Year Four Summer One
Layton Primary School
Physics
Evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.
Electricity
Technical knowledge
Look at appliances, circuits, lamps, switches, insulators and conductors.
Apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures.
Art & Design
Geography
Develop and share ideas in a sketchbook and in finished products.
Locate the world's countries, with a focus on Europe and countries of particular interest to pupils.
Science
Improve mastery of techniques.
Computing
Locate the geographic zones of the world.
Design and write programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.
Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region or area of the United Kingdom (different from that taught at Key Stage 1).
Use sequence, selections and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output; generate appropriate inputs and predicted outputs to test programs. Use logical reasoning to explain how a simple algorithm works, detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs. Select, use and combine a variety of software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information.
Design & Technology Design Use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups. Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design.
Make Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks, such as cutting, shaping, joining and finishing, accurately. Select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities.
Evaluate Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.
Describe and understand key aspects of: - physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes and the water cycle - human geography, including: settlements, land use, economic activity including trade links and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water supplies. Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied. Use the eight points of a compass, four-figure grid references, symbols and keys (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build knowledge of the United Kingdom and the world. Use a wide range of geographical sources in order to investigate places and patterns.
Music Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music from different traditions and from great musicians and composers. Develop an understanding of the history of music.
Physical Education Play competitive games, modified where appropriate, such as football, netball, rounders, cricket, hockey, basketball, badminton and tennis and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
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Key Stage 2 Swimming and water safety: take swimming instruction either in Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2. Additional Content