4 Blog Friday 7th November 2025

Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 3:34pm

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 conjunctions when you are reading? Are they coordinating or subordinating conjunctions?

Spellings

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

would           could            should          because       said

hear            here            where          were            people

night           knight          father         friend          mother

children       water          too              two              beautiful               went

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 6’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 72 and back again

0    6      12      etc                    72     66     60  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 the formal written method of column addition

Our Learning this week

In English, we learnt about subordinating conjunctions – how to identify them in a sentence, where they are used and what their job is.

We also learnt an acronym to help us remember some subordinating conjunctions (AWhITEBUS).

In Maths, we revised and learnt more about the formal written method of addition.

We added 4 digit numbers together, including exchanging.

We then extended our learning to identify missing digits in column addition calculations.

In RE, we started our new topic – Prophecy and Promise.

We began by showing an understanding of what a prophet is, drawing on Elijah as an example and retelling the story of Elijah’s encounter with God using symbols.

You can see some examples of our work in our gallery.

In Geography, we learnt about the water cycle and how water travels around our world.

We watched a video to explain the journey of a water droplet and then labelled a diagram to show our understanding using some new vocabulary – evaporation, condensation, groundwater and precipitation.

In Science, we started our new topic by creating a mind map of what we already know about electricity.

We also discussed key vocabulary and the electrical appliances we use at home and at school.

We learnt that big appliances usually need to be plugged in and run on electricity whilst smaller appliances (which are often portable) can be powered by batteries.

In P.S.H.E, we learnt more about managing emotions and practising strategies to calm ourselves down.

We explored our 3 key places and identified and talked about who our trusted adults are – people we can turn to when we wish to share our feelings.

In Art, we started our new topic ‘Exploring Pattern’.

We started by making a sensory drawing using a needle.

Take a look at some examples in our gallery.

This week, we also enjoyed outdoor learning with leaves.

Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week: Albie

Super Learner: Drew

Superstar Writer: Jessica

Bookworm: Alexander

Mathematician: Oliver

Special Mentions: Eddie Year 6 for beautiful manners around school

Alice and Rudy for excellent knowledge about the water cycle in geography

The Year 4 team