Year 4
Curriculum Summary for Parents
Term 3 • 2025/26
This information represents a summary of plans for the term. Please understand that all plans are flexible; there is always the possibility that fewer (or more) topics will be covered than those stated.
Subject Topics
Writing
• Narrative writing:
o Openings and endings toolkit
• Descriptive recount writing
• Diary entry writing
SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar)
• Maintaining tense consistency
• Punctuation for:
o Diary writing
o Recount writing
• Use of emotive vocabulary
Comprehension Tasks
• PE (Point, Evidence) style comprehension questions
• Strong focus on developing inference skills
• Retrieving and interpreting information from texts
• Justifying answers using evidence from the text
Texts / Themes Studied
• Narrative texts (focus on structure and storytelling)
• Recount and diary-style texts
Following the White Rose curriculum, the children will focus on the following units this term:
- Money (including looking at different denomination and currencies. Adding and subtracting different amounts and applying money to real life scenarios).
- Time (reading digital and analogue clocks, comparing duration of events and reading the time to the nearest minute)
- Shape (recapping 2D and 3D shapes, identifying more complex shapes)
- Position and direction (knowing which direction something must travel, using key terms such as ‘axis’)
- Statistics (interpreting data, understanding how to present data in different ways)
Through these topics, children will continue to develop a strong foundation in number sense and problem-solving. We will also be looking to consolidate times table fluency as well.
Key curriculum knowledge covered:
- The Water Cycle, including terminoloy such as, ‘evaporation’, ‘precipitation’ and ‘condensation’
- States of matter, including understanding the term, ‘particles’
- Animals and humans, describing the simple functions of the digestive system and identifying the different teeth we have
Key skills:
- Learning how to collect data and information from experiments
- How to present this information using tables, drawings and charts
- Discussing what was successful in a science experiment and discussing the reliability of the evidence gathered in different experiments.
Mangez, Bougez, Célébrez
• Body Parts: Vocabulary for describing the body (la tête, les bras, les jambes).
• Illness: Simple phrases for feeling unwell (j’ai mal à…).
• Healthy Habits: Food, exercise, routines (il faut boire de l’eau, c’est bon/mauvais pour la santé).
• Role play- Chez le docteur
Maths
French
Kiswahili
Spanish (SFC)
Humanities
Religious Studies
Ordinal numbers
• Who is in my extended family
• Parts of the face
• Talking about our bodies
• Caring for our bodies
• All parts of the body
• Yesterday today tomorrow
Healthy & Body:
• Name body parts
• Talk about the five senses in Spanish
• Express Illnesses and symptoms
• Talk about healthy habits and food
• Role-play: Doctor visits
Developing key historical skills, including comparing how places and people have changed over time by looking at different periods in history and suggesting why people have a different perspective on historical events. Looking at key geography skillls, including the use of compasses and being able to identify different lines of latitude and longitude on maps and globes, as well as asking and answering questions about different places of interest.
Looking at deeper, philosophical questions, including, ‘What is the meaning of Life?’ and ‘What is right or wrong?’. Understanding the importance of showing respect for people who follow different religions and knowing that many religions have shared values.
Developing key skills, including:
- Stipling
Art
Design Technology
Computing
- Batik work
- Adding texture to create interesting effects
- The ability to discuss and critique existing pieces of art work as well as comparing two artists
Developing key skills, including:
- Thinking of creative solutions to problems when designing something, including which materials and methods to explore
- Evaluating our ideas and alternative ideas in fixing a problem
- Exploring simple mechanisms, including gears and levers
• Understand computer networks, including the internet; how they can provide multiple services, such as the World Wide Web; and the opportunities they offer for communication and collaboration.
• Understanding communication through different methods.
• Creating a safe online profile.
• Use search technologies effectively.
• Use a variety of software (including internet services) to create content, including presenting information.
• Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable/unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.
• Creating a safe online profile.
Music
P.E.
Games
Swimming
P.S.H.E.
In Music we are exploring further instrument options and learning about the instruments of the orchestra. Pupils will have a chance to explore an instrument ‘petting zoo’ and will be assessed for their instrument suitability. These recommendations will be sent home to parents to inform them of any hidden talents and natural abilities. We will finish off the year putting to practice our music literacy skills by using beginning music technology to compose and record our own music.
Skill consolidation and tactical awareness:
- Improved consistency in fitness and skill execution
- Greater focus on spatial awareness and simple tactics in games
- Enhanced teamwork and problem solving in group challenges
- Tennis: more reliable rallies and controlled stroke play
In Games, the children will be introduced to the concepts of game play in netball and in rugby. In netball, the children will play 7 a side matches and will be able to play in a variety of positions around the court. They will continue to develop their core skills of passing, movement, attack and defense. In rugby, the children will be developing their passing, running, positional and spatial awareness and their tackling skills in a controlled game environment with a focus on safety and correct tackle technique.
Year 4 will focus on the more complex water skills; Learn how to do competitive diving, Turns and finishing, endurance swim (25mins), fun activity- Water polo and Time trials during week 9 and 10.
In PSHE, the children will continue to follow the Jigsaw program of study. The focus of the Jigsaw units this term are:
- Healthy Me - Dreams and Goals