Curriculum links
History - The Anglo Saxons
DT – Make an Anglo Saxon musical instrument
Why did people invade?
Art – Anglo Saxon broaches and jeweller, illuminated letters
Computing – Anglo Saxon game
Settlements
Anglo-Saxon society - Kings and Laws
Beliefs
Geography: Anglo Saxon Britain and Europe
Art and culture
Writing Opportunities: non chronological reports, information
texts
Trip/visitor
Three-day residential trip to Minstead Study Centre
Year 4
The AngloSaxons
Discrete subjects:
PE and Games: Fitness and circuits; invasion games
Music: ‘Listen-2-Me’ African drumming
Science: Electricity
Computing: ‘E-safety’; Flowol – control flow charts
RE: Concept – ‘Good and Evil’
PHSE: Keeping safe outside school
English:
Writing: Persuasive writing, poetry, letters, diary entries
Drama: Activities based on the class books
Reading: ‘The Boy that Swam with Piranhas’; ‘The Iron Man’
Mathematics: Number and place value, Addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division, fractions, measurement and
geometry
Year 4 Anglo-Saxons
Empathy
Reasons for
invasion – how
does this affect
people’s lives?
Creativity
Musical
instruments DT
project
Art project –
brooches and
jewellery
Adaptability
Musical
instruments DT
project
Y4 Residential
to Minstead
Curiosity
Aspiration
Anglo-Saxon beliefs
and culture
Y4 Residential
to Minstead
Art techniques for
jewellery making
Quality of
presentation for
art and DT
projects
Year 4 – Discrete
Empathy
Creativity
Adaptability
Curiosity
Issues raised from
the study of ‘The Boy
Who Swam with
Piranhas’
African drumming
– composing own
rhythms
Flowol – flow
chart control
Electricity
Investigations
Team work in
PE/games – circuits
and invasion
games
Drama linked to
‘The Boy who
Swam with
Piranhas’
Electricity
investigations
RE – beliefs
about good and
evil
Aspiration
African drumming
performance to
parents