Summer Term
Art and Design:
Pupils should be taught about great artists in history – Paul Klee, Castle and Sun
Pupils should be taught to improve their mastery of art and design techniques
including drawing, painting and sculpture
Design and Technology:
Castles and Medieval Times
Apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more
complex structures through making a castle
Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped
shape the world – development of weapons and defence strategies
Music:
Pupils should be taught to:
play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical
instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related
dimensions of music
listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
use and understand staff and other musical notations
appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music
drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
develop an understanding of the history of music.
P.E:
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Forest School on Thursdays
Athletics/Tennis on Fridays
PSHE/SEAL:
 British Values and democracy
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Grammar:
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Extend sentences with wider range of conjunctions
Choose nouns and pronouns appropriately to aid cohesion and avoid repetition
Use conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause
Use fronted adverbials
Use commas after fronted adverbials
Use possessive apostrophe with plural nouns
Use and punctuate direct speech
Use a and an correctly
Present perfect form of verbs
R.E:
SACRE VA Units of work – unit 3: Prayer within Christianity
Computing:
Programming – Scratch
Handling data – branching databases
E-safety – protecting passwords, protecting personal information
Science:
Plants – Roots and Shoots
i. identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and
flowers
ii. explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to
grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
iii. investigate the way in which water is transported within plants
Maths
Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by
preparing poems to read aloud and perform, increasingly showing understanding
through intonation, tone, volume and action
Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by
discussing some words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by
beginning to recognise different forms of poetry
Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by
listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and
reference books and textbooks
Retrieve and record information from non-fiction
Draft and write by using simple organisational devices
Draft and write by organising paragraphs around a theme
Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and
understanding of British history
They should understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a
range of sources.
Physical Health & Well Being
English
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History:
A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological
knowledge beyond 1066 – The development of castles and life in medieval times
Maths
We will be covering all the key objectives for Year 3 and 4 across
the term. These cover the topics of:
Place value
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
Fractions
Measurement
Shape
Statistics
Additional Information
PE days will be Thursday and Friday, but children should have
their kit in school all week, just in case.
Regular Home Learning will be spellings and a maths activity,
given out on a Thursday.
Thinking scientifically
i. asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
ii. setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests
iii. making systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, taking accurate measurements
using standard units, using a range of equipment, including thermometers and data loggers
iv. gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
v. recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and
tables
vi. reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations
of results and conclusions
vii. using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and
raise further questions
viii. identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes
ix. using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings
Artful flowers, fruits and seeds
i) explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants
Working scientifically
i) asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
ii) setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests
iii) making systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, taking accurate measurements
using standard units, using a range of equipment, including thermometers and data loggers
iv) gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
v) recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and
tables
vi) reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations
of results and conclusions
vii) using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and
raise further questions
viii) identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes
ix) using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings