Greenfields Primary School Termly Overview

Year 4 - Autumn 2014

Spellings: these will be given out each Monday and then tested on the following Friday.

Maths: a homework task will be set each week and needs to be handed in by the follow-

ing week. The task may be paper-based, or on I am Learning.

Reading: children should be reading at least three times per week at home and this

should be recorded in their planner. Please refer to the Reading Focuses in the planner

for ideas for questions you could ask during home reading.

Reading The children will be... listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry,

plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks

asking questions to improve their understanding of a text

drawing inferences such as inferring characters feelings,

thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying infer-

ences with evidence Our class reading book this term will be Stig of the Dump and

we will be basing a lot of our literacy around this.

Writing There will be a continued focus on sentence construction

throughout the term. For example: The use of similes, adverbial

phrases and relative clauses to form compound and complex

sentences. Letter writing to Stig

Story writing

Non fiction booklet

Spoken language listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers

Use knowledge of addition and subtraction facts and place value to derive

sums and differences of pairs of multiples of 10, 100 or 1000.

Add or subtract mentally pairs of two-digit whole numbers (e.g. 47 + 58, 91

35)

Refine and use efficient written methods to add and subtract two-digit and

three-digit whole numbers and .p

Derive and recall multiplication facts up to 10 10, the corresponding division

facts and multiples of numbers to 10 up to the tenth multiple.

Multiply and divide numbers to 1000 by 10 and then 100 (whole-number an-

swers), understanding the effect; relate to scaling up or down.

Identify the doubles of two-digit numbers; use these to calculate doubles of

multiples of 10 and 100 and derive the corresponding halves.

Use knowledge of rounding, number operations and inverses to estimate and check calculations.

Solve one-step and two-step problems involving numbers, money or measures,

Identify forces that are acting on an object.

Suggest directions in which forces are acting.

Study stationary objects and identify forces acting upon them.

Describe magnets as having two poles and observe how magnets attract or repel each other.

Observe how magnets attract some materials and not others.

Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some

magnetic materials.

Plan fair tests and decide what to measure and what equipment to use

Make and record measurements

To draw conclusions

This term we will be exploring the Savage Stone Age then moving on to the Iron Age, and will be consider-

ing questions including:

What does prehistory mean? -What was life like at an Iron Age hill fort?

Was the Stone Age just a bunch of cavemen? -What was Iron Age art like?

What kind of sources tell us about the Stone Age? -What have we learnt about this period of history?

What was life like at Skara Brae?

What was so good about bronze?

What do grave goods tell us about the Bronze Age?

In ICT this term we will be modelling a Stone Age 3D

house and village. Children will create an entire pres-

entation using various forms of ICT including:

Microsoft office

Sketch up 3D imaging

Goggle maps

We will be building up our physical skills this term

through football, basketball and dance.

We will also be attending swimming sessions for

ten weeks. The final session will be Wednesday

19th November.

In Art this term we will be exploring stone age

cave paintings and using original techniques to

make our own cave painted clay tiles. We will also

use clay to replicate stone age monuments e.g.

stone henge.

In DT this term we will be designing and making

our own bronze age round houses. We will repli-

cate these by using a variety of techniques and

materials.

In RE we will be thinking about the Bible and

looking at:

The Lords Prayer, the Ten Commandments and

various other stories.

We will be creating our own special book containing

letters, stories and poems.

In P.SH.E we will be discussing the question: How

do rules and laws affect me?

In music this term the children will be exploring accom-

paniments, understanding how to accompany a solo voice

and learning about accompanying instruments. They will

also learn about traditional music notation and have the

opportunity to play instruments whilst following the

notes on a stave.

In French this term the children will be learning the

months of the year, how to write a party invitation in

French and the names of parts of the body. We will also

be revising numbers, colours and questions.

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