HCS Year 4 Curriculum Book 2019 - 2020

Year 4 Curriculum Handbook 2019 - 2020

TERM DATES MICHAELMAS TERM 2019 First day of term - Thursday 5 September Half term holiday - Monday 21 October to Friday 1 November Last day of term - Friday 13 December (finish at 15:30) LENT TERM 2020 First day of term - Tuesday 7 January Half term holiday - Monday 17 February to Friday 21 February Last day of term - Wednesday 1 April (finish at 15:30) TRINITY TERM 2020 First day of term - Monday 20 April Bank Holiday - Friday 8 May Half term holiday - Monday 25 May to Friday 29 May Last day of term - Friday 3 July (finish at 15:30)

Contacts Since your child is known best by their classteacher, this is the first point of contact; this includes notes regarding illness, sport, music lessons dental appointments etc.

Andrew.North@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk Caroline.Crossland@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk Tracey.Malthouse@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk For more serious matters, the Phase Leader can be contacted: Year 3/4 Phase Lead Mr A North Andrew.North@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk

For all other enquiries, please contact the Prep Office staff: Mrs D Fawcett-Ward Diane.Fawcett-Ward@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk Miss E Brownlee Emma.Brownlee@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk

DAY - Prep School (Year 3 - 6) 08:30 - Intervention groups 08:45 Registration 09:00 Period 1 09:50 Period 2 10:40 Break 11:00 Assembly & Interventions 11:20 Period 3 12:10 Lunch 13:10 Registration 13:15 Period 4 14:05 Period 5 14:55 Period 6 15:45 End of day

Encouraging High Standards of Behaviour It is the School’s policy to nurture and encourage self-discipline amongst pupils. We encourage all pupils to adhere to the ‘I CARE’ Core Values: Innovative: to seek ways of improving and enhancing all that we do to develop enquiring minds and a lifelong love of learning in preparation for life in the 21st century.

Confident: to ensure that we provide opportunities that allow pupils to develop their confidence through learning and co-curricular opportunities.

Aspirational: to prepare for the future, always seeking to improve, and approaching each challenge and opportunity with energy, optimism and a growth mind-set.

Respectful: to encourage self-respect, care for others and have an active interest in the world beyond the school.

Enthusiastic: to embrace new challenges and enjoy the opportunities afforded to pupils by being part of the school community.

Our Golden Rules are: • We are kind, polite and helpful • We listen • We are honest • We work hard • We look after property

Keeping Healthy - Snacks and Water Bottle We encourage children to keep their hearts and minds healthy by being active, eating a balanced diet and sleeping well. Children may bring a healthy snack such as fruit, crackers, cereal bar, popcorn or a bread bun (no sweets, chocolate or crisps) to enjoy at morning break time.

Children should have a bottle of water (named) at school every day.

Parent Information Sports Kit, Homework and The Hub Sports Kit

The logistics of homework in KS2 are as follows:

All sports kit must be labelled with the child’s name. It is unlikely that items of

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Each child will have homework books for Maths and English.

kit, which are clearly named, will go missing. It is also important that your child

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Work will be given each Thursday to be returned the following Tuesday.

is aware of the kit they need, to help them start to take responsibility for packing

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The amount of time allocated for each piece of homework will vary according to its nature, but should typically take between 30-40 minutes for each task.

their games bag. Kit bags should be brought on the first day of term; they can be taken home at weekends to be washed and returned the following Monday.

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Daily reading is expected (a minimum of four times weekly) a record of which should be signed in their liaison book and returned to the classroom each day.

Homework

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There is a specific deadline for homework completion (Tuesday) which will allow pupils to balance their workload and allow homework to fit in with other family commitments.

We believe that homework supports the development of independent learning by encouraging and extending learning beyond the confines of the classroom and timetable. It is our aim to provide regular and appropriate homework tasks which

The Hub

will consolidate and reinforce skills and understanding, particularly in the core skills of English and Maths.

The Hub is operated by Firefly. It is the school’s chosen online platform that brings together teachers, students and parents. It allows teachers to set work, track

We value, support and welcome active co-operation and communication between

progress, share resources and engage with parents. The Firefly Parents Portal allows

home and school.

parents to view up-to-date information about their children’s progress as well as keeping them informed about many other aspects of school life.

Homework aims to nurture good independent working habits, encouraging a love of learning and developing learning beyond the classroom.

