St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 4 Blog Friday 8th May 2026
Date: 8th May 2026 @ 1:25pm
Welcome to your weekly blog
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.
Can you summarise what you have read – including the most important details.
Then, predict what you think will happen next.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
league tongue antique unique mosque fatigue
cheque rogue vague intrigue dialogue analogue
argue plague epilogue plaque torque barbeque
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 8’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 96 and back again
0 8 16 24 etc 96 88 80 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
A ‘garage’ session – let’s see if EVERYONE can log on and play this week!
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on the words above
A symmetry challenge
Our learning this week
In English, we have been busy writing parts and learning them for our Parent Assembly next week.
In addition, we listened to the class novel.
In Maths, we learnt how to identify vertical or horizontal lines of symmetry in a shape.
We then extended this learning by completing simple symmetrical figures.
In addition, we learnt the names of different triangles (equilateral, isosceles and scalene) and their properties.
In RE, we understood how the one, holy Catholic and apostolic church is structed.
We created a coat of arms to show our understanding.
In Art, we created some beautiful artwork for our Parent Assembly.
In French, we learnt the names of some sports and expressed our opinion of whether we liked or disliked them.
This week, we also learnt how to name some hobbies.
We look forward to seeing you at our Parent Assembly on Friday 15th May 2026 at 2.40pm.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Hunter
Super Learner: Drew
Superstar Writer: Evelyn
Bookworm: Bobby
Marvellous Mathematician: Emilia
Special Mentions: Georgie for being a good friend to everyone
Albie, Noah, Hunter, Violet Ca, Bella and George for composing and performing on the ukuleles
The Year 4 Team