CURRICULUM INFORMATION
Year Group 4
TERM Summer
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Dear Parents,
Below is an outline of the curriculum which we will follow up to the end of the Summer term.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for your support. |
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English |
Texts study: The Firework Makers Daughter, Philip Pullman – contemporary fiction.
Differentiated activities linked to the text/ book study including character description, features of a legend, re-writing legends, letter writing, persuasive texts, role-play and hot seating. Comprehension activities will be linked throughout units.
Journalistic Text- Experience of press releases, news reports and broadcasts. Focus on headlines and features of newspapers. Interview, information gathering and quotes. Produce their own articles.
Non-narrative texts – Explanation texts
Poetry – different forms of poetry – Haiku
Grammar – using a variety of sentence types, use of possessive apostrophes, paragraphs to indicate time, place, person, proofread and edit a text, develop mood and atmosphere within story writing using a range of vocabulary, figurative language and sentence structure.
Spelling – Homophones and words which are often misspelt, common exception word, prefixes including im-, in-, il-, ir- and suffixes including –gue, -que, -ei, -eigh, -ey.
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Maths |
Number
Addition and subtraction
Addition and subtraction: Measures of money
Multiplication and division
Geometry: Properties of shape
Geometry: Direction and movement
Fractions and decimals
Measures: time
Measures
Statistics
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Science |
States of Matter Sound |
R.E |
Easter Pentecost Light of the World and beloved Son Sharing in the life of Jesus Special roles and responsibilities |
ICT |
Databases Robotics Graphic art Multimedia |
History |
Ancient Egypt and Early Civilizations |
Art / DT |
Ancient Egypt – sketch book work and great artists Design, Make, Evaluate |
Music |
Djembe drumming |
Geography |
European study |
French |
Explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and link the spelling, sound and meaning of words. |
PE |
Basketball Tag Rugby Athletics Rounders |
Homework |
Homework is to be handed in every Wednesday The children will be asked to revise a range of times tables, depending on their individual ability which will be set by their class teacher. In addition to this your child will have to complete some written homework (in a maths book) or interactive maths games on Mathletics – each week the homework set will alternate between written and interactive. If your child is unable to access the internet at home please contact your child’s class teacher so alternative homework can be set or provisions made in school for your child to access the Mathletics homework. Please see the timetable on the maths curriculum page stating which week written homework will be set. |