Year 4 Blog Friday 28th March 2025

Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 4:17pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  If you find any words you are unsure of, look them up in a dictionary or ask an adult.

Spellings

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

crystal         pyramid       bicycle         gym             symbol

cymbals        hymn            syrup           cylinder       mystery

typical         gymnast       myth            Egypt          gymnastics

oxygen         crypt           lyrics

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s

For example, start at 25 and count to 225 and back again

25  35  45  etc                     225  215  205  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 multiplication and division challenge using place value and known facts

Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.

We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges.

In English this week, we learnt about different types of determiners and how they can alter the meaning of a sentence.

We learnt that they are found before nouns and that they have different jobs to do in a sentence.       

In Maths, we consolidated our learning about halving 4 digit numbers.

In addition, we divided numbers using a mental strategy of partitioning. We found this tricky, however, having a secure knowledge of our tables helped with this.

In RE, we listened to the story of Jesus’ arrest, betrayal by Peter, and trial. We then sequenced the story using pictures.

Following this, we reflected on Jesus’ crucifixion and death and wrote a beautiful acrostic poem to sum up the events of Good Friday and what they mean to us today.

In Science, we explored boiling and evaporation. We discussed the main points to compare the two and thought about how liquids change state during both of these processes.

We also considered different variables that would affect how long evaporation takes.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we completed our ‘appreciate’ module.

The main focus of the session was how to appreciate ourselves and how our character strengths can help us to appreciate ourselves.

In Geography, we continued creating our double page spreads about rainforests. 

We were all very proud of our achievements and enjoyed including lots of detail and pictures.

This week, we were also visited by Harriet and Paul from BAE Systems who provided a STEM workshop. 

During the session, we learnt about cyber security, encryption, and teamwork. We then put these elements together to help us navigate a 'Roving Robots' challenge.

Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Jack 

Super Learner Award: Caleb 

Superstar Writer: Amelia

Bookworm Award: Edward

Marvellous Mathematician: Brooke

Special Mentions: Sienna and Emma - for beautiful artwork, and Sam - for putting his heart and soul into everything that he does

The Year 4 team