Ashville College Junior School
Curriculum Overview
Literacy
Numeracy
Science
Text type
Topics
Topics
Historical stories
Historical novels
Historical playscripts
Poems based on a common theme
Texts
The Lion and the Unicorn
Not Always a Perfect Place
Raiders
A Jumble for the Queen
The Stove Haunting
Family Photo Album
My Grandpa
Something told the Wild Geese
The Snow Spell
Text level – Learning
Objectives
To investigate settings and characters
To explore story chronology and narrative order
To write character sketches
To write independently linking own experience to
situations in historical stories
To prepare, read, write and perform play scripts
To use different ways of planning stories
To compare and contrast poems on a common theme
To write poems based on personal or imagined
experience
Sentence level –
Learning Objectives
Place value, ordering, rounding
Reading numbers from scales
Understanding + and –
Mental calculation strategies
Pencil and paper procedures
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions, checking results
Measures and time, including problems
Shape and space. Reasoning about shapes
To be able to:
Read and write whole numbers up to 10000
Counting on and backwards; rounding numbers
Recall addition and subtraction facts for each number up to 20
Addition and subtraction
Doubles and halves
Recall multiplication facts in x2, x3, x4, x5, x10 tables and derive
division facts
Negative numbers
Reading scales
Convert £ to p
Use, read and write km, m, cm, mm and mile
Suggest suitable units and equipment to estimate or measure
length
Measure/ calculate perimeter of rectangles and simple shapes
Describe and visualise 3-D and 2-D shapes
Classify shapes (right angles, regularity, symmetry)
Square grids
Word level – Learning
Objectives
To spell two-syllable words containing double
consonants, e.g. bubble, kettle, common
To distinguish between the spelling and meaning of
common homophones, e.g. to/ two/ too; they’re/ their/
there; piece/ peace
To spell regular verb endings s, ed, ing (link to
grammar work on tenses)
To spell irregular tense changes, e.g. go/ went/ can/
could
To recognise and spell suffixes
High-frequency words e.g. common, rotten, letter, better,
daddy, puppy, getting, carry, summer, butter
Homophones e.g. were, where, we’re; you, yew, ewe; their,
they’re, there; too, to, two; be, bee; see, sea; heard,
herd; right, write; are, our
Verb endings e.g. cooks, cooked, cooking; plays, played,
playing; jumps, jumped, jumping; drags, dragged, dragging; drops,
dropped, dropping; shops, shopped, shopping; saves, saved,
saving; explores, explored, exploring; carries, carried, carrying;
cries, cried, crying; fries, fried, frying; touches, touched, touching;
washes, washed, washing; buzzes, buzzed, buzzing; wishes,
wished, wishing;
Irregular tense changes e.g. blow, blew; grow, grew; throw,
threw; creep, crept; keep, kept; find, found; run, ran; think.
thought; buy, bought; wear, wore; speak, spoke; give, gave; see,
saw; slide, slid; eat, ate; can; could; go, went; is, was; are, were;
have, had; get, got; shoot, shot; catch, caught; bite, bit; send, sent;
spend, spent; bend, bent
Non-Core Subjects
History
Art
Painting skills
Clarice Cliff
Bridget Riley
David Hockney
Learning Objectives
Technology
Topic– The Tudors
To recognise that:
Living organisms belong to several
kingdoms
Different animals and plants are
found in different habitats
Plants and animals are suited to the
environment in which they live
To investigate the animals found in
a local habitat
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Handwriting
Spellings
Contrasting words e.g. diner, dinner, coma, comma, hoping,
hopping, taping, tapping
Humanities
Living Kingdoms
Classification of plants and animals
Other living things
Habitats
Learning Objectives
Thematic words e.g. happy, messy, silly, jolly, funny, rabbit,
puppy, kitten, otter, hippo, grabbed, kissed
To investigate verb tenses
To identify the use of powerful verbs
To identify adverbs and their use in sentences
To use commas to mark grammatical boundaries
within sentences
To revise work on verbs and practise using commas
Year 4 Autumn Term 2011 – 1st half
To practise correct formation of
basic joins.
To ensure consistency in size and
the spacing between letters and
words.
French
Revision of Year 3 work.
Describing People.
Use of adjectives.
Nationalities.
Spanish
Personal details
Descriptions – colours, adjectives.
Class instructions
Numbers 0-12
Henry VII, Wars of the Roses, The
Battle of Bosworth
To learn about the six wives of
Henry VIII and show some
understanding of religious
implication
Why did Henry VIII marry six
times?
To learn about Edward VI, Mary I
and Elizabeth I
Geography
Geography of New Zealand
Topic – Weather
What is weather? Types of weather
Weather symbols used on maps
Seasons and seasonal variations in
the weather
Measuring and recording the
weather using instruments
IT
To understand that newspapers use
a variety of presentation techniques.
To be able to change fonts and font
sizes. To be able to use bold, italic
and underline to enhance text. To
learn how to cut and paste sentences
to change the order. To be able to
delete text and then replace and
amend it, to increase the interest and
clarity of the piece of writing. To
learn how to change the style and
mood of a descriptive piece of
writing. To be able to use a Spell
Checker. To learn how to use the
Find and Replace function to amend
text. To understand the limitations
of the automatic Replace function.
To be able to use textual effects and
page layout techniques to target
written work more accurately. To
be able to create interesting front
page layouts.
Looking at skills in design and technology
Considering ways to strengthen a basic
structure
To make and decorate a simple hollow cube
PSHCEE
New beginnings
Class Charter
Managing feelings
R.E.
Special People; Ministers of the Church;
Christianity; Beliefs; Parable of the Sower;
John the Baptist; Parable of the Wedding
Party; Special Mothers
Music
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Rhythmic notation and pulse explored
through composition and conducting
patterns.
Listening skills
Violin and cello group lessons.
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Swim strokes
Cross Country
Rugby / Netball
Dance
Running Skills
PE