The Federation of Abbey Infant & Junior School Curriculum Map for Year 4. 2020-21 - Spring term For specific class information see https://abbey-federation.secure- primarysite.net/topic/class-pages For dates see https://abbey-federation.secure-primarysite.net/diary Our topic is Imaginary Worlds Through this topic we will be linking our Geography, History, Art, Design and Technology. Imaginary Worlds is linking the history of maps to our understanding of modern day travel. The children will explore artists and authors of the sci-fi genre and discuss if their ideas came true. In DT children will be creating an electrical buzzer game to link with their science. Children will be exploring the locality of Warley Woods, completing walks and leading them and creating their own maps and comparing them to historical maps. (TBC) Life skills developed: Being able to follow a map in a known location safely and plan a route. Children will be able to use woodwork tools safely and accurately. Bucket list opportunities: TBC Soft skills: Able to explain personal opinions and thoughts.
Mathematics This term the children will develop their multiplication and division strategies and link these to fraction work. We will also be looking at decimals and how this helps with understanding money. Throughout all the work the children will develop their fluency, problem solving and reasoning skills.
Science The children learn about how electricity is produced and the different components that make up a simple circuit. The children move on to investigating conductors and insulators within a simple circuit. Some children begin to draw simple circuits using some symbols. English This term we will continue to use Talk4Writing to expand the children's knowledge of text and sentence types. The genres that we will be focusing on are an information text, diary and balanced argument. There will be an emphasis on using various sentence types and developing punctuation marks and vocabulary. We will continue to develop a cursive handwriting style In particular the children will develop their use of conjunctions, apostrophes for possession and contraction and a variety of sentence types.
French Children will be able to present orally and confidently about the weather and the months of the year. Children will readily write sentences with vocabulary learnt that is easily recognisable, independently.
Music This unit focuses on Grime and lyric writing. The children are given the opportunity to work together and produce some of their own lyrics through composition, to fit with the song. (whole class, small groups, individual). The children are given the chance to perform these compositions. Children to look at Gospel music, how is it made up? History Children develop their understanding of chronological order through a study of cartography and their understanding of people’s perceptions of the wider world and how this has changed over time and how people’s perceptions of the world would be dependent upon their location. Through following the Warley wood history trail the children compare how land use has changed within living memory and beyond.
PE Volleyball – new game – Net and wall game.
Geography The children will be developing their understanding of maps by studying the art of Cartography. The children look at how land use has changed over time through a local history study. They further develop their understanding of OS maps creating their own map of the immediate local area using the principles of OS mapping. The children generate their own routes to follow developing their understanding of navigation. Children begin to develop their knowledge of scaling by creating their own map of the local area to a set scale.
Computing The children will be looking at existing web pages and evaluating them. They will then move onto designing their own webpage.
Agility – move to meet the ball that is not aimed at you. Hands to meet the ball properly. Introduce specific shots of ‘dig it’ or smash. Important team skills of preparing the shot for partner. Simple skill selection of shot type. Small group to mini-games. Dance – Linked to the curricular theme of imaginary worlds. Well-chosen music (Harry Potter, Star wars extracts) to analyse the mood and feeling. Mini-performances link to whole class dance using the extracts selected. Greater speed, movement to convey a specific idea, change in level, moving in unison. Art & Design War of the Worlds is focused on when creating a movie poster using charcoal in the style of Alvim Correa. This is the first time the children use charcoal. Continuing with the same theme, a mixed media piece is produced using oil pastel, water colours and liquid tape pen. Oil pastels have been used in all previous years and the children are now starting to use them with greater control. In art this term, we will be looking at sculptures and models. We will look at the work of Jordu Schell. Then the children will be making Papier-mâché monsters to link with our topic this term of Imaginary Worlds.
Design Technology The children will begin to look at electricity in their science lessons which will include making a simple electrical circuit where the light bulb comes on.
Religious Education What do Christians Learn from the Bible’s creation stories? Children will explore the Creation story, and discuss and compare things they are proud of. They will explore what being a Christian means and will offer their thoughts and ideas. Children will also discuss the meaning of Temptation and Forgiveness. Why do Christians call the day Jesus died ‘Good Friday’? Children will learn about the Easter Story and why it is important to Christians and how this links to Easter eggs.
Appraise and listen to examples. Provided with opportunities to play (following sheet music) using the glockenspiel.
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