St Matthew’s Catholic Primary School Long Term Plan - 2016 – 2017 Class - 3

Autumn Term / Spring Term / Summer Term
Autumn 1
7 weeks / Autumn 2
7½ Weeks / Spring 1
6½ Weeks / Spring 2
6 ½ Weeks / Summer 1
5 Weeks / Summer 2
6 Weeks
English
Instructions
Text: How to Trap a Stone Giant (Pie Corbett).
Focus – Writing to instruct – Writing an instructions text on how to create a marvelous medicine. Linking to Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvelous Medicine.
Grammar focus: Prepositions, time connectives and imperative verbs. / Explanation
Text: Why Dragons are Extinct (Pie Corbett).
To explain how or why.
Grammar focus – conjunctions and paragraphing, statements and questions. / Story writing
Traditional tales
Text: Chang and the Magic Brush (Pie Corbett).
Focus on paragraphing – new paragraph for a new time or setting. Structure of a story – opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending.
Grammar focus – time connectives. / Recount
Text:
Writing a recount of a school day.
Paragraphing for a new time or setting.
Grammar focus: Pronouns to avoid repetition, powerful verbs, time connectives, past tense verbs.
Story writing: adventure story.
Grammar focus – using inverted commas to punctuate direct speech. / Persuasion text
Text: Letter to Mrs Flower persuading her to visit Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
Focus – Writing to persuade (letters)
Layout of a letter and writing an address.
Grammar focus: emotive language, rhetorical questions, conjunctions. / Non Chronological report –
Text: Unicorns (Pie Corbett)
Writing to inform and paragraphing.
Grammar focus: Apostrophe for possession.
Poetry –
Nonsense poems – Focusing on adjectives and adverbs.
Senses poem – Writing a senses poem relating to take one picture, looking at different punctuation patterns. / Poetry
Simile poems – Using like or as in a simile. / Poetry
Shape poem – creating a poem to fit the shape of the subject.
Maths
·  Number, place value and rounding
·  Mental and written addition and subtraction
·  Mental and written multiplication and division.
·  Geometry – properties of shapes
·  Measurement / ·  Mental and written addition and subtraction
·  Mental and written multiplication and division
·  Fractions
·  Geometry – position and direction
·  Measures
·  Statistics / ·  Number, place value and rounding
·  Mental and written addition and subtraction
·  Mental and written multiplication
·  Fractions
·  Geometry – properties of shapes
·  Geometry – position and direction / ·  Mental and written addition and subtraction
·  Mental and written multiplication and division
·  Fractions and decimals
·  Measurement
·  Statistics / ·  Number and place value
·  Mental & written addition & subtraction and measures (use measures as a context for problems)
·  Geometry – properties of shapes
·  Measurement / ·  Mental and written addition and subtraction
·  Mental and written multiplication and division
·  Fractions
·  Measures
·  Statistics
R.E. and PSHCE
The Christian Family (Baptism), / Mary our mother (and Christmas) / Called to change (Reconciliation) / Eucharist / Celebrating Easter and Pentecost / Being a Christian
Science
Plants
·  identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers
·  explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
·  investigate the way in which water is transported within plants
·  explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal / Animals, including humans
·  identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
·  identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement / Light
·  recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light
·  notice that light is reflected from surfaces
·  recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes
·  recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object
·  find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change
/ Rocks
·  compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
·  describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock
·  recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter / Forces and Magnets
·  compare how things move on different surfaces
·  notice that some forces need contact between 2 objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance
·  observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others
·  compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials
·  describe magnets as having 2 poles
·  predict whether 2 magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing
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Creative Curriculum (Art, DT, Music, ICT, Geography and History)
Europe
 locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of
Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions,
key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
History:
ICT: Information Literacy
·  Research using electronic data and the Internet.
Drama
Produce a play on the story of Romulus and Remus.
Art:
·  To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay] about great artists, architects and designers in history.
DT: TOP
Design
·  use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups
·  generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design
Make
·  select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately
·  select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities
Evaluate
·  investigate and analyse a range of existing products
·  evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work
·  understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world / Stone age
Geography:
name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom
History
changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
Examples (non-statutory)
This could include:
 late Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers, for example, Skara Brae
 Bronze Age religion, technology and travel, for example, Stonehenge
 Iron Age hill forts: tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture / Bronze age
History: Stone age
- Learn about the time period of the stone/bronze/iron age. Label this on a timeline.
- Learn about the everyday life in the bronze age.
English: Stone age
- Write recounts based on life in the bronze age.
ICT: Sound and Music
·  Recording, creating and manipulating music and sound.
ICT: Multimedia
·  Combine text, data, graphics, video and sound.
Visual Media
·  Creating and manipulating digital images, animation and video / Iron age
Geography and history:
human geography, including: types of settlement and land use,
Art
·  To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay] about great artists, architects and designers in history.
P.E.
Cricket / Multiskills games / Netball / Dance and gymnastics / Football / Rounders