Big ideas
Continuing from last
year…
•Active 8 (after lunch)
•Tasc – higher order thinking
skills
Various morning tasks…
•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 bring
different creative elements to their work.
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 the learning styles of the children
in class 4. this in turn should allow them to get a
better idea of the plot.
• Dramatic literacy –
children will gain a
good sense of how characters are feeling through
hot seating, conscience corridors, sound-scapes,
senses walks, role plays and freeze frames.
• 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 assess, teacher
time with children who need extra help on
a certain concept, self assessment = teacher
input the following day.
• Problem solving/investigative
approach – children to find the best way
for them 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, mod rok mummies,
stories from a historical setting, play-scripts.
•Famous figures (term 5)
Influential
figures through time – children to chose a famous
person and create a PowerPoint project to present to
the class.
•Green Olympics (term 6)
with year 3
children will look at the environmental issues and
projects put in place surrounding the 2012 Olympics –
waste/recycled Olympic parks.
Literacy
Numeracy
Science
Stories with dilemma – The Crocodile and the
Units A2 B2 C2
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.
Wii – handling data, mental skills etc.
DSI – Mental maths skills
African habitats – Savannah – wild life and
vegetation, rainforest - Plants and animals in Africa
Sorting wild life 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 –
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 – Save the Rainforest – linked to
Geography – leaflets and posters.
Letters - to children from an African school
Drama
linked to Africa (food and famine).
Within Literacy/Dance – Hot Seating, Role Play,
Freeze Framing, and Conscience Corridor etc.
Art/DT
African Arts and Culture
African Savannah Chalk Pictures
Rainforest Watercolour
African Goli Masks
Ndebele Beadwork
Appliqué - Dyes & Designs
African patterns – charcoal
Adinkra printing onto fabric
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
Wild Africa
(Term 1)
An exploration of the continent,
traditions and culture of African
PSHE & SEAL
countries.
New Beginnings
Water aid
Poverty in Africa
Animal conservation
Zoos – good or bad?
Relationships
PE
Games – Mrs Oakley
(hockey)
Swimming – Tues 10:15
ICT
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
Year 4
RE - Mrs Gray
Music
- Mr Fell
Feel the Pulse - Exploring pulse and
rhythm (African drums)
Songs - Walking in the jungle, The
Elephant, Hippopotamus’ song etc.
Harvest
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
Assembly
Assembly
Assembly
KS Assembly
Assembly
9:30 –
10:30
Literacy
Literacy -Spellings
Maths – Mental
Maths Practice
Games
Literacy
Literacy
10.00:
10:30 –
10:45
10:45 –
11:45
11:45 –
12:45
12:45 – 1: 20
1:20 – 2:00
2:00 – 3:05
3:05 – 3:15
Break Duty
Maths
(Class Teacher PPA)
Swimming
Break
Swimming
Break
French
Break
Maths
Break Duty
ICT
(Class Teacher PPA)
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
DS Mental Maths DS Mental Maths DS Mental Maths DS Mental Maths DS Mental Maths
Theme Work
(H,S&E) (ICT)
Science
Theme Work
(H,S&E) (ICT)
Science
Reminders/Clear
Away/Home
Reminders/Clear
Away/Home
Literacy
Year 4 Music
Maths
(Mr Fell)
Numeracy Skills
PSHE
Reminders/Clear
Away/Home
Year 4 RE
(Mrs Gray)
Reminders/Clear
Away/Home
Theme Work
(Creative)
Reminders/Clear
Away/Home
Homework
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Times tables
Spellings - (test tuesdays)
Literacy – Mon (out) thurs (in)
Maths – tues (out) Fri (in)
Reading
The Small things
• Shopping
addition/subtraction
• Card games
• Reading with your child
• Who what where story
builder
• Times tables
• Vocab shower
• 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.
Caythorpe 2011-12 Meeting 6th october