• Oxford Bright Star Pupil?s Book 4
• Oxford Bright Star Workbook 4
• ABP Spelling for Literacy ages 8-9
• Collins Primary Literacy Pupil Book 4
• Collins Primary Literacy Homework Book 4
• Dictionary and Thesaurus Word skills
• Collins Mathematics Year 4 Books A,B,C
• Variety of teacher resources to aid spelling, grammar, and paragraph construction.

First Term

• Spelling and Word Work- suffixes, double consonants, homophones, regular verb endings, irregular tense changes, nouns and adjectives into verbs, verb endings, word endings, prefix.
• Grammar and Punctuation- Adjective order, present continuous, present simple, past simple, possessive adjectives, past simple, past continuous, past simple+ past continuous, present perfect, comparatives/superlatives, present/perfect, 0 conditional, present continuous.
• Comprehension- Different texts will be explored to develop understanding of narratives, non-fiction etc.
• Writing-Personal text, stories, information text, film review, e-mail, guided e-mail writing, exploring plays, poems,explanations,feelings, people and places-own story, points of view, advertisements.
• Assessments:

  • Assignments or projects x3 (Writing skills will be assessed) Grammar and Punctuation Quiz x 3
  • Reading Comprehension Assessment x3

Every week students will complete spelling, handwriting and reading activities.

• Spelling and Word Work – letter ‘v’ and ‘k’, letter strings, letter patterns, suffices, compound words, gender words, it’s, and its, common root words, diminutives.
• Grammar and Punctuation – verbs tenses, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, comparative and superlative adjectives, opposites, apostrophes, direct speech, positive and negative sentences.
• Comprehension – a variety of activities to develop understanding of different texts.
• Writing – editing, making notes, explanations, poetry, points of view, letters, different endings, advertisements, making summaries.
• Assessment:
  • Assignments x3
  • Grammar and Punctuation Quiz x3
  • Reading Comprehension Assessment x3

Every week students will complete spelling, handwriting and reading activities.

• Describe and explain methods, choices and solutions to puzzles and problems, orally and in writing, using pictures and diagrams.
• Read write and order whole numbers to at least 1000 and position them on a number line; count on from and back to zero in single digit steps or multiples of 10.
• Partition three-digit numbers into multiples of 100, 10 and in 1 in different ways.
• Derive and recall all addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20, sums and differences of multiples of 10 and number pairs that total 100.
• Add or subtract mentally combinations of one-digit and two-digit numbers.
• Follow a line of enquiry by deciding what information is important; make use of lists, tables and graphs to organise and interpret the information.
• Know the relationships between kilometres and metres, metres and centimeters, kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres; choose and use appropriate units to estimate, measure and record measurements.
• Read, to the nearest division and half-division, scales that are numbered or partially numbered; use the information to measure and draw to a suitable degree of accuracy.
• Answer a question by collecting, organising and interpreting data; use tally charts, frequency tables, pictograms and bar charts to represent results and illustrate observations; use ICT to create a simple bar chart.
• Use Venn diagrams or Carroll diagrams to sort data and objects using more than one criterion.
• Solve one-step and two-step problems involving numbers, money or measures, including time, choosing and carrying out appropriate calculations.
• Find unit fractions of numbers and quantities.
• Read and record the vocabulary of position, direction and movement, using the four compass directions to describe movement about a grid.
• Read the time on a 12-hour digital clock and to the nearest 5 minutes on an analogue clock; calculate time intervals and find start or end times for a given time interval.
• Represent the information in a puzzle or problem using numbers, images or diagrams; use these to find a solution and present it in context, where appropriate using units of measure.
• Identify patterns and relationships involving numbers or shapes, and use these to solve problems.
• Derive and recall multiplication facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 times tables and the corresponding division facts; recognize multiples of 2, 5 or 10 up to 1000.
• Use knowledge of number operations and corresponding inverses, including doubling and halving, to estimate and check calculations.
• Relate 2-D shapes and 3-D solids to drawing them; describe, visualize, classify, draw and make the shapes.
• Use practical and informal written methods to multiply and divide two-digit numbers; round remainders up or down, depending on the context.

