1. English Poetry - in different forms, haiku, cinquain, couplets, lists, thin poems, alphabets, elegies and epitaphs. Fiction Focus - Write stories that raise issues. Draft and edit stories. Non-Fiction Text Type Focus: Persuasive writing – write a letter to the IOC to give reasons why Paralympic athletes should or shouldn’t be allowed to participate in the Olympics. Use a mind map to express ideas and feelings. Discussion texts begin to use spell checker and thesaurus when appropriate Create a poster to advertise the first Olympic Games in 1896 - using a paint package and insert an image from a file, applying different effects to photographs used. Development of comprehension skills – using text to answer questions relating to the Olympics. Mathematics Count in 6s, 25s, 50s and 250s (link to work with scales) Find 1 / 10 of whole numbers by dividing by 10 Consolidate numeracy skills inline with national testing Consolidate complements of 100, £10 and 1 Identify numbers that are multiples of 50 and 100. Recognise connections between fractions Continue to practise a variety of mental and written methods to solve addition and subtraction problems. Multiply a 3 digit number by a single digit number using the grid method. Check answers using inverse operations Use appropriate mental methods to add and subtract totals beyond £10 using the correct notation Explore how graphs and charts can represent data- sort, search and produce a graph of results using Excel. Use Venn diagrams to sort features of ancient and modern Olympic Games. Use 3D nets to create packaging for an Olympic product. Use one and two step function machines to generate input and output using all four operations; express, in words, the operations from function machines Use > to describe whether a number is greater than another. Art & DT Exploring past Olympic logos, identifying symbols used in logos and why, using drawing skills and equipment to design a new logo. Creating Olympic medals from either clay or from paper plates based on a design, evaluating finished artwork. Investigating 3D nets and how they are constructed. Exploring design ideas for different Olympic food products, making and evaluating a packaging based on a design. Geography Identify the host cities and countries in the Olympics, Identifying continents, locating host countries on a world map. Exploring what flags are and why they are important, identifying national flags of Olympic host countries. Finding out how the Olympic bid system works and why people want the Olympics to be held in their cities, investigating how Rio will be affected by the Games, exploring positive and negative aspects of hosting the Olympics. History Identifying the differences between the ancient and modern Olympic Games, exploring how the Olympics were revived in 1896, investigating what the first modern Olympic Games was like - basic formatting of a table e.g. add or delete rows or add or remove a border. Identifying and exploring the traditions of the Olympic Games, including the Olympic torch, dove, flag, rings, opening and medal ceremonies. Investigating the effect of the World Wars on the Olympics, exploring the Games of 1936 in Berlin and how Hitler used the Olympics to promote his political ideas, investigating examples of boycotts and bans through the history of the Olympics. Finding out the origins of the Paralympics Games following World War 2, finding out what the Paralympics are, who takes part and what events there are. Plan and create a published document. Copy and save images and text from a web page and paste it into another program. ICT Represent data and statistics about the Olympics? – defining statistics, inputting data into a spreadsheet, converting information from a spreadsheet to a graph. Using ICT to produce documents and presentations about a particular athlete. PE Rounders and athletics (Sports Day) - Use a spreadsheet to keep a record of improvements in times of sprint, distances thrown and lengths of jumps Devising new events for the Olympics based on a specific skill. NURTURE EMPOWER ACHIEVE Music Compositional skills and musical vocabulary. PSHE & RE Buddhist teaching to care for all living things - our contribution and responsibility for the natural world. SEAL – Relationships & Changes Science The ways in which forces can affect movement and how forces can be compared – including gravity, friction, magnetism and air resistance understand that the internet can be compared to a large database. Plants and animals found in two contrasting local environments. Environment factors that affect what grows and lives in those two environments. How humans affect the local environment. Welsh Language Beth ydy dy hoff fwyd? Which is your favourite food? Faint ydy’r..? (+ ceiniog + punt) How much is the..? (+ pence + pound) Beth ydy dy hoff glwb? Which is your favourite club? Ble rwyt ti’n mynd? Where are you going? Beth wyt ti eisiau wneud? What do you want to do? Literacy and Numeracy Skills will be applied across the curriculum. Statements in purple relate to cross-curricular ICT skills Year 4 Summer Term