Year 4 Summer Term 1

English

We will continue our unit ‘Ice Palace’, a quest novel set in another time and place. Ivan, the main character, goes in search of his brother who has been taken by the mysterious ‘Starjik’.

Later in the term, we will explore the text ‘Tales of Wisdom and Wonder.’ This features short tales that will lead to retelling the story in our own words and creating illustrations, as well taking part in drama and role-play activities. 

Maths

This term, we will begin with a unit on decimals.  We will learn to recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths. We will develop effective methods to divide a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100. Next we will move onto estimating, comparing and calculating using money (pounds and pence). During our final unit we will convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute]

Science – Human Nutrition

We will complete our work on Sound unit from Spring 2.

‘Human Nutrition’ is our new Science topic. This will focus on the understanding of personal health and how this is related to human nutrition. We will explore the digestive system and concentrate on being able to name different types of human teeth as well as some teeth from other animals.

History- Invasion 

This term, we will find out who invaded Britain after the Romans. We will explore the Anglo-Saxon way of life and the reasons they decided to settle here. Then we move on to finding out about the Viking invaders. We will compare the everyday lives of these two invading forces to find similarities and differences. 

Computing

This term we will be looking at data handling. Pupils will be researching and storing data using spreadsheets, designing a weather station which gathers and records data and learning how weather forecasts are made. Children use digital cameras to present a weather forecast.

R.E. – Buddhism

For our final R.E. topic of the year, we will be finding out about one of the world’s main religions, Buddhism. This term, we will be looking at the founder of the religion, and examining some of the key beliefs that Buddhists share.

Music

This term, we will be learning how to play a musical instrument - the recorder.  We will learn about the history of the recorder.  As we learn to play some notes, we will start to understand staff notation and begin to recognise some notes on the stave. We will continue to describe music using the elements of music - pitch, tempo and dynamics. 

P.E.

The children will start the term by continuing to learn about the sports of Basketball and Hockey. Then they will then begin to learn about Athletics in their PE lessons by developing their running, jumping and throwing techniques across a variety of track and field events. I

In their second lesson, the children will be taking part in learning about Tennis. They will learn a variety of shots and how to score correctly. They will be developing their ability to adjust their technique after a shot to improve.

French 

In French, the children will be learning about French food. We will explore ordering and menus -‘Yum Yum’- or ‘Miam, Miam’ in a French café.  This unit introduces food vocabulary and revises numbers to 100, this time in the context of money and prices. The unit encourages children to develop their language detective skills and confidence with practical conversational French.

PSHE – Jigsaw – Relationships

Relationships is our PSHE topic this term.  We will look at how to make friends, solving problems between friends, how to help ourselves and others when we feel upset or hurt. We will finish by understanding and showing what makes a good friendship.