Year Four

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Curriculum Overview 

2025-2026

Timetables

4A – Miss Williamson

4B – Mr Leighton

Knowledge Organiser: Knowledge organisers are powerful, learning tools. The knowledge organisers below include key vocabulary and information that will be essential during each unit of work.

Curriculum Overview Year Four

Theme – Ancient Civilisations

Autumn

Theme – Ingenious Inventors

Spring

Theme – Buzzing Brazil

Summer

Science

Year 4 – Animals Inc. Humans (Digestive System & Teeth)

During this unit, you will learn about the function of teeth within the human digestive system.

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Year 4 – States of Matter

During this unit, you will learn about solids, liquid and gases.

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Y4 – Sound

During this unit, you will learn how sound travels before finding patterns involving pitch and volume.

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Year 4 – Electricity_

During this unit, you will learn how to construct electrical circuits before exploring insulators and conductors.

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Y4 – Living Things and Their Habitats

During this unit, you will explore how to use classification keys in order to sort and group living things.

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Art and Design (A)

2025-2026

Painting – Impasto

Painting – Abstract Expressionism

Drawing – Direct Observation (Pencil)

Sculpture – Chinese Dough Figures

Art and Design (B)

2024-2025

Painting – Watercolour

Drawing – Figures

Drawing – Still Life

Sculpture – Contemporary Clay

Design and Technology (A)

2025-2026

Cooking & Nutrition – Bread

Complex Structures – Shelter

Mechanisms (Cams) – Victorian Toys

Textiles – Personalised Pouches

Design and Technology (B)

2024-2025

Cooking & Nutrition – Marvellous Morning Meals 

Complex Structures – Animal Enclosures

Mechanisms – Complex Levers

Textiles – Comfort 

Music (A)

2025 – 2026

Listening & Appreciating – Disco

Composition – Indian Raga

Performance – Folk

Performance – Reggae

Music (B)

2024 – 2025

Listening & Appreciating – Country 

Listening & Appreciating – Rock

Composition – Orchestral Music 

Performance – Rock & Roll

Cultural Capital (A)

Production – Pantomime

Digital Media – Interactive Quiz

Global Issues & Impacts – Habitat Destruction

Community – Money Matters