Pl Theme Map for Year 4: Spring 2019 Year 4 Return of the Mummies Please encourage your child to read each day Theme Map for Year 4: Spring 2019 Spring 1 Developing confidence and ability in swimming and skills needed for playing Hockey. Spring 2 Play competitive games in netball and in dance perform using a range of movement patterns. Reading stories from other cultures focused on Ancient Egyptian stories. Writing their own story based on another culture. Pl Spring 1 – Puppet Pals Project Photo-taking, editing, research and understanding how to remain safe on the internet. Spring 2 – Databases Link to Science topic sound. Collect, analyse and present data. Other Exciting Events: Trip to the British Museum (Egyptians theme) ‘Hot Like Fire’ (Poetry) children to identify patterns and techniques within poems and to use these to create their own examples to perform, considering audience and purpose. Using poetry as stimulus for letter writing. English Create a storyboard and script to support Puppet Pals project, based on learning about the Egyptians. Spring 1 – Animals including humans Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system 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. Compare the teeth of carnivores and herbivores, and suggest reasons for differences. Find out what damages teeth and how to look after them. PE ICT Year 4 Return of the Mummies Geography Science Explore life on the River Nile. Use atlases and maps to locate Egypt. Investigate how the landscape sculpted their civilization. Music RE Art & DT Learning songs and dances for the Easter production. Performing on stage. Maths Spring 1 - How has the Christian message survived for over 2,000 years? What is persecution and why might it inhibit the spread of a message. How the Christian Message spread after Jesus’ Ascension and the 1st Pentecost. The Trinity. The Holy Spirit and the confirmation ritual. Spring 2 - Holy Communion What Jesus said about Communion and how Christians remember this today. How the act of sharing Communion demonstrates God’s Peace. The legacy of Jesus and how it may help Christians today in their legacy. History Spring 1 Understanding of place value and numbers to 10,000. Mental calculation including the inverse. Vertical subtraction and multiplication methods. Multiplication problems involving money. Proper fractions. Properties of 2D shapes Spring 2 Place value in decimal numbers. Strategies for calculating with decimals or money. Time-telling and the 24-hour clock. Finding missing lengths in rectilinear shapes. Solve subtraction problems. More complex written algorithms for multiplication and division. Spring 1 Explore textiles through comparing the work of William Morris to Egyptian art. Spring 2 Use a variety of media to design and create your own sarcophagus based on the style of ancient Egypt. Spring 2 – Sound Set up simple practical scientific enquiries, comparative and fair tests to answer own questions based on topic of sound. Explain how sounds are made. Explore how to change the sounds that an instrument can produce. Understand that sounds can vary by pitch and sound. Identify how human and animals differ when hearing sounds. Investigate sound proofing. Develop a sense of chronology through studying Ancient Egypt. Understand Ancient Egyptian cultures. Understand the importance of Tutankhamen’s discovery.