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Year 4
Autumn Term
Year 4 Curriculum content
Understanding physical development, health and wellbeing
- Moving and Growing
- Visitors from sports clubs, how to keep fit and healthy and how injuries are
treated.
- P.E. Gymnastic and Dance– partner work and working with music
- Ball Skills– controlling and receiving
Understanding English, communication and languages
- Story with historical setting
- War Game
- Stories from another culture, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, Anansi Stories
- Information texts based on historical and geographical topics
- Poetry– creating images with words using art stimulus.
- Developing a legible and neat style of joined handwriting
- Spelling strategies, conventions and rules
- Developing word processing skills and touch typing.
Historical, geographical and social understanding
- The First World War (linked to the historical story War Game)
- Visit to The Imperial War Museum
- Jewish festival of Sukkot.
How do they celebrate?
Why is it important?
- Visit to The Progressive Synagogue in Southgate
- Africa
Where is Africa?
What is it like to live there?
Study of culture, literature, art and music
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Scientific and technological understanding
- Design and make a Sukkah
- Science topic– Moving and Growing. The study of the skeleton and muscles in
humans and how they move and support us.
- Science topic– Keeping Warm. A focus on insulation.
- Make a pop up book based on a Christmas story for a year 1 audience
- Make a Christmas card with an electrical circuit
- Developing word processing skills
Understanding the arts
- Art stimulus for poetry
- Big Draw week. The topic for this is the body. We will be looking at components
of the body in art and at how movement is portrayed.
- Study of African art in a variety of media, especially batik.
- Music, study of rhythm. Focus during Black History month—music of black
origin
Mathematical understanding
- Developing oral and mental skills, improving in both speed and accuracy.
- Place value of numbers up to 10,000
- Consolidating and extending understanding of functions +, -, x, ÷ using both
worded and number problems
- Learning and revising times tables
- Real life problems using money and measurement
- Telling the time
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