Curriculum Overview for Year 4 Autumn Term First Half 2015
English
Art & Design
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Reading
Writing
Grammar
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Revisit the use of capital letters, full stops,
 Linked to Billionaire Boy
 Reading David Walliamsquestion marks and exclamation marks.
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Reading and analysing narrative, non-fiction and
 Create complex sentences with adverb starters
Billionaire Boy.
poetry in order to plan and write their own.
e.g. Silently trudging through the snow, Sam
 Fairy Tales – Pied Piper and Puss  Identifying and discussing the purpose, audience,
made his way up the mountain
language and structures of narrative, non-fiction
 Use commas to mark clauses in complex
in Boots
and poetry for writing.
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Develop reading comprehension skills by
identifying themes in texts
Listen to and discuss a wide range of fiction,
poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or 
textbooks
Use inferences and justifying opinions when
asked questions about a piece of text that has
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been read.
Use dictionaries to check the meaning of words
that they have read
Check that a text makes sense to them,
discussing their understanding and explaining
the meaning of words in context
Developing settings and characterisation using
vocabulary to create emphasis, humour,
atmosphere, suspense.
Generating and select from vocabulary banks e.g.
powerful adverbs, adverbial phrases, technical
language, persuasive phrases, and alliteration
appropriate to text type.
Proofreading to check for errors in spelling,
grammar and punctuation in own and others’
writing.
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to £1 and that each coin is
of £1.
Write amounts of money using decimal notation.
Round decimals with one decimal place to the
nearest whole number.
Order and compare numbers with the same
number of decimal places up to two decimal
places.
Find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit
number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of
the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and
hundredths.
History
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To identify how sounds are made, associating some of them
with something vibrating
To recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a
medium to the ear
To find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features
of the object that produced it
To find patterns between the volume of a sound and the
strength of the vibrations that produced it
To recognsie that sounds get fainter as the distance from
the sound source increases
To ask relevant questions, using different types of scientific
enquiries to answer them
To record findings using simple scientific language, drawings
and labelled diagrams
To set up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair
test
To make systematic and careful observations
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answer questions.
 Begin to identify what data should be collected to answer a specific question.
 Collect data and enter it into a database under appropriate field headings.
 Use a database to answer straightforward questions by searching, matching
and ordering the contents of a single field.
 Based on the data collected, children should raise their own questions and
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translate them into search criteria that can be used to find answers to
specific questions.
Compare different charts and graphs, e.g. in tables, frequency diagrams,
pictograms, bar charts, databases or spreadsheets and understand that
different ones are used for different purposes.
Select and use the most appropriate method to organise and present data.
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Place Value
 Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or
1000.
 Solve number and practical problems that involve
all of the above and with increasingly large
positive numbers.
 Read and write numbers with up to two decimal
places.
 Identify the value of each digit to two decimal places.
 Count up and down in hundredths.
 Recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an
object by a hundred and dividing tenths by ten.
 Recognise that one hundred 1p coins are equivalent
Science - Sound
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Properties of shape
Addition and subtraction
 Partition numbers in different ways (for example, 2.3 =  Continue to identify horizontal and vertical lines and
pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines.
2 + 0.3 and
2.3 = 1 + 1.3).
 Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare
and order angles up to two right angles by size.
 Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits and
decimals with one decimal place using the formal
 Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes
written methods of columnar addition and
presented in different orientations.
subtraction where appropriate.
 Use a variety of sorting diagrams to compare and
 Estimate and use inverse operations to check
classify numbers and geometric shapes, including
answers
quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their
properties and sizes.
 Choose an appropriate strategy to solve a calculation
based upon the numbers involved (recall a known fact, Place Value
calculate mentally, use a jotting, written method).
 Read and write numbers to at least 10 000.
 Select a mental strategy appropriate for the numbers
 Recognise the place value of each digit in a fourinvolved in the calculation.
digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens and
ones).
 Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems
in contexts, deciding which operations and methods  Find 0.1, 1, 10, 100 or 1000 more or less than a
to use and why.
given number.
 Order and compare numbers beyond 1000.
 Identify, represent and estimate numbers using
different representations, including the number
line.
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sentences.
Revisit nouns, verbs and adjectives. Look at what
they are and where they are placed in a
sentence..
Verb tenses, standard English forms of verbs,
Nouns, the different kinds of nouns that there
are and the determiners that go with them
Adjectives – how they are used to describe
nouns.
 Create and use a branching database to organise and analyse information to
Design & Technology
Mathematics
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Use journals to collect and record visual
information from different sources.
Draw for a sustained period of time at an
appropriate level.
Make marks and lines with a wide range of
drawing implements e.g. charcoal, pencil,
crayon, chalk pastels, pens etc.
Create textures with a wide range of drawing
implements, e.g. use oil and chalk pastel.
Computing – Data Handling
 reate frequency diagrams and graphs to answer questions.
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Explore the roles and purposes of artists,
craftspeople and designers who use recycled
materials.
Reuse a range of materials to make other
objects.
Recycle paper to make a hedgehog.
Use the environment and nature to explore art
and design.
Geography-The Great Plague
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Modern
The importance of taking care of the
environment.
Consider environments at a range of scales
from their classroom to the whole world.
Issues around litter and waste e.g. damage to
the environment; reducing the level of
resource use; and reuse, as well as recycling,
of resources.
How people can adversely affect, as well as
improve, the environment.
Visit Global Renewables Waste plant.
Languages - Mandarin Music - Pitch
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play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their
voices and playing musical instruments with increasing
accuracy, fluency, control and expression
explore the patterns and sounds of language through
songs
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listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing
aural memory
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use and understand staff and other musical notations
speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases
and basic language structures
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appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and
recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great
composers and musicians
develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that
others understand when they are reading aloud or using
familiar words and phrases
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listen attentively to spoken language and show
understanding by joining in and responding
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Physical
Education
Swimming
 floating and swimming challenges related to speed, distance and personal survival
 swim unaided for a sustained period of time over a distance of at least 25 metres God,
 use recognised arm and leg actions, lying on their front and back
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 use a range of recognised stroke and personal survival skills [for example, front
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crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, sculling, floating and surface diving]
 Gymnastics
 Devise and perform a sequence of gymnastic actions, showing a clear beginning,
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middle and end.
 Gradually increase their length of sequence.
 Work with a partner to make up a short sequence using floor, mats and apparatus,
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showing consistency, fluency and clarity of movement.
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 Vary direction, levels and pathways to improve the look of a sequence.
 Perform actions on the floor then from floor to apparatus.
Religious
Education
David and the Psalms.
To discuss important values.
To read the stories of David and consider the
qualities of kingship and friendship.
Use art as a starting point to explore David
and Jonathan’s friendship.
Explore the nature of God.
Create images to illustrate the Psalms.
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To use results to draw simple conclusions
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