Transcript year 3 curriculum

Y3 Math
Number & Calculation
• Secure place value to 100
• Mentally add & subtract units, tens or
hundreds to numbers of up to 3 digits
• Written column addition & subtraction
• Solve number problems, including
multiplication & simple division and
missing number problems
• Use commutativity to help calculations
Fractions & Decimals
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Use & count in tenths
Recognise, find & write fractions
Recognise some equivalent fractions
Add/subtract fractions up to <1
Order fractions with common
denominator
Data
• Interpret bar charts &
pictograms
Geometry & Measures
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Measure & calculate with metric measures
Measure simple perimeter
Add/subtract using money in context
Use Roman numerals up to XII; tell time
Calculate using simple time problems
Draw 2-d / Make 3-d shapes
Identify and use right angles
Identify horizontal, vertical, perpendicular and parallel lines
3 English
Reading
Use knowledge to read ‘exception’ words
Read range of fiction & non-fiction
Use dictionaries to check meaning
Prepare poems & plays to perform
Check own understanding of reading
Draw inferences & make predictions
Retrieve & record information from nonfiction books
• Discuss reading with others
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Writing
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Use prefixes & suffixes in spelling
Use dictionary to confirm spellings
Write simple dictated sentences
Use handwriting joins appropriately
Plan to write based on familiar forms
Rehearse sentences orally for writing
Use varied rich vocabulary
Create simple settings & plot
Assess effectiveness of own and others’ writing
Grammar
Speaking & Listening
• Give structured descriptions
• Participate activity in conversation
• Consider & evaluate different viewpoints
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Use range of conjunctions
Use perfect tense
Use range of nouns & pronouns
Use time connectives
Introduce speech punctuation
Know language of clauses
Science
Autumn 1 | Biology: Animals, including
humans
Food groups & healthy balanced diets
Study the human digestive system
How food is transported around the body
Investigate skeletons & look closely at
bones, joints & muscles & compare with
animal skeletons
• Discover the effects of exercise
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Autumn 2 | Biology: Plants
• Study the parts of flowering plants & their functions
• The conditions affecting plant growth & plants as living things
• Investigate how water is transported in plants
• Describe plant life cycles, in particular how seeds are formed,
dispersed & germinate.
Spring 1 | Physics: Light
• Identify light sources & discuss the Sun
• Establish that light is reflected off
things that we see & that darkness is an
absence of light
• Make sundials
• Look at the transparency of various
materials & the shadows they form
• Make enquiries about shadows
Summer | Chemistry: Rocks
• What is under our feet?
• Describe rocks & compare their properties
• How fossils are formed in sedimentary
rocks
• Discover soil facts & consider different soil
types.
Spring 2 | Physics: Forces and magnets
• Identify pushes & pulls as forces
• Explore how things move on different surfaces
• Find out about attraction & repulsion by
magnetic forces & which materials are magnetic
• Look at compasses & uses of magnets
• Carry out enquiries using magnets
LKS2 Anglo-Saxons
Who were the Anglo-Saxons
• Contextualise the Anglo-Saxon period with a
timeline of the history of Britain
• Understand the terms ‘invaders’ and
‘settlers’
• Discuss motivations for emigration.
Settlements
• Learn about the life of the Anglo
Saxons in their settlements:
• designing your own settlement,
• making buildings
• dyeing wool
• weaving material
• researching food and cooking some
recipes
• playing and creating board games
• researching place names
• Share your Anglo-Saxon expert
knowledge with visitors to the
classroom.
Invasions
• Learn about the Anglo-Saxon
invasions; the routes, the kingdoms,
the ancient roads, their warriors and
the historical sources that we use
Geography
LKS2 Mountains
• Using an atlas, locate the highest peaks in each of the 7 continents, identify to
which mountain ranges they belong and in which countries the ranges are
• Discover how mountain ranges are formed and begin to understand the
composition of the earth.
• Learn the correct geographical language to describe the features of mountains
and find out about mountain climates.
Communication & Literacy
• Present an instructional
presentation that showcases
your expert knowledge of the
Alps or the Andes mountain
ranges.
Computing
• Research and
understand the key
physical features of the
Alps or the Andes
Creativity
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Recreate an area of either the Andes or the Alps mountain ranges in a 3D model
Improve sketching skills and make a collagraph print
learn about artists who choose to paint mountain landscapes
study the 36 Views of Mount Fuji
sketch a still life
Learn about Mount Snowden, consider perspective and make own observational sketches
Adapt a sketch into a collagraph printing plate and use the printing plate to make prints of Mount Snowden
Geography
Start to learn the key information about rainforests
The locations of rainforests around the world
The different layers of the rainforest
Understand how the animals and creatures of the rainforest are adapted to live
there
• Explore the life of tribal families who live in the rainforest and compare this to
your own family life
• Research the different type of rainforest homes and settlements
• Learn about the rainfall of rainforests
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Communication, Language &
Literacy
• Search for information about
world rainforests
• Write a non-chronological
report
• Write miniature factual books
• Create a documentary in the
style of ‘David Attenborough’
• Celebrate the life of tribal
people by sharing a feast of
food and drink from the
rainforest, performing a dance
and teaching others what you
have learned about tribal
designs and shelter building.
LKS2 Rainforests
Creativity
Create a physical map using salt dough to show the location of rainforests
Use painting or collage to show the layers of a rainforest
Create group dioramas of the four layers of the rainforest
create shelters from natural materials to build a tribal village
Describe tribal art and understand its significance
Design and create own tribal art works
Understand the importance of masks, headdresses and face paint to tribal people;
design and make your own masks and headdresses.
• Listen to rainforest rain and animal sounds; make rain-sticks and start to explore
making rain sounds.
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