Year 4 curriculum overview

At Carr Lane Willerby Primary School we deliver a broad and balanced curriculum which seeks to inspire and motivate all learners.

Download our yearly curriculum overviews:

Download our curriculum knowledge organisers:

Year 4 Autumn Spring Summer
English
Mathematics Maths Maths Maths
Science Animals

Sound

Electricity

States of Matter

Habitats
Art & Design Drawing Painting Sculpture

Whole School Art Project

Computing Coding

Hardware

Enriched Coding Effective searching

Online Safety

DT Cooking Pop-up Books Alarms

Designing a printed cushion cover

Geography North America Our local area/ Yorkshire
History Anglo Saxons and Scots Vikings and Anglo Saxons
Languages iLanguages iLanguages iLanguages
Music Mamma Mia

Composing on the Glokenspiel

Stop!

Lean on me

Blackbird
PE Health Related Exercise

Netball

Hockey

Gymnastics

Dance – Aliens

Tag Rugby

Swimming

Athletics

Cricket

‘Student Responsibility and Community Engagement: The school offers numerous lunchtime and after-school clubs, fostering interests in sports and creative arts.’

‘Support for Early Career Teachers: The school supports early career teachers with training from subject leaders.’

‘Enthusiastic Curriculum Leaders: Curriculum leaders have clear visions for their subjects, with PE and mathematics leaders investing in schemes to support teachers.’

‘Student Responsibility and Community Engagement: Pupils also engage in community activities, like making Christmas food hampers and starting a road safety campaign.’

‘Support for Early Career Teachers: An emotional literacy support assistant has been employed to enhance the special educational needs and disabilities team, providing valuable support to parents and pupils.’

‘Wider Development Opportunities: The school promotes pupils’ wider development through opportunities beyond the curriculum, such as links with a school in Uganda, debates, sustainability awareness, and diverse role models.’

‘Effective Phonics Teaching: Reading books match the taught sounds, and additional support is provided for pupils needing extra help.’

‘Effective Phonics Teaching: The phonics leader ensures consistent teaching of phonics across the school.’

Ofsted quotes:

‘Governance and Safeguarding: Governors have a strong understanding of the school’s strengths and areas for improvement, effectively supporting and challenging the school leadership.’

‘Enthusiastic Curriculum Leaders: Pupils, including those with special needs, benefit from scaffolded tasks and appropriately pitched work.’

‘Well-Planned Curriculum: The school has redesigned its curriculum to build on existing knowledge, with all teachers responsible for specific areas.’

‘Happy and Safe Environment: Pupils feel happy and safe at school, working cooperatively and responding well to teachers’ instructions. They perceive the behavior policy as fair and report that bullying is rare.’

‘Effective Phonics Teaching: The school is considering a new phonics program to maintain high-quality teaching.’

‘Governance and Safeguarding: Safeguarding arrangements are effective, with consistent training and comprehensive incident logging.’

‘Well-Planned Curriculum: Curriculum leaders have developed knowledge organisers to identify key knowledge, skills, and vocabulary, which are shared with families and pupils.’

‘Student Responsibility and Community Engagement: Year 6 pupils are given responsibilities, such as being ‘dinner buddies’ and leading celebration assemblies.’