English, Language and Literacy
• Create settings, characters and plot while
reading and writing narrative based on
Roald Dahl books inc. Fantastic Mr Fox.
• Write to persuade – Advertising fictional
chocolate bars using the text Charlie and
The Chocolate Factory.
• Perform and write poetry using imagery.
• SPAG - taken from Year 4 curriculum.
Language – delivered by Mrs Gwinnell
• Listen to spoken French and show
understanding by joining in and
responding.
• Describe people, places, things and actions
orally.
• Understand basic grammar appropriate to
French including feminine and masculine
forms.
Physical, Personal, Social
and Emotional Development
PE
• Use running, jumping, throwing and
catching in isolation and in combination.
• Play competitive games and apply basic
principles suitable for attacking and
defending.
Citizenship
• Understand the need to demonstrate
respect and tolerance towards people
different to themselves.
Expressive Arts and Design
Art
• Sketch and create pictures of
characters in the style of Quentin
Blake.
• Design and create an Aztec
headdress.
Music.
• Listen and appraise songs – based on
Mamma Mia by Abba.
• Compose and perform phrases of
music.
• Learn and perform Christmas songs.
Maths
• Number and Place value - rounding and using < and
> signs.
• Number bonds including hundreds and thousands.
• 4 operations using THTU
• Word problems and puzzles based on number.
• Coordinates in all 4 quadrants.
• Reading different scales.
• Multiplication facts up to and including 12 x 12.
• Finding the area and perimeter of different
polygons.
Year 4
Aztecs
Science & Technology
States of Matter
• Compare and group materials.
• Observe materials changing state.
• Identify and explain processes within the
water cycle.
Electricity
• Identify common appliances.
• Construct simple circuits in series
• Create switches
• Recognise common insulators and
conductors.
Design & Technology
• Design and construct Aztec Calendar
stones using clay.
Cooking and Nutrition
• Prepare Quesadillas
• Prepare and cook festive muffins
The Humanities
History – investigate …
• Who the Aztecs were and when they
lived.
• How the Aztecs built the City of
Tenochtitlan.
• How Aztec society was structured.
• What the Aztecs believed and how this
impacted on their lives.
• What daily life was like for the Aztecs.
• How religion impacted on the Aztec
civilisation.
• How the Aztec Empire fell.
Geography
• Locate where the Aztecs lived on a
map.
• Investigate the geographical features
of Mexico.
• Investigate Mexico as a holiday
destination.