Year 4

Miss Hall, Mrs Scholey & Mrs Irving

Art - As artists we will:

• Study the collage work of Matisse, Bacon and Warhol
• Create our own collages in response to the work of these artists
• Evaluate, adapt and modify our work

Computing - we will:

• Create an animation and discuss different types of animation.
• Learn about onion skinning and how to add backgrounds and sounds.
• Understand the different parts that make up a computer.
• Electronically compose a piece of music.

Design Technology – As designers we will:

• Study different mechanisms.
• Look in detail at pneumatics.
• Create a diorama.

English – As writers and communicators we will :

• Be writing diary entries and persuasive letters based around the novel ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.’
• Empathise with the characters from the book.
• Write character descriptions of the different characters we are introduced to throughout the story.

French - we will learn how to:

• Describe ourselves and others.
• Say what I and others have.

Geography - As geographers we will:

• Develop our vocabulary relating to earthquakes and tsunamis and understand their features.
• Describe the effect of both earthquakes and tsunamis on settlements and land use.
• Describe and understand the causes, processes and effects of earthquakes and tsunamis, the different types of earthquakes and their physical effects on the environment, including a focus study on a particular earthquake or tsunami.

History - As historians we will:

• Learn about the early days of Christianity in the Roman Empire and how the Romans accepted Christianity.
• Learn about the features of the Western Christian Church and the role of Constantine.
• Find out about the different church that emerged from the East ruled by Justinian.
• Learn about the early kingdom of Askum, an important trading kingdom near the Red Sea, where Christianity became dominant in the 4th Century.
• Explore the difference between secondary and primary sources and how these help our understanding.

Maths - As mathematicians we will:

• Convert between different units of measure.
• Solve simple measure and money problems.
• Estimate, compare and calculate different measures.
• Compare and classify geometric shapes, based on their properties and sizes.
• Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size.
• Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations.
• Describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant.
• Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down.
• Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon.

Music - As musicians we will:

• Explore a range of musical genres.
• Compose our own piece of music fitting with a ‘gospel’ genre.
• Listen and appraise different pieces of music.
• Compare pieces of music using key musical terminology.

PE - As athletes we will:

• Develop our map skills through orienteering.
• Learn attacking and defending skills within a net and wall game.
• Gain new skills to be able to play a game of tennis.

R.E.  - As theologians we will:

• Look at the mission of the Church and what Jesus wanted his disciples to complete.
• We will reflect on our place in the Church and look at what we have to do to become part of the Church community.

RPSHE - as caring citizens we will:

• Know the threats that the environment faces and what we can do to help.
• Learn the correct use of medicines and how vaccinations and immunisations can help to maintain health and well-being.
• Learn about some of the risks and effects of legal and illegal drug use.

Science - As scientists we will:

• Investigate living things.
• We will recognise how living things are adapted for their environments.
• We will recognise that environments change and this can pose dangers to living things.
• We will recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways. 
• We will set up enquiries and plan fair tests by identifying, observing and recording variables.