Tollgate Primary School Subject Overview
Year Four Core Curriculum
Autumn Term Two 2014 - 2015
Text/Focus
Grammar
Spelling
Comprehension
Writing
Structure
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Narrative
Novels and Stories
by Significant
Children’s Authors
Danny Champion of
the World
Direct Speech
Narrative
Novels and Stories
by Significant
Children’s Authors
Danny Champion of
the World
Fronted adverbials
Poetry
Creating Images
Poetry
Creating Images
Narrative
Stories set in
Imaginary Worlds
Leon and the Place
in-between
Narrative
Stories set in
Imaginary Worlds
Leon and the Place
in-between
Comprehension/
Grammar assessment
Commas after
fronted adverbials
Possessive
apostrophes with
regular nouns
Past and Present
Tense
Difference
between plural and
possessive
apostrophe
Assessment
Suffixes
/u/sound spelt ou
Words with endings
sounding /zhuh/or
/chuh/
Words with endings
sounding
/zhun/
Possessive
apostrophe with
regular plural
words
AF5
Words with
the/sc/ sound spelt
ch
Assessment
AF5
Assessment which
covers
AF1/AF2/AF3/AF4
and AF5
AF2
AF3
AF3
AF4
Understand, describe,
select or retrieve
information, events or
ideas from texts and
use quotation and
reference to text.
Deduce, infer or
interpret information,
events or ideas from
Deduce, infer or
interpret information,
events or ideas from
text
Identify and comment
on the structure and
organisation of texts
including grammatical
and presentational
features at text level.
Explain and comment
on writers’ use of
language, including
grammatical and
literary features at
word and sentence
level.
Explain and comment
on writers’ use of
language, including
grammatical and
literary features at
word and sentence
level.
Discussing dialogue
and character’s
language
Using conjunctions,
adverbs and
prepositions.
Create settings,
character and plot.
Extending range of
sentences using
connectives.
Using fronted
adverbials.
Discuss and record
ideas
Using fronted
adverbials with
appropriate use of
commas.
Compose and rehearse
sentences
Read aloud own writing
using appropriate tone
etc
Indicate possession
using apostrophes
Create settings,
character, plot.
Discuss dialogue
Use conjunctions,
adverbs and
prepositions.
Using fronted
adverbials.
Discussing dialoge
Proof reading
Using fronted
adverbials
text.
Assessment
Phonics
Mathematics
Suffixes
Pompous, previous,
ravenous,
humorous,
glamorous,
vigorous,
courageous,
outrageous,
serious, obvious,
furious, envious.
Information,
adoration,
sensation,
preparation,
admiration.
Measures
To read time in
digital and analogue
clocks.
To convert time
from minutes to
hours to seconds.
Computing
We are
Software
developers.
To use appropriate
instruments to
measure and
record weight,
length and
capacity.
To use and
understand the key
language
(Hardware,
Software and
Debug)
/u/sound spelt ou
Young, cousin,
double, trouble,
couple, country.
Words with
endings sounding
/zhuh/or /chuh/
Measure, treasure,
pleasure, enclosure,
picture, adventure,
creature,
furniture,
departure, mixture.
Words with
endings sounding
/zhun/
Division, invasion,
confusion, decision,
collision, television
Possessive
apostrophe with
regular plural
words
Girls’, boys’, babies’
(plurals ending in s)
Words with
the/sc/ sound
spelt ch
Chef, chalet,
machine, brochure,
champagne,
chauffeur
Assessment
Geometry, Space
and Position.
To compare and
classify triangles
and quadrilaterals
base on their
properties.
Statistics
To plan, organise,
collect and
interpret data.
Four rules of
number/Algebra
To recap on the
four rules of
number: addition,
subtraction,
division and
multiplication.
Problem Solving
To solve worded
problems related
to all aspects of
numeracy taught
this term.
Assessment Week
Areas For
Development
To look for areas of
mathematics that can
be developed further.
To develop the
interface for a
game.
To build in the
games progression.
To test and refine
the game.
To identify obtuse
and acute angles.
To play and analyse
educational games.
To solve problems
using information
presented in a bar
chart.
To build a game
prototype.
To solve simple
algebraic equations.
To add in repetition
and keeping track.
Science
Animals including
Humans.
To explain that
both animals and
humans have
skeletons inside
their bodies.
To make
observations and
comparisons about
different types of
skeletons.
To know that
skeletons are
internal and grow
as we grow.
To understand that
muscles are
attached to bone.
To describe the
simple function of the
digestive system.
To identify the main
part.
To understand that
the skeleton protects
the vital organs.
To identify the
teeth of human and
animals.
To describe their
function.
To construct and
interpret a variety
of food chains.
To identify
producers, predators
and prey.