St Edward’s Catholic Primary School
Curriculum Framework Overview Year 4 2016-2017
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Come and See
AUTUMN TERM 1ST Half
AUTUMN TERM 2ND Half
7 weeks
7 weeks
Domestic Church
Baptism/Confirmation
Advent/Christmas
Family: People
Belonging: Called
Loving: Gift
Class Theme
Wizard of Oz
Iceland
Wow Days
Wizard of Oz Scavenger hunt –
in teams searching for the
characters missing trait.
TBC
SPRING TERM 1ST Half
SPRING TERM 2ND Half
5 1/2 weeks
6 weeks
Local Church:
Eucharist - relating:
Lent/Easter
Community
Giving and Receiving
giving:
Self-Discipline
How to Train your Dragon
Egypt
SUMMER TERM 1ST Half
SUMMER TERM 2ND Half
5 1/2 weeks
7 weeks
Pentecost – serving:
Reconciliation
Universal
New Life
Building Bridges
Church:
God’s People
The Lion the Witch and the
Kenya
Wardrobe
TBC
TBC
TBC
Dress up day for children and
staff.
Viking Day workshop
Leicester Museum – Egypt
collection.
TBC
TBC
TBC
TBC
TBC
Folktales/Legends
Travel Guide/persuasive
writing
Poetry
Instructional writing – Training
Manual
Poetry
News Report – Dragons are real
Diary Entry
Adventure narrative
Newspaper Report - Howard
Carter’s discovery
Narrative – Setting, character
descriptions
Play script
Diary entry
Poetry
Non-Fiction writing – class
animal fact book
Discursive text - Comparison
what it would be like to live in
Kenya/ different parts of Kenya.
Postcard
Narrative
Journey to the Centre of the
universe by Jules Verne
The Saga of Erik and the Viking by
Terry Jones
Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley
Climo
The chronicles of Narnia: The
Lion the Witch and the
Wardrobe by CS Lewis
The Butterfly Lion by Michael
Morpurgo
Working scientifically
Space
Maps
Working Scientifically
Movement, forces, magnets
Geographical skills and fieldwork
understand geographical
similarities and differences
between Kenya and the United
Kingdom.
Watch and discuss original film.
Film Review.
Enrichment
Assemblies/parent
celebrations
English
Quality Text
Science
Geography
Wizard of Oz Sing along and reenactment of key scenes – With
year 3.
Narratives – setting, new
characters, plot twist/follow on
Newspaper Report
Letter writing
Film Review
The Wizard of Oz
By Frank Baum
Exerts from the series ‘ Dorothy
must die’
Working Scientifically
Light (Shadows and Rainbows)
Geographical skills and fieldwork
Physical geography – Tornados,
hurricanes and rainbows
Place and Locational Knowledge
– Kansas, landmarks,
environment, location using
maps.
Picture book - Tell me a Dragon by
Jackie Morris
Working Scientifically
Plants and Evolution and Inheritance
Geographical skills and
Geographical skills and fieldwork
fieldwork
Locational knowledge – Viking
Human and Physical
settlements/journeys/invasions.
geography: climate zones,
Countries, Europe, oceans, seas.
settlements, rivers, mountains,
name and locate counties and cities
volcanoes, earthquakes
of the United Kingdom,
glaciers.
Place knowledge – understand how
Locational knowledge some of these places have changed
longitude, Equator, Northern
over time.
Hemisphere, Southern
Hemisphere, Arctic and
Skills- use of atlas and digital
Antarctic Circle.
mapping to locate countries.
Place knowledge – landmarks,
mountains
Stories from Ancient Egypt by
Joyce Tyldesley
Working Scientifically
Sound and Hearing
Geographical skills and fieldwork
Place knowledge- landmarks
pyramids, sphinx )
Locational Knowledge – country
in Africa, hemispheres, equator,
Human and Physical Geography
– the River Nile, settlements,
water cycle, climate
Skills- use of atlas and digital
mapping to locate countries
Trip to Whipsnade Zoo
African Drumming Workshop
Look at old and modern maps
and discuss what we can see.
Make maps of Narnia including
aspects of human and physical
geography.
Place knowledge
Locational Knowledge – country
in Africa, hemispheres, equator.
Human and Physical Geography
– mountains, rivers, climate.
Skills- use of atlas and digital
mapping to locate countries
St Edward’s Catholic Primary School
Curriculum Framework Overview Year 4 2016-2017
Skills- use of atlas and digital
mapping to locate countries
and continents.
History
Art
Rainbow art – being unique
Emerald city
Design &
Technology
Music
Recycled Tin man – group/class
project. Link to PSHE
Singing- Songs from the film.
The legacy of Viking culture
the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle
for the Kingdom of England to the
time of Edward the Confessor
Viking shield
Viking Patterns
Dragon paintings
Dragon Puppets
Long boat investigation
Ancient Egypt
Tutankhamen- Howard Carter
Gods/Goddesses
Singing – Horrible histories
songs.
Soundtrack by Harry GregsonWilliams.
Creating Music to accompany
an image or short film clip.
Unit 1 – Personal Skills
Coordination
Floor Movement
Soundtrack by John Powell
Film Music
Study into popular film composers,
effect and role of music in film.
(john Williams etc)
Unit 3 – Cognitive Skills
Cardio
Dynamic Balance to Agility
Egyptian Music
Orchestral music – link to film.
Unit 4 - Creative Skills
Coordination with Equipment
Unit 5 – Applying Physical Skills
Agility
Reaction and Response
E-Safety
Road Safety
Stranger Danger
Going for Goals
Christian Unity
Good to be Me
Families /relationships/
Mother’s Day
Truth and Honesty
Fairness and Justice
Our world
Famous People
Who is a stranger?
Online dangers
Setting and achieving goals
Knowing myself and understanding
my feelings.
British Values
French
French
French
Telling the Truth – How do we
treat others? How do we like to
be treated? Link to Edmund
and Lucy interaction in the
story.
French
Northern lights chalk art
Volcano splatter paintings
Traditional Icelandic Folk
Music.
Tempo, Pitch, Rhythm.
Physical Education
Real P.E
Unit 2 - Social Skills
Dynamic Balance to Agility
Cardio
PSHE
Healthy Lifestyles
‘Say no to bullying’
Getting on Falling out
Healthy Eating
SMSC Links
MFL
Recycling
Morals – Right and wrong
Personal qualities – being brave,
having courage, being ‘smart’,
having a good heart
French
Egyptian Death masks
Egyptian Jewellery
Hieroglyphics
Nelson Mandela?
Winter tree art linked to
recurring theme of tree’s
African art – Patterns, tribal
masks, silhouette paintings
Lamp replica (linked to science)
African Music
African drums
Traditional African song – Jambo
Bwana
Unit 6 – Health and Fitness
Cardio
Agility
Reaction and Response
Looking Ahead - confidence
Changes
Successes
New beginnings
Making changes - How can we
help the poor in our country and
around the world.
French