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Yearly Topic Overview

Victoria Community School Creative Curriculum Overview 2021-2022

YEAR 4

 

English

Reading:

Including Reading Spine Text and Author focus

White Rose

Maths

Science

History

Geography

Art

D & T

RE/PSHE

PE

Computing

Commando Joe

Trips/

Visits

Themed days

Autumn 1

 

(8 weeks)

Recount

 

Writing codes

 

The Twits

Descriptive writing

 

Formal letter writing

 

 

The Twits

Roald Dahl

 

Charlotte’s Web

E.B White

 

Where Does My Food Come From?

 

Nobody Loves Me, Everybody Hates Me

Michael Rosen

Place Value

 

Addition and

Subtraction

States of Matter

Farm to Fork

Giuseppe Arcimboldi

Fruit and Vegetable portraits

Me and My School

Becoming an Adult

Gymnastics

 

Team building

E-Safety (Education for a Connected World)

BEAR GRYLLS

Packington Farm

5th Oct – Willow

7th Oct - Hawthorn

Autumn 2

 

(7 weeks)

Word and sentence building

 

Narrative

The Beast with a thousand teeth

 

Bill’s New Frock

Play script

Bill’s New Frock

Anne Fine

 

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Kate DiCamillo

 

Children’s Atlas

 

Cow II

Ted Hughes

Length and Perimeter

 

Number-Multiplication and Division

Electricity

Around the World – Locate countries using maps

Tile patterns from countries around the world

 

Me in the World

Inspirational People

Gymnastics

 

Handball

E-Safety (Education for a Connected World)

Cinema

Spring 1

 

(7 weeks)

The Egyptian Cinderella (Fables)

 

Non-chronological report-Egyptians

 

Poetry

Secrets of a Sun King

Emma Carroll


Horrible Histories Magazine (Ancient Egyptians)

 

Firework Night

Enid Blyton

Multiplication and Division

 

Measure-Area

Living things and their habitats

Achievement of earliest civilisations

Ancient Egypt

 

Electrical Systems:

Simple circuits and switches

 

Me and Other People

Judaism

Dance

 

 

Coding – code.org

Kira Salak

 

 

Spring 2

 

(6 weeks)

Short stories

 

Recount

(Transport museum)

 

Railway children unit

 

Poetry

 

The Railway Children

E Nesbit

 

Digestive system and teeth topic books

 

From a Railway Carriage

R L Stevenson

Measure-Money

 

Time

 

Digestive System

 

Teeth

British History that extends chronological knowledge beyond 1066: Transport, canals and railways

Mechanical Systems:

Levers and Linkages

Me and My Safety

Sikhism

 

 

Invasion Games

 

Tennis

 

Coding – Discovery education

Transport Museum

Summer 1

 

(5 weeks)

Space

(information leaflet)

 

Book – The Magicians Elephant

Kate DiCamillo

 

How to train a dragon

Cressida Cowell

 

Settlements

Izzi Howell

 

Matilda

Hilarie Belloc

Decimals

 

Fractions

Food Chains

 

Types of Settlements

Kandinsky

Me and My Relationships

War and Suffering

Cricket

Word processing – Skills ladder

PowerPoint

LEIF ERIKSON -The Vikings

Egyptian Day

(in school)

Summer 2

 

(6.5 weeks)

Beowulf

 

Biography writing (Helen Keller

 

Anglo Saxon Boy

Tony Bradman

 

Desirable

Frank Cottrell Boyce

 

Anglo-Saxon Times

 

The Late Commuter

Patrick Winstanley

Statistics

 

Properties of Shapes

 

Position and Direction

Sound

Anglo-Saxons and Scots

Food: Healthy and Varied Diet

Happy and Healthy Me

Neighbours

Athletics

 

Rounders

Word processing – Skills ladder

Fire station