Y4 Curriculum Map 2014-15 / Spring
Y4
Reading
We will be reading ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ by Cressida Cowell as a
shared text, in line with our English topic.
For Guided Reading sessions we will be using excerpts from the above
text alongside continuing with ‘Mr Stink’,by David Walliams.
Writing
Upon completion of their film making unit, Children
will be introduced to the notion of creative nonfiction through ‘How to Train Your Dragon’.
Grammatical knowledge that children have gained
will be put to further use, with expectations that
they can confidently use pronouns, prepositions
and fronted adverbials within their writing.
Grammar
Punctuation with
apostrophe.
Combining
clauses using
connectives.
History
‘Why were the Norman
Castles definitely not
bouncy? –
Norman conquest.
Confident
understanding of
pronouns,
prepositions and
fronted adverbials.
Mathematics
Speaking &
Listening
Children will be immersed
within a variety of
activities which require
them to orally recite,
rehearse and perform.
Choral speech and poetry
will be performed.
Design
Technology
In line with our ‘Where
would you choose to buils
a city?’ topic, children will
be designing, creating
and evalutaing their own
skycraper to create a
Year 4 skyline.
Practice and reinforce skills from Autumn 1 through a daily ‘Math's Blast’ and/or score 4.
Recall multiplication facts up to x 12. To read Roman numerals (I to C). Enhance written
addition ans subtraction up to using four digits usiing a formal writen method. Solve
problems involving increasingly harder fracions (unit and non-unit) where the answer is a
whole number. Recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent
fractions. Recorgnise decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths.
Computing
We will continue to develop our own class blog focussed on communicating/networking
with wider audiences safely. We will use programming software to design, write and
debug programs that acomplish specific goals. We will be using logical reasoning to
ecxplain how some simple algorithms work and to detect errors in algorithms and
programs.
Geography
‘Where would you choose to build a city?’
We will be looking at cities throughout the
UK, Europe and globally and seeking to
answer why rivers were once so important to
the functionality of a successful city, and
whether or not they still are today.
Art & Design
Science
In order to enhance our
creative capacity we
will work on developing
skills in painting
alongside our
knowledge of famous
artists and their work.
We will continue our
studies of habitats,,
moving on to food
chains. We will also
explore sound.
Music
We’re fortunate enough to receive
specialist tuition as part of the Sefton
Wider Opportunities agreement. We will
continue to learn ‘Samba’ before
moving to stufy ‘Brass’ as a genre and
its components.
Religious
Education
As part of the Liverpool
Archdiocese we will be
following the ‘Come and
See’ Scheme of Work.
We will be looking at;
Community, SelfDiscipline and Giving and
Receiving.
Physical
Education
Gymnastics
Visits/Visitors/Events
* Visit from Father Tom Wood of St.
Gregory’s Parish.
* Visit to Liverpool Walker Art Gallery.