NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Mixed Age Planning Year 3 & Year 4
Spring Term
Unit
Framework topic
3
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Place value, ordering, estimating,
rounding
Reading numbers from scales
Know what each digit represents and partition three-digit numbers into a
multiple of 100, a multiple of ten and ones (HTU).
Order whole numbers to at least 1000, and position them on a number
line.
Numbers to 1000

Place value, comparing and ordering
Place value, ordering and rounding
Reading numbers from scales
Read and write whole numbers to at least 10000 in figures and words, and know
what each digit represents.
Partition numbers into thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.
Add/subtract 1, 10, 100 or 1000 to/from any integer, and count on or back in tens,
hundreds or thousands from any whole number up to 10000.
Read and write the vocabulary of comparing and ordering numbers. Use symbols
correctly, including less than (<), greater than (>), equals (=).
Give one or more numbers lying between two given numbers and order a set of
whole numbers less than 10000.
Numbers to 10 000

Place value, comparing and ordering
4
Teaching File page
Pupil Sheets
Activity Book page
Textbook page
Home Activities
Check-ups
3
3
MATERIALS
TOOLBOX
3
4
7-9, 58-64
PVG, Shortcuts 1-3
7-11, 47-61
PVG, Shortcuts 1-3
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1
E1-E2
Extension
Textbook page
Resource Sheets
8-13, 29-38
3-4, 19-33
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Week
Day 1
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 58
More and less
Revising addition and subtraction
of 100/10/1
Tune-in TF 47-48
Hundreds, tens and units
Revising place value for 3-digit
numbers
Main
Teaching
1 Hundreds, tens, units TF 59
Introducing place value for 3-digit
numbers
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 60
1 Thousands, hundreds, tens and
units TF 48-49
Introducing place value for 4-digit
numbers
2 Digit values TF 50-51
Recognising the value of digits in
different places
Pupil Activities TF 49-50
2 Digits game
2 Making and reading 3-digit
numbers with place value cards
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 4 TF 59
Activity Book pages 14-15 TF 63
Support
Pupil Activities TF 60
1 Making and reading 3-digit
numbers with place value cards
Work with the pupils as one group,
laying out the cards and asking
pupils to say the numbers.
Pupil Activities TF 49-50
1 Pupil Sheet 6 Place value
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 60
2 Making and reading 3-digit
numbers with place value cards
Ask pupils to write each number in
words as well as saying it aloud.
Pupil Activities TF 49-50
2 Digits game
Ask pupils to make up their own
number puzzles like q3 on Textbook
p4. Swap with a partner to solve.
Follow-up for Activity Book
pages 14-15 TF 64
Follow-up for Textbook page 4
TF 59
Plenary
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 2
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Numbers to
1000
TF 7-9
Specific Starter for Numbers to
10 000 TF 7-11
Main
Teaching
2 Comparing TF 60-61
Comparing 3-digit numbers
3 Adding/Subtracting 1, 10, 100,
1000 TF 51-53
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 62
1 Using HTU notation boards
2 Using HTU notation boards
Encourage pupils to explain their
strategies for making the
smallest/largest number.
Pupil Activities TF 53-54
1 Adding/subtracting game
Support
Extension
Plenary
Activity Book page 16 TF 64
Pupil Activities TF 62
1 Using HTU notation boards
2 Using HTU notation boards
Pupil Activities TF 62
1 Using HTU notation boards
2 Using HTU notation boards
Use two sets of 0 – 9 number cards
Encourage pupils to explain their
strategies for making the
smallest/largest number.
Follow-up for Activity Book
page 16 TF 64
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 5 TF 59
Pupil Activities TF 53-54
1 Adding/subtracting game
Provide three-digit numbers and
addition/subtraction cards for 1, 10
and 100.
Pupil Activities TF 53-54
2 Pupil Sheet 7
Adding/subtracting 1, 10, 100, 1000
Home Activity 1
Additional
notes
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Resources
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Week
Day 3
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Extension
Plenary
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Numbers to
1000
TF 7-9
Specific Starter for Numbers to
10 000 TF 7-11
3 Ordering TF 62-63
Ordering up to six 3-digit numbers
4 Comparing and ordering 4-digit
numbers TF 54-55
Pupil Activity TF 63
1 Making 3-digit numbers from
given digits
Allow the pupils to use notation
boards to help them find all the
numbers that can be made.
