Miles Coverdale School - Overview of Curriculum
Year 4 – 2014/15
Autumn
Topics
English
Black History
Mountains & Volcanos
Narrative –3 weeks
Narrative –3 weeks
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Recognise simple sentences
2. revise compound and
complex sentences
3. Use conjunctions to express
time or cause
4. revise how to use dialogue
Non-Fiction: Instructions
and explanations (2 weeks)
1. Use and recognise nouns,
adjectives and prepositional
phrases
2. Use adverbs
3. Use adverbs and
prepositions to express time and
place
Non-Fiction – Information
texts. 4 weeks
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Use grammatical
terminology specifically by
beginning to recognise the
concept of a verb and by
choosing and using powerful
verbs
2. Choose nouns and pronouns
for clarity and to avoid
repetition
Poetry – Image Poems (2
weeks)
1. Extend the range of
sentences with more than one
clause by using a wider range
of conjunctions
2. Use conjunctions, adverbs
and prepositions to express time
& cause. 3. Use grammatical
terminology
Poetry –Poetic form and
syllabic poems (2 weeks)
punctuation
Grammar focus:
1. Use grammatical terminology
specifically by using and recognising
adjectives, nouns and adverbs
2. Understand and use adverbials and
fronted adverbials.
3. Use and understand grammatical
terminology
Maths
-Number and Place Value
-Addition and Subtraction
-Measurement
-Statistics
Science
Electricity
Computing
History
Spring
Settlements
Summer
Rainforests!
Narrative –(4 weeks)
Stories about imaginary
worlds
Poetry – Performance
poems (3weeks)
Grammar focus:
1. Use and recognise nouns,
adjectives and adjectival phrases.
2. Use conjunctions to express time
or cause.
3. Use possessive apostrophe with
singular and plural nouns.
1. Introduce the idea of tense in
verbs.
2. Use pronouns for cohesion and to
avoid repetition and ambiguity.
3. Use dialogue punctuation
Non-Fiction: Non-
Grammar focus:
Rainforests!
Narrative –3 weeks
Adventure Stories
Grammar focus:
Narrative Plays and
1. Extend sentences using adverbials
and fronted adverbials
2. Use commas to separate fronted
adverbials
3. Use and punctuate direct speech
4. Use a wide range of connectives to
create sentences with more than one
1. Understand and use adverbs.
2. Use and punctuate direct speech
3. Use powerful verbs
4. Use and understand grammatical
terminology
clause. Non-Fiction:
chronological reports (3 weeks)
Persuasive writing
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Extend the range of sentences
with more than one clause:
compound and complex sentences.
2. Use commas after or before
phrases and clauses.
3. Use pronouns to avoid repetition
or ambiguity and to add clarity and
cohesion.
1. Use a wide range of connectives to
extend sentences to include more than
one clause
2. Use conjunctions
3. Use commas after or before
phrases and clauses.
4. Use and punctuate direct speech
.Poetry – Traditional poems
Grammar focus:
haikus, tankas and
cinquains
Non-Fiction
Nonchronological reports
Grammar focus:
1. Use the perfect form of verbs
to mark relationships of time and
cause
2. Use commas after or before
phrases and clauses.
3. Use pronouns to avoid
repetition or ambiguity and to
add clarity and cohesion.
Poetry – Shape poems:
1. Use adverbs and fronted adverbials
2. Use commas after fronted
adverbials
3. Use grammatical terminology
correctly and with confidence
Playing with form
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Use grammatical
terminology specifically by
beginning to recognise the
concept of a verb and by
choosing and using powerful
verbs
2. Understand and use adverbs,
adverbials and fronted
adverbials.
-Number and Place Value
-Multiplication and Division
-Properties of Shape
Dialogues
Grammar focus:
1. Use possessive apostrophe with
singular/plural nouns
2. Extend the range of sentences with
more than one clause
3. Use a wide range of conjunctions
-Addition and Subtraction
-Measurement
-Statistics
-Fractions
-Measurement
-Number and Place Value
-Multiplication and Division
-Fractions
-Measurement
-Properties of Shape
-Position and Direction
-Statistics
-Addition and Subtraction
-Statistics
-Fractions
-Measurement
.
-Number and Place Value
-Multiplication and Division
-Fractions
-Measurement
-Properties of Shape
Sound
States of Matter
Living things & their
habitats
Living things & their
habitats
Animals inc Humans
Safeguarding –
www.Thinkuknow.co.uk
Programming, Gaming and
Modelling
Collecting, Finding and
Using Information
Collecting, Finding and
Using Information
Programming, Gaming and
Modelling
Programming, Gaming and
Modelling
Key individuals –
Significant historical
figures and local people
Britain’s settlement by
Anglo-Saxons and the Scots
before Alfred the Great
Britain’s settlement by
Anglo-Saxons and the
Scots after Alfred the
The achievements of
the earliest civilization
(An overview of when
The achievements of the
earliest civilisation:
Ancient Egypt – in depth
study
Great.
Geography
Identify longest
rivers in the world, largest
deserts and highest
mountains.
Compare with UK. Counties
and cities
Celebrations:
Christmas journeys
Why is Easter
important for
Christians?
and where the first
civilisations appeared.)
Rainforest Describe and
understand key aspects
of:
Physical geography,
including: climate zones,
biomes and vegetation
belts
Rainforest Describe and
understand key aspects of:
Physical geography,
including: climate zones,
biomes and vegetation belts
Why is Easter
important for
Christians?
What religions are
represented in our
neighbourhood?
RE
How and why do
Hindu’s worship at home
and in the mandir?
Art
DT
PE
Painting (and Drawing)
Tennis coaching
(Outdoor games)
Tennis coaching
(Outdoor games)
Tennis coaching
Dance
Swimming: Phoenix Leisure
Centre
Outdoor games
Swimming: Phoenix Leisure
Centre
Outdoor games or athletics
Swimming: Phoenix Leisure
Centre
Outdoor games or athletics
Music
PSHE
develop instrumental skills and
explore notations Recorders
Christmas presentation
develop instrumental skills and
explore notations Recorders
develop instrumental skills and
explore notations Recorders
develop instrumental skills and
explore notations Recorders
the West African Djembe drumming
Me and Growing and
Changing
Me and My Healthy
Lifestyle
Me and Keeping Safe
Me and making a positive
contribution.
Me and medicines and
drugs.
Me and my feelings.
Drawing and sculpture
Storybooks
What religions are
represented in our
neighbourhood?
Craft and drawing
Paper technology
Cooking