Year 3 Curriculum Grid 2016 - 2017
Autumn / Spring / SummerTheme / Animals and Creatures / The World Around Us / North and South America
Literacy / Myths and Legends
Non- fiction: Instructions (link to making bread)
Guided Reading
The Sheep Pig / Stories with familiar settings
Shape poems
Guided Reading –
Hansel and Gretel / Poetry: playing with language
Biography
Play scripts
Guided Reading – The Magic Box
The Abominables / Non- fiction: Reports (link to geographical features)
Letter writing
Imaginary worlds
Guided Reading – Into the Forest The Battle of Bubble and Squeak / Information texts
Stories from other cultures
Author study
Guided Reading – The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe / Free choice novel
Performance poetry
Guided Reading – The Iron Man
Ongoing / Handwriting, reading, grammar, spellings,
Maths / Number and place value
Place value and properties of numbers
Word problems / Calculation-Addition and subtraction
Fractions- fractions of shapes and numbers / Calculation- multiplication and division
Time and measurement / Geometry- shape and space
2D and 3D shapes
Angles and right angles
Lines- horizontal/vertical/perpendicular / Statistics- Bar charts/ pictograms/ tables
Solving word problems / Calculation- revision of column methods
Ongoing / Tables, mental skills
Science / Animals: Animals and Skeletons / Animals: Animal Homes / Simple forces including magnetism / Plants / Light / Rocks
Computing / We are Programmers / We are Bug fixers / We are presenters / We are network engineers / Research
Internet safety
We are communicators / We are opinion pollsters
Humanities / Stone Age / Locate the world’s continents –Locate countries in Europe and their capital cities / Broader history study- a local history study / Describe and understand climate/ rivers/ mountains / North and South America
Locate Equator, N + S Hemispheres, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn / Use an 8 point compass
British Geography
Use field work to observe, measure and record
RE (Focus religion is Judaism) / What do religious traditions say about how we should treat one another? / Christmas story- how Christians celebrate Christmas. / How does Judaism mark special times in life? / Easter story / Loving your neighbour / A religious study- Yom Kippah.
DT/Art / Art- Cave paintings/ line drawings/ story telling
DT- making bread / DT- Designing and creating free standing photo frame / Art-Light and shadow portraits / Art- patterns/ repeating patterns / Art-North American art printing
DT-researching/designing/constructing North American tepees
Music / Animals / World Music / Music from Native North America
PSHCE / New beginnings / Getting on and falling out / Going for goals / Good to be me / Community / Changes
PE / Dance
Games / Gymnastics
Games / Swimming
Games/Athletics
MFL / French- listen and engage.
ask and answer questions.
All about me / French- speak in sentences using familiar vocabulary.
appreciate stories/ songs/ poems. / French- broaden vocabulary.
recap.