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Year 4

Spring Term

Computing

Turtle Programming (FSM Logo):
Explore turtle programming through FMS Logo, recognising syntax in commands to make different shapes.
Explore repetition and procedures.

Flat-file Databases:
Explore flat-file (single table) databases using Junior Viewpoint and paper-based activities.
Integrate data and use software to produce graphs.

Creativity

Music - Jazz:
Explore musicianship, time signatures and rhythmic patterns.
Listen and respond to music, along with composing and performance.
Sing and play instruments, plus exploring composition using technology.

Art - Observational Drawing:
Develop skills and create a design by looking at detail from images collected and drawn.
Use influences from Georgia O’Keeffe to represent the natural form.

Design Technology - Shelters:
Research, design, build and evaluate lighthouses in order to create something of their own using a simple series battery powered electrical circuit.

Ed4Life

Dreams and Goals:
Explore dreams, goals and how to deal with disappointment.
Learn how group work contributes to goals.

Healthy Me:
Learn about friendship and negotiating roles within groups, as well as smoking, alcohol and peer pressure.

English

Reading:
Continue to develop an understanding of how authors imply actions and feelings through word choice/vocabulary, summarising events.
Use reading skills, such as skimming and scanning to answer questions with speed and reference to text.

Writing:
Using 'The Write Stuff' strategies to learn about the story of Aladdin and use it as inspiration to write our own narrative pieces.
We will also focus on the key SPAG elements required to make our writing interesting for our reader.

French

Pupils will look at identifying shapes, body parts and how we can use adjectives in French.
We will continue with our numbers and colours and construct simple conversations.

Geography

Comparing Norway and Mexico:
Locate on a map, including other countries.
Study human and physical geography, understanding similarities and differences in: climate zones, types of settlement, land use, economic activity (plus trade links), distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

History

Anglo Saxons and Vikings:
Learn about the struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor (1066), including Viking raids and invasion resistance by Alfred the Great and Athelstan (first king of England), plus further invasions and Danegeld.
Anglo-Saxon laws and justice.
Edward the Confessor and his death in 1066.

Maths

Securing Multiplication Facts:
Patterns in multiplication tables, including 7 and 9.

Fractions:
Interpret and represent fractions, including equivalent fractions, plus mixed number and improper fractions.
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator, including fractions greater than one.

Time:
Analogue to digital, 12 hour and 24 hour.
Convert between units of time.

Decimals:
Decimal equivalents to tenths, quarters and halves.
Compare and order numbers with the same number of decimal places.
Multiply and divide by 10 and 100 including decimals.

Area and Perimeter:
Explore the perimeter, and then the area, of rectangles and rectilinear shapes.
Investigate area and perimeter.

PE

Dance - Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint –Saëns:
Learn a variety of techniques and styles to represent animals, including canon and unison and dynamics.

Football:
Learn key skills and develop understanding of the game.

Basketball:
Learn key skills and techniques for the game.

Circuit Training:
Focus on different exercises for upper body, lower body and core muscles as well as aerobic and anaerobic exercise.

Philosophy

Judaism - Passover:
Consider how important it is for Jewish people to do what God asks them to do.
Learn about the Kashrut rules and Passover festival.

Christianity - Easter:
Consider why forgiveness is important to Christians, exploring how forgiveness fits within Easter.

Science

Living things and Their Habitats - Conservation:
Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things and their habitats.

States of Matter:
Learn about what solids, liquids and gases are and explore how they can change states through setting up and completing investigations.