Y4 Spring Term Connected Curriculum Overviews
| Year 4 - Spring 1 | ||
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Topic Question |
Core Text |
Visits/Visitors |
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How would we survive without water? |
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Water Aid Visitor |
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Driver and Enhancer |
Experience (linked to Global Citizenship skills) |
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Geography and Art |
Raising money for Water Aid |
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Key Learning Geography |
Key Learning Art |
Golden Question (linked to British Values and SMSC) |
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Should we donate money to provide clean water for people in other countries? |
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Key Vocabulary |
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floodplain, river, source, tributary, meander, deposition, precipitation, river bed, river bank, water cycle, evaporation, condensation, sublimation, precipitation, transpiration, runoff, infiltration, impressionism |
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How to Help at Home |
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Take a trip to one of Manchester’s art galleries and look at the art on display. Can you find local artist Wynford Dewhurst’s Monet inspired paintings? |
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| Year 4 - Spring 2 | ||
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Topic Question |
Core Text |
Visits/Visitors |
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Why did the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings invade Britain? |
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Liverpool Museum |
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Driver and Enhancer |
Experience (linked to Global Citizenship skills) |
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History and DT |
To take part in a debate |
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Key Learning History |
Key Learning DT |
Golden Question (linked to British Values and SMSC) |
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Is it ever right to invade other countries and make their land your own? |
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Key Vocabulary |
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weaving, loom, warp, weft, bronze, Bayeux tapestry, thatched, invader, invasion, settlement, |
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How to Help at Home |
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Do some paper weaving with your child. Watch who were the Anglo Saxons on BBC teach and talk about what you found out https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxsbcdm/articles/zq2m6sg |
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