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Attendance

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Reports (for download)

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Make parent evening appointments

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Pay for school trips/activities via their Parent Pay account

Parent Information First Aid and Standards of Dress First Aid and Injury/Illness

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First Aid in school is provided for injuries incurred in school. If you need to send your child to school with medication to take during the day, please clearly label it, accompanied with the Pupil Medication Request Form, and hand to the Prep School Office or First Aid Room.

In the interest of health and safety, hair should be kept clean and tidy and should not hang over the face. Long hair should be tied back securely for practical lessons. Hair bands and slides, if worn, should be discreet and in one of the school colours – navy blue or maroon.

Children should not be sent to school unless they are healthy enough to go outside to play and take part in PE and Games lessons. If a child has an injury that forces them to miss Games, a note/email should be sent to their classteacher.

Jewellery, Watches and Make-up

If your child has suffered infective sickness or diarrhoea (e.g. the norovirus), they should be kept at home for 48 hours following the last episode (Health Protection Agency guidelines). Although a child may appear well, they are still infectious for this 48-hour period.

Any medical enquiries or concerns about your child’s health/illness or return to School should be addressed to the First Aiders who will be happy to discuss this with you at any time. The First Aiders can be contacted on Hull.

Nurse@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk or on 01482 579121.

Pupils are not permitted to wear jewellery in school (except in exceptional circumstances). Only discreet, stud-type earrings are acceptable and must be removed for sports activities. Watches should be unobtrusive to support the pupil to tell the time. Simple analogue black or navy watches are suitable. Any colour smartwatches/Fitbits are also permitted.

Please refer to the Prep School handbook for the full uniform policy.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 How parents can help at home English

themselves.

Reading: Reading with your child, at every age, is vital. Research shows that it’s the single most important thing you can do to help your child’s education. It’s best to read little and often, so try

Times tables: These are the foundation of Maths. Children must be able to recall them quickly and

to put aside some time for it every day. Let your child see you reading a book so they get into

accurately. Times Tables Rockstars (https://ttrockstars.com/) aims to drill children in quick recall of

good habits. Reading extensively will improve your child’s awareness of punctuation and sentence

multiplication and division facts up to 12 x 12. Whilst children partake in practice sessions in class, we

structure; it will also enhance their vocabulary which can be used in speech and creative writing.

encourage children to regularly practise at home (ask the classteacher if your child has forgotten their

Spellings: Each week the children will be given a set of spellings to learn. Please go through these

password.) Additionally, all children have a times tables practice book which they can complete at

with your child each day so that they are committed to their long-term memory and, thus, used

home and school.

correctly in their written work.

At Hull Collegiate School, we follow the Collins Big Cat Reading Scheme. The books in each band Writing: Encourage your child to write for a pleasurable purpose, this might be: writing a letter;

contain high quality reading books covering a variety of genre. As children get older these books will

sending a postcard from your holidays; keeping a diary; making a shopping list; compiling a book

become longer and more demanding and are designed to aid the children’s ability to use deduction

review etc. Finding any reason for your child to write for pleasure will make writing an everyday

and inference to gain understanding. Books will also become progressively more complex in terms of

occurrence

syntax and vocabulary. Books will include non-fiction with science, history or geography information books, biographies and reports and fiction books including classics, Shakespeare retellings, poetry

Maths

and traditional tales. Children will be encouraged to read regularly to progress through the scheme

Point out the Maths in everyday life. Include your child in activities involving numbers and measuring,

towards the Black Band books. Black Band books contain reading books, mostly fiction, that teaching

such as shopping, cooking and travelling. You can practise times tables in the car or add up digits on

staff have selected to be age appropriate and challenging in terms of content and style and which

number plates – anything where you child is mentally holding numbers in their head.

contain a wide range of children’s literature including classics. Children will also be able to read their

Children will learn to tell the time when they need to know the time for a purpose; e.g. how long

own or library books in parallel with their reading scheme book. Below is a table identifying the

until a programme starts on television or how long until lunch. If they have a watch, it is best if it is

bands appropriate for the lower stage of Key Stage 2.

an analogue one with a readable face. Above all else, be positive about Maths. Try not to say things like “I can’t do Maths” or “I was never good at Maths at school” - your child may start to think like that

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 English During the Michaelmas Term, the writing will be closely linked to the Humanities topic of the Tudors. The children will be learning to write poems also creative settings, suspense

