Curriculum Overview for Year Four	

English

WRITING
•	Correctly spell common homophones 
•	Increase regularity of handwriting 
•	Plan writing based on familiar forms 
•	Organise writing into paragraphs 
•	Use simple organisational devices 
•	Proof-read for spelling & punctuation errors 
•	Evaluate own and others’ writing 
•	Read own writing aloud 

Speaking & Listening
•	Articulate & justify opinions 
•	Speak audibly in Standard English 
•	Gain, maintain & monitor interest of listeners.
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READING
•	Secure decoding of unfamiliar words 
•	Read for a range of purposes 
•	Retell some stories orally 
•	Discuss words & phrases that capture the imagination 
•	Identify themes & conventions 
•	Retrieve & record information 
•	Make inferences & justify predictions 
•	Recognise a variety of forms of poetry 
•	Identify & summarise ideas
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•	Use Sketch books to collect, record and evaluate ideas
•	Improve mastery of techniques such as drawing, painting and sculpture with varied materials
•	Learn about great artists, architects and designers

GRAMMAR
•	Use range of conjunctions
•	Use perfect tense
•	 Select pronouns and nouns 
for clarity 
•	Use and punctuate 
Direct speech
•	Use commas after front adverbials
•	Revise all sentence types

See year 3 objectives too.

Design and Technology

Art and Design

Geography

•	Design & write programs to achieve specific goals, including solving problems
•	Use logical reasoning
•	Understand computer networks
•	Use the internet safely and appropriately
•	Collect and present data appropriately.
•	Use and combine a variety of software

Computing

Geometry & Measures 
•	Compare 2-d shapes, including quadrilaterals & triangles 
•	Find area by counting squares 
•	Calculate rectangle perimeters 
•	Estimate & calculate measures 
•	Identify acute, obtuse & right angles 
•	Identify symmetry 
•	Use first quadrant coordinates 
•	Introduce simple translations 

Mathematics

Number/Calculation
•	Know all tables to 12 x 12 
•	Secure place value to 1000 
•	Use negative whole numbers 
•	Round numbers to nearest 10, 100 or 1000 
•	Use Roman numerals to 100 (C) 
•	Column addition & subtraction up to 4 digits 
•	Multiply & divide mentally 
•	Use standard short multiplication 

	
•	Use research & criteria to develop products which are fit for purpose
•	Use annotated sketches and 
prototypes to explain ideas
•	Evaluate existing products and
 improve own work
•	Use mechanical systems in own work
•	Understand seasonality: prepare and cook mainly savoury dishes

Locational Knowledge
•	 Name and locate counties and cities of the UK, geographical  regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics
Human and Physical Geography
•	Describe and u/s economic activity inc trade links, distribution of natural resources inc energy, food, minerals and water
Geographical Skills and Fieldwork
•	Use maps, atlases, globes etc to locate countries & describe features
•	Use 8 points of a compass, grid ref, symbols, keys
•	Use fieldwork to observe, measure, record & present human and physical features

Fractions
•	Recognise tenths & hundredths 
•	Identify equivalent fractions 
•	Add & subtract fractions with common denominators 
•	Recognise common equivalents 
•	Round decimals to whole numbers 
•	Solve money problems 

Data
•	Use bar charts,
 pictograms & line graphs 

	

	

Modern Languages

•	Listen and engage
•	Ask and answer questions
•	Speak in sentences using familiar vocabulary
•	Develop appropriate pronunciation of words and phrases 
•	Appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes
•	Broaden vocabulary

		

Music

•	Use voice & instruments with increasing accuracy, control and expression
•	Improvise & compose music
•	Listen with attention and detail
•	Appreciate a wide range of live and recorded music
•	Begin to develop understanding of history

Science

•	Identify the part played by evaporation & condensation in the water cycle.

Sound
•	Identify how sounds are made
•	Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear
•	Find patterns between pitch of a sound, between the volume of a sound &distance

Electricity
•	Identify common appliances that run on electricity
•	Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts,
•	Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit
•	Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit
•	Recognise some common conductors and insulators, & associate metals with being good conductors.

Living Things
•	Recognise that living things can 
be grouped in a variety of ways
•	Explore &use classification keys to help
          group
•	Recognise that environments can change
And that this can sometimes pose dangers
 to living things.

Animals, including humans
•	Describe the simple functions of the basic
•	 parts of the digestive system in humnas
•	Identify the different types of teeth in
 humnas and their simple funtions
•	Construct and interpret a variety of
•	 food chains, identifying producers
•	 predators and prey.

      States of matter
•	Compare and group materials together,
•	 according to whether they are solids,
 liquids or gases
•	Observe and measure that some materials 
•	change state when they are heated or cooled.

British History

Anglo-Saxons and Scots

•	Britain’s  settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots

Ancient Civilisations
•	The achievements of the earliest civilizations – an overview of where
 and when the first civilizations appeared and a depth study of
-Ancient Egypt

	

History

Physical Education

Religious Education

	

		

•	In line with school policy  

•	Use running, jumping, catching and throwing in isolation and in combination
•	Play competitive games, modified as appropriate
•	Develop flexibility & control in gym, dance and athletics
•	Compare performances to achieve personal bests
•	Swimming proficiency at 25m (KS1 or KS2)