Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Cumbria
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 24th November
In English, the children have finished researching beetles for a fact sheet. These are now ready to be made into a class book. Now the children have moved onto villains! They have looked at the characteristics of the classic villain, ready to write a villain’s job description.
In Maths. Cumbria are coming to the end of the topic on multiplication and division. They are showing deeper understanding of the relationship between multiplying and dividing. .
In Reading, Cumbria have been working on answering comprehension questions in greater detail, The children have also to give answers in full sentences.
Thank you to everyone for their continued effort in home learning! Cumbria have found out so much!
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.
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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.
Spelling
Spellings will be set each Wednesday and tested on the following Tuesday. The next spelling test is on Tuesday 25th November 2025.
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sage | olive | jade | emerald |
tremendous | tremendous | middle | why |
courageous | courageous | wobble | fly |
hideous | hideous | cuddle | cry |
serious | serious | able | shy |
obvious | obvious | information | try |
enormous | enormous | exploration | sky |
anxious | anxious | observation |
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doesn't | doesn't | adoration |
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which | which | know |
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describe | describe | knew |
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Spelling strategies
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.
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.