Emmer Green Primary School
Termly Curriculum Overview
English
Text genres
 Develop story writing skills through
alternative endings
 Review understanding of recounts,
using the text of Kensuke’s Kingdom
and through writing diary entries
 Non-chronological report writing
Word Work
 Using conjunctions, fronted adverbials,
reviewing all types of punctuations and
revising word classes
You can help your child by:
 Regular reading with discussion about
author’s choice of language
 Learning weekly spellings
Science
Moving and Growing:
 Learn about how the skeleton is related
to movement and support in humans
 Find out what happens to the skeleton
and muscles as they move
 Compare human bones and skeletons of
other animals
 Learn about the different types of
teeth humans have and how they
change from childhood to adult
Topic: History/Geography
Year 4 Summer 2018
Animal World:
 Learn about different habitats and
Mathematics what animals require in them to
survive
 Discover how animals depend on
 Solve addition and subtraction problems using
plants and other animals
both mental and written methods, including
 Experiment and investigate using
2-step problems
the school grounds and wildlife
 Continue to develop mental and written
garden to find various habitats
methods of multiplication and division and
Home and Away:
solve problems
 Analyse and compare the features
 Understand equivalent fractions, recognise
of Emmer Green and our local areas
fraction-decimal equivalents and solve
with Windsor
increasingly more difficult problems involving
finding fractions of amounts Useful Websites:
 Investigate and solve problems with number kids.nationalgeographic.com/
patterns and properties of numbers www.kidsbiology.com/animals-for-
 Understand 12hr and 24hr time children.php
 Investigate shape, space and measure,
including line symmetry
You can help your child by:
 Supporting them with their homework
 Practising their multiplication and division
tables regularly Year 4 trip to
 Solving real life problems involving shopping, Legoland in
money, measures and time Term 6 –
more details
Useful websites: to follow!
www.mathszone.co.uk
www.mathletics.co.uk
www.mathsisfun.com
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Termly Curriculum Overview

Design and Technology Personal Social and Health Education

 Use a design to create an effective
habitat for particular types of animals,
(e.g. sea creatures) through a variety of
different materials
We are Toy Designers
Religious Education
 Understand input and output
 Use Scratch to design and make an
 Exploring the importance of key
people within Christianity
 Identifying the influence of missions
and caring organisations e.g. St.
Thomas’ Hospital – guidance from RE
Inspired visitors
 Discussing the concepts of Family in
the Hindu faith
 Learning about worship, food and
fasting practices in Hinduism
Art
 Explore patterns in nature by using a
range of different techniques, including
pastel, printing and wax resist
 Learn about Jan Poynter and her
artwork which has been inspired by
nature
Year 4 Summer 2018
Computing
interactive toy
Physical Education
Modern Foreign Language (French)
 During games lessons, learning the
skills needed in striking and fielding
games
 Develop throwing, catching, jumping
and running skills and applying them in a
competitive format
 To consolidate and improve the quality,
range and consistency of the
techniques they use for jumping
How did I get here?
 To know the reproductive organs, how
babies are made and born.
 Relationships
Self-image
 To have a positive self-image
 To respect differences and
similarities between people
Puberty
 An introduction to emotional and
physical changes for both boys and
girls
For more information, visit our website for
the S.Ed Policy and Curriculum or see your
child’s teacher.
 Use vocabulary relating to our topic,
‘Animals’
 Answer questions about what an animal
looks like by describing its colour, size and
the food it eats.
 Respond with a simple answer to questions
about the time