Year Four - Schemes of Work
Autumn Term 2007

English

• Text:  historical stories, instructions, discussion texts, poems and play scripts
• Comprehension and creative writing will be based on the above genre of texts
• Class readers: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
• Personal reading will be monitored
• Sentence – revising verb tenses and using powerful verbs, adverbs, commas and connectives
• Word – Violet Brand Spelling Made Easy, homophones, suffixes

Mathematics

• Number – Addition/subtraction. Mental calculations. Odd/even. Place value.
• Estimation. Order / sequence. Brackets. Multiples / factors. Fractions. 12 and 24 hour
• Time. Weekly tables tests.
  
• Problem Solving – Worded problems. Money and ‘real life’ tasks. Number puzzles.
  
• Shape/Space and measurement – 2D and 3D shapes. Vertices, edges and faces. Line
• Symmetry.
  
• Handling data – distance charts, train timetables, pictographs, tally charts and flow charts.

Science

• Safety Rules – How to behave in the laboratory. Location of equipment. Experimental techniques.
  
• Keeping warm – Use of thermometers and scales. Body temperature. Insulation and conduction of heat..
  
• Friction – Forces between a body and the surface. Energy changes involved.
  
• Solids and liquids –. Behaviour  and appearance of Solids / liquids including flow.
• Differences  between solids and liquids

French

• Houses, furniture, mealtimes, family, animals, adjectival agreement.

History

• Anglo Saxons (& Vikings) – Who they were, where did they come from.
  Settlements/lifestyle.  Religion.  Myths.
  

Geography

• Improving the Environment – Survey of school and local environments. Rubbish and litter – conduct litter survey of school grounds. Recycling waste. Saving energy, noise pollution and improving the environment.
  
• Village settlers – early villages. Rosedale / Abbey villages. How they grow.
  
• Global knowledge – studying Great Britain through maps e.g. relief, political and road maps. Studying maps on different scales.

Religious Education

• The Creation. Noah. Joseph’s coat and dreams. Joseph - from prison to power. Joseph forgives his brothers. Moses’ birth and call. Pharaoh and the plagues. The Christmas story.

Art

• Sketchbooks.
• 3 dimensional work – Form & Space
• Figure drawing – line & tone.
• Watercolour painting techniques.

Design  & Technology

• Design and make a hand launched flyer.
• Pop-up cards.

Information and Communication Technology

• Writing for different audiences – Editing text, spell checking, finding/replacing, making pages look interesting.
  
• Making pictures with patterns – copying and pasting, making pictures with dots, flipping and rotating, saving.

Music

• Regular singing and ear training lessons including preparation for the Carol Service.
• Performing skills: Recorder playing.
• Listening skills: String and Woodwind sections of the orchestra. The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten.

Physical Education

• Football, swimming, netball, rugby, unihoc, gymnastics and a variety of adventure activities.