Teacher – Georgia Horton
HLTA – Sultana Ferdausi
Year 4: Term 2
Under Attack
Science: 1st HALF: ANIMALS INCLUDING HUMANS.
- Describe the simple functions of basic types of the digestive systems in humans.
- Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions.
- Construct and interpret a variety of food chains; identifying producers, predators and prey
CROSS CURRICULAR
- Fraction of type of teeth problems
- Compare fractions of carnivores and herbivores.
- Construct bar charts comparing tooth types in humans and animals.
Write a persuasive leaflet on caring for teeth
ICT Opportunities: Digital Research
- Identify some key variables in a range of online simulations
•Find useful information on a pre-selected set of websites
Science: 2ND HALF: SOUND
- Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with vibrating.
- Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear.
- Find the patterns between the pitch of a sound and the features of the vibrations that produced it.
CROSS CURRICULAR
- Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance increases. Read and construct line graphs based noise levels in the classroom.
- Compare and order pitches of sounds using decimals.
- Write a sound poem using key vocabulary
Write an instruction leaflet on creating a musical instrument
ICT Opportunities: Digital Media
- Edit the properties of sound files using digital tools
Compose and edit a musical sequence with several tracks
History: THE VIKINGS
- Know where the Vikings came from and why they attacked.
- Know the threat of the Vikings came from the sea.
- Locate the Vikings in time in relation to the Romans and the Saxons.
- Identify where the Vikings raided.
- Understand how the role of Vikings changed from raiders to conquerors.
- Understand the importance of Danelaw.
Maths Links
- Research Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor. Word problems about Viking life
- Fractions problems about Viking trading.
- Read and write distances Vikings travelled in km.
- Multiplication / division money problems about ‘Wergild’ (the value set on human life based on crimes committed.)
Writing Links
- Create an information book about the Vikings.
- Write an eye-witness account of a Viking raid.
- Write a diary from the perspective of a Viking raider/ Viking conqueror
- Write a set of rules that people living by Danelaw had to abide by
- Write a letter describing living in the Danelaw
- Write a fact file about Edward the confessor and Alfred the Great
- Write a description of a Viking feast
- Create a wanted poster of a Viking warrior
- Write a diary entry from a villager’s point of view about being attacked by Vikings
- Write a travel brochure for a place which was a Viking settlement
- Create an advert for a product that was traded in Viking times
Write an estate agent style of writing for a preferred settlement type
ICT Opportunities: Digital Research + Digital Data
Understand issues around bias and accuracy in online data
Find useful information on a pre-selected set of websites
Use digital resources to make notes on a topic for a report
Explain simple ways to check the accuracy of online info
Geography: SETTLEMENT AND LAND USE
- Know the different types of settlement.
- Look at places that originated in Viking times and identify them by their settlement type.
- Use maps to look at the similarities and differences of different types of settlement.
- Look at the trade links between Viking countries and identify why they invaded these places.
- Look at trade links between these countries in the modern day.
CROSS CURRICULAR
- Construct and interpret charts about settlement preferences.
Solve translation problems about Viking settlement patterns.
ICT Opportunities: Digital Data
- Understand issues around bias and accuracy in online data
- Find useful information on a pre-selected set of websites
- Use digital resources to make notes on a topic for a report
Explain simple ways to check the accuracy of online info
ART: REPEATING PATTERNS
- Use a graphics package to create images and effects with lines by controlling the brush tool with increased precision.
- Use digital media to create shapes by making selections to cut, duplicate and repeat.
- Experiment with colours and textures by making an appropriate choice of special effects and filters to manipulate and create images for a particular purpose.
CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR THE MORE ABLE PUPILS:
- Use more complex patterns and filters
- Create original repeating patterns
Research the origins of repeating patterns
ICT Opportunities: Digital Publishing + Media
- Use digital tools to edit, crop and resize images and photos
Select appropriate software from a range to suit purpose
D.T: MAKE BISCUITS FOR A HUNGRY INVADER ( there is a plan bee scheme for this)
- Develop design criteria to inform the design of functional and appealing products that are fit for purpose.
- Generate, develop, model and communicate ideas through discussions, sketches and prototypes.
- Select and use from a wide range of ingredients.
- Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.
- Evaluate individual products against a design criteria and consider views of others to improve work.
- Prepare and cook a variety of dishes using a range of techniques.
CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR THE MORE ABLE PUPILS;
- Prepare and cook dishes independently
- Evaluate the most appropriate cooking techniques and methods of preparation for each dish
Experiment with different ingredients and explain which were chosen and why
ICT Opportunities:
Storyboard and shoot a series of video clips for a purpose
Explain how they would improve their own work
Find useful information on a pre-selected set of websites
Use digital resources to make notes on a topic for a report
Computing: Coding, Programming and Computer Games
- Create and edit flow diagrams to break down a sequence (eg traffic lights) into smaller steps
- Create more complex programs using symbols and text to achieve an outcome on screen
- Explore the variables in a range of simulations and relate to real life applications and situations
- Create simple interactive computer games and activities
Identify and de-bug errors in their own/others code
P.E: (see the P.E folder for more guidance)
ICT Opportunities; Digital Media and Tools – Take photos and videos for a purpose, using basic camera tools – zoom and a tripod
R.E – See agreed syllabus for more detail.
- BUDDHISM – unit 3
HINDUISM – unit 3
Entitlement and Enrichment
The British museum, visit Swanscombe(?)