Art
Greetings
The classroom - instructions
My body – descriptions
Animals/Christmas
Exploring and creating rhythms
Handball
Gymnastics
Second half term Topic headings: Romans
PE
Invasion games
Dance
Topic headings: Romans
Music
Exploring descriptive sounds and composing
Design
Technology
Rhythm
Exploring timbre, tempo and dynamics
Chains of sound
Exploring drawing, painting and 3D clay work
linked to our topic work.
Looking at Roman pottery including oil lamps.
First half term
History /
Geography
Mosaics
Roman shield designs.
Decoration in the style of Wassily Kandinsky.
PSHE
Roman villas and cities.
Roman numerals, how did Romans count?
Pompeii – Mt Vesuvius
Long Term Planning Overview
Become part of the ‘Roman Army’ and
experience life as a Roman soldier- practicing
drill and learning about Boudicca’s revolt.
Rules.
Developing a sense of responsibility – Bullying and
rules. Being me,
Qualities
Talents
Choices
RE
Healthy Eating
Thinking for ourselves
Taking risks
Keeping safe
Religion and the individual
Christianity Births and celebrations.
Inspirational people
Comput
ing
Hinduism
Inspirational people
Christmas
We are programmers!
Design, write and debug an animation in the
‘Scratch’ programme.
Science
We are bug fixers!
Finding and correcting bugs in programs
Light
Shadow investigation.
Sundials
Sun effects
Solar energy
Maths
Rocks
Rock detectives
Under our feet
Volcanoes
Fossils
Properties of soil
3 and 5 times tables.
Number, place value and money.
Mental addition and subtraction
Shape
Problem solving linked to topic work.
Grammar focus – use and recognise nouns,
adjectives and adjectival phrases.
Letters
Myths and legends
Instructions.
English
3 and 4 times tables.
Mental addition and subtraction
Mental multiplication and division.
Measures data.
Fractions.
Problem solving linked to topic work.
Information texts
Humorous poems
Creating images: diary entries
Grammar focus – sentence conjunction.
Stories with familiar settings/ same
St Mary’s School
Autumn Term 2015
Year Group: 3
French
Whole
School
focus
weeks
Second half term Topic headings: VIVE LA FRANCE!
Art
Egyptians. Visit to Ipswich museum.
PE
Frenc
h
WB 19.01.15 – Writing cafe
Spring Term 2015
Family members
Celebrations
Music
Swimming
Gymnastics
Design
Technolog
y
Movement
Moving together and to a beat.
Sarcophagus’
History /
Geography
Printmaking
Artist - Picasso
Egyptian patterns, hieroglyphs and the meaning
of pictures/ shapes.
First half term
PSHE
Timelines
The very first pharaoh.
Pyramid construction
Cleopatra and the Romans.
The Nile and it’s seasons.
RE
Egyptians
Long Term Planning Overview
Community
Issues
Working together
Looking around us
A Fair society
Computin
g
Judaism
Inspirational people, their beliefs and actions in the
world.
Science
We are presenters!
Videoing performance.
Maths
Material properties
Materials around us and everyday uses.
Safe floor investigation
Paper investigation
English
4 and 6 times tables
Ordering 3 digit numbers.
Doubling and halving
Adding 2 digit numbers, bridging tens
Add/ subtract near multiples of ten
Count in 1s, 10s, 1000s
Language play, riddles and jokes
Instructions
Grammar focus – Use powerful verbs.
St Mary’s School
Year Group: 3
Whole
Schoo
l
focus
weeks
Second half term Topic headings: Weather
Art
Summer Term 2015
French
Optional SATs/assessment week:
PE
Festivals
Weather and places
Europe
Music
Net games
Striking/ fielding games
Design
Technology
Sounds and invention
Exploring sounds using our bodies, plucking,
striking and blowing
Not this half term
First half term
History /
Geography
Collage
Artist – Matisse
Newspaper, magazines – collage of Europe.
PSHE
Locate the world's countries, with a focus on Europe
and countries of particular interest to pupils.
Understand geographical similarities and differences
through the study of human and physical geography
of a region or area in a European country.
Long Term Planning Overview
Being a friend
Europe
RE
Relationships
Family feelings
Family values
Compu
ting
Christianity. Religion, family and community
How religious families and communities
practise their faith and the contributions this
makes to local life.
Collecting and analysing data
Science
We are opinion pollsters!
Maths
Animals including humans.
Food groups, balanced diet
Transport
Muscles and joints
English
Times tables 3, 4, 6
Round and ordering 3 digit numbers
Doubles and halves
Bridging tens, subtracting.
Time intervals.
Multiples of 10
Information texts.
Performance and favourite poets.
Grammar focus – Use dialogue in narrative or
drama
St Mary’s School
Year Group: 5
Whole
School
focus
weeks
WB 9.03.15 – number cafe
Adjectives
Telling the time
Invasion games
Dance
Pitch
The pentatonic scale
Playing chords and singing
Not this half term.
Clay
Artist – Kathy Pallie
Religion and burials
The valley of the kings
Tutankhamun
Daily life and culture
Hieroglyphs
Differences
Other places, respecting others.
Resolving differences.
Christianity
Symbols and religious expression
How religious and spiritual ideas are expressed.
Encountering Faith, stories from the bible.
Easter
Exploring computer networks, including the
internet.
We are network engineers!
Plants
Structure and function
Photosynthesis
Soil nutrients
Water transportation
Plant life cycle
Seed dispersal
4 and 6 times tables
Ordering fractions.
3D shapes.
Problem solving.
Weight
Handling data.
Time
Position and direction
Performing poems
Instructions
Fables, traditional tales
Grammar focus – Past and present tense verbs.
KS2 performance week:
Shopping for food
Items of clothing
Net games
Athletics
Sounds and invention
Symbols and sounds,
Sounds rounds.
Not this term.
Textiles
Research own artist – ’62 group’.
Be inspired by an artist and design a textile
in that style/ topic.
Global warming.
Hurricanes and tornadoes.
The equator.
Relationships
World friendship
Bullying
Looking back
Looking forward
Religion, family and community.
Sikhism
Communicating safely on the internet.
Forces and magnets
Pushes and pulls
Natural magnets and compasses
Magnetic materials
Attract and repel
We are communicators!
Fractions
Capacity
Reading scales
Problem solving
Data handling
Reasoning and explaining.
Adventure and mystery.
Dialogue and plays
Grammar focus – Subordinate clauses,
extension of sentences.