Y4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 17th October 2025

🔙 Looking Back – This Week in Year 4

Only a few more sleeps until the Exhibition!

✍️ Writing

Our Viking sagas are now published! Each student has created a beautiful book, complete with kennings and illustrations to bring their stories to life. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed making them.

➕ Maths

We’ve been practising rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, and 1,000, and continued our arithmetic work with Mrs Riddell.

🏆 Children’s Highlights

• Creating my kenning
• Building a Viking boat in Forest School
• TT Rockstars!
• Designing story illustrations
• Finishing The Giggler Treatment

🔜 Looking Ahead – Next Week in Year 4

• Exhibition!
• The Café opens!
• Cakes and proud families!
• Post-topic assessments
• No Outsiders book: Dogs Don’t Do Ballet

📚 Homework This Week

✍️ English: SPaG mat, similes, and Guided reading journal front cover decoration
➕ Maths: Unit 5
📖 Reading: 15 minutes daily (reading records in Monday, plus AR quizzes)
🎵 TT Rockstars: 10 minutes daily or one 20-minute session
📝 Spellings: Test Wednesday (short, regular practice helps!)
✏️ Presentation: Pencil or blue/black pen only – no felt tips
🔢 Times Tables: Practise all tables

📬 Homework due on the Friday after half term, it can still be completed at homework club, the first week back after half term.

🔔 Reminders

• Reading records due every Monday (with daily logs)
• ⭐ Reading Challenge: 20 reads = 10 house points

🗓️ Dates for Your Diary

• Wed 22 & Thu 23 Oct: Exhibition, 2–6pm
• Wed 22 Oct: Football Tournament (Y5 & Y6)
• Thu 23 Oct: Break up for Half Term
• Mon 3 Nov: Pupils return
• Thu 6 Nov: Recycle for School Bags
• Wed 12 Nov: Dance Workshop (Y1 & Y2)
• Fri 14 Nov: Y5 Cake Sale
• Wed 19 Nov: Dance Workshop (Y3 & Y4)
• Fri 21 Nov: PTA Beetle Drive
• Wed 26 Nov: Dance Workshop (Y5 & Y6)
• W/B 8 Dec: PTA Christmas Shop for pupils