YEAR 4 TOPIC PLAN ~ AUTUMN 1st HALF TERM
Lead Subjects: History
WOW Starter: Clay footprint found on walk in Happisburgh
Visit: Grimes Graves/Wymondham Abbey/Museum
Outcome: Museum exhibition & cave paintings
Parental Engagement: Visit exhibition
MATHS: (Continue numeracy programme)
 Measuring weight
 Time
GEOGRAPHY:
 Locate The Orkneys & Skara Brae on a map.
 Use 8 point compass and 6 figure grid
references, symbols and keys to build
knowledge of the UK
 Compare similarities and differences between
Skara Brae and Wymondham
 Length of day/night, summer solstice/winter
solstice
LANGUAGES:
French
PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
Outdoor & adventurous activity
 orienteering
MUSIC:
Continue with music programme
developing beat, rhythm & tempo
DESIGN TECHNOLOGY:
 Making boats
 Create old tools, pots and other
artefacts for exhibition using clay
and other materials
 Weaving
 Diet – seasonal vegetables
We are Archaeologists
ART & DESIGN:
Artist:
 Cave paintings
 Mixing paints
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:
 What did people in the Stone Age believe?
 Significance of Stonehenge/other stone circles
 Burials (changes in rituals)
HISTORY:
Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
 Use various sources to find out about late
Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers eg:
Skara Brae
 What is archaeology?
 Timeline Stone Age to Iron Age
ENGLISH: (Continue phonics, reading & spelling programme)
 Diary writing: day in the life of a hunter/gatherer
 Write Instructions: how to make fire, catch a Mammoth
 Non-chronological/recount/newspaper reports of finds
 Stories of the Whitestone
 Little Nose stories
 Invites, leaflets, descriptions of artefacts for meseum
SCIENCE:
Question, test ideas, observe, measure, identify, classify
 Categorising plants into groups such as flowering
plants and non-flowering plants eg: ferns and
mosses
 Compare the human impact on environments in
the Stone Age to present day
 Compare the diet and its impact on teeth from the
Stone Age to present day
PSHE:
 Body Language/Communication
 Impact of humans on the environment
Global Citizenship
Modern Cave Dwellers – why do people choose to
live in caves? Eg: Mount Hebron West Bank,
Granada Spain.
ICT:
 Modelling & Simulation: Use software to
represent 3D objects