Children will be consolidating the grammar and punctuation learnt in Year 3 and 4. They

and mystery stories, diaries, letters and discusive writng around a theme. In the poetry

will be learning how to use fronted adverbials effectively and using a comma after them.

unit, the children will be looking at the two different poetry forms of Haiku and Cinquain

They will make careful vocabulary choices and use conjunctions, adverbs to express time

and, as part of this process, they shall be reading and analysing them before producing

and cause. They will indicate possession by using possessive apostrophes with plural

their own. In the diary writing unit, children will be exploring the style of Jeff Kinney in the

nouns and will be extending their sentences to include more than one clause. Pupils will

Diary of Wimpy Kid books, trying to emulate his work in their own writing. Children will

choose nouns and pronouns for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition. Children will

learn how to write effective suspense stories and creative settings which evoke feelings

be learning about verb tenses, including: the difference between present and past tense;

and atmosphere, looking carefully at vocabulary choices and sentence structures to create

using the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense. Children will also

effect. Pupils will partake in discussions and learn how to record this in their writing.

learn how to use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

In the Lent Term, the writing will be closely linked to the Humanities topic of the Mayans. Pupils will be learning how to write an adventure story with a quest, how to write an explanation text and learning how to write play scripts with a specific focus on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

In the Trinity Term, the writing will be closely linked to the Humanities topic of the Stone Age and Malham Cove. We will look at persuasive writing and learn how to write persuasive pieces. Pupils will write newspaper reports, looking at journalistic styles of writing and emulating that style in their own work. The children will be learning to write themed, emotional poetry where they will be using imagery in different contexts. As part of this process, the children shall be reading, analysing and acting out a variety of poems.

Grammar and Punctuation.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Science States of Matter - Changing State

Rocks

Pupils will compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids,

This will link to the geological features observed at Malham Cove (limestone). The children

liquids or gases. They will observe that some materials change state when they are heated

will compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance

or cooled, and measure the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C).

and simple physical properties. They will discover how they have changed over time using

Pupils will identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and

a hand lens to look at them closely. The children will look at various fossils and simply

associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.

understand how fossils are formed. They will also investigate soil and realise that it is made from rocks and organic matter.

Animals and Habitats Pupils will recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways, explore and use

Water Cycle

classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local

The children will look at Malham Cove, learning that the limestone pavement was formed

and wider environment and recognise that environments can change and that this can

due to a waterfall which existed in the Ice Age. The children will learn about the water

sometimes pose dangers to living things.

cycle, investigating the part that evaporation and condensation play within it. The children will carry out investigations linked to temperature.

Earth, Sun and Moon Pupils will study about the Earth, Sun and Moon. Pupils will learn about their movements,

STEM

their relationships with each other and relative sizes.

Pupils will learn through a variety of STEM (Science, Technology Engineering and Maths) activities, enabling children to explore many aspects of science and the world around

Sound Pupils will identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating, recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear, find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it, find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it and recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

them.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Maths A mastery style of teaching of Maths is consistent throughout the Prep School. Children

Measurement of length and perimeter: Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear

are supported through 4 different levels of challenges each lesson: Challenge 1 and 2

figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres.

are fluency level, Challenge 3 is mastery and Challenge 4 is greater depth. Times tables

Convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre].

knowledge are at the heart of Maths learning; children are expected to know times tables

Multiplication and Division: Recall and use multiplication and division facts for

by heart up to 12 X 12. These are regularly practised in lessons to ensure children are fluent

multiplication tables up to 12 Ă— 12.

and can recall facts quickly. Please practise these at home with your child to aid recall.

Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9. 25 and 1000.

Use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including:

Michaelmas Term

multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers.

Solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to

Place Value: Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9. 25 and 1000.

multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems.

Find 1000 more or less than a given number.

Recognise the place value of each digit in a four digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens

Lent Term

and ones).

Order and compare numbers beyond 1000.

Formal methods of short multiplication – multiplying a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number.

Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations.

Solve harder problems using multiplication using integer scaling. Recognise and use factor

Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.

pairs in mental calculations.

Solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly

Understanding that division is an inverse process of multiplication; division mentally

large positive numbers.

through partitioning; concept of remainders; formal division of 2 and 3 digit numbers.

Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers.

Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting and by calculating the length and width of shapes.

