Year 4
Term 3.1
Helping at home:
Books which could be explored:
Non Fiction
Fiction
Websites used to support:
My Maths
Reading eggs
Texts
Our Curriculum
Social Development
Aspirations
Wider World
Looking at the challenges that
The Roman Empire was the biggest How the Roman Empire took
others face and their
collection of countries under one
over most of such large parts of
accomplishments linked to
ruler. The small Village of Rome
the world and the influence and
previous topic of the Olympics and
grew through clever planning, hard
importance of our region in its
Ancient Greece. Looking at difficult
work and resilience into a super
History
concepts such as slavery and how it
power.
was an influence during Roman
times but also modern versions of
slavery.
In Geography we will: Look at how
In Science we will: be recapping
In Art and DT we will:be creating
far the Empire reached and what
the key themes and topics covered our own version of Hadrian’s wall.
different cultures and languages
so far in Y4. This will include
Using art straws and glue a wall
were included. The Empire also
investigating whether Romans or
must be strong enough to protect
covered lots of different physical
modern people have healthier
against a water attack and also to
features such as vegetation,
teeth and the reasons behind this.
see if it would stand up against
mountains and valleys. This will be
We will test this using
invaders were to attack.
explored/compared and
investigations.
contrasted.
In History we will: Using Roman
In Computing we will: Use Google
In PSHCE we will:
Emperor Hadrian to place the topic forms in order as a method of data In PSHCE, the children will
in our region, we will look at the
collection. Questionnaires will be
understand the importance of
history behind the wall, the
created and analysed allowing the
resilience. The quality of being
purpose of the wall and also what
children to present their findings
resilient and being able to ‘bounce
life was like for the soldiers who
using a series of different graphs.
back’ and achieve their goals.
lived on it.
In PE we will: Be completing our work on short tennis. During the summer term Y4 children will have the
opportunity to compete within competitions against neighbouring schools to showcase their hand-eye
coordination and the focused time spent improving both their forehand and backhand.
In Literacy we will:
In Numeracy we will:
Be using ‘Across the Roman Wall’ by Theresa Breslin to explore Roman life In Numeracy this half term the children will be reconsolidating their prior
in the North of England. This text will provide us with the knowledge to
knowledge of division, measure and time. Also, because the current topic
create our own discussion texts on theme- ‘Was being invaded by the
is all about the Romans, the children will be learning how to read Roman
Roman Empire a positive or a negative?’ Our main structural focus is
Numerals up to 100. In our lessons we will be focussing on the three key
creating a balanced argument with the use of quality conjunctions and
areas in Maths , Fluency, Problem Solving and Reasoning.
showing differing views using a semi-colon. Language and word choices
from the text will also be included.