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Knollmead Primary School
Curriculum Overview Year 4 – Summer Term
Cornerstones
Topic
Memorable
Experience
Geography,
History, Art
and DT
Express
Summer 1
Summer 2
Burps, Bottoms and Bile
Tremors
Visited by a dentist. Look at a range of model and real
teeth and listen to the experts talking about different
dental procedures
The children will discuss their intake of sugary food and
suggest healthier alternatives
DT - Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and
varied diet
The children will understand how the digestive system
works and make a wearable digestive system
DT - Select from and use a wider range of tools and
equipment to perform practical tasks (e.g. cutting,
shaping, joining and finishing), accurately
DT - Use research and develop design criteria to inform
the design of innovative, functional, appealing products
that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or
groups
Invite parents in to view children’s work and make pledges
to their gut promising to improve their digestive health
Visit to the Natural History Museum in London
The children will go on a walk around the local area and
identify how different types of rocks are used
G - Describe and understand key aspects of physical
geography, including: volcanoes and earthquakes
The children will use a world map, globe or atlas to
identify the locations of volcanoes including the
remarkable ‘Ring of Fire’.
G - Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer
mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.
The children will find out what causes a volcano to erupt
Describe and understand key aspects of physical
geography, including: volcanoes and earthquakes
The children will find out about the Pompeii eruption
H - Learn about the Roman Empire and its impact on
Britain
The children will learn about what life was like in a busy
Roman town at the time of the explosion
H - Learn about the Roman Empire and its impact on
Britain
Invite parents in to view presentations created by the
children during computing sessions, about the earth and
English
Spelling,
punctuation and
grammar
Maths
and how they will do it
 Power of Reading: The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
 Recounts (diary entry)
 Persuasive letter
 List poetry
 Newspaper report
 Book trailer
 Reviews
 Radio/ TV report
Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand
how to add them (–tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian)
 spell further homophones
 use the first 2 or 3 letters of a word to check its
spelling in a dictionary
 choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity
and cohesion and to avoid repetition
 Using the present perfect form of verbs instead of
the past tense - He has played instruments for 5
years
Measurement: Perimeter and Length
 Convert between different units of measure eg
kilometre to metre.
 Measure and calculate the perimeter of a
rectilinear figure (including squares) in cm and m
Geometry: Angles
 Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and
order angles up to two right angles by size.
 Compare and classify geometric shapes, including
quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their

its features
 Power of Reading: Pebble in my Pocket by Meredith
Hooper
 Poetry
 Story maps
 Fact files
 Instructions
 Writing in role
 Narrative descriptions
 Book making
 Diary entry
 Extending the range of sentences with more than
one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions,
including when, if, because, although
 Fronted adverbials [for example, Later that day, I
heard the bad news.]
 Use of commas after fronted adverbials
 Using noun phrases expanded by the addition of
modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional
phrases
 Using and punctuating direct speech
Measurement: Area and Perimeter
 Measure and calculate the perimeter of a
rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres
and metres.
 Convert between different units of measure [for
example, kilometre to metre]
 Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting
squares.
Time
 Convert between different units of measure, e.g.
Science
properties and sizes.
Geometry: Shape and Symmetry
 Identify lines of symmetry in 2D shapes presented
in different orientations.
 Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to
a specific line of symmetry.
Geometry: Position and Direction
 Describe positions on a 2D grid as coordinates in
the first quadrant.
 Describe movements between positions as
translations of a given unit to the left/ right and
up/ down. Plot specified points and draw sides to
complete a given polygon.
The Body- Where does all that food go?
 To share what we know about food and nutrition and
to ask questions about what happens to food after
it has been eaten
 To investigate where our food goes after it has
been eaten
 To identify the different teeth that humans have
 To identify the different types of teeth that
humans have and understand their functions
 To recognise how to look after our teeth and
explain its importance
 To investigate the function of toothpaste and
compare different types
Working Scientifically
 Asking relevant questions
 Gathering, recording, classifying and presenting
data in a variety of ways to help in answering
questions
hour to minute.
 Read, write & convert time between analogue and
digital 12 and 24 hour clocks.
 Solve problems involving converting from hours to
minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months;
weeks to days.
Measurement: Money
 Solve simple measure and money problems involving
fractions and decimals to two decimal places.
 Estimate, compare and calculate different
measures, including money in pounds and pence.
Rocks- Rock Detectives
 To examine different rocks in order to describe,
compare and contrast their properties
 To sort rocks according to their properties using a
key
 To recognise where and how rocks are used and
explain how their properties make them suitable for
their purpose
 To test and compare rocks to identify which is the
hardest
 To find out which rocks are waterproof
 To investigate how rocks change over time
Working Scientifically
 Recording findings using drawings and labelled
diagrams
 Asking relevant questions and using different types
of scientific enquiries to answer them
 Gathering, recording, classifying and presenting
Making systematic and careful observations
Using straightforward evidence to answer or to
support their findings
 Using results to draw simple conclusions, make
predictions for new values, suggest improvements
and raise further questions
Coding (Purplemash)
data in a variety of ways to help in answering
questions
 Using straightforward evidence to answer or to
support their findings
 Setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative
and fair tests
Coding (Purplemash)
Numbers 20-40
Months of the year
Birthdays and dates
Role plays
Food and drink items
Ordering food
Cross-curricular links: Maths
Cultural links: Food and drink items and customs in French
speaking countries
Swimming
Rounders
Telling our stories
Changes
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Computing
Music
French
PE
RE
PSHE
Swimming
Athletics
Telling our stories
Relationships
Link to Burps, bottoms and bile -The children will discuss
and learn good toilet habits and personal hygiene
PSHE - Recognise that bacteria and viruses can affect
health and that following simple, safe routines can reduce
their spread