Curriculum – Year 3

SUBJECT AUTUMN TERM SPRING TERM SUMMER TERM
 
ENGLISH
  • Stories with familiar settings
  • Information Texts
  • Sense Poems and Acrostic
  • Instructions
  • Playscripts
  • Myths, Legends, Fables, Traditional Tales
  • Recounts and Reports
  • Performance Poetry
  • Authors and Letters
  • Adventure and Mystery
  • Shape Poems 
MATHEMATICS
  • Number
  • 2D shapes
  • Length
  • Time
  • Symmetry
  • Fractions
  • Number
  • Time
  • Angles
  • Weight
  • Handling data
  • Fractions
  • Number
  • Handling data
  • 3D shapes
  • Capacity
GEOGRAPHY
  • The world
  • Britain
  • Position
  • Compass points
  • Weather
  • Europe
  • Own European country Project
HISTORY
  • Children in the Second World War
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient Egypt
  • The Celts
SCIENCE
  • Magnets and Springs
  • Friction
  • Healthy eating
  • Teeth
  • Materials and their uses
  • Helping plants grow well
  • Light and shadows

 

RS
  • Prayers/praying
  • Autumn festivals
  • Advent
  • Christmas
  • Epiphany
  • Spring festivals
  • Bible stories
  • Ascension day
  • Christian symbols
  • The church
  • Miracles
PSHE

 Myself & Relationships

  • Cooperation
  • Working with others
  • Right and wrong
  • Dealing with feelings in a positive way
  • Myself as a Learner

 Citizenship

  • Caring for others
  • Bullying
  • Rules and Positive Behaviour Code,reds etc.
  • Expressing views

  Health

  • Personal Hygiene
  • Spread of Diseases
  • Safety in the Home and Stranger Danger
  • Road Safety
ICT
  • Touch typing
  • Introduction to Microsoft Word
  • Finding information on the Internet
  • Christmas letter to Santa

 

  • Introducing media in Microsoft Word
  • Touch typing
  • An introduction to Microsoft Powerpoint
  • An introduction to Microsoft Excel
  • Using Ms Paint
  • Touch typing
FRENCH Topics

  • Revision of all known topics covered in Year 2
  • Alphabet
  • Numbers to 60
  • Prices in euros
  • Digital time
  • Christmas
Topics

  • Revise animals + colours
  • Likes and dislikes
  • Fruit, vegetables, snacks
  • Easter
Topics

  • Family members + “as-tu des frères et des soeurs?”
  • Physical description (hair colour+ eye colour + grand/petit/mince/gros)
  • Revision
Grammar & Language

  • “Comment ça s’écrit?”
  • Plus, moins, multiplié par, divisé par, égal for easy maths in French
  • Awareness of genders / plural
Grammar & Language

  • Awareness of adjectival agreement
  • Masculine/feminine with un/une and le/la/l’
  • J’ai / je n’ai pas de
  • Je mange / je bois
Grammar & Language

  • J’ai / je n’ai pas de
  • Je suis / je ne suis pas
  • Possessive adjective mon/ma/mes
  • Adjectives in masc. / fem. Forms
  • Recognition of il/elle a…, il/elle est…
PE
  • Swimming
  • Basketball skills
  • Swimming
  • Tennis skills
  • Cross country
  • Athletics – working towards 10 star awards
GAMES
  • Rugby (boys)
  • Netball (girls)
  • Hockey (boys)
  • Netball (girls)
  • Cricket (boys)
  • Rounders (girls)
ART
  • Painting skills / collage
  • Oil pastel / soft pastels
  • Weaving / calligraphy
  • Water colour painting techniques
  • Collage and design projects in relation to the History topic on Egyptians
  • Drawing / sketching
  • Design project in relation to the History topic on the Celts
DT
  • A bedroom door nameplate
  • A bird feeder
  • Christmas Tree Decoration
  • A balloon powered vehicle
  • A picture frame
  • A small box
  • Plaster casting
  • A paddle boat
MUSIC
  • Watching, Listening, Playing (Development of early performance skills)
  • Following instructions (Making choice about how to perform a piece of music)
  • Who is my Family? (Recognising instruments by sound and sight – how do they work?)
  • Musical Elements (An exploration into how we can combine pulse, timbre, texture dynamics etc)
  • Musical Theatre – (Pupils will begin work on an extended work suitable for this age group)
  • Musical Theatre Performance