Addition and Subtraction: Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal

Recognise and show simple equivalent fractions. Count up and down in hundredths. Solve

written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate.

problems involving increasingly harder fractions to divide numbers. Add and subtract

Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation.

fractions with the same denominator.

Solve addition and subtraction two step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Maths Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths. Solve

Statistics

measure and money problems involving fractions to 2 decimal places. Convert between

Children will interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate

different units of measure (m – km, cm – m, mm - cm).

graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs. Children will solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables

Trinity Term

and other graphs.

Decimals

Geometry - Properties of shape

Children will compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal

Children will identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two

places. Children will round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number.

right angles by size. Children will compare and classify geometric shapes, including

Children will find the effect of dividing a one or two digit number by 10 or 100, identifying

quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes. Children will identify lines

the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths.

of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations. Children will complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry.

Measurement- Money Children will estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in

Geometry - Position and Direction

pounds and pence. Children will solve simple measure and money problems involving

Children will describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant. Children

fractions and decimals to two decimal places.

will plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon. Children will describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and

Time Children will convert between different units of measure (for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute). Children will read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks. Children will solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days.

up/down.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Humanities Humanities Pupils will also be learning about the Stone Age; they will find out about people In the Michaelmas Term, the children will be studying the Tudors, finding out who

who lived in the Mesolithic period and also how people lived in the Neolithic and

the Tudors were and when they lived. The children will look at: their clothing; what

Bronze age periods.

they ate; crime and punishment; disease and what life was like for Tudor children.

They will draw comparisons and evaluate how life was different in Tudor times.

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Then, they will compare towns today and how they might have looked in Tudor times as well as locating the lands which the Tudors explored. Pupils will deepen

Belief in the community – what does it mean to have a faith?

their learning and understanding with a trip to Gainsborough Hall.

Children will explore religious rituals and stories that show believers a sense of belonging and consider how religions expect their followers to behave.

In the Lent Term, the children will be studying the Mayans, finding out who they

Saints and Heroes – what makes a hero?

were and where and when they lived. They will explore where and when the remains of the Mayan civilization were discovered. They will learn how the Mayan

Children will explore commitment as demonstrated in the lives of significant

civilization developed over time and how their society was organized. They will

people of faith; describe the teachings of significant religious people and compare

look at Mayan civilisation and beliefs and explore their writing and calendars.

the similarities and differences between them.

Finally, they will examine the decline of the Mayan civilization.

Our World - what do religions teach about caring for our world? Children will In the Trinity Term, the children will be studying the geographical phenomens of

explore beliefs about how the world began; recognise that the Earth is unique and

Gordale Scar and Malham Cove. They will be questioning how they were formed

consider the concept of stewardship and suggest actions that everyone can take

and examining the physical geography of the Yorkshire Dales. Within this, they will

to care for the Earth.

study the different types of rocks and how they are formed. The children will learn to compare and group rocks based on their appearance and properties. They will learn how fossils are formed.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Computing Michaelmas Term

E-Safety Children will explore and discuss what it means to be responsible and respectful in

E-Safety

both offline and online communities.

The children will use advanced internet search features to compare and evaluate

The children will learn to think critically about the user information that some

search engine results. They will link, analyse and evaluate digital content from two

websites request or require.

different sources and identify a range of online risks.

They’ll learn the difference between private information and personal information, distinguishing what is safe and unsafe to share online.

Digital Literacy Pupils will use sequence, selection and repetition to design and write a simple

Trinity Term

program using a visual programming language. Use logical reasoning to predict the outcome of a program and changes to it.

Digital Literacy The children will be taught about the school network, how devices are connected,

Lent Term

how files can be saved on it and accessed from multiple locations. On a technology walk, they will identify network points, wireless access points, devices on the

Digital Literacy

network and server locations. The children will learn about switching control

Pupils will be taught to use a range of data-handling applications to display both

traffic to and from the server. Pupils identify key features to include in models/

discrete and continuous data.

diagrammatic network maps.

The children will create a digital bar graph based on discrete data, edit and format digital graphs appropriate for a selected audience and analyse and present their

E-Safety

data in a variety of formats appropriate for the target audience.

