Summer 1 2025

Y4 Terns
 
Summer 1 2025
English
Reading: We will use the  text 'The Fossil Hunter' by Kate Winter to develop our reading and comprehension skills. We will discuss our understanding of the text and new vocabulary, retrieve and record information, identify main ideas and summarise these.
 
 Writing: This half term is focused around the text Weslandia by Paul Fleischman. Pupils begin by exploring the characters, settings and plot of the story. Pupils begin by making predictions, describing Wesley's character and retelling the story in their own words. Pupils will then write a non-chronological report to create a brochure about Weslandia. They finish this unit bt creating their own civilisation.
 
Science
Animals: classification and changing habitats

Children explore different ways living things can be grouped and make classification keys. They study ways that habitats may change over time and understand that humans can have both positive and negative effects on their surroundings.

Grouping Living Things
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DT
Fastenings
Pupils will identify the features, benefits and disadvantages of a range of fastening types before designing and making their own book sleeve.
RE
What does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today?

In this unit, pupils build on their understanding of Brahman and look at lived reality through examining Puja at home, worship in the mandir and the festival of Diwali. Pupils will reflect on the idea of dharma through two stories which will sow the seeds for examining this concept in more depth in UKS2.

Watch the video below as an introduction to this unit.

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PSHE
Jigsaw Puzzle 5: Relationships
Our lessons will focus on: jealousy; love and loss; memories; getting on and falling out; girlfriends and boyfriends; celebrating my relationships with people and animals. 
PE - Games
This half term we will develop our ball skills: dribbling, passing, receiving and shooting. We will learn attacking and defending skills and apply these in team games.
French
Language angels - Les Glaces
Pupils will learn 10 flavours of ice-cream and the transactional language required to purchase an ice-cream. By the end of the unit pupils will have the knowledge and skills to take part in a role-play activity where they will order a cone or pot of ice-cream in the flavour(s) of their choice, specifying how many scoops of each they would like.
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Maths
This half term we will begin with decimals, learning about tenths and hundredths as decimals and how to write decimals on a place value grid. Click on the video link below for an introduction to decimal fractions. 
In preparation for the Y4 Multiplication test in June there will be a strong emphasis on securing our quick recall of  times tables this half term. 
 
 Hit the Button is great for improving quick recall of multiplication facts.
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Geography
How can we live more sustainably?

Pupils are introduced to the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development through a number of examples that will be familiar to them in their everyday lives, such as recycling and ‘bags for life’ at supermarkets. From these familiar examples, the pupils progress gradually to reflect upon the concept of a resource and how these can be renewable and infinite or non-renewable and finite. From this foundation the pupils are encouraged to consider their own lives and what they currently do as individuals and at home as a family to be more sustainable.

The school community is the next focus of the investigation. The pupils are given the opportunity to survey the school’s level of sustainability against a number of categories and to identify priorities for development in an Action Plan. The scale and context of the enquiry then moves to a national level with the pupils considering why the UK Government is looking to massively increase the contribution of renewable energy, such as solar and wind, to the generation of electricity.

History
What did the Vikings want and how did Alfred help to stop them getting it?
In this unit pupils are able to identify and reflect on the reasons why Viking Norsemen came to Britain and the impact they had. They are encouraged to look beyond the terrifying activities of the Viking Norsemen to the motives of most Scandinavians who wished to travel to Britain during Anglo-Saxon times. Pupils will explore what it was about the longship that provided Viking Norsemen with such an advantage when raiding English religious communities and consider why horned helmets are popularly associated with Vikings.
Art


 
Music
Computing