Our Driving theme is : / Geography/History
PE, Music, RE ,PSHE and FML are fixed themes throughout the year-links will be made where relevant
Enquiry Question: /
- Are we still part of the EU?
Texts /
- The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
- The Wonder Garden by Jenny Broom
School Trips/Special Days /
- Fiddlers’ Ferry
- Local walk
As Readers/Writers we will take influence from the stories The Iron Man and The Wonder Garden /
- Spring A: The Iron Man
- Spring B: ‘The Wonder Garden
- We will develop our reading and writing our reading/understanding skills and in writing fiction and nonfiction texts based around these texts
- Writing Focus : is poetry, play scripts, newspaper reports, writing a sequel to the story (The Iron Man)
• Grammar Focus: revisiting previously learnt grammar coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) using subordinate conjunctions to write sentences which contain more than one clause (AWHITEBUS) & Year 4 Grammar expandednoun phrases, fronted adverbials including the use of a comma, across sentences pronouns and nouns within and
• Spelling Focus:prefixes ‘anti’ & ‘inter’ suffixes ‘cian’ ‘sion’ ‘tion’ & ‘ssion’
•Year 3&4 word list
As Mathematician we will
Decimals
Money / •Singapore Maths
- count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by 100 and dividing tenths by 10
- recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundreds
- recognise and write decimal equivalents to,,
- 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
- round decimals with 1 decimal place to the nearest whole number
- compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to 2 decimal places
- solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to 2 decimal places
- Decimals (Chapter 8)
2-writing tenths
3-writing tenths
4-writing hundredths
5-writing hundredths
6-writing hundredths
7-writing hundredths
8-writing decimals
9-comparing & ordering decimals
10-comparing & ordering decimals
11-comparing & ordering decimals
12-making number patterns
13-rounding decimals
14-rounding decimals
15-writing fractions as decimals
16-dividing whole numbers by 10
17-dividng whole number by 100
•estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence
•Money (Chapter 9)
1-writing amounts of money
2-writing amounts of money
3-comparing amounts of money
4-rounding amounts of money
5-solving problems involving money
6-solving problems involving money
7-solving problems involving money
8-estimating amounts of money
As Geographers we willstudy the human and physical geographical features of Europe including Russia
concentrating on environmental regions, key physical/human characteristics, countries, and major cities.
Use maps atlases globes & digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied
Fieldwork /
- Locate countries, using maps to focus on Europe.
- Use maps atlases globes & digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied
- Use maps atlases globes & digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features of rivers studied
- Use Europa.eu to create fact files about different European countries – children create power points to share information gathered with the rest of the class.
- Learn the capital cities,
- Have world map on working wall – every time a country is mentioned within the text ‘The Iron Man’ children need to find and label the country on the map.
•more work on using a compass and reading and using 4 figure grid references
As scientists we will be studying electricity / •Sound
- •identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating
- •recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear
- •find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it
- •find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it
- •recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases
•how are sounds made?
•how do sounds travel?
•how can we make sounds louder and quieter?
•how do sounds change as we move away from the source?
•how can we change the pitch of a plucked note?
•how can we use air to make music?
As Artists we willthinking about the use of colour and perspective / • Art work based on The Wonder Garden (Literacy Focus)
As Designers we willdesign and make our own Iron man and construct circuits to make his eyes light up / •design our own Iron man – making decisions about the best materials to use
•make our own Iron man
•design and construct circuits that will make the Iron man’s eye light up and then change colour
Thinking spiritually we willsee if there similarities between Lent/Ramadan? / •what is Lent?
•what is Ramadan?
•how are they similar and how are they different?
As Spanish speakers we will be learning the names of different foods, looking at Spanish food and how much food costs in Spain / •naming days of the week
•looking at typical Spanish food
•learning the Spanish names for different foods
As PE students we will take part in Gymnastics and swimming / Basketball–
•dribbling
•passing
•movement
•shooting
•game situations
Swimming
•swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
•use a range of strokes effectively
•perform safe self-rescue in different water based situations
As musicians we will taking part in a weekly African drumming workshop / •play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts
•improvise and compose music
•listen with attention to detail
As computer technicians we will be learning how to write algorithms and debug programs / •design, write and debug programs
•use logical reasoning to explain how simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs