Year 3 Curriculum

CO3

YEAR 3

AUTUMN 1
(8 weeks)

AUTUMN 2
(8 weeks)

SPRING 1
(5 weeks)

SPRING 2
(6 weeks)

SUMMER 1
(6 weeks)

SUMMER 2
(7 weeks)

TOPIC

Stone Age to the Iron Age

Climate

 Egyptians / River Nile

Revolutionary Romans / Italy

 THE BIG QUESTION

What superpowers would you need to be a stone age child?

How can we make a difference to Climate Change?

What life like for the Ancient Egyptians?

How have the Romans influenced modern life today?

WOW

Making Stonehenge from biscuits

 

Egyptian Dress Up Day

Italian Day 

KEY CONCEPTS

Resourceful

Patience

Responsibility

Collaboration

Love

Creativity

Identitty

Redemption

Influence

 Imagination 

Sustainability

Freedom

AUTHENTIC OUTCOME

Presentation to Miss
Dakhno-Cogger

Making a Climate Change poster

Newspaper report

Video about comparing the Romans with new inventions, roads, languages etc

CULTURAL CAPITAL

Stone Age Discovery Trip

Christmas Pantomime

 

Dinosnores Sleepover

Local Mosque

Verulamium
St Albans

FOCUS WEEKS

Black History Month

Vision Day

 

French Day

National Geographic Day

Book Day

STEAM Week

Wellbeing Week

Art Week

 CLASSICAL MUSIC

Errollyn Wallen

Samuel Coleridge - Taylor

Sergei Prokofiev

Fanny Mendelssohn

J.S. Bach

John Williams

CHRISTIAN VALUE

Humility

Perseverance / Hope

Community / Friendship

Forgiveness

Generosity

Gratitude / Thankfulness

RE

Creation and fall

People of God

Gospel

Salvation

Judaism

Islam

BLP

Reflective Robbie

Resilient Rosie

Relational Ruby

Redemptive Raya

Resourceful Rocco

Reverent Ritchie

PSHE

Being me in my World

Celebrating Differences

Dreams and Goals

Healthy Me

Relationships

Changing Me

HEARTSMART

Being HeartSmart

Do not forget to let the Love in

Too much Selfie is not Healthy

Fake is a Mistake

No way through is not True

Do not rub it in, rub it out

WOWS AND WELLBEING

Design and the Build Environment

Junior Duke

Swimming

Ancient Egyptians

Assemble Beech and Birch

Cooking

Community Cohesion

Adopt Charity

Allotment

MATHS

Place Value

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and
Division

Multiplication and Division

Length and Perimeter

Fractions

Mass and Capacity

Fractions

Money

Time

Angles and Properties of Shapes

Statistics

MENTAL MATHS

Recap from previous Year

Place Value

Addition and
Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Multiplication and Division

Length and Perimeter

Fractions

Mass and Capacity

Fractions

Money

Time

 

TALK 4 WRITING

 

FICTION FICTION FICTION FICTION FICTION FICTION

Stone Age Boy

Dragon Machine into the Forest

James and the Giant Peach

The Invisible Boy

Tin Forest

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

How to wash a Woolly Mammoth

The pebble in my pocket, The Secret of Stonehenge

If I were a Kid in Ancient Egypt

Non-Chronological Report about the Egyptians

Myths and Legends

What the Romans did for us

I LOVE READING

Ug

News Articles

La Mariposa

Iron Man

The Sheep Pig

News Articles

Scarab's Secret

The Fisherman and his Wife

Egyptian things to make and do

How to Catch a Dragon

Tales told in Tents

News Articles

The Hunt

The Sun is Laughing

Cat tales

The Emporeror's New Clothes

HISTORY

Stone Age to Iron Age

 

Ancient Egypt

 

Roman Britain

 

GEOGRAPHY

 

Climate Zones - Oddizzi

 

In the Desert
Journey to Ancient Egypt
The River Nile

 

Italy Today
Romans Topic
Where is Rome?
Roman Holiday
Britain v Italy

SCIENCE

Rocks and Soils

Rocks and Soils

Light and Shadows

Light and Shadows

How Plants Grow

Health and Movement

Forces and Magnets

ART / DESIGN

Stonehenge

Art Nouveau:
Nature Poly Printing

Abstract Art:
Abstract Portraits

PE

Dance Creations

Ball Control Skills

Netball Core Skills

Gymnastics Performances

Cricket Core Skills

Active Athletics

COMPUTING

Online Safety and Computational Thinking

Coding

E-Mail

Connecting Computers

Laptop Skills and touch Typing

Presenting
MS PowerPoint

FRENCH

Describing me and others

Describing me and others

Christmas Song

Saying what I and others do

Saying what I and others like

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Packaging

The Invention of the Needle

Make a Shaduf (Lever)

Cooking - Sandwich Snacks

Roman Shields

Roman Purse