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Communication, Language and Literacy
Writing
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Instructions
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Letter writing in role as characters from Twelfth Night
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Narrative: Recount of Twelfth Night
Grammar
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Imperative Verbs: Make, Fold, Listen, Stop
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Adverbs: carefully, quickly, respectfully
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Possessive apostrophes: Jane’s shoes, Sarah’s writing.
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Inverted commas: “What country friends is this?”
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Time adverbials: before, after a while, next, later
Id
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Write in first person and past tense
Expressive Arts & Design:
Music: We will explore Pitch, Tempo, Dynamics and
Duration (musical elements). We will listen to Mozart,
Beethoven and Elgar and discuss their styles.
Drama: We will continue our SHAKESPEARE journey
exploring the play ‘Twelfth Night’.
Spellings
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Homophones
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Adding prefix –ir
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Adding suffix: ion
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Adding –ily suffix
Year 4
Mrs Ackerley & Mr Stewart
Summer 1
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Class Text
Twelfth Night: Shakespeare
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler: Gene Kemp
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Maths:
R.E-
As Mathematicians we will:
Decimals
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Money:
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Recognise tenths and hundredths
Compare and order decimals
Round decimals to the nearest whole number
Dividing whole numbers by 10 and 100 and
relating this to finding tenths and
hundredths.
Writing amounts of money
Comparing money
Rounding money to the nearest pound
Problem solving with money
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What’s so important about new life?
Explore the wonder and power of The Holy
Spirit
Explore what ‘New Life’ can bring to our lives
and how it relates to the Easter message
Understand the story of Pentecost
Explore scripture and how people in The Bible
spread the Good News.
PHSE
Each week Year 4 will focus on a different ‘Statement
of Belief’ and relevant themes that arise in the news
during our Collective Worship sessions
Curriculum Enrichment:
We will visit Castleton to identify the features of a village. We will compare these features when we visit the City of
Manchester.
Curriculum Planner
Understanding the World:
Geography:
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Identify the features of a village.
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Identify the features of a city.
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Locate ‘Castleton’ on a map in relation to other
UK places (cities)
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Discuss the impact of tourism on villages and
cities
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Plan a tour of Manchester
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Explain why people choose to live in villages and
cities.
Science- As scientists we will investigate the following
questions:
How does the Digestive System work?
What are the parts of the Digestive System
called?
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What do we call our different teeth and what are
their functions
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What is a food chain and can I draw my own?
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What are; producers, predators and prey?
Computing
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Recognise acceptable and unacceptable behaviour
using technology.
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Design a tri-fold leaflet about Castleton.
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Explain how the internet is structured and how
data travels along it.
Physical Development:
Games
We will work with Mr Ching to improve our racquet and ball
skills.
We will develop our skills in team games such as rounders.