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 abur Ancient Greece

Debate about Anglo Saxons and Vikings

CULTURAL CAPITAL

Whipsnade Zoo

Christmas pantomime

 Ancient Greek workshop

Residential

Local Mandir

West Stow Village

FOCUS WEEKS

Black History Month

Vision Day

French Day

National Geographic Day

Book Day

Steam Week

Wellbeing Week

 CLASSICAL MUSIC

Mozart

Benjamin Britten

Chopin

Vivaldi

Duke Ellington

Tchaikovsky

CHRISTIAN VALUE

Humility

Perserverance / Hope

Commuhity / Friendship

Forgiveness

Generosity

Gratitude / Forgiveness

RE

People of God

Incarnation

Salvation

Kingdom of God

World faiths:
Hinduism

World faiths:
Sikhism

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

Compassion 

Cooking

 Ancient Greece

Financial Project

 Design in the Built Environment

Allotment

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

The Firework Makers Daughter

 The Dam

 Greek Myths:

Theseus and the Minotaur

Persued and Medusa

Odysseus and Cyclops

Pie Corbett The Impossibly possible Bookshop

Tha Amazing Aliens 

 A Boy and a Bear in a Boat

Arthur and the Golden Rope

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

Information texts

Rainforest animals

News articles

First news

  The Drop in my Drink

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

Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

The Story of Ruby Bridges

Famous Anglo Saxon biographies

I LOVE READING

The Firework Makers Daughter

Voices in the Park

Poetry - Tiger Tiger Anthology

Dragonflies

News articles

Moon Dragons

Tales of Wisdom and Wonder

George's Marvellous Medicine

Little People Big Dreams

News articles

Pie Corbett Poetry

Arthur and the Golden Rope

River Story

Breakfast Adventures

For the Love of Dog

Leon

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

State of matter

Living environments

Eating and digestion

Sound

Electricity

What do Scientists do?

ART / DESIGN

Romanticism:
Minibeasts

 Romanticism:
Minibeasts

Impressionism:
The impressionsists

Impressionism:
​The impressionsists

British Contemporary Art

British Contemporary Art

PE

Football Development

Basketball Development

Gymnastics Development

Netball Development

Cricket Development

Athletics Development

COMPUTING

Online safety and computional thinking

The internet

Coding

Animation

Laptop skills and spreadsheets

Effective searching

FRENCH

Animals and colours

Christmas songs

Phonics

Describing personalities

Places in Town

Revising opinions

Favourite foods

Hobbies and sport

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Poison Dart Frogs

Cooking - Seasonal foods

Make a Labyrinth

Make a Pathenon

Light up signs

Function of fabrics