Y4 Friday Blog - 20/06/25

Date: 18th Jun 2025 @ 4:13pm

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 26th June

Spellings

Spelling Rule 31 - Word list – years 3 and 4 - me- to op-

medicine

mention

minute

natural

naughty

notice

occasion

occasionally

often

opposite

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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You’ll find Europe’s most stunning caves

There are more than 10,000 caves in Slovenia. The best known, Postojna, runs for around 20 kilometres and World Heritage-listed Krizna Jama Cave has a reputation as one of Europe’s underground natural wonders.

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...

Tricky one, until you realise that half of the question is made up of fluff which you don't need!

At 1pm, she had sold 29 cookies.

At 3pm, she had sold 72 cookies (as there were 50% or 72 of them remaining)

72 - 29 = 43 cookies sold.

Our learning this week in Year 4

Something a little bit different!

Haigh Woodlands

What an amazing trip! We had a couple of wobblers (and no wonder - those low ropes were not particularly low!) but most of us managed to get round the course in the end.

For the brave (or possibly insane), the high ropes were an option... Zip lines 25 feet in the air! Tightropes as thin is a piece of string! Floating pieces of wood that moved as soon as you put your foot on them!

For the more sensible, the (not so) low ropes were an option... Climbing nets 10 feet up! More tightropes! Strange wooden tubes, just big enough to crawl through!

Sports Day

What a fantastic afternoon! An obstacle race, a sprint, egg and spoon, relay, long distance... And the was all after our trip in the morning - no wonder everyone was shattered!

I honestly couldn't be prouder. Every single child went out there and give it everything, and, what's more important, there wasn't a single tear. Nobody was upset when they came last; nobody gloated if they came first; everyone had a smile on their face for the entire day!

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.