Year 4 Curriculum

CO4

YEAR 4

AUTUMN 1
(8 weeks)

AUTUMN 2
(8 weeks)

SPRING 1
(5 weeks)

SPRING 2
(6 weeks)

SUMMER 1
(6 weeks)

SUMMER 2
(7 weeks)

TOPIC

Rainforests

 Ancient Greece

 Anglo Saxons and Vikings

THE BIG QUESTION

Why are Rainforests important to our survival?

How has Ancient Greece influenced Society?

Is invasion ever a good thing?

KEY CONCEPTS

Resourceful

Responsibility

Thankfulness

Sustainability

Determination

Change

Identity

Freedom

Collaboration

Community

Loyalty

Pride

WOW

Rainforest diorama

Greek banquest and dress up day

West Stow Village

AUTHENTIC OUTCOME

Rainforest leaflet:
answering the big question

Information video about Ancient Greece

Debate about Anglo Saxons and Vikings Invasion

CULTURAL CAPITAL

Whipsnade Zoo

Christmas Pantomime

 Ancient Greek Workshop

Residential

Local Gurdwara

West Stow Village

FOCUS WEEKS

Black History Month

Vision Day

 

French Day

Book Day

STEAM Week

Wellbeing Week

Art Week

 CLASSICAL MUSIC

Errollyn Wallen

Samuel  Coleridge -Taylor

Sergei Prokofiev 

Fanny Mendelssohn 

J.S. Bach 

John Williams 

CHRISTIAN VALUE

Humility

Perserverance / Hope

Commuhity / Friendship

Forgiveness

Generosity

Gratitude / Forgiveness

RE

People of God

Incarnation

Salvation

Kingdom of God

World faiths:
Sikhism

World faiths:
Hinduism

BLP

Reflective Robbie

Resilient Rosy

Relational Ruby

Redemptive Raya

Resourceful Rocco

Reverent Ritchie

PSHE

Being me in my World

Celebrating difference

Dreams and goals

Healthy me

Relationships

Changing me

HEARTSMART

Being HeartSmart

Do not forget to let the Love in

Too much Selfie is not Healthy

Fake is a Mistake

No way through is not True

Do not rub it in, rub it out

WOWS AND WELLBEING

Community Food Banks
Compassion Letters

Cooking

 Ancient Greece Assembly

Design in the Built Environment

 Sewing Skills

Allotment / Puzzles

MATHS

Place value - four digits

Addition and subtraction

Area

Multiplication and division

Multiplication and division

Length and perimeter

Fractions

Decimals

Decimals

Money and time

Property of 2D shapes

Statistics

Position and direction

MENTAL MATHS

Recap from previous year

Place value - four digits

Addition and subtraction

Area

Multiplication and division

Multiplication and division

Length and perimeter

Fractions

Decimals

Decimals

Money and time

 

TALK 4 WRITING

 

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

Leon and the place between

The Dam

Poetry - Free Verse

Elf Road

The Amazing Aliens

Poetry - Narrative

 Greek Myths:

Theseus and the Minotaur

Persues and Medusa

Odysseus and Cyclops

Poetry - Rhyme

The Firework Makers Daughter

 A Boy and a Bear in a Boat

Arthur and the Golden Rope

The Impossibly Possible Bookshop

Poetry - Kennings

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

Information texts

Animals

The Drop in my Drink

So you think you have got it bad. A kids life in Ancient Greece 

 Poetry Riddles

News Article

Famous Anglo Saxon biographies

Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

I LOVE READING

Leon and the place between

Dragonflies

News Articles

Moon Dragons

George's Marvellous Medicine

Poetry - Tiger Tiger

Anthology

Little People Big Dreams

News articles

Tales of Wisdom and Wonder

 

The Firework  Makers Daughter

River Story

A Boy and a Bear in a Boat

The Story of Ruby Bridges

Arthur and the Golden Rope

Breakfast Adventures

Breakfast Adventures

HISTORY

 

 

Ancient Greece

Anglo Saxons

GEOGRAPHY

Rainforests

South America
The Amazon

 

Population of Greece

Human and Physical feature of Greece

Rivers in Greece

 

Settlements and Anglo Saxon migration

SCIENCE

Living environments

Eating and digestion

States of Matter

Sound

Electricity

What do Scientists do?

ART / DESIGN

Romanticism:
Minibeasts

Impressionism:
The impressionsists

British Contemporary Art

PE

Football Development

Fitness Curcuit Activities

Gymnastics Development

Netball Development

Cricket / Tennis Development

Athletics Development

COMPUTING

Online safety and computional thinking

The Internet

Logo

Coding

Artificial Intelligence

Animation

FRENCH

Describing me and others

Describing me and others

Christmas songs

Saying what I and others do

Saying what I and others like

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Creating a Biome

Cooking

Make a Labyrinth

Make a Pathenon

Light up signs

Function of fabrics