Hungerford Primary School

Viking Warrior is a competency-based thematic unit with a history focus, telling the legendary story of Ragnar Lothbrok. He is a Viking “sea lord” who, according to his very famous saga, invaded the ancient Kingdom of Frankia and then the British Isles over 1000 years ago. He is known for wearing “hairy trousers”, which protected him on his adventures.

May the Force Be With You is a thematic unit based around magnets and forces, with a key focus on science. We will begin by learning about contact and non-contact forces, before focusing on magnets. We will will learn about magnetic forces, the relevance of magnetic North and South poles and the concept of magnetic attraction and repulsion.

Picture Our Planet is a thematic unit, with a key focus on geography. Learning is centred around three contrasting localities:- Brazil, Scotland and Fiji, and includes key facts, physical and human features, traditions and customs and an insight into how each country is tackling particular conservation issues. We will be looking at a range of sources and evidence and making comparisons.

"Law and Order" is a thematic unit, based on the concept of justice, with a key focus on citizenship.

We will look at the importance of leadership and the meaning of democracy and its origins, before moving on to how this applies practically in communities, both school-wide, locally and nationally. As part of our study, we will get the opportunity to create our own democratic parties and run in class elections!  We will also get the chance to be teachers, planning and teaching our own lessons to the class.

We finish our topic by recognising issues of justice, rights and responsibilities in our own setting and the wider world, designing and illustrating a human rights poster.  In Music, we will create rhythmic patterns and perform them and in Computing we will create and adapt our own video game.

As this is our last unit before the Easter holidays, we will also explore the Easter story and create moving Easter cards using Design Technology skills!

This term, year 4's topic is called “A World of Difference” and is a thematic unit based around 5 world religions. It looks at the following faiths: - Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, examining aspects such as places of worship, holy books, core beliefs and important festivals. We will ask the children to list what they think about the concept of faith and discuss the common features of all religions. Throughout the topic, we will promote the fundamental British values of mutual respect and understanding of those with different faiths and religions, encouraging everyone to share their own experience, ideas and opinions about beliefs. 

"A Window on the World" is a thematic unit, based on global issues with a key focus on Geography.  The children will learn about settlements, land use and trade links; in particular the Suez Canal as an important trade link.  They will also learn about extinction and endagered species linked to captive breeding programmes.

Our topic is “Lightning Speed – Exchanging Ideas’

During the first part of this term, we will be asking the question, ‘How do people stay connected?’ We’ve been discovering how communication has changed over time, how computers communicate and how we, as humans, exchange ideas. So far, we have been practicing Morse-code, used semaphores flags to send messages to each other and even learned to count to 10 using binary!