YEAR FOUR CURRICULUM MEETING

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YEAR FOUR CURRICULUM MEETING

• WELCOME

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Here I Am

• Autumn Term
• Myself know ourselves and appreciate our value
  and uniqueness is central to our wellbeing.
• Invitations Explore Gods invitation to belong
  to His special family through baptism and
  confirmation
• Birthdays Know that birthdays celebrate a
  persons uniqueness and his or her value. They
  learn about Advent as a time for looking forward
  to and preparing for the birth of Jesus
• Other faith Judaism

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Spring Term

• Journeys The children learn about their
  spiritual journey to God and how Jesus has set
  the path for us to follow
• Communion Here we look at give and take and
  being a member of a community. The children will
  learn about the Eucharist challenging and
  enabling people to give and take
• Growing The children will explore the need for
  discipline in order to grow. They will learn
  about Lent as a time for self-discipline and
  Easter as a celebration of growth into new life

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Summer Term

• Good News We will explore the many different
  ways in which good news can be given. We will
  learn about how Jesus friends spread the good
  news of Easter
• Choices Here we explore the consequences of
  choices made. The children will learn about the
  importance of thinking about what they do or say,
  or what they dont do.
• Neighbours Who is my neighbour? We will
  explore the teachings of Jesus, the working of
  CAFOD and our Christian neighbours
• Other faith Islam

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LITERACY
Please read with your child each night!
Term One Historical stories Playscripts Poems
Reports Instructions
Term Two Stories about imagined worlds Stories
in a series Classic and modern poems Explanations
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Term Three Stories that raise issues Stories by
the same author / other cultures Poetry in
different forms Persuasive and discussion
texts Information texts.
Learning Journeys Curriculum topics will be
combined to encourage investigation and
questioning. This is to make the childrens
learning more stimulating and interesting.
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A Year 4 Learning Journey

• Based on The Skeleton Unit of Work.
• Using the childrens learning in Science for
  their Literacy learning on information texts
  instructions and report writing.
• PHSE- Healthy Living

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Other Learning Journeys planned.

• Autumn Term
• Tudor Living
• Integrating, Art, Literacy and History.
• Summer Term
• Citizenship.
• Integrating PHSE with Literacy.

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Numeracy

• Using lt and gt symbol
• Rounding numbers to 10 or 100
• Recognise simple fractions and equivalent
• Use known number facts
• Add a pair of two digit numbers mentally

• Calculators
• Column addition and subtraction
• Times tables and division facts
• Volume and capacity
• Classifying shapes
• Problem solving

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Maths Methods Used in Year Four

• Addition
• Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division

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Addition Methods Taught in Year Four

• Partitioning
• Standard Method of Addition

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Adding larger numbers.
278 247

200 200

400


70 40
110


8 7

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525
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Subtraction Methods Taught in Year
Four- Subtraction using numberlines Standard
Methods
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34 - 18
16

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10
2
18
20
30
4
15
40 - 18
22

20
2
18
20
40
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Division

• Using Numberlines- repeated addition.
• Using Multiplication Knowledge

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15 ?3
0 3
We jump along in 3s we use our 3 times tables.
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15 ?3
0 3 6
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15 ?3
0 3 6 9
20
15 ?3
0 3 6 9 12
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15 ?3
0 3 6 9 12 15
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How many jumps have you made? 5
0 3 6 9 12 15
So 15 ?3 5
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Chunking

• 78/ 3
• 78
• -30 (10x3)
• 48
• - 30 (10x3)
• 18
• -18 (6x3)
• Answer 26

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Methods of Multiplication

• Grid Method
• First Step towards standard method

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Grid Method of Multiplication
Answer 216
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Multiplication

• 23
• X 8
• _____________
• 160 (20 x 8)
• 24 (3 x 8)
• ______________
• 184

The answer is 184.
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Science

• Moving and Growing
• Keeping Warm
• Circuits and Conductors
• Solids and Liquids
• Habitats
• Friction

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SEAL

• Based on five aspects of learning
• self-awareness managing feelings
• motivation
• empathy social skills
• Designed to make children aware of their emotions
  and how best to deal with them.
• Shows children how to communicate, effectively,
  with others.

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History

• Tudors
• Political and social life of rich and poor during
  Tudor times.

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Geography

• Africa
• Comparing and contrasting life in Africa and
  Crosby
• Climate economic effects of weather conditions
  around the world.

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ICT

• Writing for Different Audiences
• Developing Images
• Branching Databases
• Collecting and presenting Information
• Modelling Effects

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Design Technology

• Books with moving parts (levers and pivots)
• Simple electrical circuits
• Money containers

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Art

• Portraits
• Viewpoints
• Art relating to Curriculum topic

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Music

• Violins
• Pentatonic scale- singing and games
• Voices

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Physical Education

• Swimming
• Please dont get childrens ears pierced this
  year
• Games
• Dance
• Gym

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Homework
Homework should last about 20 minutes and is at a
practice level. If your child is struggling with
the task please just write a note on the
worksheet. Monday - Spellings Tuesday- Core
Subject Wednesday- Foundation Subject Thursday-
Core Subject Friday Often Research Based
Reading every night Please note some homework is
research based and will not be presented on a
worksheet.
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ThanksIf anyone would like to help throughout
the year we would be very grateful.Please fill
in a clearance form!