Year 4 Blog Friday 9th October 2026

Date: 9th Oct 2026 @ 4:07pm

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.

Write down the meaning of any words you don’t know.

Spellings

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

young           touch           double          trouble        country

courage        colour          couple          southern      encourage

cousins         enough         nourish        countries     rough

cousin          doubling       touched       youngster    troubling

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 3’s  

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

0    3   6   9      etc                    36   33   30  etc

Now try counting in 10’s from 146 to 326 and back again

146   156    166    etc                326    316    306  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 perimeter

Our Learning this Week

In English, we read about Michael’s first encounter with Kensuke on the island.

We then planned and wrote a diary account from Kensuke’s point of view.

We tried to ensure we included lots of thoughts and feelings and made it entertaining for the reader.

In Maths, we consolidated our learning that perimeter is the measure of length or distance around the boundary of a shape.

We then applied our understanding to help us calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes when there were some missing measurements.

In RE, we listened to the story of the three visitors who came and told Abraham that he would have a son. 

We drew a picture and wrote a sentence to show our understanding of the story.

In addition, we described the covenant between God and Abraham which included what each promised.

In P.S.H.E, we discussed friendship. We looked at a picture of a group of friends and considered how we could tell they had a positive friendship.

We then discussed what they might like about each other, what they might do together and reasons they might be friends.

In Science, we discussed what we know about living things and identified what they need to survive.

We discovered different features of plants and how we could group them.

We then learnt the difference between deciduous (shed leaves annually) and evergreen plants (keep leaves and needles all year round.

In Art, we continued with our topic ‘exploring pattern’. You can see some of our artwork in our gallery.

In History, we learnt who was in charge of the Roman Empire and designed ‘Top Trump’ cards to show the strengths and powers of the leaders of Rome – Octavian and Agrippa, and Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

In PE, we learnt how to move with the ball and pass in handball. We then put our skills into games.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Lydia

Super Learner:  Isaac

Superstar Writer:   Dylan

Bookworm:  Devyn

Marvellous Mathematician: Adam

Special Mentions: Wilbur for being a good friend

Sam for excellent history, beautifully presented

The Year 4 team