Year 4
Autumn
Science
All living things (plants and animals in local and wider
environment, using classification keys, changing
environments and the dangers these may pose to living
things)
Animals including humans (The digestive system, human
teeth and their functions, food chains – producers,
predators and prey).
History
Geog
ICT
Field study – physical features
use fieldwork to observe, measure record and present the
physical features in the local area using a range of
methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and
digital technologies
(link to science – conservation area?)
General ICT skills
Word Processing
Spring
Summer
States of matter (solids liquids and gasses, changes of
state and measuring the temperatures of when these
changes occur*, evaporation and condensation in the water
cycle – and associating rate of evaporation with
temperature)
Controlling & sensing A.L.E.X app scratch / Scratch
Sound (How sounds are made and vibration, patterns
between objects and their pitch, patterns between volume
and strength of vibrations)
Electricity (common appliances, constructing simple
circuits and naming components, lamps in complete and
incomplete circuits, conductors and insulators and metals
as conductors).
The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of
England to the time of Edward the Confessor
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Viking raids and invasion

Resistance by Alfred the Great and Athelstan,
first King Of England

Further Viking invasions and Danegeld
The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of
England to the time of Edward the Confessor
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Anglo-Saxon laws and justice
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Edward the Confessor and his death in 1066
Counties and cities in UK name & locate counties & cities
of the UK, regions & their identifying human & physical
characteristics, key topographical features (including hills,
mountains, coasts and rivers), & land-use patterns; &
understand how some of these aspects have changed over
time
Presentation medial skills & understanding
Handling Data- Junior Viewpoint
Web research skills & understanding
*But not heat for chemical changes!
Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
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Roman withdrawal from Britain in c. AD 410 and
the fall of the western Roman Empire
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Scots invasion from Ireland to north Britain (now
Scotland)
Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots

Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms:
place names and village life

Anglo-Saxon art and culture
Christian conversion – Canterbury, Iona and Lindisfarne
Water cycle (link with science)
E-Safety
RE
Systematic unit
Judaism
The story of Moses and the exodus from Egypt (pg.80)
The festival of Pesach and the Seder meal (pg.80)
The importance of the home in Jewish life: Keeping the
Kosher home and observing dietry laws (pg.80)
Systematic unit
Islam
The part played by the city of Makkah and the Ka’aba in
the life of the Prophet Muhammad (pg.79)
The revelation of the Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad
(pg.79)
The content of the Qur’an: it contains many people and
stories found in the Bible (pg.79)
The fact that Jesus (Isa) is a reverend prophet in Islam
(pg.79)
Thematic unit
Sacred writings and holy books in different religions
(Bible, Qur’an , Torah and Guru- Granth Sahib)
The Bible (pg.75)
The development of the Bible, from oral tradition to
written form (pg.75)
Other Hindu gods and goddesses: stories and festivals
associated with them (pg.77)
The Sefer Torah (pg.80)
The Shema and Mezuzah (pg.80)
The Guru Granth Sahib (pg.81)
French
Unit 7
Subject: Encore!
Language: describing people - appearance and adjs,
nationalities
Grammar: avoir phrases, third person, être phrases with
adjs
Culture: nationalities
Unit 8
Subject: Quelle heure est-il?
Language: activities, telling the time, numbers 1-12
Grammar: verbs in present first person, time phrases
Culture: comparing free-time in France and in the UK
Games
PE
Art
Artist
Focus
D.T.
Music
School
Needs 4yr
cycle
P.S.H.E.
Citizenship
Competitive
Unit 9
Subject: Les fêtes
Language: festivals and dates, numbers 31-60, instructions
Grammar: imperatives
Culture: French festivals
Unit 10
Subject: Où vas-tu?
Language: French cities, directions, weather, places in
France
Grammar: je vais à + place, imperatives, weather
expressions
Culture: French cities and places, weather for those places
Unit 11
Subject: On mange!
Language: shopping phrases, food, costs, party activities,
opinions
Grammar: partitive article, question phrases, first person
plural
Culture: shopping in France, French foods
Unit 12
Subject: Le cirque
Language: clothing, countries, languages
Grammar: positive and negative phrases, adjectives
Culture: Francophone countries, languages
Competitive
Gym
Control Balance
Journeys Objects and Meaning Still Life
OAA
Orienteering
Level 1 & 2
Dance
History topic link
Links to 2014 geog topic.
Aboriginal Art
Seurat-Pointillism
Monet – Water Lilies
Hokusai – Japanese Wave
Van Gogh
Pop-up books (sheet materials). Explore complex pop ups.
Make a science pop up book based on living things/human
functions –skeleton etc
Anglo-saxon/long Viking boats (construction). Explore
ways of strengthening structures. Measure and cut wood/
use glue gun under close supervision. Link to history work.
Dynamics –
introduce pp p f ff
Rhythm –
introduce note values using the pyramid of power.
Egyptian rhythms included as well as drumming.
Light-up
Design and make a model incorporating a circuit with a
buzzer or a bulb. Link to science unit on electricity.
Starry starry nigh.
Pitch –
look at instruments according to their pitch.
Net & Basket ball
Include crescendo and diminuendo.
Structure –
Binary – AB
Ternary – ABA
Elgar
Yellow SEAL material Part II
New Beginnings
Getting on and falling out
Say No to bullying
Role of the volunteer
Timbre –
sort percussion instruments according to their sound.
Holst
Volleyball
Athletics
Sports Day
Viking art / shields / hats
Tempo –
introduce the terms Adagio Moderato Allegro.
Mozart
Yellow SEAL material Part II
Yellow SEAL material Part II
Going for goals
Good to be me
Children’s rights- Human rights
Relationships
Changes
People who help us