Author: Jack Edwards

Year 4—Summer 2
Curriculum Overview

Eureka

Writing
In our mini-mission, we will be writing a non-chronological report to inform readers about a chosen British invention such as the hydraulic press or the steam train. We will also create explanation texts to inform about inventions,

Reading
We will be reading with fluency and becoming more confident with reading to partners or teachers. For guided reading lessons, we will be using the Reading explorers to give us short texts to improve our deduction , reasoning and inference skills. We have also chosen The Last Firefox as our class book

History
In our mini-mission we will be focussing on various British inventions and important inventors since the 1800’s such as cars, lightbulbs and aeroplanes.

Art
During art lessons we will be creating portraits and looking at the artist Andy Warhol and creating our own portraits in this style.

Computing
In computing, are focusing on the impact of audio editing. We how we can change audios to suit different purposes and styles.

Physical Education
In our cricket block we will be understanding the rules and techniques needed to improve our game. We will focus on teamwork and supporting others whilst improving skills.

PSHE / RSE
In PSHE we are looking at Changing Me. In this unit we discuss the circle of life and how children’s bodies change as they grow up.

Science:
In our science topic we will be looking at how electricity works. To do this, we will discuss modern uses of electricity and try to create our own electric circuits to make a light bulb work.

Religious Education
Our RE topic for this half term is Do people need to go to Church to show they are Christians? To answer this question we will explore how Christians show their faith, in particular through prayer and worship.

Mathematics
In Mathematics, are deepening our knowledge of the features of shapes, their angles, sides and compositions. We will then begin statistics an understand line graphs to read them and create our own. Finally, we will learn about position and direction by using shapes on grids and manipulating them.