Curriculum Overview for Year 4
Reading
Secure decoding of unfamiliar
words
Read for a range of purposes
Retell some stories orally
Discuss words & phrases that
capture the imagination
Identify themes & conventions
Retrieve & record information
Make inferences & justify
predictions
Recognise a variety of forms of
poetry
Identify & summarise ideas
English
Grammar
Writing
Use wider range of conjunctions
Correctly spell common
Use perfect tense appropriately
homophones
Select pronouns and nouns for clarity
Increase regularity of handwriting
Use & punctuate direct speech
Plan writing based on familiar
Use commas after front adverbials
forms
Organise writing into paragraphs
Speaking & Listening
Use simple organisational devices Articulate & justify opinions
Proof-read for spelling &
Speak audibly in Standard English
punctuation errors
Gain, maintain & monitor interest
Evaluate own and others’ writing
Read own writing aloud
Art & Design
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Use sketchbooks to collect, record and evaluate
ideas
Improve mastery of techniques such as drawing,
painting and sculpture with varied materials
 Learn about great artists (Matisse)architects &
designers
Design & Technology
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Mathematics
Geometry & Measures Compare 2d shapes, including quadrilaterals &
triangles
Find area by counting squares
Calculate rectangle perimeters
Estimate & calculate measures
Identify acute, obtuse & right angles
Identify symmetry
Use first quadrant coordinates
Introduce simple translations
Number/Calculation
 Know all tables to 12 x 12
 Secure place value to 1000
 Use negative whole numbers
 Round numbers to nearest 10,
100 or 1000
 Use Roman numerals to 100
(C)
 Column addition & subtraction
up to 4 digits
Data
Use bar charts, pictograms & line
 Multiply & divide mentally
graphs
 Use standard short
multiplication
Science
History
Biology
 Classify living things
 Digestive system & teeth
 Food chains
Chemistry
 Changes of state
 The water cycle- linked to Geography Topic
 ( River Rhone or Weather Around the World)
Physics
 Sound as vibrations
 Electricity: simple circuits & conductors
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Design & write programs to achieve specific
goals, including solving problems
Use logical reasoning
Understand computer networks
Use internet safely and appropriately
Collect and present data appropriately
Geography
Use research& criteria to develop products which
 Locate world’s countries, focussing on Europe
are fit for purpose
( River Rhone) & Americas ( Caribbean) focus on key
Use annotated sketches and prototypes to explain physical & human features
ideas
 Study a region of the UK (not local area)
Evaluate existing products and improve own work
 Use 8 points of compass, symbols & keys
Use mechanical systems in own work
 Describe & understand climate, rivers,
mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, water cycle,
Understand seasonality; prepare & cook mainly
settlements, trade links, etc.
savoury dishes
 Use fieldwork to observe, measure & record
Fractions & decimals
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 Recognise tenths &
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hundredths
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 Identify equivalent fractions
 Add & subtract fractions
with common denominators
 Recognise common
equivalents
Modern
Languages
 Round decimals to whole
French
numbers
 Solve money problems
 Listen & engage
 Ask & answer questions
 Speak in sentences using familiar vocabulary
 Develop appropriate pronunciation
 Show understanding of words & phrases
 Appreciate stories, songs, poems & rhymes
 Broaden vocabulary
British Vikings Broader Study - Ancient Egypt /
Computing
Music
Recorder
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Use voice & instruments with increasing
accuracy, control and expression
Improvise & compose music
Listen with attention to detail
Appreciate wide range of live & recorded music
Begin to develop understanding of history
Victorians
understand the methods of historical enquiry
including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and
discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past
have been constructed
gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge
Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in
nto different contexts, understanding the connections between local,
combination.
regional, national and international history;
understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance e.g.
consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make through athletics and gymnastics.
connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
questions and create their own structured accounts, including written Play competitive games, modified where appropriate
narratives and analyses
Apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world:
Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate
the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of
improvement to achieve their personal best
empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies;
Know how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at
least 25 metres
influenced and been influenced by the wider world
Physical
Education
Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
Religious
Education
Cycle 1
CHRISTIANITY Birth of Jesus
(Interpretation/incarnation/prophecy)
ISLAM Muhammad and The Qu’ra
(Authority/Islam/risalat/sacred)
HINDUISM Festivals Holi (Values)
(Good and evil/ avatar/ritual/fire)
Cycle 2
CHRISTIANITY Stories from the Bible
(Authority/identity/ritual)
ISLAM The Five. Pillars (Authority/submission/ibadah/Islam)
HINDUISM Festival The Circle of Life (reincarnation)