Y4 Friday Blog - 19/9/25
Date: 17th Sep 2025 @ 8:18am
Important Information!
This year, spelling practice has moved from Spelling Frame to Spelling Shed. A few parents have been met with an error message when logging into Spelling Frame for this reason. Fingers crossed, Spelling Shed should now be set up, with a working link below. Usernames and passwords are now stuck into Reading Records.
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.
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 Shed.
Please note that our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 25th September
Spellings
illegible
immature
immortal
impossible
impatient
imperfect
irregular
irrelevant
irresponsible
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 Italy - the home of the great Valentino Rossi!
Each week, we will find and share a new fact on the blog...
Italy's capital city is Rome
Here are 12 interesting facts about Rome:
- Modern Rome has 280 fountains and more than 900 churches.
- Nearly 700,000 euros worth of coins are tossed into Rome’s Trevi Fountain each year. The proceeds are donated to Caritas to help those in need.
- The Romans had built a road network of 53,000 miles by the early fourth century. Each Roman mile was about 4,800 feet and marked by a milestone, giving birth to the saying “All roads lead to Rome.”
- In Ancient Rome, only free-born men were allowed to wear togas, a sign of Roman citizenship. Women wore stolas, the female version of togas, made from linen.
- The mascot of Rome is a she-wolf that cared for brothers Romulus and Remus, the mythological founders of Rome.
- Rome became the capital city of unified Italy in 1870, taking the title from Florence.
- Law in Rome allows cats to live without disruption in the place they were born. Wild cats can be climbing the walls of the Colosseum, and sleeping among the ruins of the Forum.
- Women in ancient Rome dyed their hair with goat fat and beech wood ashes. The most popular colors were red and blond.
- The first ever shopping mall was built in Rome between 107 and 110 AD by Emperor Trajan. It sold a wide variety of goods and grocery items.
- Rome’s first university, La Sapienza, established in 1303 AD, is the largest in Europe and the second largest in the world.
- Rome has a museum dedicated entirely to pasta.
- St Peter’s basilica inside Vatican City is the largest church ever constructed.
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!
Previous week's answers...
Each side of the square is worth 10cm
Each side of the triangles are worth 5cm
Perimeter = 50cm
Our learning this week in Year 4
English
Our first English book of the year is Escape from Pompeii, a fantastic and gripping story about 2 friends trying to escape the erupting volcano.
This week, we have been looking at correctly using the different rules of speech. After this, we used our previous learning of fronted adverbials, and our newly learnt rules of speech, to start our modelled write, following along with the same story as Escape from Pompeii
Maths - Place Value
We are continuing with our unit on Place Value.
This week, we have been looking at subtraction, taking away a number with an exchange. We looked at a few different methods, using number lines, columns and the dreaded arrow cards! We can use any of these methods in our independent work - just get the answer right!
Weekly Awards
Have a fantastic weekend!
The Year 4 team