Year 3

The Celts. The Egyptians.

3D The Celts. 3E The Egyptians.

3D The Romans. 3E The Egyptians.

Stories from familiar settings. Full stops, capital letters. Using adjectives. Writing stories with familiar settings. Dictionary skills. Joined handwriting practice and weekly spellings. Nativity Play.

Myths and Legends - reading comprehension and writing. Reading and writing non-fiction. Revision of full stops, capital letters, nouns, adjectives and verbs. Speechmarks. Continuation of dictionary skills . Group Reading. Spelling f/ves plurals. Explore prefixes and suffixes. Handwriting practice.

Reading and writing poetry. Identifying nouns and verbs. Revision of capital letters for new lines of poetry. Similes. Exploring and comparing adjectives. Using a thesaurus. Proverbs. Joined handwriting practice and weekly spellings.

Mental arithmetic: 2, 5, 10 x times tables, reading and writing numbers to 1000, counting on or back in 10s from any two digit number, know by heart addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20. Shape: properties of 2D and 3D shapes, lines of symmetry in shapes. Money: understand and use and p notation. Data Handling: organising data in simple graphs. Problem solving and investigations: explaining methods and reasoning.

Adding and subtracting fractions. Place value to 1000, addition, subtraction, continue to learn and revise 2, 3, 4 and 5, 6 and 10 times tables, division up to 100. Problems involving dates and time. Measurement mm, cm, m and km. Weight g, kg. Number investigations. Fractions.

Division with remainders, block graphs, adding and subtracting fractions, negative numbers, perimeter, capacity, points of the compass, 3D shape and symmetry. Number investigations, mental maths.

Materials and their uses. Teeth and eating.

Rocks and soils. Light and shadow.

Helping plants grow. Magnets and springs.

Girls: hockey, Boys: rugby, Small ball skills, gymnastics.

Develop netball and football skills. Folk dance/ fitness / gymnastics.

Athletics, rounders and athletics, cricket PE: indoor athletics, cricket and rounders skills.

Combining text and graphics

Simulations & crystal rainforest. Develop word processing skills.

Introduction to databases. Internet Word. Pasting images and pictures. Digital still photography.

Exploring rhythm. Patterns. Recorders.

Higher and lower sounds - getting into shape. Recorders.

Exploring sound colours. Singing games.

Beginnings: birth and naming traditions. Nativity story.

Festivals, including the Jewish and Chinese New Year festivals and the Easter story.

Ourselves and the natural world. Creation stories.

Packaging.

Money containers.

Vehicles.

The Polar Lands: people, transport, weather, animals.

Investigating our local area. Maps and mapping skills. Symbols, simple co-ordinates.

Jamaica. Local Study. Mapskills.

Drawing and colour mixing.

Looking at patterns. Pastel flowers.

Van Gogh. Ancient Egypt.

Communication. Working together. Decisions. Animals. The Police.

The world we live in. Our school. Rights. Rules and laws.

Animals. The world we live in. Respect. Drugs.