Y4 Friday Blog - 11/07/25

Date: 9th Jul 2025 @ 3:49pm

Welcome to the Year 4 Blog!

Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings / times tables and lots more.

Every Friday, the blog will be shared with the class to recap our learning and make them aware of their homework. Moving to online homework has allowed us to become a more eco friendly school. Throughout the week we will be learning about the spelling rule in preparation for the quiz on Thursday. Spelling frame can be used for practise along with the spelling strategies shared on the blog below. Log in details for Spelling Frame or TT Rock Stars can be found on the inside cover of your child's Reading Record book.

Homework

Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Asking questions improves key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference. E.g. "Why do you think the character is unhappy?"

Please note that reading books will be changed when completed. Please write a note in your child's reading record book when a book has been completed and sign the relevant parent signature box. Thank you in advance.

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to spelling frame.

Please note that our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 17th July

Spellings

Spelling Rule 33 - Word list – years 3 and 4 - pro- to sen-

probably

promise

purpose

quarter

question

recent

regular

reign

remember

sentence

Geography Fact of the Week!

Mrs. Macdonald (our Geography boffin) has had a great idea! To make sure our knowledge of the world is solid, each class will be spotlighting a different country in Europe.

For this term, we have the country Slovenia

Each week, we will find and share a new fact on the blog...

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Škocjan Caves

Škocjan Caves is a cave system located in Slovenia. Škocjan Caves was included on UNESCO’s list of natural and cultural World Heritage Sites in 1986. Škocjan Caves is a significant underground phenomenon on the Karst Plateau and in Slovenia

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Maths Problem of the Week

Each week, a new maths problem will appear on the blog... Can you solve it?

The answers will be posted in next week's blog!

Let's finish the year with a bit of trial and error!

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Previous week's answers...

After 1.2m is cut off, 3.6m remain.

If that is then cut into 2 pieces of equal length, each piece of 1.8m long

Our learning this week in Year 4

Geography / English

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Our final English unit of the year links to debates and persuasive language. Our final geography unit of the year is comparing Iceland and the North West of England.

It looks like it is time for a debate! Can you push your point, and persuade people to visit the UK?

Or, can you flip is around and persuade people that Iceland would be a far better place to visit?

We had a fantastic, and very professional debate, looking at the reasons to visit each country.

Euxton Factor

Well... We have had singing, dancing, stand-up comedy and a whole variety of other things too!

Everyone who auditioned was amazing, and they should be proud of putting themself forward. Next week, we will get to see the successful Y4s perform, and I can't wait to see how well it goes!

Safeguarding - morning routine

If you are dropping off your child at the classroom door / KS2 entrance door and need to pass a message on to a member of staff please do so by speaking to the staff member who monitors the door in the morning. If you need to enter school for any other reason, adults can only enter the school building via the main school entrance and seek assistance from the school office team. If you are attending a meeting with a member of staff, you must sign in at the front desk as a visitor and have an ID lanyard.

Safeguarding - home time routine

At the end of each day, Y4 will line up on the playground football pitch. Each child will be dismissed individually, only when a member of staff has seen the adult who is collecting. If they are signed up for OSC, the children will need to be collected from the front office, so OSC can sign in, and sign out, the children they are expecting.

If you need to speak with the class teacher at the end of the day, please allow them to dismiss the class first.

Thank you for your continued support in keeping our school and children safe.