Welcome to
Year 4

At KS1 and KS2 we follow a two year sequence:

2024/2025 and 2026/2027

Autumn 1 – Textiles – batik

Autumn 2 – Painting

Spring 1 – Mechanical Systems: Pneumatics

Spring 2 – Collage

Summer 1 – Portraits, including mixed media

Summer 2 – Food Technology

2025/2026

Autumn 1 – Printing

Autumn 2 – 3D: Metal

Spring 1 – Electrical Systems

Spring 2 – Mechanica | Systems (axles and wheels)

Summer 1 – Portraits, including mixed media

Summer 2 – Structures

Each year through KS1-2 we cycle through the following units at increasing depth:

1. Productivity
2. Programming
3. Computational Thinking
4. Creativity
5. Networks
6. Communication/collaboration

Reading to Learn

Once children have been carefully assessed as having met the requirements of the phonics program, they should be able to decode any age appropriate text. At this point, children move onto our ‘Paradigm Literacy and Language’ program.

The program allocates 3 weeks to ‘fiction writing’ such as: stories, poetry, one week to ‘journalistic writing’ such as biographies and non chronological reports and two weeks to a ‘non fiction writing’ program in which specialist teachers across the Trust have worked together to create and provide high quality texts in The Humanities and The Sciences.

Click here to see which books we read in Year Four.

Children in Year 4 learn about the following subjects:

The living world

• Biomes
• Hot and cold climates
• Rainforests

The economic world

• Food, water and energy
• The changing economic world
• Tourism and ecotourism
• Case study: Cambridge

We cover two topics a year for History in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. In Year 4 we look at Roman Impact on Britain, then Anglo-Saxons and Vikings.

Our school uses Maths Mastery to teach the subject.

In Year 4 we cover:

• Reasoning with large numbers
• Addition and subtraction
• Multiplication and division
• Discrete and continuous data

We introduce Spanish at Key Stage 2, through a system called Early Start Spanish Programme.

Autumn 1 – Blues

Autumn 2 – Britpop

Spring 1 – Programme Music

Spring 2 – Soul / Motown

Summer 1 – Musical Theatre

Summer 2 – Reflect, Rewind and Replay

• Striking / fielding (e.g. rounders, cricket)
• Gymnastics
• Invasion Games (e.g. hockey, netball, football)
• Athletics
• Swimming
• Dance

We follow a three-year cycle (see below) covering the major world religions as well as worldviews.

The programme is designed so that each previously taught religion is reviewed and comparisons are drawn between the content. Over six years, each child will have studied each identified religion/non-religion twice, studying in greater depth and making connections between religions.

Pupils are taught key substantive knowledge for each religion and worldview and each lesson is broken down into one of 3 disciplines: Theology, Philosophy and Human/Social Science.

The Paradigm primary schools follow the Jigsaw programme.

From September 2019 we have allocated 45 minutes per week to PSHE at KS1 and KS2.

• Being Me in My World
• Celebrating Difference
• Dreams and Goals
• Healthy Me
• Relationships
• Changing Me

Autumn 1 – Living Things, their Habitats and Classification | State of Matter

Autumn 2 – Earth and Space | Animals, including humans

Spring 1 – Forces and Magnets | Electricity

Spring 2 – Rocks | Plants

Summer 1 – Light and Sound | Living Things and their Habitats and Classification

Summer 2 – Properties of Materials | Environmental Issues: Global warming | Pollution Plastics