Curriculum Overview Woodland Community Primary School

Year 4 / Autumn 1 / Autumn 2 / Spring 1 / Spring 2 / Summer 1 / Summer 2
Let’s Walk the Timeline: Under Attack! / Pupil Voice AND
The Spirit of Christmas / From Out of the Shadows… / A Right Royal Battle!
Window on the World / When Mickey met Wallace / Rocky the Findosaur
History / Geography / History & Geography / History
Investigate the characteristic features of, and changes within periods of history that were significant to the locality and the UK – The Romans / Focusing on the country Iceland, learn about festive traditions, particularly those associated with Christmas / Fairtrade and Deforestation
Identify how people living around the world sometimes have consequences for the environment
Battle of Hastings 1066 / Investigate the History of animation
Science
Brutus the Builder
Rocks and Simple Properties / Forces – Dancing on Ice
Friction / Light, Electricity and Sound
Shadows, Simple Circuits, Conductors and Insulators
Sound and Vibrations / Animal Classification
Skeletons and Muscles
How environmental changes can endanger living things. / How sound travels through materials
Electricty – switches and variation in component function
Light / State of Matter
Rocks and Fossils, Solids, Liquids and Gases, Heating and Cooling, Evaporation and Condensation in the Water Cycle
Art / D.T.
Making mosaics
Design and make Roman shields / Landscape paintings and drawings / Measure, mark, cut out and shape a range of materials
Make hand and shadow puppets / Sculpture an endangered animal out of recycled products / Make moving pictures to show how their design models are going to move- split pins, sliders, levers / Sculpture – plaster to create fossils
Painting – using other media
Music
Battle chants, composition with instruments for beat. / Carol singing – learning & performing. Timbre and instrument choice. / Make box guitars and use them to compose & notate a melody. / Singing & performing. Note value notation, poly-rhythms, call & response. / Beethoven – mood and history. Composition of a rap. / Junk percussion and composition.
*KS2 Production
RE
Islam – What is expected of a person in following a religion or belief? / Christianity – What lights our way? / Hindu Dharma – What do the religions say about good doing? / Christianity Jesus – What are we prepared to sacrifice / never sacrifice? / Judaism – How do religious families and communities practice their faith and what contributions does it make to society? / Christianity The Church – Why are some occasions sacred to believers?
PSHE
New Beginnings, Class Charter, Making a positive contribution, Reactions, Self-Worth, Persistence and Resilience, Negative Persistence. / Staying Safe
Loss and separation, Family changes and friendship.
Anti-bullying Week / Emotional Health and Wellbeing, Healthy Life Styles
Listening and responding to others / Healthy life styles, economic well-being, community / Drug Awareness, strengths, goals and working together. / Sex and Relationships, Gender Stereo types.
Computing
Coding (CS) – Scratch Junior
Accessing Hour of Code Resources / Manipulating Sound (IT) – creating and editing audio podcasts. / Combining images and text (IT)– photograph / image creation and editing and text using Book Creator / Data-logging and Presentation (IT) – collect data relating to light and sound and recording and presenting results / Communication online (DL) / Spreadsheets (IT)
Spanish
This unit focuses on numbers 1-31, months, dates, asking for and giving birthday, language to do with birthday celebrations and some more Christmas vocabulary. Learners will use the new language to understand and create invitations, follow instructions for making a piñata, understand songs, stories and video about birthdays and other celebrations / There is a focus on shapes and prepositions of place, to be used creatively in an art project focusing on the work of Miró. Learners will use familiar verb forms in this new context to describe pictures they create. Pupils will also learn the parts of the body and face and use this language to describe the work of other famous Spanish artists (e.g. Picasso). / During this term, pupils learn the language for family members. They re-tell the story 'The giant turnip'. They learn how to say 'Tengo un/una ..que se llama...' I have a ...called... and apply this also in the context of pets. They also learn adjectives for describing personality and physical description (hair and eyes). They use key verbs in the 3rd person singular and plural: --> tiene (has), es (is), tienen (have), son (are)
Mathematics
Additional opportunities for contextual learning and using and applying mathematics linked to themes. Lancashire Mathematics Planning should be used for discrete mathematics lessons.
English
Stories with Historical Settings
(myths)
Information Booklet
Poems on a theme (Halloween/Bonfire) / Stories from Other Cultures
Persuasion
Poems on a theme (Christmas) / Novel as a theme
Non Chronological Reports
Classic Poetry / Issues and Dilemmas
Discussion/ Debate
Classic Poetry / Film / Play script
Explanation
Poems (kennings) / Fantasy
Recounts (newspapers)
Poems (cinquin)
Physical Education / E-Safety / English
Children will be swimming twice a week during Autumn Term. / Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies. / Spelling and handwriting will be taught discretely. Refer to the key learning in writing document for progression guidance.