Year 4 Overview

Drama

Trips Real Life Maths

Creative Writing

Year 4 Southfield

Journey

Street Child

Kensuke’s Kingdom

The Wind in the Willows

Bi-Weekly Creative Writing

Half termly non-fiction writing (foundation topics)

Comprehension 4 weekly sessions

1:1 weekly reading sessions

Daily read aloud sessions

Library visit weekly

Reading partners weekly

Secure decoding of unfamiliar words

Read for a range of purposes

Retell some stories orally

Discuss words and phrases that capture the imagination

Identify themes and convention

Retrieve and record information

Make inferences and justify predictions

Recognise a variety of forms of poetry

Identify and summarise ideas

Correctly spell common homophones

Increase regularity of handwriting

Plan writing based on familiar forms

Organise writing into paragraphs

Use simple organisational devices

Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors

Evaluate own and others’ writing

Read own writing aloud

Use wider range of conjunctions

Use perfect tense appropriately

Select pronouns and nouns for clarity

Use and punctuate direct speech

Use commas after front adverbials

Articulate and justify opinions

Speak audibly in Standard English

Gain, maintain and monitor interest of listeners

Arithmetic 4 weekly sessions

Bi-weekly Real Life Maths sessions

Booster 2 weekly sessions

Multiplication Test weekly practise

Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000. Find 1,000 more or less than a given number. Count backwards through 0.

Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number. Order and compare numbers beyond 1,000.

Identify, represent and estimate numbers to 1,000. Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000. Solve numbers and practical problems. Read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C).

Recall multiplication facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12.

Recall division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12.

Recognise and identify factor pairs. Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout.

Add numbers with up to 4 digits using written methods.

Subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using written methods. Estimate and use inverse operations. Solve addition and subtraction twostep problems.

Compare and classify geometric shapes.

Identify acute and obtuse angles.

Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes. Complete a simple symmetric figure with a line of symmetry.

Describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant.

Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon

Recognise and show common equivalent fractions. Count up and down in hundredths. Solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities.

Identify a fraction of an amount.

Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.

Recognise and write decimals (Tenths or hundreds)

Recognise and write decimal equivalents to , , .

Divide a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100. Round decimals with 1 decimal place to the nearest whole number.

Compare numbers to 2 decimal places.

Solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to 2 decimal places

Convert between different units of measure.

Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear shapes. Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares. Estimate, compare and calculate different amounts using money in pounds and pence.

Read and write time on a 12- hour clock.

Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs Solve problems in relation to bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs

 Ancient Greece

 Life in Ancient Rome

 The Rise and Fall of Rome

 The Stuarts

 Spatial Sense

 Mediterranean Europe

 Eastern Europe

 UK Geography: Northern Ireland

 UK Geography: London and the South East

 Asia – Japan

Athena – Story of Godess

Escape from Pompeii

The lost diary of Julius Caesar’s

TedED videos (Various)

Tudors and Stuarts

Trips – Buster Farm - The Romans

History Day – The Greeks

The Romans History Exhibition

Ernest Shackleton

Christopher Columbus

Nadia – The girl who couldn’t sit still Ireland – The people, the places, the stories

Town is by the sea

Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain Geography Week

Orienteering

Forest School

Wildlife Area

JASS Award

 Light

 Space

 Design

 Monuments of Ancient Rome

 Monuments of the Byzantium Empire

 Needlework, Embroidery and weaving

All the above cover the aims set out in the Key Stage 2 Art curriculum.

 What do Muslims believe?

 What do Jewish people believe about God?

 How can significant figures inspire us?

 What does it mean to follow the Buddha?

 What do sacred texts within Hinduism say about God?

 What contribution can religion make to our society?

These three dimensions of religion – believing, behaving and belonging

 The Human Body – muscular/skeletal system

 Classification of plants and animals

 Ecology

 Sound

 States of matter and The Water Cycle

 Electricity

The rhythm of the rain

How your body works

The shocking story of electricity

It starts with a seed

Sound

The picture – Living Habitats

Trips – Science Museum, Kew Gardens

Science Week

Forest School

Wildlife Area

JASS Award

 Being in my world – who I am and how do I fit in?

 Celebrating differences – respect for similarity or difference. Antibullying and being unique

 Dreams and goals – aspirations and how to achieve goal and understanding the emotions that go with this

 Healthy me – being and keeping safe and healthy

 Relationships – building positive, healthy relationships

 Changing me – coping positively with change

Vermeer Bonheur Munch Monuments of Ancient Rome Byzantium

Monuments Icarus and Daedalus

Significant figures in Religion

Buddhism and Me

Islam and Me

Trip – National Gallery/Portrait Gallery

Art Exhibition

Trip – St Peter’s Church

These areas encompass our Southfield TRUE values and British Values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

 Invasion games

 Dance

 Gymnastics

 Net/Wall games

 Striking and Fielding

 Athletics

Children in Key Stage 2 will also complete their swimming requirement to swim 25 metres before they leave Year 6.

 World Music

 Glockenspiel

 Reading music

 Making Music

 Painting with

 Sound Elements of Music

Children will be: Playing do, re, mi song on the glockenspiel

Playing 2 note chords

Using a repeating phrase structure to improvise a rhythm piece

Structure: the way piece of music is built up

Label structure by both rhythm and melody

Using terraced dynamics

World Music - continental Africa, Japan, Caribbean, Ghana, Gamelan music (rhythms that do not fit the pulse)

Listening to genres including orchestral, programmatic, incidental and pop rock.

Children will learn about Latin through the life of Minimus the mouse. The curriculum and story is set in a real life Roman town of Vindolanda in Northern England.

There is a direct focus on grammar and etymology as well as the story-based aspect of the curriculum. They will learn how to greet each other, how nouns and adjectives form and how to recognise aspects of Latin in modern English.

Online Safety:

We are Year 4 rule writers

We are standing up to peer pressure

We are aware that our online content lasts forever

We are online risk managers

We are respectful of digital rights and responsibilities

We are careful when talking to virtual friends

Switched On

We are software developers

We are makers

We are musicians

We are bloggers

We are artists

We are meteorologists

Children will:

Have an understanding of the overall timeline of the Roman era in Britain

Have used a range of dramatic techniques to explore this period of history

Have experience of writing in role, through both letter writing and developing a short script

Have an understanding of how the Romans lived in Britain, and how their legacy helped to shape life in Britain after they left

Have experience of working in small groups to produce short scenes, and of feeding back and participating in group discussions. Children will:

Be familiar with a range of key stories and characters from Greek myths Understand the relevance and role of gods within the Greek myths

Understand the significance of the Greek myths to Ancient Greek culture and its understanding of the world

Be able confidently to use dramatic techniques such as hot seating, thought tapping and freeze frames to explore storylines and characters’ points of view

Be able to work in small groups to present pre-prepared devised scenes

Be able to improvise as a group and to listen to each other’s ideas, and to sustain roles while exploring specific issues

Have experience of writing in role, and of writing a short script

Links are made to the children’s knowledge of Romans in History and the geography of the United Kingdom..

 Textiles - 2-D shape to 3-D product

 Food - Healthy and varied diet

 Mechanical Systems - Levers and linkages

 Structures - Shell structures

 Electrical Systems - Simple circuits and switches

These projects are taught in a two year cycle with Year 3 and based on the six essentials of good practice in D&T:

1. User

2. Purpose

3. Functionality

4. Design decisions

5. Innovation

6. Authenticity

Links will be made to other topics studied in our curriculum where applicable