Y4 Summer 2

Mount Carmel Values

Our aim is for every child to leave here an Ambassador of Christ.
Our values are deeply rooted in the high expectations that we have of each child in the school. Our Values permeate across the school through children's learning, friendships, behaviour and leadership.
Our values come from the Church.

C - consideration
H - helpfulness
U - unity
R - respect
C - commitment
H - honesty

Our British Values

Our children learn about our British Values through 5 areas. These are discussed at whole school liturgies and during lunch times. We are committed to serving our community, with the strong belief that we are one school for all.

Our Power Values

Our aim is for every child to leave with the power to make a positive change in the world. Through our subjects there are five themes that we believe are integral with teaching children how to become powerful adults.

We ensure that these themes run through our subjects. Children learn about 5 areas of power - Education, Religion, Resources, People and Legacy.

Our Religious Education Curriculum.

Building
Bridges – Admitting wrong, being reconciled with God and each other

God’s
People – Different saints show people what God is like

bridges,
friendship, contrition, Absolution, Sacrament of Reconciliation, Examination
of Conscience, sin, penance, confession

ordinary,
extraordinary, admire, saint, martyr, Communion of Saints, peace, justice

The Power of Learning

English - Writing

National Curriculum

Spell words that are often misspelt
Use of a dictionary
Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write
Organising paragraphs around a theme
Assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
Proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary
Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion

Genres

Biography

Persuasive Argument

Grammar

Using inverted commas & other
punctuation for direct speech

Conjunctions

Apostrophes (possession &
contraction)

Word classes/families

Subordinate clauses

Fronted adverbials

Vocabulary

Scruffy, terrifying
monster, sewers,
Rodent Delusion lucrative budding royal intervention, convince, Royal
Wedding, parody
adventure

The Power of Learning

English - Reading

National Curriculum

 checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and
explaining the meaning of words in context
 asking questions to improve their understanding of a text
 drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives
from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
 predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
 identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these
 identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning

Children's reading is a priority.

Children practice their reading skills through:

Reading aloud to an adult every day, if needed
Whole class daily reading sessions.
Daily Phonic Sessions, if needed
Independent reading books.
Stories being read by an adult.

Non-fiction and Fiction books connected to I was a Rat

The Power of Learning

Maths

National Curriculum

describe positions on a 2-D 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.
interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical
methods, including bar charts and time graphs.
 solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar
charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs.

The area of study is
Geometry and Statistics

Statistics

Geometry – angles
and 2D shapes

Geometry –
position and direction

Key Vocabulary

Table, line graph, bar
chart, pictogram, discrete data, continuous data, operation, altogether,
compare, acute, obtuse, right angle, interior angles, exterior angles,
quadrilateral, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezium, isosceles, equilateral,
scalene, coordinates, position, horizontal, vertical, vertex, vertices

The Power of Learning

Science

National Curriculum

Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.

The area of study is
Living Things and their Habitats

Key Vocabulary

Change, positive, living things, environment, Climate, danger, greenhouse, thermometer, test, carbon dioxide

Your local council needs you! They want to turn an old industrial site in your town back to a wildlife haven. Which plants and animals would have lived here? What do they need to be able to live here again? Learn about wildlife and their habitats. How have their environments changed? What can we do to help them?