Y4 Spring 1

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.

Community
– Life in the local Christian community and ministries in the parish

Giving
& Receiving – Living in Communion

community,
commitment, responsibility, parish, laity, ministries, Extraordinary
Ministers, service, funeral rites, pastoral area, deanery

Communion,
community, giving, receiving, Liturgy of the Word, Penitential Act, Lamb of
God, Concluding Rite, Introductory Rite, Eucharist, Communion Rite

Our Religious Education Curriculum.

The Power of Learning

English - Writing

National Curriculum

Spell further homophones
Possessive apostrophes
Form nouns using prefixes
Using subordinate clauses
Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions

Genres

Newspaper report

Book Review

Grammar

Apostrophes for possession (plural)

Conjunctions

Prepositional phrases

Adverbs

Homophones

Subordinate clauses

Vocabulary

Stupendous, Submerged

Intriguing, Compelling

Novella, Tundra

Wilderness, Indigenous

Frostnip, Frostbite

Shelter

The Power of Learning

English - Reading

National Curriculum
 listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
 reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes
 using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read
 increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally
 identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books

Children's reading is a priority.

Children practice their reading skills through:

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

Non-fiction and Fiction books connected to The Iron Man

The Power of Learning

Maths

National Curriculum

 solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and
fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole
number
 add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
 recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths
 recognise and write decimal equivalents

The area of study is
Number and Measures

Multiplication and Division

Measure – Area

Fractions

Key Vocabulary

Multiplication
statement, grouping, repeat addition, correspondence, combinations, division
statement, remainder, area, space, units, trapezium, rectilinear, reflection,
rotation, compare, order, tenth, hundredth, equivalent fraction, improper
fraction, mixed number, simply

The Power of Learning

Science

National Curriculum

identify common appliances that run on electricity
construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers
identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery
recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit
recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

The area of study is
Electricity

Key Vocabulary

Electricity, circuit, switch, battery, plug, mains, appliance, device, wire, crocodile clip, bulb, buzzer, connection, power, cell, connection, power, energy, flow, current, conductor, insulator

Learn all about electrical circuits and test materials' ability to conduct electricity. Put your knowledge of circuits on display by building your own circuit to create a buzz-wire game. Then, use your game to try to defeat a challenger. Who can remain ‘disconnected’ on the game? You will need to impress with your electrical know how.