Activity Book page 17 TF 64
Pupil Activity TF 63
1 Making 3-digit numbers from
given digits
Initially ask the pupils to find only
the largest and smallest numbers
that can be made with their cards.
Pupil Activity TF 63
1 Making 3-digit numbers from
given digits
Ask pupils to explain their
strategies for finding all the
numbers that can be made. Include
0 in the sets of cards.
Follow-up for Activity Book
page 17 TF 64
Home Activity 3
Check-up 3
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
5 Numbers halfway between
TF 56-58
Pupil Activities TF 55-56
1 Using < and > signs
Textbook page 6 TF 59
Pupil Activity TF 58
1 Pupil Sheet 8
Numbers halfway between
Pupil Activities TF 55-56
3 Ordering number cards
Pupil Activities TF 55-56
2 < and > dominoes
Play in pairs
Follow-up for Textbook page 6
TF 59-60
Extension Textbook pages E1-E2
TF 60-61
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Week
Day 4
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Extension
Plenary
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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Week
Day 5
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Extension
Plenary
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Mixed Age Planning Year 3 & Year 4
Spring Term
Unit
Framework topic
3
Understanding + and –
Mental calculation strategies
(+ and -)
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions and checking
results
Understanding + and –
Mental calculation strategies (+ and )
4
Pencil and paper procedures
(+ and )
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions and checking
results
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Use knowledge that addition can be done in any order to do mental calculations
more efficiently. For example: put the larger number first and count on; partition
into tens and units, then recombine (e.g. 34 + 53 = 30 + 50 + 4 + 3).
Add mentally a 'near multiple of 10' to or from a two-digit number by adding
10, 20, 30 and adjusting.
Use known number facts and place value to add mentally.
Bridge through a multiple of 10, then adjust.
Consolidate understanding of relationship between + and -.
Count on or back in repeated steps of 1, 10 or 100.
Partition into tens and units, adding the tens first.
Identify near doubles, using known doubles (e.g. 150 + 160).
Add or subtract the nearest multiple of 10, then adjust.
Use known number facts and place value to add or subtract mentally, including
any pair of two-digit whole numbers.
Use informal pencil and paper methods to support, record or explain
additions/subtractions.
Choose and use appropriate number operations and appropriate ways of
calculating (mental, mental with jottings, pencil and paper) to solve problems.
Addition to 100


Addition of two-digit numbers
Addition of two-digit numbers and singledigit/teens numbers, with bridging
Addition to 1000

Addition involving three-digit numbers: mental
strategies
Teaching File page
Pupil Sheets
9-13, 96-107
NF, Shortcuts 2-3
NG, Shortcuts 1-2
11-16, 97-107
7-9
Activity Book page
Textbook page
Home Activities
Check-ups
7-12
6
5
5-6
6
MATERIALS
TOOLBOX
3
13-16
18-22
Extension
Textbook page
Resource Sheets
16-17, 29-35, 39-40,
49
6, 19-25
4
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 1
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 96
Mental addition of 9 and 11
Tune-in TF 98
Large and little
Main
Teaching
1 100 square TF 97-98
Mental addition of 21, 31, 41 …
and 19, 29, 39 …
Core
Activities
Textbook page 7 TF 101
1 Bin it TF 98
Adding a three-digit number and a
single digit bridging a multiple of
10/100
Pupil Activity TF 99
1 Pupil Sheet 13
A three-digit number and a single
digit, with bridging
Support
Textbook page 7 TF 101
Allow pupils to use a 100 square to
find the answers.
Extension
Textbook page 7 TF 101
Ask pupils to time themselves to see
how quickly they can complete the
page.
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook page 7
TF 102
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activity TF 99
1 Pupil Sheet 13
A three-digit number and a single
digit, with bridging
Provide the answers to the
questions on pieces of card. Ask the
pupils to place the cards in the
correct places on the worksheet.
Pupil Activity TF 99
1 Pupil Sheet 13
Ask pupils to time themselves to see
how quickly they can complete the
sheet mentally.
Discuss children’s work.
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 2
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Addition to
100
TF 9-13
Specific Starter for Addition to
1000 TF 11-16
2 Mental calculations TF 98-99
Addition of a two-digit number and
a teens number
3 Number line TF 99
Mental addition of two-digit
numbers
Pupil Sheet 7
Adding two-digit numbers
Textbook page 8 TF 101
2 Machines TF 99-100
Adding a three-digit number and a
multiple/near multiple of 10
3 Book Bus TF 101
Adding a three-digit number and a
multiple of 10
Support
Textbook page 8 TF 101
Allow pupils to use a blank
number line to find their answers.
