Year 4 Blog-23rd January

Date: 23rd Jan 2026 @ 2:23pm

Welcome to the Year 4 Blog!

This week we have started our geography topic where we will be exploring Paris! If the children have any pictures or videos that they would like to share with the class in relation to this topic then they are more than welcome to share these with us!

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 Wednesday 28th January

Spellings

Lesson 15- Words ending in '-ous' including where 'ge' from the base word remains

Courageous

Nervous

Adventurous

Ridiculous

Rapturous

Outrageous

Famous

Disadvantageous

Carnivorous

Torturous

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...

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What is the geography of Switzerland like?

Over 50% of Switzerland is covered by mountains. The Swiss Alps are located in the south and central regions of the country while the Jura Mountains are in the west. Dufourspitze is the tallest mountain in Switzerland and it is 4,634 metres above sea level.

The area between the Swiss Alps and Jura Mountains is a hilly plateau called the Mittelland. A number of rivers cross this plateau including the River Rhine. It’s the most fertile area in the country. Most of the population of Switzerland live in this region. There are also a number of lakes in Switzerland including Lake Constance and Lake Geneva.

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Our learning this week in Year 4

English

The Pied Piper of Hamelin : Morpurgo, Sir Michael, Clark, Emma Chichester: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Our third English book of the year is The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

This week we have been preparing to write our own versions of the Pied Piper story. This has involved looking at the plot of the book and creating our own settings and characters. We have been using noun phrases, adjectives and similies to describe our new versions of the Pied Piper. There have been lots of creative adaptations of the character and their appearance.

Maths - Multiplication

In maths this week we have started our new topic of multiplication and we have been looking at factors of numbers. We have used our times table skills to figure out the factors of different numbers and understanding that factors come in pairs. We have also been recapping grid method and how this can help us solve tricky multiplication questions including hundreds.

Weekly Awards

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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.