Spring Term Medium Term Planning Yr 3-4 2014 (First Half) NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Subje
ct
National
Curriculum
Objective
Numer
acy
Y4
object
ives in
bold
Spoken language
Use spoken language
to develop
understanding
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Draw 2D shapes, and make 3D shapes using modelling materials.
Recognise 3D shapes in different orientations and describe
them.
Compare
and
classify
geometric
shapes,
including
quadrilaterals and triangles based on their properties and
sizes.
Recognise that angles are a property of shape or a discretion of
a turn.
Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order
angles up to two right angles by size.
Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half
turn, three make three quarters of a turn, and four complete a
turn; identify whether angles are greater or less than a right
angle.
Identify lines of symmetry in 2D shapes presented in
different orientations.
Peer assessment
Discussions
Week 4
Week 5
Count on from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find
10 or 100 more or less than a given number.
Count in multiples of 1000 and find 1000 more or
less than a given number.
Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3 or 4
digit number.
Order and compare numbers up to and beyond 1000.
Count backwards through zero to include negative
numbers.
Identify, represent and estimate numbers using
different representations. (Y3 + 4)
Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and in
words.
Round any number to the nearest 10 100 or 1000.
Solve number problems and practical problems
involving these ideas / all of the above and with
increasingly large positive numbers.
Week 6
Week 7
Add and subtract numbers mentally, including:
A 3 digit number and ones, tens and hundreds.
Add and subtract numbers with up to three
digits
Estimate the answer to a calculation and use
inverse operations to check answers.
Solve problems, including missing number
problems, using number facts, place value, and
more complex addition and subtraction.
Measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths
(m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume / capacity
(L/ml)
Add and subtract amounts of money to give
change, using both £ and p in practical contexts.
Interpret and present data using bar charts,
pictograms and tables.
Solve one step and two step questions using
information presented in scaled bar charts and
pictograms and tables
Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits
using the formal written methods of columnal
addition and subtraction where appropriate.
Estimate and use inverse operations to check
answers to a calculation.
Solve addition and subtraction two-step
problems
in
contexts,
deciding
which
operations and methods to use and why.
Estimate, compare and calculate different
measures, including money in pounds and
pence.
Interpret and present discrete and continuous
data using appropriaste graphical methods,
including bar charts and time graphs.
Solve comparison, sum and difference
problems using information presented in bar
charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs.
through speculating,
hypothesising,
imagining and
exploring ideas.
Speak audibly and
fluently with an
increasing command
of Standard English.
Participate in
discussions,
presentations, role
play, improvisations
and debates.
Evaluations of texts
Film week discussion of themes and messages in the film Wall-E
Drama
Presentations
Poetry reading.
Following instructions.
Drama in literacy and IPC sessions.
Daily questions.
Class discussions.
Circle time.
Paired discussions.
Group sharing.
2 stars and a wish.
Reading- word
Apply their growing
knowledge of root
words, prefixes and
suffixes (morphology
and etymology), both
to read aloud and to
understand
the
meaning of new words
that they meet.
Read further
exception words,
noting the unusual
correspondences
between spelling
and sound, and where
these occur in the
word.
Daily guided reading / spelling sessions.
Bug Club reading and spelling activities.
Education city.
Interventions for SEN.
Reading
comprehension
–
develop positive
attitudes to reading
and understanding of
what they read
understand what they
read, in books they
can read
independently
Guided reading / bug club / reading comprehension cards / education city.
Text types are persuasion, suspense and mystery, and take one poet and take one book.
Read books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes.
Increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including stories with suspense / mystery, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, books from other
cultures, and also newspapers and examples of persuasion in guided reading sessions.
retrieve and record
information from nonfiction
Spelling
Use Read Write Inc spelling resources to go through each sound systematically and apply them in writing.
Spell words:
Place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals.
Use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary.
Handwriting
Use the diagonal and
horizontal strokes
that are needed to
join letters.
Understand which
letters, when
adjacent to one
another, are best left
unjoined.
Increase the
legibility, consistency
and quality of their
handwriting.
Writing
–
composition
Plan
by
discuss
writing similar to that
which
they
are
planning to write in
order to understand
and learn from its
Dictation tests every Friday.
Use nelson handwriting resource to learn and practice the 3nd
join
Use Nelson handwriting resource to learn and practise the 4nd join.
Limericks (1 week)
Take one book (2 weeks)
Suspense and mystery (3 weeks):
Take one poet (2 weeks)
The Water Tower
structure, vocabulary
and grammar.
Draft
and
write
Creating
settings,
characters and plot.
Proof
read
for
spelling
and
punctuation errors.
Writing
–
vocabulary, grammar
and punctuation
GAPS to be taught through curriculum, emphasised particularly in writing.
Separate short activities each morning. Quizzes, white board challenges etc.
Using the present
perfect
form
of
verbs in contrast to
the paste tense
Using
fronted
adverbials
Learning the grammar
for years 3 and 4 in
'English Appendix 2'
Computing
Use scratch coding software and sketchup for 3D modelling in combination with 3D designers IPC topic to achieve LO s.
Use logical reasoning
to explain how some
simple algorithms
work and detect and
correct errors in
algorithms and
programmes.
Use sequence,
selection and
repetition in
programs; work with
variables and various
forms of input and
output.
IPC
3D designers.
Children to finish unit called 3D designers. Using sketch up to create their own 3D models of their dream house. Also creating their own game using scratch coding software.
PE
Perform dances using
a range of movement
patterns.
Play competitive
hockey games and
apply basic principles
suitable for attacking
and defending.
RE
Devon agreed syllabus
2x Arsenal coaching sessions per week focusing on dance and hockey.
See PEDPASS Arsenal adapted planning for more detail.
Christian value of justice
Languages
1 session per week using ‘Take 10 Phonics’ resource alongside ‘Virtual French’.
Listen attentively to
spoken language and Building up vocabulary using flash cards and IWB presentations, learning rhymes and songs.
show understanding
by joining in and
responding.
Explore the patterns
and
sounds
of
language
through
songs and rhymes and
link
the
spelling,
sound and meaning of
words
Cultur
Buddhism and RE
al
Cultural champions
aware
Blogging
ness
IPC – Rome and Greece
Visitors