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 Monday 8th December

The excitement is building for Christmas and the Nativity performance. We are singing the songs at every chance we get and the children are going to make you all so proud. Thank you everyone, the children look wonderful. However, if you have any fun accessories such as sparkly headbands or colourful glasses to lend, they would be much appreciated.

In Maths, we have working on the skills for solving multi-step problems alongside column addition and subtraction. The children are making super progress in multiplication tables knowledge. Please keep this going through the break by using Times Tables Rock Stars. You will also find a new link in the home learning section with games and also a page to practice the national multiplication check ahead of time.
 

In Reading, the class have been listening to more of Beetle Boy and discussing the vocabulary and the use of figurative language. There have also been a lot of theories and predictions about where the story is going. In English, the children have been reviewing, determiners, expanded noun phrases and punctuating direct speech. 

The class advent calendar has revealed lots of small treats such as making paper chains for the class tree. The Christmas post box is open! Please do open the online advent calendar as it is truly joyful start to Christmas. 

Mrs Shrimpton, Mrs Cheeseman and Mr Nunn.

Cumbria's spiritual tree.

Sharing home work.

Freeze frame drama!

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

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