Greenfields Primary School

Termly Overview
Year 4 - Summer 2014




Spellings: these will be given out each week and then tested on the following Friday.
(Mon-Poplar, Fri-Oak)
Maths: a homework task will be set each week and needs to be handed in the following
week. The task may be paper-based, or on I am Learning.
Reading: children should be reading at least three times per week at home and this
should be recorded in their planner. Please refer to the Reading Focuses in the planner.
This term we will be starting with our poetry
topic. We will read a number of poems that
use similes, metaphors and other simple im-
ages to create vivid pictures. We will discuss
the poet's use of language, identifying dis-
tinctive features that have been used. Then
the children write their own poems using
everything we have learnt.

Our second literacy topic will be plays. We
will read and explore the characteristics of
playscripts. We will explore characters, im-
provise dialogue, look at play sets and use
this as the basis for writing our own short
playscripts. Then we will perform our plays
and evaluate each others performances.
Use symbols correctly, including less than( <),
greater than (>), equals (=).
Round any positive integer less than 1000 to the nearest
10 or 100.
Recognise simple factions that are several parts of a
whole, and mixed numbers; Recognise the equivalence of
simple fractions.
Use known number facts and place value to add or
subtract mentally,
including any pair of two-digit whole numbers.
Carry out column addition and subtraction of two inte-
gers less than 1000, and column addition of more than
two such integers.
Know by heart facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10
multiplication tables.
Derive quickly division facts corresponding to the 2, 3, 4,
5 and 10 multiplication tables.
Find remainders after division.
Know and use the relationship between familiar units of
capacity.
Choose and use appropriate operations and ways of
calculating to solve problems.
To know what the term habitat means;
To identify different physical aspects of habitats;
To investigate animals and their habitats;
To understand what is meant by a food chain;
To understand the terms carnivore and herbivore.
To promote healthy eating through planting, growing, harvesting and cooking our own
produce.

This term our topic in the Vicious Vikings and we will be learning about:
The Viking way of life;
Invading and settling;
Where the Vikings came from and how they travelled (which will link into our DT
project);
Viking raids and why they raided monasteries.

This term we will be learning about computer
programming, including:
What an algorithm is;
To put series of instructions in order;
To use the Hopscotch iPad app to create pro-
gramming codes to achieve an outcome;
To evaluate, debug and improve our program-
ming coding.

Tennis;
Cricket & rounders;
Athletics;
Gym & dance sessions.

Our art work will be linked to our theme
about the Vikings. The children design & make
woven Viking bracelets, helmets and they will
sketch Viking portraits.
In DT we will design, make and evaluate a Vi-
king longship, which must be able to hold
stolen treasure from a Viking raid and meet
our given criteria.

In RE we will be considering the following ques-
tions:
Who is my neighbour?
Why have some people chosen to devote their
lives to their neighbours?
How can we love our neighbour?
In PSHE we will be looking at positive relationships
and also how we can protect our environment
through reducing the amount of litter we produce.

Oak music: to continue to learn about music no-
tation through playing the folk whistle or flute.
Poplar music: to create, perform and analyse
short descriptive compositions that combine
sounds, movements and words.

MFL: to make links between phonemes, rhymes
and spellings. To read aloud and write simple
words and phrases. To follow units 11 and 12,
which include describing and naming animals and
the weather.
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- Remember to keep an eye on the class blog
and leave a comment or two!
- Ask your children to log on to their I Am
Learning accounts at home to play online
learning activities at home!
www.iamlearning.co.uk
Speak to your teacher if
you have forgotten your log-
on details!