Yr 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 10th October 2025
🔙 Looking Back – This Week in Year 4
What an amazing week we’ve had!
📖 Reading:
Year 4 have now read over 1,200,000 words on Accelerated Reader since September – an incredible achievement!
🌲 Forest School:
We had a brilliant session with Mr Hadfield in the woods on Monday, recreating Viking settlements – complete with toilets!
✍️ Writing:
Our Viking sagas are now written and in the process of being published.
➕ Maths:
We’ve been working on rounding to the nearest 10, 100, and 1,000, along with arithmetic practice with Mrs Riddell.
🏆 Children’s Highlights:
- Forest school and using mallets
- Rounding in maths
- TT Rockstars
- Publishing our sagas
- Creating Viking dragonheads
💬 Ask at Home:
- What did you make with Mr Hadfield in Forest School?
- What is the rhyme for rounding?
- What are dragonheads?
- How do we know the Vikings came to Britain?
- Why do we still feel their impact today? (Clue – the days of the week!)
🔜 Looking Ahead – Next Week in Year 4
- Exhibition preparations
- More forest art
- Finishing off the dragonheads
- Learning about the water cycle
- Exploring Viking daily life
📚 Homework This Week
✍️ English: SPAG mat and verbs
➕ Maths: Exercise 4 and data handling
📖 Reading: 15 minutes daily (records in Monday, plus AR quizzes)
🎵 TT Rockstars: 10 mins daily or 1×20 mins
📝 Spellings: Test Wednesday (short, regular practice helps)
✏️ Presentation: Pencil/blue/black pen only – no felt tips
🔢 Times Tables: Practise all tables
📬 Homework due Friday – children know where to hand it in!
🔔 Reminders
- Reading records: every Monday (with daily logs)
- ⭐ Reading Challenge: 20 reads = 10 house points
🗓️ Dates for Your Diary
- Mon 13 Oct: PTA Meeting – The Crown, 6.30pm (all welcome)
- Wed 15 Oct: Rugby Tournament (Y5 & Y6)
- 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