Form 4 Curriculum Overview

Form 4: Curriculum Overview Spring Term

English Mathematics History/ Geography Science

Reading

• Reading Circles and Guided Reading focussing on key skills:

• To ask and answer questions about a text

• To make links between texts, the wider world and our own lives

• To clarify vocabulary

• To comment on author’s choice of language and structure

• To make inferences and deductions

• To make predictions

• To read aloud and independently

Writing

• Fairy Stories and Playscripts

• Non-chronological Reports

• Stories by the same author

• Myths and Legends

• Persuasive Writing

• List Poems and Kennings

Spelling

• Children will be consolidating the national curriculum Form

4 spelling words

• Children will focus on learning spelling rules and patterns

• We will continue to revise high frequency words and word families

Grammar

• Sentence structure

• Correct use of full stops and capital letters

• Exclamation marks

• Commas

• Question marks

• Semi colons

• Nouns and proper nouns

• Verbs, adjectives, adverbs

• Connectives and conjunctions

• Fronted adverbials

Comprehension

• Literal and inferential

• Written and verbal in full sentences

• Handwriting

• Posture

• letter size and formation

• Presentation

Number: Multiplication and Division (B)

• Factor pairs

• Use factor pairs

• Multiply by 10

• Multiply by 100

• Divide by 10

• Divide by 100

• Related facts - multiplication and division

• Informal written methods for multiplication

• Multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number

• Multiply a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number

• Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number

• Divide a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number

• Correspondence problems

• Efficient multiplication

Measurement: Length and Perimeter

• Measure in kilometres and metres

• Equivalent lengths (kilometres and metres)

• Perimeter on a grid

• Perimeter of a rectangle

• Perimeter of rectilinear shapes

Measurement: Length and Perimeter

• Find missing lengths in rectilinear shapes

• Calculate perimeter of rectilinear shapes

• Perimeter of regular polygons

• Perimeter of polygons

Number: Fractions

• Understand the whole

• Count beyond 1

• Partition a mixed number

• Number lines with mixed numbers

• Compare and order mixed numbers

• Understand improper fractions

• Convert mixed numbers to improper fractions

• Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers

• Equivalent fractions on a number line

• Equivalent fraction families

• Add two or more fractions

• Add fractions and mixed numbers

• Subtract two fractions

• Subtract from whole amounts

• Subtract from mixed numbers

• Number: Decimals (A)

• Who were the Romans and when did they live?

• When and why did the Romans come to Britain?

• How do we know about the Romans?

• Why are they so important in history?

• Why was the Roman army so successful?

• What was so special about a Roman bathhouse and a Roman villa?

• What was life like in a Roman town? (slaves, women, soldiers etc.)

• What is the legacy of the Romans?

Aztecs

• Who were the Aztecs, and when/where did they live?

• To learn about the Aztec people’s life.

• Who were the Aztec gods and goddesses?

• Who were Moctezuma and Cortes?

• To learn about Aztec medicines, food and houses.

• What is the legacy of the Aztecs?

Recycling & the environment

• To understand why recycling is important and protecting the environment

• The difference between the 3 Rs: Recycle, Reuse & Reduce

• Conduct a survey of the school environment

• Discuss and record what actions need to be taken, as a result of the information collected.

• Investigate ways to improve the state of the oceans in the world.

• Promote the benefits of recycling

States of Matter

• Understand the water cycle

• Compare and group solids, liquids and gases

• Investigate the effect temperature has on changing state

• Understand evaporation and condensation

• Understand diluting and dissolving

• Describe freezing and melting

Animals Including Humans - Food and Digestion

• Understand the food chain, know how natural cycles work

• Know the different types of teeth

• Know about vitamins and minerals

• Understand the intestines

• Understand salivary glands and taste buds

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• Revision of joining the cursive script

Speaking and Listening

• Following instructions

• Listening to others

• Taking turns in conversations

• Speaking clearly to a variety of audiences

• Presentations and performances

• Reading and reciting poetry

• Reading aloud

• Debate

• Orally rehearsing written work

Ideas for home:

• Read with an adult every night for at least 10 minutes

• Continue reading and supporting children’s book choices

• Reading a range of texts including child-friendly newspapers and magazines: o https://www.firstnews.co.uk/ o https://theweekjunior.co.uk/ o https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/

• Ask questions about the plot, characters and settings and begin to make links to other stories and the world around them

• Discuss stories you enjoy and interesting things you have been currently reading with your children to encourage the ‘love for reading’ and ‘role model’ for your child

• AR quizzes

• Spelling games o https://www.spellzone.com/

• Practising High Frequency Words and words from the Y3/4 spelling list

• Tenths as fractions

• Tenths as decimals

• Tenths on a place value chart

• Tenths on a number line

• Divide a 1-digit number by 10

• Divide a 2-digit number by 10

• Hundredths as a fraction

• Hundredths as a decimal

• Hundredths on a place value chart

• Divide a 1- or 2-digit number by 100

Ideas for home:

• Practise times tables and division facts for rapid recall

• Relate real-life situations to mathematical learning, e.g. calendar maths, time and money

