Project
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Weekly Grammar tests and gap analysis
Spelling rules weekly linked to handwriting tasks / Maths
Weekly CLIC tests and gap analysis
Y4 T1.1 / Walk like an Egyptian / 2 weeks of Lessons for impact- TFW Red Riding Hood + Innovation Billy Blue boots etc…
The Golden Goose – Playscript
Class text – Demon Dentist / Journey story –Red Riding Hood
Tale of fear –TheNightmare Man
Innovate to adventure inside the pyramid rescuing a pharaohs daughter based on the golden goose / Develop use of synonyms and introduce antonyms
Introduce fronted adverbial phrases and their use- create sentences with fronted adverbials for when
Revisitcompound words, prefix and suffix in spellings and writing.
Develop use of connectives and conjunctions
Identify, select and effectively use pronouns
Develop use of inverted commas with speech tags
Develop speech punctuation
Work on key Y3/4 spellings and topic linked words / New Class Developing Number sense
INN Strategies coin cards jigsaw numbers smile x
Number/Place Value/Rounding
Place Value in the context of money decimals
  • recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones)
  • order and compare numbers beyond 1000
  • solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly large positive numbers
  • identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
  • round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000
  • read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value
  • count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000
  • add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate
  • estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation
  • solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why
  • recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
  • solve problems involving multiplying and dividing
  • recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
  • multiplying together three numbers
  • multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout

Y4
T1.2 / Cool Connections / Stories from different cultures:
Sicily
New England
Yorkshire
Pied Piper – class text
Playscript – perform Hamelin story
Descriptive Poetry- The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear / Warning story- The Caravan Pie Corbett
Innovation using toolkits and warning box it up plan
N/F Persuasive leaflet on either: Yorkshire, Sicily or New England / Secure the use of possessive - I, My, Mine, his, hers, theirs …
Secure correct use of he is, they are, we were, he was, etc…
Secure use of apostrophes for possession and contraction
Develop use of antonyms
Use similes to compare-as brave as a lion
Homophones-same spellings but different
meanings-bow/bow
a and an was and were
Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases e.g. the teacher expanded to: the strict maths teacher with curly hair
Work on key Y3/4 spellings and topic linked words / Count Fourways and FAB boards
Mental multiplication incl. 6x and 9x tables
Mental division – Use of multiple counting, find Mullycoin cards
Written multiplication
Number Sense
  • recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
  • solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects
  • recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
  • use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers
  • multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout
  • Work on mental division strategies and BM strategies using FAB boards

Y4 T2.1 / Conquest / Stories with historical settings (browsing box)
Class text - Alice in Wonderland / CT writes a text based on Portal story -Kit’s Coin
and use for imitation,
Innovation and invention using toolkits and portal generic box it up plan
N/F Journalistic Report in historical context Hadrian’s wall(pm)
Recount of trip to Chester / Develop understanding of subordinate clauses and their function in a sentence
Correct use of adverbs Create complex sentences with adverb starters e.g. Silently trudging through the snow, Sam made his way up the mountain.
Introduce the use of metaphor
Secure use of dictionaries – tasks alphabetical order
Work on key Y4 spellings and topic linked words / INN Strategies/Number Lines
Place value
Roman numerals
Reasoning about 2d and 3d shapes
Counting incl. negative numbers
FAB maths 4 operations
  • measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres
  • convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre]
  • solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places
  • estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence
  • solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs
  • interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs
  • FAB maths and column methods for 4 operations

Y4 T2.2 / North & South / Meerkat Mail as a basis for the lapbooks
Class Text - White Fang- Jack London
All about Dragons – Pie Corbett
Poetry by Pie Corbett
Secondary class text – How to train your dragon (guided reads) / Defeating the monster- Oldham Ridgeback – CT writes a text based on the Oldham ridgeback Thunderdragon
N/F Non-Chron report on wolves
Meerkat Mail –storyas stimulus / Introduce definite and indefinite article
Use of conjunctions-and, but, so, when, if, because, however, although,
Develop and secure use of prepositions- to show position and time
Introduce homonyms
Revisit pronouns to secure accurate use
Work on key Y4 spellings and topic linked words / Calculation FAB to Column Methods
Mental multiplication and written division incl. 7x and 11x tables
Place value & Algebra puzzles/logic
Written multiplication
2D shape and position- translation
Addition and subtraction (statistics)
  • add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
  • recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions
  • count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten
  • solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number
  • 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
  • recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths
  • recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/4, 1/2, 3/4
  • round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number
  • compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places

Y4 T3.1 / What did the Romans do for us? / Class text- The Fib / CT writes a text based on Wishing Tale-King of the Birds
Innovation using toolkits and journey box it up plan linked to the Romans
Historical settings
N/F Instructional/Explanation texts linked to Roman technology / Develop understanding of word classes
Use thesaurus to develop work on adjectives and similes
Introduce idioms - good for nothing,
down in the mouth, turn over a new leaf
Revisit possessives
Explore, identify, collect and use noun phrases e.g. The crumbly cookie with tasty marshmallow pieces melted in my mouth.
Work on key Y4 spellings and topic linked words / Count Fourways and numberlines/measures
Counting and sequences (statistics)
Fractions and decimals (measures)
Measures -Volume/capacity and mass
Multiplication facts incl. 12x table and time
  • add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate
  • 4 operations FAB /Column methods
  • Reasoning and problem solving linked to 4 ops/measures/statistics
  • write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods
  • write and calculate mathematical statements for addition and subtraction, using mental and progressing to formal written methods

Y4
T3.2 / Water, water, everywhere / Class text Treasure Island –classic / CT writes a text based on Lost and Found- Adventure at Sandy Cove
Innovation linked to Treasure Island
Explanation/Instruction text linked to maps and Treasure Island
Poetry rhythm – From a railway carriage / Revisit subordinate clauses
Continue work on word families
Revisit adverbs, adverbial and prepositional phrases
Explore word classes and make a grammar book – pop up style
Work on key Y4 spellings and topic linked words / INN Strategies Coin cards, jigsaw numbers
Place value &
Ratio and Proportion
Statistics
Addition and subtraction (statistics)
Multiplication and division
Geometry- shape, triangles and quadrilaterals
  • describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant
  • describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down
  • plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon
  • compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes
  • identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size
  • identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations
  • complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry