CURRICULUM OVERVIEW Year 4

2019-2020

Year AUTUMN 1 AUTUMN 2 SPRING 1 SPRING 2 SUMMER 1 SUMMER 2 Subject/Topic Thunderous

Rainforests Wonderful

Water Portals to the

Past Raging Romans Journey to Japan

Enrichment Hook - Decorate classroom

Hook – Water Challenges

SES Water

talk/workshop

Stick Raft Project chn to build a

raft/boat that can float.

Trip – The British

Museum

Spring show

Hook - dress up day

Roman Rap Project

World Book Day

Hook – Origami

Design a Pokemon Card Project (Manga Art)

Hook - Decorate classroom

Maths Place Value

Addition

Subtraction

Measurement: length and perimeter

Multiplication

Division

Multiplication

Measurement: perimeter and length

Fractions

Decimals

Decimals

Measurement: money

Measurement: time

Geometry: shape

Geometry: position and direction

English Persuasive Letter

Persuasive Leaflet

Fiction Focus: Book - The Vanishing

Rainforest Task – Story

Opening

Persuasive Leaflet (not wasting water)

Persuasive Speech (not pollute water)

Fiction Focus: Video – link to

David Attenborough and pollution and

‘Fin and the Shark’ Task- Story

Non-chronological Report (Stone Age)

Explanation Text

(why and how Stonehenge was

built)

Fiction Focus: Book- Stone Age Boy by Satoshi

Kitamura Task- Diary

Recount (the day in the life of a Roman)

Newspaper Article

(Boudicca)

Fiction Focus: Linked to ‘The Centurion in a

Panic’ Task- Story (with a historical setting)

Character Description (The

Robot and the Bluebird)

Poetry (Haiku)

Fiction Focus:

Book- The Robot and the Bluebird by Task- Story (from two perspectives-

robot and bluebird)

Instructions

Letter (to another school)

Fiction Focus:

Book- The Lucky Escape by Dr

Heather Manley Task- Story

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Phonics / SPAG Prepositions e.g. above, under

Generalisers e.g.

most, some

Powerful verbs

Boastful language

Compound sentences

(FANBOYS)

Subordinating conjunctions

Word Families

Vowel based determiners (a or

an)

Inverted commas

Avoiding repetition

through nouns and pronouns

Nouns formed

through prefixes

Sentence of three for description

Paragraphs around a theme

Topic sentences

Varied sentence length and the

effect

Adverbial phrases

Prepositional phrases

Commas with after fronted adverbials

Plural s and possessive s

Apostrophes for plural possession

Commas after –ly

opener

Commas in complex

sentences.

Commas and punctuation in direct speech

Verb inflections

Expanded noun phrases

Similies

Ed- clauses as

starters

Coordinating conjunction

Subordinating conjunctions

Fronted

adverbials

Sentence length

Speech and the punctuation

Plurals vs. possessive.

Commas

Science Living Things

States of Matter Sound Electricity Animals Including Humans

History Stone Age

Bronze Age

Iron Age

Roman Empire Local History: British Sporting

Heroes

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Geography Locational Knowledge: Maps

and Globes

Human Geog: Settlement

Physical Geog:

Rivers

Locational Knowledge: United

Kingdom

Physical Geog: Rivers

Locational Knowledge: Maps

and Globes

Place Knowledge: Similarities and

differences

Music Rhythm and Pulse Composers Claude Debussy –

La Mer

Pitch Spring Show Singing

Singing Games Instrumental

Art Amazon Art Water Colour Monet

Printing Mosaic Collage Eric Joyner (Robot Art)

Hokusai (Wave Art)

Clay Mascot

DT Shoebox Rainforest Cook - Sushi

Make a Robot

Cook – Salad

Computing DL e-safety 1-2 weeks

CS Espresso Coding – unit 4b repetition

and loops

DL e-safety

CS

Scratch: animations

IT Recording and

analysing Data – use Googledocs excel

and slides to present data

IT Book Creator app:

make iBooks

CS Scratch – inputs,

outputs and simulations

DL e-safety

IT

Blogging

PE Handball

Swimming

Football

Athletics

Tag Rugby

Gym (Transition)

Hockey

Spring Show

Design Own Sport

Summer Dance

Swimming

Athletics

Gym (Movement)

Swimming

Rounders RE Hinduism

- Key people Hinduism - Places

- Festivals

Islam - Approaches to life

Christianity - Places - Visit

Christianity - Ascension and

Pentecost

Buddhism - Key people

- Festival (Week)

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Health and Wellbeing

Friendships

Online Relationships

Family

Relationships

Mental Wellbeing

(Anger and Frustration)

Friendships

Online Relationships

Mental Wellbeing

(Worries, Low Mood and Happiness)

Being Safe

Internet Safety

Physical Fitness

Basic First Aid

Healthy Eating

Health Prevention

Drugs and Alcohol French French

Classroom instruction and

objects. Counting to 70

French French school

School subjects (including likes and

dislikes)

French Sports and sports

heroes Bilingual dictionary

skills Telling the time

French Colours Clothes

Asking for things in shops

French Pets and family

members Countries and nationalities

French Hobbies (including likes and dislikes)

Rights Respecting

Article 12 All children have the right to

have a say in all matters affecting and have their views

taken seriously.

Band Aid 30 Article 17

Every child has the right to reliable information from the

media

Article 28 All children have the right to an

education.

Cinderella What articles are not being

repected?

What can be done to help her?

Design a game to help children learn

their rights.

Links Multicultural

Global Citizenship

Eco

Deforestation

Tribal cultures

Plastic Pollution

Performing a Show Japanese Culture Tokyo Olympics