Y4 Friday Blog - 13/06/25

Date: 11th Jun 2025 @ 3:31pm

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 19th June

Spellings

Spelling Rule 30 - Word list – years 3 and 4 - i to ma-

imagine

increase

important

interest

island

knowledge

learn

length

library

material

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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REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA: FACTS

Capital: Ljubljana

Area: 20,271 sq km

Population: 2.1 million

Languages: Slovene, Italian, Hungarian

Life expectancy: 77 years (men) 83 years (women)

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!

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Previous week's answers...

5 oranges = £1.80

10 oranges = £3.60

80 oranges = £28.80

Our learning this week in Year 4

Maths

We are back into the murky world of fractions, finding equivilent fractions, finding a fraction of an amount, converting between fractions and decimals...

Fractions aren't easy, but once we remembered the rule, 'Whatever you do to the numerator, you must also do to the denominator' it became nice and easy.

Next week, we will be continuing to find a faction of an amount, using bar models, and applying division skills, to solve questions!

English

It's the final unit of the year, and what a way to finish!

Mrs. Crosby had already prepared me for this new book, saying it was an amazing mix of culture, diversity and suspense... She wasn't wrong! Journey to Jo'burg has got off to a wonderful start, and we can't wait to find out what happens to Naledi and Tiro next!

So far, we have inferred what the city of Johannesburg must have looked like in the eyes of two young children from a small African village. We have continued with inference, using the text to help us understand how Naledi and Tiro must have felt... Scared? Anxious? Overwhelmed? Or most probably, a mixture of them all!

Times Tables - MTC

A huge congratulations to Y4, who completed their MTC this week.

25 times tables, completely random, needing to be answered in 6 seconds. I honestly could not be prouder! Each person give it 100% and showed so much resilience... What else would you expect from Euxton CofE!

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.

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