The Year Four Team

Curriculum Overview

This Week in Cumbria

Week beginning 10th November 

Thank you to all the families who completed the new home learning task with the class. The children had researched well and many brought in beautifully presented notes to help them to remember the facts that they discovered. The children demonstrated excellent listening skills when they shared the learning in their new groups. Please see the attached document in the home learning section below.

In Maths, the children have completed learning about area and have shown there wonderful knowledge of multiplication and division. We have made fact families and also discovered the divisibility check for multiples of three.

In English, the children have debated the question, should humans kill insects? This involved gathering information and writing on argument for or against the question. 

Preparations for the Nativity have begun, this week the children will find out the parts they will play and a costume letter will be coming home this Friday.

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 18th 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