The Year Four Team

Curriculum Overview

Online Advent Calendar

As Advent begins this Sunday with Advent Sunday celebrated in Churches, we would like to share this online Advent Calendar with you, produced by the Diocese of Guildford. It explores the Christmas story through Christian artwork, investigating a different artist and aspect of the story throughout the term time days of Advent. Please enjoy sharing this with your family as we prepare for Christmas in school and at home.

This Week in Cumbria

Week beginning 1st December

In English, the class are writing a diary entry based on Chapter Six of the class text, Beetle Boy. For this, they have considered writing in the past tense. They have also been practising the use of commas in a list.As a result, many children have started to become much more aware of commas in their own reading. 

In Maths. Cumbria have finished the topic on multiplication and division. On this note, please continue to use Times Tables Rick Stars at home, as there has been a drop in use this term. For the rest of this week, the children will be revising some aspects of addition and subtraction.
 

In Reading, Cumbria have been working on answering comprehension questions in greater detail, The children have also to give answers in full sentences. Please ensure your child continues to read at home.
 

With the nativity fast approaching, thank you to the families for sending in costumes. If you are having difficulties sourcing items, please speak to a member of the Cumbria team. 
 

The class have a class advent calendar of their own and they have decorated our own class Christmas tree. Please do open the online advent calendar as it is truly joyful start to Christmas. 

Mrs Shrimpton, Mrs Cheeseman and Mr Nunn.

Class Timetable

This is an example timetable of what a typical week in Cumbria will look like.

PE is on Tuesday and Wednesday this term.

Home Learning

All of the children will have an investigative topic-linked learning task to complete, which is rotated over a three-week cycle. The children will focus on one of their three current foundation subjects each week.   
To support this, the children are split into 3 groups, which you can see above.  
This will be set on a Thursday and due by the following Tuesday.  
In class on a Tuesday or Wednesday, the children will then share the outcomes of their research, and the knowledge they have retrieved, within their own group.

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book. 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Spelling

Spellings will be set each Wednesday and tested on the following Tuesday. The next spelling test is on Tuesday 25th November 2025.

Times Tables Rock Stars

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score and build your knowledge as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

This week we are focusing on the multiplication tables for x3, x6 and x9.

If you know them well, maybe challenge yourself with the corresponding division facts. For example:

6 x 7 = 42

42 ÷ 6 = 7

Maths strategies

Please see below attachments for examples from White Rose Maths including the four operations, (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and how we extend learning using reasoning style questions. 

Music Knowledge Organiser