Year Four

Subject Term One Term Two Term Three
English

Historical stories and short novels

Playscripts

Poems based on common themes

A range of text-types from reports & articles in newspapers & magazines

Instructions

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

 

Stories / novels about imagined worlds:

sci-fi, fantasy adventures

Stories in series,

Classic and modern poetry, including poems from different cultures and times,

Information texts on same or similar themes, Explanations

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting.

 

Stories / short novels that raise issues

Stories by the same author

Stories from other cultures

Range of poetry in different forms, haiku, couplets, lists etc , Persuasive writing: adverts, circulars, flyers,

Discussion texts: debates, editorials, Information texts linked to other curricular areas

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

 

Maths

Reading numbers from scales

Understanding and Mental calculation strategies (+ -)(x symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 7∏)

Pencil and paper procedures (+ -)(x symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 7∏)

Money and ‘real life’ problems

Making decisions, checking results

Measures, including problems

Shape and space, Reasoning about shapes

Properties of numbers, Reasoning about numbers

Time, including problems, Handling data

 

Place value, ordering, rounding

Reading numbers from scales

Understanding and Mental calculation strategies (+ -)(x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 7∏)

Pencil and paper procedures (+  -)

Money and ‘real life’ problems

Making decisions, checking results

Measures, and time, including problems

Shape and space. Reasoning about shapes

Properties of numbers, reasoning about numbers, Fractions and decimals

Handling data

 

Place value, ordering, rounding

Reading numbers from scales

Understanding and Mental calculation strategies (+ -)(x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 7∏)

Pencil and paper procedures (+ -)(x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 7∏)

Money and ‘real life’ problems

Making decisions, checking results

Shape and space, Reasoning about shapes

Measures, including problems

Properties of numbers, Reasoning about numbers, Fractions and decimals, Time, including problems, Handling data

 

Science

Moving and Growing

Friction

Solids, liquids and separating

Habitats

Circuits and construction Keeping warm

History

The Ancient Egyptians

 

Henry Viii and his wives

 

Tudor Times- rich & poor

 

Geography

Improving the environment

 

Village settlers What’s in the News?

 

A village in India

Art

Matisse

Can we change places? Hepworth

 

Mackintosh

Take a seat

 

Investigating pattern

 

DT Storybooks

 

Money containers Lighting it up