| SUBJECT |
AUTUMN TERM |
SPRING TERM |
SUMMER TERM |
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| ENGLISH |
- Writing to Inform
- Writing to Instruct
- Character Study
- Persuasive Writing and Advertisements
- Writing to Describe
- Writing in Role/Reading Strategies
- Writing a Play Script
- Character and Thematic Exploration
- Storyboarding
Note: one Year 4 group will work on the Autumn term topics whilst the other Year 4 group will work on the Spring topics |
- Writing to Inform
- Autobiographical Writing
- Factual reports
- Film Narrative and Novel Comparison
- Text Transformation
- Descriptive Poetry
- Fairground Poetry
- Persuasive Writing
- Exploring Character
- Alternative Narrative
- Writing to Instruct
Note: one Year 4 group will work on the Spring term topics whilst the other Year 4 group will work on the Autumn term topics |
- Reading Strategies and Narrative “Hooking”
- Reading Strategy: Connections with Text: Personal and through Empathic Writing
- Writing to Inform/Factual Reports
- Autobiographical Writing to Explore Character and Setting
- Writing to Inform/Instruct
- Oral Debate/Writing to Argue/Persuade
- Writing Poems/Play Scripts based on Circus Theme
- Newspaper Report/Writing to Inform
- Fact and Fiction
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| MATHEMATICS |
Number bonds, mental arithmetic and tables will be practised throughout the year. |
- Number
- Length
- Fractions
- Money
- Weight
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- Number
- Shape
- Fractions
- Area
- Time
- Capacity
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- Number
- Fractions
- Handling Data
- Coordinates
- Time
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| GEOGRAPHY |
- Study of Geography
- The British Isles
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| HISTORY |
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| SCIENCE |
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- Moving and Growing
- Rocks and Soils
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- Food chains
- Habitats and adaptation
- Bird project
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| RS |
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- New Testament stories
- Holy Week
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| PSHE |
Myself & Relationships
- Making choices
- Respecting Others
- Feeling good about Myself
- Fair and Unfair
- Bullying and Friendships
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Citizenship
- Understanding rules
- Animal welfare
- Making a Positive Difference
- Recycling
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Health
- Food and Diet
- Coping with Change
- Who helps us stay safe?
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| MUSIC |
- Team working (working as an ensemble and developing the role of individuals within a performing group)
- Popular sing arrangement (class/year group arrangement of ‘The Diary of Horace Wimp’ by ELO)
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- Composition using keyboard instruments (how keyboards work – piano and electric keyboards and how to use them for composition work)
- Composition – exploring stories & music (examples of stories and music beginning with nursery rhymes, skipping games, etc. Children will begin to create their own stories which will be linked to the following project)
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- Let’s make an Opera! An opera from scratch!
- Let’s make an Opera! Performance
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| PE |
- Swimming
- Basket ball skills
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| GAMES |
- Rugby (boys)
- Netball (girls)
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- Hockey(boys)
- Netball (girls)
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- Cricket(boys)
- Rounders(girls)
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| ICT |
- The importance of E-Safety
- Touch typing
- An introduction to Microsoft Excel and Formulas
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- An introduction to Microsoft Publisher – Roman town leaflet
- What’s inside a PC?
- Touch typing
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- Basic drawing in Serifs Drawplus
- Endangered species project (searching for information, using word and Excel, making a poster)
- Touch typing
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| DT |
- A pick-up device.
- Wire work involving soldering.
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- A desk tidy.
- A cam-operated device.
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- A CD rack.
- Sheet metal work involving riveting.
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| ART |
- Symmetry – use of templates, cutting, pasting, mixed media collage, oil pastel, soft pastel (composition and design work)
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- Introduction of sketchbooks – sketching from nature, water colour tinting, charcoal, pastel and graphite observational drawings
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- Techniques to show light / shade (tone) in pant and graphite
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| FRENCH |
Topics
- Revision and reinforcement of all topics and structures covered in Y3
- Family
- Talking about a third person
- Christmas
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Topics
- Where you live
- Rooms in the house
- Furniture
- Easter
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Topics
- Parts of the face and body
- Symptoms
- Physical description
- Revision
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Grammar & Language
- Possessive adjectives mon/ma/mes, son/sa/ses
- Personal pronouns je / tu / il / elle and how it affects verbs (teach as phrases)
- Recognition of nous / vous / ils / elles
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Grammar & Language
- Où habites-tu? J’habite à….dans …avec… près de…
- Il y a / il n’y a pas de
- Prepositions sur / sous / dans / par terre / devant / derrière
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Grammar & Language
- Revision of genders
- Revision of the plural + irregular plurals eg. les genoux
- J’ai mal au / à la / à l’ / aux
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