Leigh Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School

ENGLISH

Year 3 and 4

We will learn about Jacqueline Wilson.  We will learn about her life and work.  In May we will read The Suitcase Kid, in June and July we will read Cliffhanger.  We will write letters to the author asking her questions. We are curious to know the answers to.  We will act out our favourite scenes from the books.

R.E.

Year 3 and 4

Pentecost – Serving

New Life – To hear and live the Easter message.

Reconciliation – Inter-Relating.

Building bridges, admitting wrong, being reconciled with God and each other.

God’s People –Different Saints show people what God is like.

Topic

Year 3 and 4

Vikings

Children develop their knowledge of the Viking invasion and settlement in Britain.  They will learn about the following:

• Where did the Vikings come from?
• Where did they invade and settle?
• Why did they leave Scandinavia?
• How do we know about them?

The children will work on time lines and map work. 

Following this we will begin to appreciate why the Vikings were successful and understand about the fearsome Viking raiders. We will learn about the beliefs and weapons of the Viking warriors, the design of their longships and about famous Viking leaders and explorers.

Children will construct their own Viking shield and longships and consolidate knowledge by creating a Viking Quest game.

They also write their own Viking saga. D&T creating and making Viking longships.

Spag

Year 3

• From nouns using a range of prefixes
• Express time, place and cause using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions.
• Use the present perfect tense eg: He has gone out to play.

Year 4

• Understand the difference between plural and possessive –s.
• Use expanded noun phrases by adding adjectives, nouns and prepositions.
• Choose the appropriate pronoun or noun to avoid repetition and to support cohesion.

COMPUTER STUDIES

Year 3

* Learn computer Jargon for excel.

* Sort

* Collect data and make graphs

Year 4

* Quick recap with calculations, Jargon and resizing from year 3 excel,

* Using excel to make tables, add data, then input formulas to calculate their work.

* Make a graph with this work.

MATHS

Year 3

Fractions

Children will learn to:

• Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators.
• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole [for example,  +  =  ]
• Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators.
• Solve problems that involve all of the above.

Measurement – Time

• tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks
• estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o’clock, am/pm, morning, afternoon, noon and midnight
• know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year
• compare durations of events [for example, to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks]

Year 4

Decimals-We will compare, order decimals with up to two decimal places, round decimals to the nearest whole number,  recognise and write decimals and their equivalent fractions,  find the effect of dividing a one or two digit number by 10 and 100.

Measurement – Money – Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money.  Solve measure and money problems.

Time Convert between units of measure, for example m to km, minutes to hours.  Read and convert between analogue and digital time.  Solve measurement problems.

SCIENCE

Year 3 and 4

Electricity

• Identify common appliances that run on electricity
• Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers
• Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery
• Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit
• Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

States of Matter

• Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases
• Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C)
• Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature