Emmer Green Primary School Termly Curriculum Overview English

Text genres Poetry using Pie Corbett writing games Fiction writing - studying The Ice Palace by Robert Swindells Word work Verb tenses and identifying powerful verbs to make writing more interesting You can help your child by: Regular reading Learning weekly spellings

Year 4 Autumn 2013

Friction Keeping

Science

TopicHistory / Geography
History:

Measuring and comparing forces Investigating friction Air and water resistance Warm Using thermometers to measure temperature Testing thermal insulators

Mathematics
Place value, number sequences, doubling and halving Developing an understanding of multiplication and division Mental strategies for adding and subtracting Visualising 2D and 3D shapes Measuring, including perimeter

In this topic the children will find out about the Tudors through: the story of Henry VIII's marriages the lives of different types of people living in Tudor times developing their ability to use written and pictorial sources to discover facts about the Tudors looking at evidence and asking and answering questions Useful Websites: http://resources.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/homework/Tudors.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhisto ry/famouspeople/henry_viii/ Hampton Court Trip Tuesday 12th November

You can help your child by: Letting them handle money in real life situations Practising their multiplication and division tables regularly

Emmer Green Primary School Half-Term Curriculum Overview Year 4 Autumn 2013
ICT
Internet safety - using email, chat areas, mobiles and other new technologies. Safe searching on the internet

Religious Education
Hinduism Festival of Diwali Hindu Gods and traditions Christianity The story of Christmas

Personal Social and Health Education

Seeing themselves as valued individuals within a community Understanding the different types of bullying Importance of having and handling money

Art
Investigate how paintings, prints, photographs and other images that include figures communicate ideas about relationships Use composition skills to make a double portrait that conveys ideas about themselves and their relationship with another person in their lives

Physical Education
Gymnastics Sequences and balances Travelling using apparatus Games Invasion games Attacking tactics during football and hockey

Modern Foreign Language (French)

Classroom commands and numbers up to 20 How we travel to school Talking about the weather

Design Technology
learn about stiffening materials and making stable structures through the context of free-standing photograph frames design their frames for the portraits they created in art sessions