Year 4 Blog Friday 25th April 2025

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 3:51pm

Welcome to the first blog of the Summer 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 expanded noun phrases when you are reading. Expanded noun phrases will include the determiner, any adjectives and a noun.    

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

consider       continue       decide         describe      different

difficult       disappear     early            earth           eight

eighth          enough         exercise      experience   experiment

extreme      forward       forwards

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s bridging 100’s

For example, start at 86 and count to 236 and back again

86   96   106   etc                     236   226   216 etc

Now try from 321 to 571 and back again

321   331   341    etc                           571   561   551 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 just 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

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• An adding and subtracting fractions challenge

This week's learning

In English, we wrote a humorous piece about the first day back after the Easter holiday and how everything had changed!  In addition, we learnt what an expanded noun phrase is and practised building our own phrases.

In Maths, we learnt how to add and subtract using a number line. First, we used a number line to help us bridge though a multiple of 10 efficiently. Then, we used a mental compensating strategy when the number we were adding or subtracting had a 9 in the ones place.

 This week, we also practised finding fractions of amount using counters and pictorial representations. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.    

In RE, we started our new topic – To the ends of the Earth – during which we will learn about the spread of the Gospel and the mission of the Church. We began the topic by listening to John 20:1-10 which tells of the resurrection of Jesus. We then retold the story in pictures and words. You can see some pictures in our gallery.

In addition, we explored Peter’s interactions with Jesus by examining various Bible passages and then reflected on the highs and lows of Peter’s faith journey.

In Computing, we continued our ‘audio production’ topic by recording sound and then editing it effectively. We recorded ourselves speaking and them trimmed, moved and deleted parts of the recording to make it more effective.

In Geography, we started our new topic – Greece. We began by using an atlas to identify the 7 continents. We then named different countries within Europe, including Greece.

In History, we began our new topic – Ancient Greeks. We discovered who they were, where they came from and when. We also created a timeline of key events during this historical period.

On Friday, we took part in a yoga session. During the session, we learnt some different breathing techniques - for relaxation and for energy - as well as practising some strength poses.

 Take a look in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Alfie

Super Learner: Teddy

Superstar Writer: Evelyn

Bookworm: Sienna

Marvellous Mathematician: Archie S

Special Mentions: Joni and Caleb

The Year 4 team