The children learn what is meant by cyberbullying, identify what platforms and applications could carry a cyberbullying risk and respond appropriately to cyberbullying scenarios.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Games Michaelmas Term

Netball Pupils will work on their throwing and catching skills, introducing the different types of

Rugby

pass, chest, shoulder and bounce pass. Children will work on their landings and therefore

Children will continue to be encouraged to run straight holding the ball in two hands and

improve their footwork. They will develop their shooting techniques and attacking play.

to support the ball carrier. At this age, children will be introduced to tackling (including

They will be introduced to the 3 stages of defence through game play. As the term goes

the hold tackle) with the emphasis on safely teaching the correct technique and building

on, they will develop a good understanding of the positions in netball and the role played

confidence both as the ball carrier and tackler in these situations.

by each one of them.

Hockey

Trinity Term

Children will continue with the development of their individual skills including basic rules, correct grips and ball and stick control. There will be more emphasis on passing and

Rounders

receiving and the various ways to do this, including push, slap and hit. Both defensive

The children will acquire and develop the skills to catch a ball that they have thrown to

and attacking short and long corners will be introduced in a conditioned game to build

themselves and from a partner. They will be able to catch a moving ball thrown from a

knowledge and confidence of the game.

short distance, they will know how to perform a long barrier and to use this effectively.

Children will be taught the overarm throw and use this in the deeper fielding positions.

Pupils will be asked to observe others and comment on what they need to improve,

Lent Term

especially in a team environment, in order to develop their tackling skills. They will have

Football

chance to perform all these skills in game situations.

Children will familiarise themselves with ball manipulation and control, dribbling and running with and without the ball, passing and receiving and shooting. Children will be encouraged to use space on the pitch and will be asked to think about and develop tactical decision-making both as individuals and as team members whilst playing small sized games and tournaments.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 PE Cricket

Lent Term

Children will learn the basics of playing cricket, including how to stand at the wicket and grip the bat. The children will learn how to play a number of different shots and

Dance

how different sorts of bowling require different shot selection. Through underarm

Children will acquire and develop specific skills to show different shapes and levels.

bowling, children will learn how pitch and direction are important and children will learn

Children will remember and repeat movements, phrases and patterns and observe each

and practise overarm bowling. Children will practise their fielding, including catching,

other dancing and describe what they see using appropriate vocabulary.

retrieving and throwing and will apply all the skills and techniques they have learnt through a variety of small sided games. The children will use soft wind balls.

Benchball Children will be introduced to the 3 main passes: chest, bounce and overhead. Children will

PE

work on their spatial awareness and moving into a space. Children will start to understand how to man-to-man mark and how to make interceptions. Through game play, they will be

Michaelmas Term

introduced to both attacking and defending tactics used in any ball games.

In the first half term, pupils will be practising gymnastics. They will revisit different ways of

Trinity Term

travelling and how to use creativity and control, adding in direction and height. Children

The pupils will be introduced to the athletic events relevant to their age group. They

will be introduced to patch and point balances, using large and small areas of the body

will learn the technique to field events, such as ball throw, long jump and shot. They will

to balance to support their body weight with control. Children will link gymnastic skills

compete on sprinting and long distance events. Over the course of the term, they will be

together work to practise and perform an individual and group sequence.

working towards their Bronze, Silver and Gold Athletics levels. These levels have varying

In the second half term, children will be involved in running activities including cross-

distances and times, in order to encourage the pupils to reach their highest level.

country. They will work on building stamina and understand how to warm up and cool down for these type of events.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Music As well as weekly timetabled class Music, children in KS2 can choose to learn an instrument

listen to different extracts from Holst’s “The Planets” at various points throughout the unit,

or take singing lessons. These are normally once a week, 30 minutes long and on a rotating

beginning with “Mars, The Bringer of War”, exploring how Holst basis this movement on an

timetable, so that the same academic lesson is not always missed. Please note that these do

ostinato pattern. After performing and creating their own ostinato patterns and adding

incur an additional cost, more details of which can be obtained from the Prep Office.

dynamic contrasts in the form of crescendos and diminuendos, pupils create their own

Music topics and songs have been linked to Humanities, wherever possible, and all

descriptive “Mars” pieces incorporating an ostinato and other musical features. Central to

the lessons will involve a variety of practical activities – singing and using classroom

the unit are the concepts of mood, tempo, dynamics and instrumentation (or timbre) and

instruments to improvise, create and rehearse. Learning songs for events and performances

these are explored through Richard Strauss’s “Also Sprach Zarathustra” which pupils explore

will also be an integral part of the lessons throughout the year.

in terms of a piece of descriptive music used to describe a “Rocket Launch”. Finally, pupils create musical soundscapes for the other planets, structuring these with the opening

Michaelmas Term

“Rocket Launch” theme for a class musical performance of their Journey Into Space.