• Use positive language around your children when discussing maths

• Play maths games together

• Support with the written methods taught in school

• Use fractions in everyday life

• Practise their mental arithmetic

• Play to children’s love of technology by playing online maths games: o https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/categ ory/22/most-popular o https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/711-years/problem-solving o https://www.topmarks.co.uk/mathsgames/daily10 o https://www.topmarks.co.uk/mathsgames/hit-the-button o https://www.mathletics.com/uk/ o https://www.mathplayground.com/index_mul tiplication_division.html o https://atomlearning.co.uk/ o https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/apps/fra ctions

Ideas for home:

• Visit London museums that will be showcasing the Romans and Aztecs

• Read books on Romans and Aztecs

• Watch documentaries on Romans and Aztecs

• Visit your local recycling centre and bring things from home to recycle

• Donate some old books/toys/clothes to a local charity shop

• Make something useful from recycled materials

• Be “in charge” of the recycling bin at home and make sure the rubbish which goes to landfill is kept to a minimum. Put the recycling bin out for collection each week

Ideas for home:

• Take a trip to the Science Museum

• Visit the library and look at books about the water cycle and the different stages

• Create a life cycle diagram

• Look up information about the different food types required for a balanced diet. Why are they needed? Plan a balanced meal together

Art/ DT Drama Music Computing

• To continue learning about art history and developing their techniques when working with paint

• To learn about Jasper Johns and create a piece of work with texture and assemblage techniques inspired by him

• To learn about still life using the inspiration of Georgia O’Keeffe to recreate her close-up flower paintings

• To learn about the art concepts of value and form to draw a Roman bust portrait. Exploring marble paint technique using shaving foam and liquid watercolours

Public Speaking

• To learn how to plan an engaging presentation to peers

• To develop public speaking skills

• To self-evaluate public speaking skills and highlight areas of strength and areas for continued development

Form 4 Production - The Tudors: Henry VIII

• All pupils will rehearse for a small production at the end of the spring term with solo and ensemble speaking lines

• To continue to work on characterisation

• To deliver an engaging performance

Tuned percussion

• Developing skills in performing written melodies using glockenspiel with attention to dynamics, tone and pulse

• Developing skills in reading musical notation

• Performing as part of an ensemble

Introduction to Arranging Music

• Creating bespoke arrangements of famous TV themes in groups using tuned and untuned percussion

• Playing different parts on various instruments as part of an ensemble, with consideration of the rest of the group

Theory

• To understand key elements of online safety in an age suitable manner

• To understand how computer networks work

• To explain what the internet is and how information is routed around the world

Audio editing

• To be able to plan a radio advert for their theme park

• To create a suitable radio advert considering the purpose of the advert

• To evaluate their product and suggest improvements

Religious studies French PE/ Games PSHCEE

• To understand what places are special to us and why

• To understand that a church is a place of worship

• To understand what Eucharist/Holy Communion are and their purpose

• To understand the importance of worship and what happens during worship

• To understand that some symbols belong to religions

• To understand what forgiveness is and why it is important

• To understand who Jesus was and why he had enemies

• To understand what Lent is

• To know what happened on Palm Sunday

• To know the story of the Last Supper

• To understand what Easter is and why it is so important to Christians

• To learn about the Three Kings Festival - names of shapes, colour agreement, describing crowns

• To read an authentic French story - ‘Je m’habille et je te croque’

• To understanding adjectival agreement

• To write sentences to describe clothes

• To learn about the tradition of La Chandeleurlistening to a poem and finding the rhyme, reciting a poem

• To learn about the French painter Paul Cézanne and write a description of a painting

• To learn about ancient Roman buildings

• To learn about France as part as the Roman Empire

• To write sentences to describe what there is in a French Roman city “â Arles, il y a …”

• To write sentences using high frequency verbs to introduce Roman gods and goddesses

Gymnastics

• To learn and practise a wide range of gymnastics skills including; cartwheels, handstands, rolls, balances

• To put these skills into routines and sequences

POP Lacrosse

• To learn and practise skills related to a new sport including throwing, catching, defending and shooting. With a chance to play some class competitive games

Games

Girls Hockey

• To practise and improve passing skills including a push pass

• Dribbling technique and reverse stick

• Attacking and defending principles

• Basic rules

• To play games against other schools

Girls Football

• To practise ball mastery skills, including dribbling, kicking, stopping and shooting

• To demonstrate attacking and defending in football

• To practise shooting

• To play a small sided and larger games

Boys Rugby

• Introduction to contact rugby with slow progressions building up their skills ensuring safety

• Passing skills

• Movement and attacking drills

• Defensive line

• Principles and rules of tag rugby

• To play games against other schools

Dreams and Goals

• Hopes and dreams

• Overcoming disappointment

• Creating new, realistic dreams

• Achieving goals

• Working in a group

• Celebrating contributions

• Resilience

Healthy me

• Healthier friendships

• Group dynamics

• Smoking Alcohol

• Assertiveness

• Peer pressure

• Celebrating inner strength