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Year 4 Curriculum

Year 4                Termly  Curriculum              2023 – 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2024

Summer 2024

CUSP Reading (Y4)

  • The Queen’s Nose Block 1, 2
  • Young, Gifted and Black Blocks 3,4,5

Caged Bird - Maya Angelou

  • The Girl who stole an Elephant
    Block 6
  • The Girl who stole an Elephant
    Blocks 7, 8
  • The Boy at the back of the class
    Blocks 9,10, 11
  • Varjak Paw  Block 12
  • Varjak Paw Blocks 13, 14
  • Wind in the Willows (The Walrus and the Carpenter – Lewis Carroll)
    Blocks 15, 16,17
  • The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe Block 18

CUSP Writing
Introduce = green (Block A) Revisit = orange (Block B)
Strong Start Sentence Composition (optional)

  • Poems which explore form A
  • Persuasive writing (adverts) A
  • First person diary entries (imaginative) A
  • Critical analysis of narrative poetry A
  • Third person adventure stories A
  • Newspaper reports A
  • Stories from other cultures A
  • Persuasive writing (adverts) B
  • Explanatory texts A
  • Third person adventure stories B
  • Poems which explore form B
     
  • Stories from other cultures B
  • First person diary entries (imaginative) B
  • Critical analysis of narrative poetry B
  • Newspaper reports B
  • Explanatory texts B

Maths- White Rose

  • Place Value
  • Addition and Subtraction
  • Area
  • Multiplication and division A
  • Multiplication and division B
  • length and perimeter
  • fractions
  • decimals A 
  • Decimals B
  • Money
  • Time
  • Shape
  • Statistics
  • Position and Direction 

CUSP Science

  • Living things and their habitats
  • States of matter
 
  • Animals, including humans
 
  • Electricity
  • Sound

CUSP Art and Design

  • Drawing Block A
  • Painting Block B
 
  • Printmaking and textiles Block C
  • 3D and collage Block D
 
  • Painting Block E
  • Creative Response Block F

Computing –

  • The Internet
  • Audio production
  • repetition in shapes
  • data logging
  • Photo editing
  • Repetition in games

CUSP Design and Technology 

  • Food and Nutrition Block A
  • Mechanisms Block B 
 
  • Textiles Block C
  • Structures Block D
  • Electrical systems Block E
    Science - Electricity
  • Food and Nutrition Block F
    Science – Animals including humans

CUSP Geography

  • Rivers
  • Latitude and longitude
 
  • Latitude and longitude
  • Water cycle
 
  • Rivers revisited
  • Map skills – environmental regions

CUSP History

  • Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
  • Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor
 
  • Ancient civilisation – Egypt or Shang Dynasty

CUSP Music - mastering the glockenspiel

Untuned percussion 

  • Untuned focus: Mastering rhythm 2 Block A
  • Follow beats in a bar (time signatures/metre) Block A

Singing 

  • Singing focus: Introducing texture 2 Block B
  • Sing parts in an ensemble (harmony) Block B

Music

Glockenspiel

  • Tuned focus: Musical notation 2 Block C
  • Revisit the staff Block C

Singing 

  • Singing focus: The history of singing 2 Block D
  • Singing for entertainment e.g. opera, theatrical, modernism Block D

Music

Glockenspiel

  • Performance focus: Composition 2 Block E
  • Perform including an element of composition Block E

Range of instruments studied

  • Tuned focus: Introducing timbre 2 Block F
  • Identify and describe how sounds are combined Block F

CUSP French

  • The calendar (Days, months, date)
  • Colours, emotions and numbers 0-20

CUSP French

  • Items from daily life (Clothes)
  • Learning together (Subjects and school)

CUSP French

  • The natural world (Animals and plants)
  • Celebration (Bastille Day)

PE - Real PE

  • CORE - Personal
  • CORE - Social 
  • GYM - physical
  • CORE- cognitive
  • CORE - Creative
  • GYM - Cognitive 
  • Dance - personal 
 
  • CORE - Physical
  • CORE - Health and Fitness

PSHE - SCARF

  • Me and My Relationships
  • Valuing Difference

PSHE

  • Keeping Safe
  • Growing and Changing

PSHE

  • Being my Best
  • Rights and Responsibilities 

RE - Leicestershire Agreed Syllabus 

  • What kind of World did Jesus want? (UC GOSPEL)
  • What is the trinity and why is it important for Christmas? (UC INCARNATION & GOD)
  • How do festivals and worship show what matters to Muslim? 
  • How do festivals and family life show matters do Jewish people? 
  • For Christinas when Jesus left, what was the impact of Pentecost? (UC SALVATION)
  • How and why do people mark Significant events of life?

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