Big picture Year 4 Spring 2 2016

As writers we will be
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Reading and exploring film
narrative texts (The Piano)
Writing stories from other countries
(including Pakistan and Australia)
Capturing ideas and writing in this
role
Writing versions of film narratives
Editing and up-levelling our writing
Improving our spelling, punctuation
and grammar
Lostock Primary School
The Big Picture
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Recognizing and using factor pairs
and commutativity in mental
calculations
Finding fractions of numbers
identifying acute and obtuse
angles and compare and order
angles up to two right angles by
size
Reading, writing and converting
time between 12 and 24 hour
clocks
Solving problems involving
converting from hours to minutes,
minutes to seconds, years to
months and weeks to days
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Year 4 Spring 2 (15/16)
Theme: Indus Valley
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Continuing our learning of animals and
humans
Learning how to set up a fair test and
explain why it is fair
Using equipment including thermometers
and data loggers to make measurements
identifying difference, similarities and
changes related to an enquiry
In our creative curriculum sessions we will
be
As mathematicians we will be
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As scientists we will be
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As computing technicians we will be
learning about
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Digital creativity – creating time
motion videos to support our English
learning
Researching what it was like for children
during a period
Describing how an event from the past
has shaped our lives today (animals and
humans)
Interpreting and presenting discrete and
continuous data on weather in Pakistan
Carrying out research to discover
features of Indus Valley – exploring Indus
Valley cities
In art and design we will be
We will also be learning and developing our skills
in reading across the curriculum, as well as PE,
RE, PSHE, Music and Foreign Languages.
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Researching, planning and making bread
(related to our Indus Valley theme)