Long term planning Year 4
Autumn1
Topic
Our World
Visits etc
Science
Electricity
History
Geography
Autumn2
Journeys
Arethusa
Living things and their
environments
.
Spring1
Animal kingdom
British Museum
States of Matter
Sounds
Invaders & Settlers:
Roman Why have people
invaded and settled in
Britain in the past?
Romans in Britain
London and the S
E(Arethusa) R. Medway/
Landscapes and
people.Mapwork.
Art / DT
Spring2
Van Gogh
EUROPEmapping
skills,features,
capital cities
Summer1
Food
South London Gallery
Animals including
plants
How can we find out
about the Indus Valley
civilisation?
3D work, sculpture focus,
clay work mosaics
[Producing digital music]
Focus - Creativity
Going for goals
Good to be me
Changes
Todo sobre yo
La familia
La comida
Present ideas and
information orally to a
range of audiences
Exploring singing games
[Develop an
educational game]
Focus - Programming
PE
Swim/ Gymnastics
PSHCE/
Relatnship Ed/
SEAL
MFL
Welcome – unwelcome
[Creating an interactive
toy]
Focus - Computational
thinking
Swim / Outdoorsorienteering, climbing
etc
Getting on & Falling out
A bordo
¿Qué tiempo hace?
RE
Rosary (Oct); Harvest (Manna Centre)
Family - Domesti c Church; Belonging Baptism/Confirmation; Loving - Advent/Christmas
[Editing and
writing html]
Focus - Computer
networks
Swim / Invasion games
Community-Local Church; Relating –Eucharist:
Giving – Lent /Easter
Anglo Saxons
Mediterranean EuropeClimate; Landscape
Coastline, islands and beaches .Settlements (
Lisbon, Madrid, Rome, Milan, Venice, Athens.)
Use of paints – Focus:
water colour versus oil.
Music
ICT
Summer2
Climate
Van Gogh – Self
Investigating materials
portraits
for craft – (IndusValley)
Pentatonic scale – explore & compose
[Producing a wiki]
[Record & analyse
Focus weather data]
Communication/
Focus - Productivity
collaboration
Swim/Striking &
Swim/Athletics
Fielding
Understanding feelings
Singular and plural
Write phrases from
memory, and adapt
these to create new
sentences, to express
ideas clearly
Serving – Pentecost; Inter-relating –
Reconciliation; World – Universal church.
English
i.Narrative: Stories which
raise issues/ dilemmas.
ii.Non Fiction: Unit 1 –
Recounts newspapers/
magazines
i. Non Fiction: Unit 2
– Information Texts
ii. Narrative: Stories
with Suspense
ii.Narrative: Unit 1 –
Stories with Historical
Settings
Key Texts
Way Home
Tuesday
Black Dog
Maths
Number
Number and place value
+/-/x/÷ Fractions / Decimals
(and place value)
Geometry
Properties of Shape (2D) &
Angles
Measurement
Time / Money
What the Romans did
for us.
Escape from Pompeii
Number
Number & place value
+/-/x/÷ Fractions
(including decimals)
Neg Numbers &
Roman Num
Geometry
Properties of Shape
(2D)
Position & Direction
Measurement: Time
Number
+/-/x/÷ (Mental
Methods)
Measurement
Length & Perimeter
Statistics
Data handling
i.Non Fiction: Unit 4 –
Persuasive texts (3
wks)
iii.Poetry: – Unit 2 –
Creating images (2
wks)
Black Dog
i.Narrative: Unit 3 – Stories
from other cultures (3 wks)
ii.Poetry: – Unit 2 –
Exploring forms (2 wks
i. Non Fiction: Unit
3 – Explanation text
(3 wks) ii. Narrative:
Unit 5 – Plays (3
wks)
The Cloud Tea Monkey
Farther
Grimms Tales
Number
+/-/x/÷ Fractions
(including decimals)
(Mental Methods)
Measurement
Perimeter & Area
Measurement
Mass & Capacity
Number
Number & place value
+/-/x/÷ Fractions
Geometry
Properties of Shape (3D)
& Position and Direction
Measurement
Time
Statistics : Data Handling
Number
Multiplication &
division
(Mental Methods
Measurement
Perimeter & Area
Length,
Mass and Capacity