The Year Four Team

Curriculum Overview

This Week in Cumbria

Week beginning Monday 26th January

In Maths, we have been looking at using place value charts and partitioning to divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit. The class have done a good job at applying their times table knowledge to decide what numbers to partition the total value into.

In English, we have been learning about stars! The children have been working hard to gather information for a range of subheadings and have now started to construct their paragraphs. They have been making sure they use subordinate clauses and a range of sentence openers. The rest of the week will be spent editing and publishing them and I am very much looking forward to seeing the final products.

In Geography, we have continued learning about rivers and have been looking at how erosion, transportation and deposition can change an area over time. The children carried out an experiment with sand and compost river's with water.

In Science, we have been looking at how particles in solids, liquids and gases are different. The children have made posters to explain how particles are arranged and shown great understanding of the way particles behave when materials change state.

Mrs Shrimpton, Mrs Cheeseman and Mr Nunn.

Sharing home work.

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 on a Wednesday and tested the following Tuesday each week.

Our next spelling test will be on the 2nd February. We are consolidating this set of spellings.

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