1. Y4 Curriculum Map 2014-15 / Spring

2. Visits/Visitors/EventsVisits/Visitors/EventsMusicMathematicsReading Writing Grammar History Speaking & Listening Design Technology Computing Geography Art & Design Science Religious Education Physical Education We will be reading ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ by Cressida Cowell as a shared text, in line with our English topic. For Guided Reading sessions we will be using excerpts from the above text alongside continuing with ‘Mr Stink’,by David Walliams. Upon completion of their film making unit, Children will be introduced to the notion of creative non- fiction through ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. Grammatical knowledge that children have gained will be put to further use, with expectations that they can confidently use pronouns, prepositions and fronted adverbials within their writing. Children will be immersed within a variety of activities which require them to orally recite, rehearse and perform. Choral speech and poetry will be performed. Punctuation with apostrophe. Combining clauses using connectives. Confident understanding of pronouns, prepositions and fronted adverbials. ‘Why were the Norman Castles definitely not bouncy? – Norman conquest. We will continue to develop our own class blog focussed on communicating/networking with wider audiences safely. We will use programming software to design, write and debug programs that acomplish specific goals. We will be using logical reasoning to ecxplain how some simple algorithms work and to detect errors in algorithms and programs. As part of the Liverpool Archdiocese we will be following the ‘Come and See’ Scheme of Work. We will be looking at; Community, Self- Discipline and Giving and Receiving. In order to enhance our creative capacity we will work on developing skills in painting alongside our knowledge of famous artists and their work. Gymnastics We’re fortunate enough to receive specialist tuition as part of the Sefton Wider Opportunities agreement. We will continue to learn ‘Samba’ before moving to stufy ‘Brass’ as a genre and its components. * Visit from Father Tom Wood of St. Gregory’s Parish. * Visit to Liverpool Walker Art Gallery. Practice and reinforce skills from Autumn 1 through a daily ‘Math's Blast’ and/or score 4. Recall multiplication facts up to x 12. To read Roman numerals (I to C). Enhance written addition ans subtraction up to using four digits usiing a formal writen method. Solve problems involving increasingly harder fracions (unit and non-unit) where the answer is a whole number. Recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions. Recorgnise decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths. In line with our ‘Where would you choose to buils a city?’ topic, children will be designing, creating and evalutaing their own skycraper to create a Year 4 skyline. ‘Where would you choose to build a city?’ We will be looking at cities throughout the UK, Europe and globally and seeking to answer why rivers were once so important to the functionality of a successful city, and whether or not they still are today. Y4 We will continue our studies of habitats,, moving on to food chains. We will also explore sound.