Halley Primary School

Halley Primary School

Overview of Learning- Year 3
2015 - 2016
Autumn 1 / Autumn 2 / Spring 1 / Spring 2 / Summer 1 / Summer 2
English / DPiL: Narrative Modern Fairy Tale
Princess Smartypants
4 weeks
Poems with a structure e.g. shape, calligrams, rhyming couplets / DPiL: Non-Fiction and Fiction
Egyptians
Egyptian Fairy-tale,
Report/Instructions
6 weeks (continue into next half term)
DPiL: Non-Fiction and Fiction
Egyptians
Diary –Opening of Tut’s Tomb
(To add- discussion for and against) / DPiL: Playscripts
The Giving Tree
3 weeks
DPiL: New KS2 Poetry (training in November) / DPiL: Narrative
Trickster stories/fables
Non Fiction
Persuasive letters
(link rainforest)
2 weeks / DPiL: Non-Fiction and Fiction
Stone Age
(duration TBC)
Poetry: Poems on a theme
(Linked to an area across the curriculum)
2 weeks / DPIL: Narrative Pirate Adventure –
5/6 weeks
Start this unit before half term with Anansi stories
4-6 weeks
DPiL Non-fiction:
Pirates
6 weeks
(If Stone Age Unit goes ahead – take out one Pirate Unit)
Poetry: Classic poetry for performance
2 weeks
Maths / See Year 3 Mathematics Yearly Overview
Science / Rocks
Working scientifically / Forces and magnets / Animals, including humans / Light / Plants
IPC
(History, Geography & International) / Brain
Wave / Living Together: Commun-
ities / Temples, Tombs and Treasures
Ancient Civilisations Egypt and Sumer / Saving the World:
Rainforests / Scavengers and Settlers
Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age / Different Places, Similar Lives
Locate the world’s countries
Art & Design / Great Artists: Richard Deacon & Alexander Calder
Community Sculpture / Great works of art: Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings
Create a tomb paining
Make an Ancient Egyptian headdress / Explore rainforest body art and painting our faces in a similar style
Great Artist: Henri Rousseau
Use art to create a rainforest scene
Explore the Ebru technique of painting on water / Great works of art: cave paintings
Create our own prehistoric cave paintings
DT / Exploring layers of the rainforest – create a mini rainforest using shoe boxes
Make rainforest houses / Cook and update the dishes that the early settlers may have eaten / Wheels, pulleys, levers, floats and slides: learn how people, food and water are transported
ICT / E-Safety
History Presenting (greenscreen) / Ben – Turn it On!
Exploring computer networks / Programing an animation (scratch) / Ben – Turn it On!
Debugging
(scratch) / Communicating safely on the internet (google apps for education) / Ben – Turn it On!
Collecting and analysing data
(survey monkey)
PE / Games;
Ball skills pasusing and receiving
Gymnastics:
Stretching and curling / Games:
Creating and making games
Dance / Dance/Gymnastics;
Symmetry and asymmetry
Games:
Net / court games / Games:
Striking and fielding
Gymnastics:
Travelling with change of face and direction / THYSF
Athletics:
Track and field events / THYSF
Athletics:
Track and field events
Music / (IPC: Living together – no music objectives)
Suggested Music Express Unit:‘Salt, pepper, vinegar, mustard’ –singing games / IPC: Temples, Tombs and Treasures: Create our own music to retell a story from an ancient civilization / IPC: Saving the World:
Lion king musical/ songs and performing / IPC: Scavengers and Settlers – no music objectives)
Suggested Music Express Unit:
‘Painting with sound’ – sound colours / (IPC: Different Places, Similar Lives – no music objectives)
Suggested Music Express Unit:‘Play it again’ – rhythmic patterns
RE / Leaders and Followers.
Who do Jewish and Christian people follow? / Leaders and Followers.
Who do Jewish and Christian people follow? / Why does the prophet matter to Muslims? / Believing in Tower Hamlets. What different beliefs can we find in our area? / What different beliefs about God do people have? (Christianity/ Islam) / What different beliefs about God do people have? (Christianity /Islam)
PSHE / Being Me in My World / Celebrating Differences / Dreams and Goals / Healthy Me / Relationships / Changing Me
French / Greetings
Introduction:French/
Vocab..Nos/Alphabet
Listen to French book/Song/
Colours/Role Play / My birthday
Vocab/Numbers
Song/Maths/
Weekdays
Months / Clothes
Vocab/Grammar
Article masc/fem/plural / Classroom Objects
Vocab/ Grammar/ Song
To have and to be verb / My family
Vocab/Grammar
Subject Pronouns / Farm Animals
Vocabulary
Likes and Dislikes
Listen to French Book

Update July 2015