Year 4
Find out what your child will be learning this year in Year 4
Year 4
Find out what your child will be learning this year in Year 4
Curriculum overview
Find out what your child will be learning this year:
This term’s curriculum
RE:
Autumn 1: In the Beginning
This topic focuses on the two Hebrew creation narratives recorded in Genesis. The children will also use Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical – Laudato Si’ – to identify similarities and differences with the Genesis passages.
Autumn 2: Advent to Christmas
This topic focuses on the season of Advent as the time of preparation for the celebration of Christmas.
It includes teaching on the ‘O’ Antiphons and Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus.
English:
Writing:
Key text: Varjak Paw
- Narrative
- Poetry
- Informal letter writing
Key text: Space Explorers
- Interviewing
- Biography
- Journalistic writing
- Writing in role
Poetry exploration and performance
Reading:
Destination Reader programme.
Key skills: Prediction, Questioning, Clarifying, Summarising, Inferring, Evaluating and Making
Connections.
Year 4 Grammar objectives
Year 4 Spelling objectives and revision of Year 3/4/5 statutory word lists
Maths:
- Number and Place Value
- Number — addition, subtraction, multiplication and division: formal written methods
- Length and perimeter
- Reasoning and problem solving
Science
Biology: Living Things and Habitats
Skills:
Making predictions and asking questions.
Knowledge:
- Describe how living things are classified into broad groups
- Life cycles of mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds
- Life processes of reproduction in some animals
- Life processes of reproduction in some plants
- Comparing life cycles of animals and plans in the local environment with others around the world.
Computing
- E-safety
- Research
- Coding and developing
- Life processes of reproduction in some plants
History/Geography
- Roman Britain
PE
- LFA coach-led PE every Wednesday
- Swimming at Park Road Leisure Centre every Friday
Art & Design
- Roman mosaic
- Designing chariots
- Illustrations
MFL
Music
Homework information
- 20 minutes of reading per evening to be recorded in the reading record.
- Homework is given out everyday and is to be returned the following day.
- Children mark homework themselves and are in charge of sticking in the new homework
- Daily homework is linked to current study and consists of:
A grammar question
An arithmetic question
A maths reasoning problem
- Additionally there are weekly Spelling Shed and MyMaths activities.
- Holiday projects (be prepared for the Chariot Challenge!)