Y4 Friday Blog - 5/12/25

Date: 3rd Dec 2025 @ 8:32am

Welcome to the Year 4 Blog!

Important Information!

Rainbow Raffle

We’re excited to announce our Rainbow Raffle! Each class will create a beautiful hamper based around a specific colour, making a stunning rainbow of prizes for you to win.

Every class has been assigned a colour and families are invited to donate items in that colour to help fill their class hamper. Our Year 4 colour is BLUE. Please bring donations into school by Monday 15th December.

Hampers will be raffled off at our carols in the hall on the afternoon of Thursday 18th December.

Tickets will be coming home in bags on Monday. Please return any money and ticket stubs in an envelope to the school office. Any unsold tickets can be sent back to the office also. Thank you for your support in making this a fun and colourful event for our school community.

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. EdShed can be used for practise along with the spelling strategies shared on the blog below. Log in details for EdShed 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 Shed.

Please note that our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 11th December

Spellings

Lesson 12: Challenge Words

complete
continue
experiment
famous
favourite
February
naughty
material
knowledge
remember

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 Switzerland

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

A very unique flag!

Key facts about the Swiss flag

Shape: It is one of only two square national flags in the world; the other is Vatican City.

Orientation: It can't be flown the wrong way because it is perfectly symmetrical.

History: The white cross on a red background has roots dating back to the 14th century and the Battle of Laupen in 1339.

Official adoption: The current design was officially adopted in 1889.

Legal specifications: Swiss law defines the flag's red color and specifies that the white cross's arms are one-sixth longer than they are wide. Screenshot 2025-12-04 075646.png

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...

Bag 1 contains 2.5kg of flour

Bag 2 contains 3.75kg of flour

Altogether, there is 6.25kg of flour

Our learning this week in Year 4

English

Our second English book of the year is The Firework-Maker's Daughter, a story about a wildchild, who wants to be better than her father!

The Painter's Daughter has started! We are using everything we have done in the last few weeks:

Our model write on The Firework Maker's Daughter - can bits of it still be pinched for this independent write?

Our descriptive piece of writing, using expanded noun phrases - a great way to add some descriptive settings!

Our grammar work on adverbial phrases - a good reminder to mark them with a comma.

So far, we have written and edited them. Next, we are going to publish them. Who knows, we might even then use our oracy skills to present them to another class!

Maths - Shape

Shape is always a strange topic in maths! There are so many different shapes, all with such strange, yet similar, names... It is so easy to mix up a pentagon and a hexagon... throw in a heptagon (also know as a septagon), alongside a nonagon and it is no wonder people get confused so easily!

Despite all this though, we have made our way through it with ease, looking 2D and 3D shapes, at edges, vertices, and faces, at prisms and polygons and everything in between!

Weekly Awards

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.

Safety in PE

We would like to remind all parents that for the safety of all children and following guidance from Chorley SSP, jewellery is not to be worn during PE. This includes earrings, bracelets and watches. All children will be asked to remove their jewellery at the start of every PE lesson. This will ensure their own safety during the lesson and the safety of others. If a child is unable to take out their own earrings, adults in school will not be able to do it for them. This will mean they will have to take another role in the lesson such as observing, coaching or officiating.

For this reason, if your child is not confident taking out earrings, please do not put them in on our PE days. This year, our PE lessons are on Wednesday and Thursday, however we may also have extra lessons on other days throughout the year.

Thank you for your support in keeping our children safe.