Extension
Textbook page 8 TF 101
Give the pupils the total of all the
answers on the page. Ask them to
find the total of their answers and
compare it to yours to find out if
they have made any mistakes.
Discuss children’s work.
Textbook pages 18-19 TF 106
Work through the questions with the
pupils orally and allow them to
record the calculation that needs to
be done for each question. When
they complete the pages
independently encourage them to
use blank number lines for support.
Textbook pages 18-19 TF 106
Put a set of questions and answers
on the board which include some
errors. Ask the pupils to check the
answers and correct mistakes.
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Plenary
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook pages 18-19 TF 106
Follow-up for Textbook pages
18-19 TF 107
Home Activity 5
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 3
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Addition to
100
TF 9-13
Specific Starter for Addition to
1000 TF 11-16
4 Tens and units TF 100
Mental addition of two-digit
numbers
Pupil Sheet 8
Adding two-digit numbers
4 Adding two-/three-digit
numbers and multiples of 10/100
TF 101-102
Pupil Activity TF 101
1 Adding multiples of 5 to make
100
Pupil Activity TF 102
1 Pupil Sheet 14
Two-/three-digit numbers and
multiples of 10
Pupil Activity TF 103
1 Pupil Sheet 15
Pupil Activity TF 102
1 Pupil Sheet 14
Two-/three-digit numbers and
multiples of 10
Provide the pupils with sets of place
value notation cards to help them
answer the questions.
Pupil Activity TF 103
1 Pupil Sheet 15
Work with the pupils as a group to
list all the doubles of multiples of 5
from 5 to 100 before they complete
the sheet.
Pupil Activity TF 102
1 Pupil Sheet 14
Two-/three-digit numbers and
multiples of 10
Pupil Activity TF 103
1 Pupil Sheet 15
Provide pupils with a 0-9 die and a
set of cards showing the multiples
of 5 from 0 – 100. Pupils take it in
Textbook pages 9-10 TF 102
Support
Pupil Activity TF 101
1 Adding multiples of 5 to make
100
Give pupils cards less than 50 and
ask them to say the number which
must be added to theirs to make 50.
Extension
Pupil Activity TF 101
1 Adding multiples of 5 to make 100
Give pupils cards with ‘near’
multiples of 5, e.g. 36, 79, etc.
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5 Doubles/near doubles of
multiples of 5 TF 102-103
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Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook pages 9-10
TF 102
turns to roll the die twice to create
a two-digit number. They must then
take a card and add their number to
the one shown on the card.
Discuss children’s work.
Home Activity 6
Check-up 5
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 4
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 103
In the bag
Adding a two-digit number and a
single digit
Specific Starter for Addition to
1000 TF 11-16
1 Mental calculations TF 103-104
Adding a two-digit number and a
single digit, with bridging
6 Doubles of multiples of 50
TF 103-104
Pupil Activity TF 105
1 Pupil Sheet 9
Adding a two-digit number and a
single-digit/teens number, with
bridging
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
7 Doubles of three-digit multiples
of 10 TF 104-105
Pupil Activity TF 104
1 Pupil Sheet 16
Doubles of multiples of 50, pairs
totalling 1000
Textbook page 20 TF 106
Support
Textbook page 11 TF 106
Pupil Activity TF 105
1 Pupil Sheet 9
Put numbers onto Pupil Sheet 9 that
initially do not involve bridging
then allow pupils to draw blank
number lines for support.
Extension
Pupil Activity TF 105
1 Pupil Sheet 9
Ask pupils to make their own set of
questions and swap with a friend to
answer.
Plenary
Discuss children’s work.
Pupil Activity TF 104
1 Pupil Sheet 16
Give pupils two sets of cards, one
showing multiples of 50 to 1000, the
other showing the doubles of these
numbers. Ask the pupils to work in
pairs to match up the two sets of
cards.
Pupil Activity TF 104
1 Pupil Sheet 16
Give pairs of children a set of cards
showing multiples of 50 less than
1000. Pupils take turns to pick a
card and decide what must be
added to the number to make 1000.
They must keep a running total of
their answers. The person to reach
5000 first is the winner.
