The Year Four Team

Curriculum Overview

This Week in Cumbria

Week beginning Monday 12th January

Despite the wet and cold weather, Cumbria has remained cheerful and resilient. This has interrupted outdoor PE lessons this week, so please ensure kits are kept in school.

In Maths, the children have learnt to multiply and divide by ten and one hundred. They have carefully considered the movement of the numbers across one or two place values. They have also worked on related facts and will begin to multiply using a formal method.

In English, the children have written character descriptions of the father and daughter. The children concentrated on using expanded noun phrases. They are now planning a narrative starting with the father fishing at sea in the dark. 
 

For the geography topic on Rivers and Mountains, the children used Lego and paper to model the course of a river from source to mouth. This team building excercise produced wonderful results as can be seen in the photos. 
 

Mrs Shrimpton, Mrs Cheeseman and Mr Nunn.

Sharing home work.

Freeze frame drama! Acting parts of the story from Beetle Boy. 

Christmas fun! The children enjoyed the afternoon. The competition winners will be announced tomorrow. So many creative ideas!

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 13th January 2026

Spellings will be set on a Wednesday and tested the following Tuesday each week.

Our next spelling test will be on the 20th January.

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

In preparation for the national multiplication tales check in June 2026, the children have been introduced to the link below.

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