Autumn 2023

Spring 2024

Summer 2024

CUSP Reading (Y4)

• The Queen’s Nose Block 1, 2
• Young, Gifted and Black Blocks 3,4,5

Caged Bird - Maya Angelou

• The Girl who stole an Elephant
  Block 6

• The Girl who stole an Elephant
  Blocks 7, 8
• The Boy at the back of the class
  Blocks 9,10, 11
• Varjak Paw  Block 12

• Varjak Paw Blocks 13, 14
• Wind in the Willows (The Walrus and the Carpenter – Lewis Carroll)
  Blocks 15, 16,17
• The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe Block 18

CUSP Writing
 

• Poems which explore form A
• Persuasive writing (adverts) A
• First person diary entries (imaginative) A
• Critical analysis of narrative poetry A
• Third person adventure stories A
• Newspaper reports A

• Stories from other cultures A
• Persuasive writing (adverts) B
• Explanatory texts A
• Third person adventure stories B
• Poems which explore form B
   

• Stories from other cultures B
• First person diary entries (imaginative) B
• Critical analysis of narrative poetry B
• Newspaper reports B
• Explanatory texts B

Maths- White Rose

• Place Value
• Addition and Subtraction
• Area
• Multiplication and division A

• Multiplication and division B
• length and perimeter
• fractions
• decimals A 

• Decimals B
• Money
• Time
• Shape
• Statistics
• Position and Direction 

CUSP Science

• Living things and their habitats
• States of matter

• Animals, including humans

• Electricity
• Sound

CUSP Art and Design

• Drawing Block A
• Painting Block B

• Printmaking and textiles Block C
• 3D and collage Block D

• Painting Block E
• Creative Response Block F

Computing –

• The Internet
• Audio production

• repetition in shapes
• data logging

• Photo editing
• Repetition in games

CUSP Design and Technology 

• Food and Nutrition Block A
• Mechanisms Block B 

• Textiles Block C
• Structures Block D

• Electrical systems Block E
  Science - Electricity
• Food and Nutrition Block F
  Science – Animals including humans

CUSP Geography

• Rivers
• Latitude and longitude

• Latitude and longitude
• Water cycle

• Rivers revisited
• Map skills – environmental regions

CUSP History

• Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots

• Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor

• Ancient civilisation – Egypt or Shang Dynasty

CUSP Music - mastering the glockenspiel

Untuned percussion 

• Untuned focus: Mastering rhythm 2 Block A
• Follow beats in a bar (time signatures/metre) Block A

Singing 

• Singing focus: Introducing texture 2 Block B
• Sing parts in an ensemble (harmony) Block B

Music

Glockenspiel

• Tuned focus: Musical notation 2 Block C
• Revisit the staff Block C

Singing 

• Singing focus: The history of singing 2 Block D
• Singing for entertainment e.g. opera, theatrical, modernism Block D

Music

Glockenspiel

• Performance focus: Composition 2 Block E
• Perform including an element of composition Block E

Range of instruments studied

• Tuned focus: Introducing timbre 2 Block F
• Identify and describe how sounds are combined Block F

CUSP French

• The calendar (Days, months, date)
• Colours, emotions and numbers 0-20

CUSP French

• Items from daily life (Clothes)
• Learning together (Subjects and school)

CUSP French

• The natural world (Animals and plants)
• Celebration (Bastille Day)