Follow-up for Textbook page 20
TF 107
Home Activity 6
Additional
notes
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 5
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Addition to
100
TF 9-13
Specific Starter for Addition to
1000 TF 11-16
Main
Teaching
2 Mental calculation TF 105
Adding a two-digit number and a
teens number, with bridging
8 Adding to make the next
multiple of 100 TF 105-106
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 106
1 Addition game on a 100-square
2 Pupil Sheet 9
Adding a two-digit number and a
single-digit/teens number, with
bridging
Textbook page 12 TF 106
Pupil Activities TF 106
1 Addition game on a 100-square
Begin by giving the pupils a set of
1 – 9 cards and then move onto the
teens cards
2 Pupil Sheet 9
Pupil Activities TF 106
1 Addition game on a 100-square
Use number cards from 12 to 50.
Ask pupils to explain the strategies
they used for adding the numbers
greater than 19.
Follow-up for Textbook page 12
TF 107
Textbook pages 21-22 TF 106
Support
Extension
Plenary
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 21 TF 106
Encourage pupils to use blank
number lines to find their answers.
Textbook pages 21-22 TF 106
Ask pupils to make up their own
clues for a set of keys for doors
numbered, say, 285, 530 and 745.
Swap with a partner to solve.
Follow-up for Textbook pages
21-22 TF 107
Check-up 6
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Mixed Age Planning Year 3 & Year 4
Spring Term
Unit
Framework topic
3
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Understanding + and –
Mental calculation strategies
(+ and -)
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions and checking
results
Find a small difference by counting up from the smaller to the larger
number (e.g. 102 - 97).
Use known number facts and place value to subtract mentally.
Bridge through a multiple of 10, then adjust.
Subtraction to 100


Subtracting a two-digit number
Subtracting a single digit, bridging multiples of 10
Understanding + and –
Mental calculation strategies (+ and )
Consolidate understanding of relationship between + and -.
Find a small difference by counting up (e.g. 5003 - 4996).
Count on or back in repeated steps of 1, 10 or 100.
Add or subtract the nearest multiple of 10, then adjust.
Continue to use the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Use known number facts and place value to add or subtract mentally, including
any pair of two-digit whole numbers.
Use informal pencil and paper methods to support, record or explain
additions/subtractions.
Choose and use appropriate number operations and appropriate ways of
calculating (mental, mental with jottings, pencil and paper) to solve problems.
Subtraction to 1000

Subtraction involving three-digit numbers: mental
strategies
4
Pencil and paper procedures
(+ and )
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions and checking
results
Teaching File page
Pupil Sheets
13-16, 133-143
17
17-20, 130-140
23-24
Activity Book page
Textbook page
Home Activities
Check-ups
24-28
9-10
9
8-9
8-9
MATERIALS
TOOLBOX
Extension
Textbook page
14-15, 29-35, 39-40,
49
3
29-33
Resource Sheets
5, 19-31
4
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Week
Day 1
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Extension
Plenary
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 133-134
Revising subtraction of a single
digit or a ten from a two-digit
number
Tune-in TF 130-131
Money spinner
Revising subtraction of a single
digit from 100/multiple of 100
1 Subtracting a teens number
from a two-digit number
TF 134 –135
Consolidation
Textbook page 24 TF 138
1 Collections TF 131-132
Subtracting a single digit bridging
a multiple of 100/10
Textbook page 24 TF 138
Allow pupils to use a number line to
help them find and record the
answers.
Textbook page 24 TF 138
Ask pupils to time themselves to see
how quickly they can complete the
page.
Textbook page 29 TF 139
Encourage pupils to use a blank
number line to jump back along
when answering the questions.
Textbook page 29 TF 139
Give pupils a set of 10 – 30 number
cards. Write some three-digit
numbers on the board such as 609,
205, etc. Ask pupils to pick a card
and subtract that number from one
of the numbers on the board.
Continue till they have done a
calculation that includes every
number on the board.
Follow-up for Textbook page 29
TF 140
Follow-up for Textbook page 24
TF 138
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 29 TF 139
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 2
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Subtraction to
100
TF 13-16
Specific Starter for Subtraction to
1000 TF 17-20
Main
Teaching
2 Subtracting a two-digit number
from a two-digit number
TF 135-137
2 Subtracting multiples/near
multiples of 10 TF 132-133
Core
Activities
Pupil Activity TF 133
1 Pupil Sheet 23
Support
Pupil Activities TF 137
1 Pupil Sheet 17
Two-digit number from a two-digit
number
Textbook pages 25-26 TF 138
Pupil Activities TF 137
2 Find the difference cards
Using yellow cards between 40 and
60, work with the pupils and ask
them to give their answers orally
and explain how they found them.