Tudors

Trinity Term

Pupils will: learn about Tudor Dance Music including the Pavane, identifying its characteristic musical features and rhythms; attempt to dance The Pavane; perform and

Machines

compose their own modal Pavane melodies over a drone accompaniment; learn about traditional Tudor Musical instruments before exploring Tudor and Madrigal-style songs

Machines are the basis for an exploration into graphic scores and repeating cyclic patterns.

with a “fa-la-la” refrain, where they compose their own lyrics to a given melody; explore

Pupils begin exploring the sounds created by steam engines and trains, listening to

Fanfares, making up their own. The resulting work will be showcased in a performance.

“train-inspired” pieces and exploring how short, repeated vocal and rhythmic and melodic patterns are used to describe the perpetual motion of a trains’ movement. Pupils them

Lent Term

move onto explore the cyclic sounds created by factory machines using a selection of vocal and body sounds to recreate cyclic sound patterns. After a brief exploration into space

Journey into Space

machine sounds, where pupils’ learning on graphic scores are developed, the unit ends

This unit takes, as its starting point, Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” as a basis for creative

with an exploration into video game sounds where pupils create their own sound effects

composition tasks leading to a class musical performance of a “Journey Into Space”. Pupils

for a video game, recording their ideas using graphic notation.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Languages, DT Languages Design Technology For the first half of the Michaelmas Term the children will be learning about transport. They will label some more forms of transport and learn to say how they get to school. They will

Michaelmas Term

learn how to give their opinion on different types of transport and how to use adjectives

Children will design and make a wooden maze. The emphasis in this project is, not only

and connectives to give their opinions on transport methods. They will write about

to construct a workable toy (which would make a good christmas present), but to focus

transport methods.

on key design skills of measuring, cutting and sticking accurately. Children will use junior hacksaws, sand paper, set squares as well as rulers. They will be taught how to use a hack

In the second part of the term they will be learning how to understand how much

saw and other tools safely and how to look after and store them away after use. Children

things cost in French and will label some shops in French. They will learn how to hold a

will also use a cool melt glue gun and will, again, be taught how to use this safely.

conversation in a shop in French.

Lent Term In the Lent Term they will learn to understand a fairy tales in French and be able to explain

Children will investigate how to attach axles and wheels to models and what factors to

and perform these tales. In the second half term they will learn how to talk about food and

bear in mind for wheels to turn correctly. The children will build a flat-bed tow truck with a

meals in French.

working crane.

In the Michaelmas Term they will learn how to talk about activities in French; what activities

Trinity Term

they do, what sports people play, and give opinions on sports and activities.

Children will design and make a moving toy using a CAM wheel and crank handle to make their model move.

In the second part of the term they will learn about Carnaval des Animaux; describe some of the animals from it, learning about the composer and learning the names of a variety of animals in French.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Art, PSHCE Art

Trinity Term

Michaelmas Term Children will create a mixed media landscape of a waterfall based on their study and field Children will use clay to model a Tudor Rose. They will study Tudor architecture and make

trip to Malham Cove.

models of Tudor houses to create our very own village.

Children will learn how to;

Children will learn how to;

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Draw from observation

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Join clay using slip

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Apply paint in different ways to create different effects

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Use different tool to create different effects

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Create a mixed media collage

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Draw from observation

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Develop their understanding of perspective and composition.

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Develop a range of 3D modelling techniques.

Lessons this year will focus upon Education for Social Responsibility – Preparing children for the world they will inherit

Lent Term

PSHCE Children will create decorative masks based on the Ancient Mayan Civilisation which they

Topics will include discussion and activities upon:

are studying in humanities.

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Fair Trade

Children will learn how to;

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Biodiversity – coral reefs, rainforests and the threat of extinction

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Draw from observation

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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

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Create and explore a range of patterns and effects inspired by the Ancient Mayan

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Happiness – describing happiness, human rights, philanthropy

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Saving Water – innovative conservation

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Climate Change – taking action

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Design and make their own mask using mixed media

Hull Collegiate School Tranby Croft Anlaby East Yorkshire HU10 7EH T: 01482 657016 enquiries@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk Prep School 8:00am to 4:30pm T: 01482 652172 Senior School 8:00am to 5:00pm T: 01482 657016