Big ideas
Continuing from last
year…
• Active 8 (after lunch)
• Tasc – higher order thinking
skills
New this year…
• Morning thinking skills tasks based on all
areas of the curriculum – closely linked to
creative writing strategies, helping
childreN to thiNk ‘outside the box’ aNd to
develop creative elements in their work.
• Problem Solving approach across the
curriculum.
Literacy
• Visual literacy approach –
children will
have the opportunity to engage in a text through
different ways; video, ebook, books and audio - to
try to appeal to all learning styles. this in turn
should allow them to understand and analyse the
plot more carefully.
• Dramatic literacy –
children will gain a
good sense of character emotion through hot
seating, conscience corridors, sound-scapes, senses
walks, role plays and freeze frames. This should add
empathy, reality and feeling to their writing.
• More in-depth plot analysis –
longer comprehension activities.
leading to
Numeracy
• Visual and practical maths – using
stories, real-life problems, videos, hands-on
activities.
• Personalised learning environment –
differentiation 5 ways (where appropriate),
children peer and teacher assessed, teacher
time with children who need extra help on
a certain concept or to extend children
on further. self assessment = teacher input
the following day.
• Problem solving/investigative
approach – children to find their best
way to tackle a problem
• Topic themed (where appropriate)
Themes
•Africa (term 1-2)
•Ancient Egypt (term 3-4)
Archaeological discovery, making a cartouche, using
hieroglyphics, clay canopic jars, stories from a
historical setting, play-scripts.
•Famous figures (term 5)
Influential
figures through time – children to choose a famous
person and create a PowerPoint project to present to
the class.
•Roman britain (term 6)
How Romans
influced britain – boudicca. Life in roman Britain,
roman arts and crafts.
Numeracy
Literacy
Stories with dilemma – The Crocodile and the
Dung Beetle, Jamonghoie and the Blacksmith’s
Dilemma from African traditional texts.
Stories set in Imaginary Worlds - African
folktales – Anansi Stories – Anansi and the Sky
Kingdom.
Advertisements – WaterAid – linked to
Geography – leaflets and posters.
Letters – about children moving to large cities
slum towns from rural villages.
Counting, partitioning and calculating,
securing number facts, understanding shape,
handling data and measures.
Links to Africa: Climate Comparisons – data
handling, capacity – African potion task etc.
DSI – Mental maths skills
Drama
Within Literacy/Dance – Hot Seating, Role
Play, Freeze Framing, and Conscience
Corridor etc.
Science
African habitats – Savannah – wild life
and vegetation, rainforest - Plants and
animals in Africa Sorting wildlife into
groups – comparing and contrasting
African animal food chains
Predator/prey relationships
Animal’s use of camouflage for
protection
Animal’s use of senses for protection
Moving and Growing – looking at the
human body – linked to Africa (food and
famine).
Art/DT
ICT
African Arts and Culture
African Savannah Chalk Pictures
Rainforest Watercolour
African Goli Masks
Ndebele Beadwork
Appliqué - Dyes & Designs
African patterns – charcoal
Wild Africa
(Term 1)
An exploration of the continent,
traditions and culture of African
countries.
PSHE & SEAL
Geography/History
Contrasting locality overseas Learn how village life in rural
Africa differs to life in Mk D
African continent - cities and slums
Kenya/ Mk D (contrast)
Rainforest
Savannah/ Safari
Tourism
New Beginnings
WaterAid
Poverty in Africa
Animal conservation
Zoos – good or bad?
Relationships
PE
Games – Mrs Oakley
(hockey)
Swimming – Tues 10:15
Dance – African dance
Year 4
Music
- Mr Fell
Feel the Pulse - Exploring pulse
and rhythm (African drums)
Songs - Walking in the jungle, The
Elephant, Hippopotamus’ song etc.
Researching Skills: Finding
Information - Using CD ROM
and Internet linked to the topic
(Kenya/ TRF, Animals).
Branching databases Children
learn to use and create
branching databases to sort and
classify information. Children
will be introduced to ‘yes/no’
questions which separate a set
of objects into two sub-sets.
They are shown how to search
and create branching databases
(Africa)
Wii and DSI
RE
Harvest – Send A Cow
The Story of Joseph
The Books of the Bible
The Nativity
Weekly Overview
Class 4C
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
8:45 – 9:00
Thinking Skills/DS
Thinking Skills/DS
Thinking Skills/DS
Thinking Skills/DS
Thinking Skills/DS
9:00-9.30
WORSHIP
WORSHIP
WORSHIP
KS WORSHIP
WORSHIP
9:30 – 10:30
Literacy
Literacy –Spellings
Games
Literacy
Literacy
(Class Teacher PPA)
Maths – Mental
Maths Practice
10.00:
10:30 - 10:45
10:45 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:45
Break Duty
Maths
Lunch
Swimming
Break
Swimming
Break
French
(Class Teacher PPA)
Lunch
Break Duty
Break
Maths
Lunch
Maths
Lunch
Lunch
12:45 – 1:20
DS Mental Maths
EC/Guided Reading
DS Mental Maths
EC/Guided Reading
DS Mental Maths
EC/Guided Reading
DS Mental Maths
EC/Guided Reading
DS Mental Maths
EC/Guided Reading
1:20 – 2:00
Theme Work
(H,S&E) (ICT)
Science
Year 4 Music
Handwriting
ICT
2:00 – 3:05
Theme Work
(H,S&E) (ICT)
Science
RE
PSED
Theme Work
(Creative)
3:05 – 3:15
Reminders/Clear
Away/Home
Reminders/Clear
Away/Home
Reminders/Clear
Away/Home
Reminders/Clear
Away/Home
Reminders/Clear
Away/Home
(Mr Fell)
Homework
•Times tables –
tested 3 times weekly
•Spellings and HANDWRITING 5 HANDWRITING WORDS IN TUES +SPELLING TEST TUESDAYS
•Literacy – Mon (out) Fri (in)
•Maths – Mon (out) Fri (in)
•Reading
Learning Environment
To ensure all children have the
opportunity to learn and develop in
class we have a ‘workiNg well chart’. if a
child chooses not to follow class rules,
they will be given a visual warning using
this chart.
On the opposite end of the scale – if a
child shows great effort, kindness or
ability they will be given a class point or
will go iN to the ‘happy book’!
The Small things
• Shopping addition/subtraction
• Card games
• Reading with your child
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Who what where why story builder
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Beat The Clock Times tables
Vocab shower (WOW WORD FINDER)
Sentence substitution
aNother word for…
Extras
There may be times when extra help is
required in the classroom/outside the
classroom - if parents could spare the
time to help out it would be greatly
appreciated.
If you have questions now, or at any time
in the year, please do not hesitate to ask!