Year     4             Autumn Term 2008

LITERACY:

• Narrative – character and plot
• Newspapers
• Poetry
• Novel in an historical context
• Y4 high frequency word spellings

NUMERACY:

• Counting, partitioning and calculating
• Number facts and shapes
• Handling data and measures
• Learning of times tables – 6, 7, 8 and 9
• Applying theory and problem solving

SCIENCE:

• Moving and growing
• Human skeletons, animal skeletons, muscles, the nervous system
• Circuits and conductors

- Constructing different circuits, circuit diagrams, switches, lights and motors

ICT:

• Combining text and graphics
• Writing for different audiences
• Repeating patterns
• Developing images

HISTORY:

• Henry VIII
• Tudor life

GEOGRAPHY:

• British Isles
• Map skills, reading different maps, Atlas work

RE:

• Christianity
• Prayer

DT:

• Money containers

ART:

• Collage and textiles
• Drawing

MUSIC:

• Pentatonic scales
• Descriptive sounds
• Explaining rhythmic patterns
• Tonic sol-fa Kodaly hand signals

PSHE

New Beginnings;

• Have opportunities to appreciate and celebrate differences and similarities between them
• To value their gifts and talents

Getting on and falling out:

• Consider the qualities of becoming good friends

Practise using ‘peaceful problem solving’

OTHER:

• Intensive swimming course – 4 weeks