Tollgate Primary School Subject Overview
Year Four Curriculum Overview
Autumn Term One 2014 - 2015
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Text/Focus
Narrative
Historical Setting
Jesse Came
Across the Sea
Narrative
Historical Setting
Jesse Came Across
the Sea
Recounts
Newspapers and
Magazines
Grammar
Suffixes
Prefixes
Adjectives
Recounts
The True Story of
the Three Little
Pigs (change to
newspaper report)
Connectives
Narrative
Novels and Stories
by Significant
Children’s Authors
Esio Trot
Verbs and Adverbs
Narrative
Novels and Stories
by Significant
Children’s Authors
Esio Trot
Nouns and pronouns
Spelling
Suffixes
Prefixes
Root words
Narrative
Novels and Stories
by Significant
Children’s Authors
Esio Trot
Similes and
Metaphors
Homophones
Root words
Words that are
often misspelt
Comprehension
AF2
Understand,
describe, select or
retrieve
information,
events or ideas
from texts and use
quotation and
reference to text.
AF3
Deduce, infer or
interpret
information, events
or ideas from text.
AF3
Deduce, infer or
interpret
information, events
or ideas from text
AF5
Explain and
comment on
writers’ use of
language, including
grammatical and
literary features
at word and
sentence level.
AF5
Explain and
comment on
writers’ use of
language, including
grammatical and
literary features
at word and
sentence level.
Assessment which
covers
AF1/AF2/AF3/AF4
and AF5
Writing
Discussing and
recording ideas
Create settings,
characters and
plot
Proposing changes
to grammar,
Discussing and
recording ideas
Create settings,
characters and plot.
Proof reading for
spelling/punctuation
errors
Features of nonfiction
Use simple
organisational devices
such as
headings/subheadings
Discussing ideas
Discussing texts
Composing and
rehearsing
sentences orally
Proof reading and
proposing changes.
Discussing ideas
Discussing texts
Composing and
rehearsing
sentences orally
Proof reading and
proposing changes
Discussing ideas
Discussing texts
Composing and
rehearsing
sentences orally
Proof reading and
proposing changes
/i/sound spelt y
elsewhere than at
the end of words.
AF4
Identify and
comment on the
structure and
organisation of
texts including
grammatical and
presentational
features at text
level.
Composing
sentences orally.
Discussing similar
texts.
Read aloud own
writing
Use conjunctions,
adverb/prepositions.
Phonics
Suffixes
Sadly, completely,
usually, comically,
happily, angrily
Poisonous,
dangerous,
mountainous,
nervous, famous,
various,
tremendous,
enormous, obvious,
Mathematics
Number
Read roman
numerals to 50 and
beyond
To count in
multiples of
6,7,9,25 and 100.
Prefixes
Disappear,
disappoint, disobey,
misbehave, mislead,
misspell, inactive,
incorrect, illegal,
illegal, illegible,
immature, immortal,
impossible,
impatient,
imperfect,
irregular,
irrelevant,
irresponsible.
Redo, refresh,
return, reappear,
redecorate,
subdivide,
subheading,
submarine,
submerge, interact,
intercity,
international,
interrelated.
supermarket,
superman,
superstar
antiseptic, anticlockwise, antidote
automatic,
autograph
Number/Algebra
To use (n) to
calculate missing
numbers across the
four operations.
To recognise, order
and interpret
Root words
Accident, advertise,
approve, benefit,
behave, bicycle,
breath, breathe,
building, calendar,
certain, concentrate,
chocolate,
congratulate,
conscience, continue,
decorate, describe,
dictionary, difficult,
discover, , sew,
situate, strength,
sufficient, sure,
surprise, surround,
thought, through,
though, weary
/i/sound spelt y
elsewhere than at
the end of words.
Myth, gym, Egypt,
pyramid, mystery
Homophones or
near homophones.
Accept/except,
affect/effect,
ball/bawl,
berry/bury,
brake/break,
fair/fare,
grate/great,
groan/grown,
here/hear,
heel/heal/he’ll,
knot/not,
mail/male,
main/mane,
meat/meet,
medal/meddle,
missed/mist,
peace/piece,
plain/plane,
rain/rein,
scene/seen
Root words
disturb, early,
earn, earth,
educate, excite,
experience,
experiment,
explore, extreme.
February,
grammar, guide,
guard, half, heart,
immediate,
improve, increase,
independent,
injure, inquire,
interest, island,
junior, knowledge,
library, material,
Words that are
often misspelt
Disappear,
disappoint,
beginning, business,
necessary,
unnecessary,
necessarily.
Addition/Subtraction
Multiplication and
Division
Fractions and
Decimals
Fractions and
Decimals
Measures
To recall
multiplication and
division facts for
multiplication tables
up to 12x12.
To recognise and
calculate equivalent
fractions.
To count up and
down in
hundredths..0.1,
0.2 etc.
To convert between
different units of
measure. E.g. grams
to kilograms, hours
to minutes and
meters to
To add and subtract
numbers up to 4
digits and beyond
using the column
addition and
subtraction.
To round decimals
to the nearest
To recognise and
To recognise 0 as a
place holder.
negative numbers.
To estimate the
position of numbers
on a number line.
To use inverse
operations to check a
calculation.
To identify factors
of numbers.
whole number.
write the decimal
equivalent to ¼ and
½ and 3/4.
Computing
Online Identity
To identify the
dangers of using
the internet.
To recognise cyber
bullying through
social media
networks.
To understand how to
report a problem
when using the
internet.
To select personal
information that
should not be on the
internet.
To explain how to
download safely
from the internet.
To create a poster
about E Safety.
Science
Living Things
and their
Habitat
To identify
different types of
habitat.
To know that
different animals
are found in
different habitats.
To group organisms
according to their
features.
To use keys to
identify local plants
and animals.
To formulate
questions about
organisms and the
habitat.
To identify the
food sources of
different animals
in different
habitats.
To observe the
conditions of that
habitat.
To decide what
evidence to collect
and present this
information.
centimetres.
To interpret
divisions on a
partially numbered
scale.
To apply these
skills and knowledge
when using the
laptop.
To explain how
animals and plants
adapt to their
environment.