Year 4- Stone Age to Iron Age-Topic Web – Summer Term 1
Literacy
During the first half of this term, the children will be looking at writing instructions and exciting
adventure stories with a focus on high quality language and sentence structure.. They will develop their
work by using a range of sentence openers, interesting adjectives and powerful verbs. The children will
also begin to look at how film makers create tension and excitement. Please continue to practise and
learn weekly spellings. Thank you.
Science
The children will be looking at
humans and animals. There will be
a focus on skeletons and muscles
and how these are important for
support, protection and
movement.
Maths
The focus areas for maths are:
Counting, Partitioning & Calculating
Measuring
Addition/Subtraction/Money
Decimals and rounding
Multiplication and division facts
It is really important for your children to continue
practising all their times tables (fast recall and out
of order). Don’t forget to practise fast recall when
doubling and halving your numbers too! Also practise
working out fractions of whole numbers e.g.1/4 of 12
or ¾ of 24.
ICT
Music
We will be completing a unit of work entitled “We
are toy makers” and will investigate how to program
a toy for a child to use. We will also look at issues
relating to e-safety.
The children will compose music to
reflect a range of emotions and
the movements and sounds of
prehistoric animals. Bluff class will
continue to work with a specialist
music teacher to develop their
skills on brass instruments.
PE:
We are very lucky this term as Mr Fern, a tennis
coach, will be taking the children for a series of
lessons. The children will focus on net, ball and wall
games and athletics. Swimming will continue as soon
as the Truro pool is ready.
DT/ART
In art, the children will be looking at
prehistoric cave paintings. We will mix
colours and look at the effects of
warm and cool colours. The children will
study Neolithic pottery and will create
their own clay tiles and coil pots. In
DT, the children will design and build a
self-supporting, mobile lever machine,
capable of moving a large, heavy
weight.
Topic WorkStone Age to Iron Age
This term we will be looking at the major
changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the
Iron Age.
The children will also be considering how we
know about a historical period without written
sources. There will be lots of opportunities for
drama and art and they will research what it
might have been like to live in Britain during this
period.
RE
We will be focusing on the celebrations of significant
life events in Christianity e.g. Baptism. We will also
be looking at how Christianity came to Cornwall.
Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL)
“Relationships” and “Changes” are the two areas
being studied this term. We will be encouraging the
children to consider the feelings of others with
focus on paying compliments to each other.