Year 4 – Curriculum T5&6

Shakespeare Class Term 5 and 6 Resources

We are delighted to continue our French lessons with Mrs Cackett, our resident native French speaker. Over the course of terms 5 and 6 we will be learning the following: travel; weather; numbers to forty; dates; pocket money; likes and dislikes; toys; sports and days of the week.

Musically, students are constantly touching upon all key musical elements and skills, building upon these as they progress through each lesson, unit and year. As well as this, there is also a Musical Spotlight to each unit. This by no means indicates that there is only one musical aspect or concept being considered and developed

Following the GetSet4PE scheme of learning, our Physical Education (PE) lessons for term 5 will focus on athletics. Our PE lessons for term 6 will focus on rounders and cricket. Our PE lessons will be on Monday and Thursday; children can wear their PE into school on both of these days. Athletics In this unit,

Over the course of term 5 and 6, we will continue to follow our Jigsaw PSHE scheme of learning. Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE is a progressive and spiral scheme of learning. In planning the lessons, Jigsaw PSHE ensures that learning from previous years is revisited and extended, adding new concepts, knowledge and skills,

Our Religious Education lessons will continue to be based upon our “Love to Celebrate” projects. Basing the “Love to Celebrate” projects around festivals, gives a real-life context to the children’s learning and a structure to the projects. However, the celebration itself is only a small part of each “Love to Celebrate” project. Each set of

Effective Searching Over the course of term 5, our work will focus upon effective searching. We will learn: To locate information on the search results page. To use search effectively to find out information. To assess whether an information source is true and reliable To find out more, view our Effective Searching Knowledge Organiser. Hardware

Art: Statues, Statuettes and Figurines Linked to our main topic, “Ancient Civilisations”, our art topic for term 5 is “Statues, Statuettes and Figurines”. Throughout this topic, we will learn about 3-D representation of the human form, including statues, statuettes and figurines. Children will study examples from ancient civilisations and use their clay skills to create

This term our topic is “Electrical Circuits and Conductors”. This project teaches children about electrical appliances and safety. They construct simple series circuits and name their parts and functions, including switches, wires and cells. They investigate electrical conductors and insulators and identify common features of conductors. Children will also be taught about programmable devices. To

Following the White Rose Maths scheme, year 4 will cover six main blocks of learning over the course of the summer term: decimals; money; time; shape; statistics and position and direction. As part of the White Rose Maths scheme, each block is broken down into a series of small learning steps. Combined, these small learning