Shepley First School
Curriculum Map Year 4
Spring 1
Topic
‘What’s on the Menu?’
Author, Artist or Composer
John Williams (Harry Potter Composer)
Project
(Driving questions)
Texts
Where does your food come from?
English
Maths
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How to Catch A Mermaid by Jane Ray
The Seal Children by Jackie Morris
Beowulf retold by Michael Morpurgo
Little Mouse’s Book of Fears by Emily Gravett
A variety of poems selected from The Works.
Myths and Legends
Recounts
List Poems and Kennings
Fractions
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Recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent
fractions.
Count up and down in hundredths
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Recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and
dividing tenths by ten.
Solve problems involving fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to
divide quantities,
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.
Time
 Convert between different units of measure of time, e.g. hour to minute.
 Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24 hour
clocks.
 Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to
seconds; years to months; weeks to days.
Science
States of Matter
Children will learn about the properties of different states of matter, evaporation and
condensation. They will compare and group materials together, according to
whether they are solids, liquids or gases. They will observe that some materials
change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the
temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C). Also they will learn about
the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate
the rate of evaporation with temperature.
Computing
Espresso Coding Unit 4C
History
What’s on the Menu?
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Geography
What’s on the Menu?
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DT
Finding out about popular foods from different periods of history and what
sailors and explorers used to eat when travelling.
Learn about restaurants in the local area, where our food comes from, which
foods are produced locally, how food travels to the shop or supermarket,
about different types of farming and what happens on a local farm.
What’s on the Menu?
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Making bread and butter, presenting food to make it more interesting,
creating a healthy fruit sundae, learning how to make freezer jam and make
models of farm machines.
Art and Design
Chinese Cherry Blossom Art Work
Languages
Au café!
Please and thank you
PE
Gymnastics
Swimming
RE
This half term the children will be learning all about:
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PHSCE
Festivals of light from around the world and different religions.
Chinese New Year
British Values
Music
Responding to music – modern music
Project Enrichment
A trip to a supermarket to find out how foods travel there and where they come
from.