• Describe and explain methods, choices and solutions to puzzles and problems, orally and in writing, using pictures and diagrams.
• Partition three-digit numbers into multiples of 100, 10 and 1 in different ways.
• Round two-digit or three-digit numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 and give estimates for their sums and differences.
• Derive and recall all addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20, sums and differences of multiples of 10 and number pairs that total 100.
• Derive and recall multiplication facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 times tables and the corresponding division facts; recognize multiples of 2, 5 or 10 up to 1000.
• Add or subtract mentally combinations of one-digit and two-digit numbers.
• Multiply one-digit and two-digit numbers by 10 or 100, and describe the effect.
• Follow a line of enquiry by deciding what information is important; make use of lists, tables and graphs to organise and interpret the information.
• Know the relationships between kilometres and metres, metres and centimeters, kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres; choose and use appropriate units to estimate, measure and record measurements.
• Read, to the nearest division and half-division, scales that are numbered or partially numbered; use the information to measure and draw to a suitable degree of accuracy.
• Read the time on a 12-hour digital clock and to the nearest 5 minutes on an analogue clock; calculate time intervals and find start or end times for a given time interval.
• Answer a question by collecting, organising and interpreting data; use tally charts, frequency tables, pictograms and bar charts to represent results and illustrate observations; use ICT to create a simple bar chart.
• Use Venn diagrams or Carroll diagrams to sort data and objects using more than one criterion.
• Represent the information in a puzzle or problem using numbers, images or diagrams; use these to find a solution and present it in context, where appropriate using units of measure.
• Develop and use written methods to record, support and explain addition and subtraction of two-digit and three-digit numbers.
• Use practical and informal written methods to multiply and divide two-digit numbers; round remainders up or down, depending on the context.
• Find unit fractions of numbers and quantities.
• Draw and complete shapes with reflective symmetry; draw the reflection of a shape in the mirror line along one side.
• Read and record the vocabulary of position, direction and movement, using the four compass directions to describe movement about a grid.
• Use a set square to draw right angles and to identify right angles in 2-D shapes; compare angles with a right angle; recognise that a straight line is equivalent to two right angles.
• Solve one-step and two-step problems involving numbers, money or measures, including time, choosing and carrying out appropriate calculations.
• Identify patterns and relationships involving numbers or shapes, and use these to solve problems.
• Read and write proper fractions, interpreting the denominator as the part of a whole and the numerator as the number of parts; identify and estimate fractions of shapes; use diagrams to compare fractions and establish equivalents.
• Relate 2-D shapes and 3-D solids to drawing them; describe, visualize, classify, draw and make the shapes.
• Understand that division is the inverse of multiplication and vice versa; use this to derive and record related multiplication and division number sentences.

Assessment

1 st Term

2 nd Term

Examination

40%

40%

• Plants respond to light.
• Plants respond to water
• Parts of a flower.
• Identify male/female parts of a flower.
• Life cycle of butterfly
• Life cycle of the mosquito
• Compare the cycles the butterfly and mosquito.
• Life cycle of the frog
• Life cycle of the house fly
• Food chains
• Food webs
• Constructing food webs
• Study seashore life
• Making waves
• Effects of water pollution
• Oil spills
• Greenhouse effect and global warming.
• What is global warming
• Effect of global warming

• Temperature and it?s measurement
• The laboratory thermometer
• Reading temperature
• Reading a thermometer
• Forms of energy
• Mixing hot/cold water
• Heat on the move
• Energy conversion
• Air has mass and occupies space
• Air is present in water
• Is air present in soil?
• Air has mass
• Does air take up space
• Does tissue paper stay dry under water?
• Seperation of mixtures and dissolving substances
• Filtration
• Is ink really black?
• What affects dissolving time
• How much salt can dissolve?
• Simple machines
• Levers
• Factors affecting the effort to move a load
• Comparing two levers
• Classification of levers
• How do inclined planes help us?
• Rocks and minerals
• Properties of minerals
• Making igneous rocks
• Petroleum and natural gas

Assessment

1 st Term

2 nd Term

Examination

40%

40%

Tests

30%

30%

Classwork

Total

100%

100%

• Countries Year 4 have visited in the world (Minor Topic)
• Environmental issues

• Recording the weather
• Assessment:
  • Assignments x2
  • Quiz x1

• Roald Dahl
• Assessment:
  • Assignments x1
  • Quiz x1

• Ancient Egypt ?compare and contrast with Modern Egypt. (Major Topic)
• Structure of the Solar System
• Assessment:
  • Assignments x2
  • Quiz x1