Autumn 2
| English | Reading | Writing |
| This half term, we will be reading a range of picture books, including Unspoken, Peace and Me and Wabi Sabi. Unspoken delicately approaches the history of the slave trade, Peace and Me celebrates Nobel Peace Prize winners and Wabi Sabi is a sweet story about a cat in Japan and includes Haiku poetry. | In our Writing lessons, we will be writing our own Portal Story based on a very unusual house and we will work on the skills of personification, expanded noun phrases and using powerful adjectives. |
| Maths | We will start our Maths learning by looking at addition and subtraction methods to solve real life problems including money. We will then move on to exploring factor pairs before finishing off the half term on problems on multiplication and division. | ||
| Science | Children will be learning all about sound this half term, and will explore vibrations, investigate pitch and identify different methods that insulate sound. |
| RE | Christianity - Incarnation |
| For religious studies this half term the children will be learning about Christianity and incarnation. They will learn more about the Holy Trinity and the meaning of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and they will continue to explore how Christians express their beliefs. |
| PE | Indoor – Gymnastics
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| History | Ancient Egyptians |
This Autumn term we will be learning all about the ancient civilisation of Egypt. We will study the importance of the River Nile and learn about the daily life of an Egyptian. We are very much looking forward to our school trip to the British Museum to see some real-life ancient mummies close up! |
| DT | In Design Technology the children will be using a CAD (computer-aided design) programme to design and make their own money boxes. |
| French | The topic of study in French in Autumn is En Famille and the children will be learning how to describe their own family, as well as learning how to count to 100. |
| PSHE | In PSHE this half term Year 4 will be studying identity and diversity; how we can see and understand different perspectives and not make judgments on others based on appearance. |
| Music | This half term the children will continue to learn the Ukulele, they will use the correct stance and hold. They will play together as a class and be able to show multiple chord progressions.
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| Computing | This term Y4 will revisit the school’s Acceptable Use Agreement and be reminded of the expectations for using devices safely and appropriately. In programming, they will use a logo based programming language. |