Curriculum Map-Autumn 1 - Year 4

English
Weeks 1 – 3:Writing a biographical recount of Matthew Henson’s life
Weeks 4 – 8: Diary writing and persuasive letter writing
Spellings
Week 1: Prefixes – revisit
Week 2:Suffixes – revisited
Week 3: Homophones – sounds same / spelt different
Week 4:Irregular tense changes -revisit
Week 5: Spelling patterns and plurals
Week 6: Irregular plurals
Week 7:No singular/ same/ other endings/ ‘o’ endings / f-v / Maths
Week 1:Place value
Week 2:Place value – decimals
Week 3:Written addition and subtraction
Week 4:Written addition and subtraction (problems and inverse)
Week 5:Mental multiplication incl. 6x and 9x tables
Week 6:Mental division / Science: Animals & Humans
Week 1: Digestion
Week 2:Digestion
Week 3:Teeth
Week 4:Teeth
Week 5:Carnivore, omnivore & herbivore
Week 6:Food chains/webs
Week 7:Energy chain
PSHE
Being Me in My World
Week 1: Special and Safe
Week 2:My Class
Week 3:Rights & Responsibilities
Week 4:Rewards and Feeling Proud
Week 5:Consequences
Week 6:Owning our Learning Charter / The Big Idea
Do you love discovering new places? Yes? Well you might just be an explorer. Explorers are people who travel to new places in the world and discover new things that they didn’t know existed. So much of what we know today about our world is because we have been explorers in the past. Being an explorer is exciting but scary at the same time. Could you be an explorer? Let’s find out. / Art and Design
Weeks 2-4
Famous explorers: Margret Mee Botanical artist – sketching
Sketching / adding form and shape. Create own new found plant / animal
Expedition painters – discuss paintings / explore techniques
ICT
Weekly sessions
Use search technologies effectively
Select, use and combine a variety of software (including internet services)
Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly / Topic:Explorers and adventurers - Discovering the World
Entry Point:Search for treasure (topic items) at different locations.
Topic Talk Assembly:23rd October (parents/carers welcome)
Exit Point:21st October (Open Afternoon for parents/carers - TBC) / RE
Week 5:What does journey mean to us?
Establishing background knowledge of Muslim / Hindu faiths.
Week 6:What journey will a Muslim take in his / her lifetime
Week 7 & 8: What journey will a Hindu take in his / her
lifetime?
Can we compare the life and death journey of a Muslim and a Hindu?
Society
Week 7:
How exploration has affected the world (positive/ negative)
Would you be an explorer? Debate.
MFL: French
Weekly sessions
The weather
Vocabulary/Compass/Maths
Building Sentences / PE
Weekly sessions
Gymnastics: Balance
Coach
Music
THAMES Strings (weekly) / Geography
Weeks 5, 6 & 7
Record a voyage of a famous explorer
Discuss how maps have changed
Exploring geological features around the school & local area. Record using grid reference.
Use a range of maps & globes to communicate geographical knowledge of places visited in the world
History
Weeks 3, 4 & 5
What do we know about explorers?
To understand the role of some historical explorers and where they went./Historical time line
Navigating and telling the time

September 2015