Year     4             Spring Term 2009

LITERACY:

• Stories set in an imaginary world
• Information and explanation
• Stories from other cultures
• Persuasive texts
• Guided reading and class reader
• Y4 high frequency word spellings

NUMERACY:

• Decimal points/fractions/equivalence
• Place value/ordering/estimating
• Division
• Calculation strategies for +,-,x
• Money – real life problems
• Shape/space/Handling data

SCIENCE:

• Keeping warm; Temperature/Insulation and different materials
• Solids/Liquids/Gases: How different properties react to cold/heat. Experiments with water, food etc

ICT:

• Repeating patterns
• Branching data-bases
• Tizzy’s World – using text and pictures

HISTORY:

• Life in Tudor times: The Monarchy/Houses and buildings/Clothes/Farming/food & entertainment
• Trip to Ordsall Hall

GEOGRAPHY:

• A village in India: Location/maps/climate/lifestyle/ inter dependency

RE:

• Islam: Worship/prayer/pilgrimage/fasting & feasting/the Mosque

DT:

• Making a mosque: design / material/putting together / decorating

ART:

• Islamic art
• Observational drawing of Tudor objects
• Felt mosaic of Tudor costume

MUSIC:

• Adding sound effects to stories
• Ostinato patterns

PSHE

Going for Goals;

• Taking responsibility; Persistence (keeping going)
• Resilience: Setting and achieving goals

Good to be me:

• Understanding feelings – how they lead us to behave the way we do
• Self awareness – feeling good about

• myself

Managing my feelings; standing up for myself

OTHER:

• 4S & 4L are learning French this term
• 4S are also learning Spanish