St Anne’s R.C. Primary School Year 4 Long Term Plan September 2015 – July 2016 AUTUMN SPRING SUMMER
English
TOPIC
Where would you choose to build a city?
Why were Romans so powerful?
Fiction
Lost or Stolen? (Dilemma story)
Non Fiction
Gadget Magic The Greatest Gadget of Them All! (Information texts) Inverted commas
The Balloons My Sari At the End of a School Day (Poetry) Your Alien Experiences The Daily Blab (Journalistic recounts)
Grammar
Maths
Place Value – 3 & 4 digit numbers. Multiplication and division of 2 digit numbers. Fractions of amounts. Time – analogue & digital. Calculating time intervals. Measuring in M, CM, MM.
Paragraphs
Doubling & Halving. Equivalent fractions. Reducing fractions. Mental addition. Converting g, kg, ml, l. Interpreting information. Bar charts.
Who were the early law makers?
Why were Norman castles certainly not bouncy? The Fly and the The Bogey Men Fool and the Trolls (Play script) Next Door (Story in narrative verse) Junior Detective! The Stellar Stage (Evaluating School evidence) How the Voice Works (Explanation texts) Plurals, Adverbials possession and including fronted apostrophes adverbials Place value of 4 Recognise, use, digit numbers. order and Rounding 4 digits. compare decimals. Counting in Divide & multiply multiples of 10, decimals. Add 4 100 100, 25 & 50. digit numbers, Written Adding money. 24 subtraction hour clock. Area methods. Money & perimeter. problems involving Multiply 3 digit decimals. numbers by 1 Multiplication & digit.
Why is Manchester such a cool place?
What was life like 100 years ago?
Runaways! (Historical setting)
Sugarcane Juice (Another culture)
London Herald (Newspapers)
VIPER! – critic’s review VIPER! – Film Trailer (Persuasive writing) Nouns and Pronouns
Standard English
Read, write & compare 5 digit numbers, Read, use & compare negative numbers, Read & write decimals. Multiply & divide by 10 & 100 including decimals. Mental multiplication strategies.
Mental addition & subtraction, Factors of 2 digit numbers. Coordinates. Line graphs. Chunking division. Multiplcation. Fractions of amounts. Patterns & rules.