Year Four Autumn 1 Roald Dahl

1. Literacy Poetry – creating images with words using Roald Dahl’s poetry as a model. Fiction – Roald Dahl - stories with dilemmas – looking at key features such as character description, setting, dialogue and problem and resolution. Planning and writing own story with a dilemma. Writing – weekly sessions focusing on individual writing targets. Reading comprehension –reading comprehension sessions focusing on group reading targets and using the ‘reading comprehension rules’ to find the answers. Speaking and listening – role play of stories with dilemmas. Debate on issues that arise from the text. Handwriting – ensuring children are forming their letters correctly and looking at a range of different joins. Guided reading – pupils to take part in guided reading sessions with group targets. Numeracy Outdoor Maths - creating number sequences and patterns in the outdoor environment. Number – consolidating and moving forward a range of different ways of adding and subtracting, including written methods. Knowing number bonds to 10, 20, 100 and 1000. Using a range of methods for doubling and halving. Multiplication and division – looking at a range of different methods for multiplication and division, moving onto formal written methods where appropriate. Shape and Space – describing properties of shapes both in 2d and 3d. Understanding regular and irregular shapes. Times Tables – new target times tables and finding a range of ways to help remember times tables. Problem solving – I can investigate and find number bond families. How can we solve this equation in the most efficient way? How can you prove that this answer is correct? Convince me that this word means add/subtract/multiply/divide. Year Four Autumn1 Roald Dahl Art/DT Art –Lowry – using the work or Lowry to develop pictures for settings to write poems about. DT – Designing and making a chocolate bar and wrapper. R.E/ Music/ SMSC links R.E –how do families practise their faith and how does it influence their lives? Music – pupils to begin with guitar and flute lessons guided by College Street teachers. SEAL – New Beginnings. Finding out about similarities and differences and celebrating these. Looking at the community in which we work and understanding how to be a valued member of this community. Finding ways to manage feelings and remain calm. Science (inlcuding AT1) Finding out how solids, liquids and gases move and how they are formed. Looking at different ways of classifying materials. Understanding how the formation of a material changes through heating and cooling. Understanding the terms dissolve and solution. AT1 investigation – How can we separate Mr Twit’s dinner – an investigation into how to separate solids. How can we make a medicine for George (George’s Marvellous Medicine) – an investigation into how combine and separate liquids and solids. Humanities History –childhood through the ages. Looking at the lives of the child characters in Roald Dahl books and comparing their lives to the lives of others. ICT – Using ICT to present work. Choosing best choice of font and colour for particular piece of work. Global dimensions Understanding the term community and global community and how we play a part in these communities. P.E. Indoor PE – gymnastics. Moving in a range of ways including using balances. Creating sequences of movements.