Race Leys Junior School Long Term Plan Year 4
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
Maths
Number and place value
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
Measurement – length and distance
Properties of shape – classification / symmetry
Position and direction
Data handling – presentation of
Number and place value
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
Fractions, including decimals
Measurement - area and perimeter
Properties of shape - angle (Logo)
Data handling – interpretation
Number and place value
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
Fractions, including decimals
Position and direction
Data handling – comparison, sum and difference
problems
Literacy
The Iron Man
The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch
Romeo and Juliet/Gnomio amd Juliet
Writing and performing plays
Read Shakespeare – Richard III
Shakespeare poems – rhyming couplets
Persuasion – why should you be a Viking raider?
Were the Vikings raiders? I wanna Iguana
Myths – Beowulf
Dragons and wolf poems – i-read (Y5)
Extracts from The Hobbit – Smaug
Explanations – how a cat feeding machine works
How to Train your Dragon
Killer Underpants
Non-chronological reports – living things
Story settings – Handa’s surprise
Poetry – haiku / cinquain; narrative – Kapiti Plain
Stories with a theme – Bill’s New Frock
Report Writing – Kingswood
The Green Ship – crossing equator
Krindlekrax
Science
Animals, including humans
Sound
Electricity
Living things and their habitats
States of matter
History
A local history study – The Tudors /Stratford
Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the
kingdom of England to the time of Edward the
Confessor
Types of settlement in Viking and Saxon Britain
(geography)
Geography
Coasts – changes over time
Comparisons – two UK locations – human and
physical geography; similarities and differences
Field work; maps and grid references
Great Britain – countries and capitals; main cities
Village/town/city – land use and change over time
(related to Anglo-Saxons)
Atlases and globes; maps and symbols
Deserts – continents, tropics, equator (Kenya)
Fairtrade – trade from England to Europe and rest
of world
Atlases and globes; maps and keys
Computing
E-Safety
Word processing – organisation of text and text
effects
Working with data – bar charts, pie charts, line
graphs; data collection and interpretation
Repeating patterns; paint effects; resizing;
symmetry tool – experiment with images created on
and away from computer
Control and sensing – Logo – writing procedures;
using repeat; predicting and problem solving
Graphics and sound – sound effects and music with
text
Computer Coding
Working with data – tree diagrams / branching
database
Research and presentation
Race Leys Junior School Long Term Plan Year 4
Art
Exploring tone – The Iron Man
Drawing and sketching – line, tone, texture – Tudor
buildings/coasts
Printing, including marbelling and resist printing
Repeated patterns, including use of ICT
Painting – shades and tones – dragon scales
Figure heads
Textiles/collage – butterflies
Drawing and sketching – fruits
Painting – shades of pink (Bill’s New Frock)
Collage – Handa’s Surprise
Design Technology
Fabric – pin, cut, join and sew
Join and combine materials – Tudor buildings
Developing, planning and communicating ideas – Cat
feeding machine/new invention
Weaving and knitting
Clay pots
Staffordshire Hoard – brooches
Sewing using different stitches
Physical Education
Football / hockey / netball
Gymnastics
Dance – create characters and narratives; create
motifs, perform and evaluate
Dodgeball /benchball
Tennis / rounders / athletics
Dance – lifecycles/Kenyan dance
Music
County Music Service - violin
County Music Service - violin
County Music Service – violin
RE
Showing the Way
Ways of Telling
Making Choices
Caring for Others
PSHE – Taking Care Project – Protective
Behaviours
A Fair World
Living like a Saint
MFL
French - Rigalo
French - Rigalo
French – Rigalo