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 137
2 Find the difference cards
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook pages
25-26 TF 138
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Give pupils a set of cards showing
three-digit multiples of 10 less than
500 with the tens digit 5 or more,
e.g. 280, 360. Ask the pupils to pick
a card, write the number down and
subtract 20. Repeat subtracting 30
and 40.
Pupil Activity TF 133
1 Pupil Sheet 23
Multiples/near multiples of 10, no
bridging
Provide a similar sheet but with
questions which involve bridging a
multiple of 100.
Discuss children’s work.
Home Activity 9
Check-up 9
Additional
notes
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Resources
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 3
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 139
Round about 20
Mental subtraction from 20-29
Specific Starter for Subtraction to
1000 TF 17-20
Main
Teaching
1 Number lines TF 139-140
Consolidating mental subtraction of
single-digit numbers, bridging 20
3 Collectors TF 134
Subtracting multiples of 10,
bridging 100
Core
Activities
Textbook page 27 TF 142
Textbook page 30 TF 139
Support
Textbook page 27 TF 142
Allow pupils to use a number line to
help them find and record the
answers.
Textbook page 27 TF 142
Give pupils the total of all the
answers on the page. Ask them to
find the total of their answers and
compare it to yours to find out if
they have made any mistakes.
Follow-up for Textbook page 27
TF 142
Pupil Activity TF 133
1 Pupil Sheet 23
Multiples/near multiples of 10, no
bridging
Textbook page 30 TF 139
Ask similar problems to q5. For
example, find 6 pairs of numbers
with a difference of 52.
Extension
Plenary
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Follow-up for Textbook page 30
TF 140
Home Activity 8
Check-up 8
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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Week
Day 4
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Subtraction to
100
TF 13-16
Specific Starter for Subtraction to
1000 TF 17-20
Main
Teaching
2 More number lines TF 141-142
Mental subtraction of single-digit
numbers, bridging multiples of 10
4 Games TF 135-137
Finding differences between threedigit multiples of 10
Core
Activities
Pupil Activity TF 142
1 Subtracting single digits game
Textbook page 31 TF 139
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 28
Support
Extension
Plenary
Pupil Activity TF 142
1 Subtracting single digits game
Give pupils twenty cards below 50
to work with.
Pupil Activity TF 142
1 Subtracting single digits game
Ask the pupils to work in pairs and
time themselves to see how quickly
they can answer the 20 questions.
Repeat and see if they can improve
their time.
Follow-up for Textbook page 28
TF 143
Textbook page 31 TF 139
Follow-up for Textbook page 31
TF 140
Home Activity 10
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 5
Starter
Year 3
Specific Starter Linking addition
and subtraction
Year 4
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Specific Starter for Subtraction to
1000 TF 17-20
TF 16
Main
Teaching
Revise the different strategies the
children have learnt for addition
and subtraction in units 2 and 3.
5 Scoreboards TF 137-138
Finding small differences
Core
Activities
Give each pair of children a set of
0 -100 cards and a set of 11 – 19
cards. Ask them to select a card
from each pile and make an + and
– calculation for their partner to
answer.
Give each pair of children a set of
0 – 9 cards. Ask them to shuffle
them and place them upside down.
They take it in turns to select three
cards and make one addition and
one subtraction, e.g. 3, 4 and 9
could give 34 – 9 and 43 + 9. Their
partner must find the answers.
Pupil Activity TF 138
1 Pupil Sheet 24 Small differences
Textbook pages 32-33 TF 139
Support
Extension
As above, but give the pupils two
sets of 0 – 9 cards and ask them to
select four cards, e.g. 5, 4, 3 and 5
could give 55 – 43 and 45 + 35
Can they find all the possible + and
– questions that can be made?
Plenary
Invite children to show some of the
calculations they made and the
strategies they used for solving
them.
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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Pupil Activity TF 138
1 Pupil Sheet 24 Small differences
Provide pupils with an enlarged
version of the grid at the top of the
sheet and two card ‘darts’. Ask
pupils to position the darts on the
two numbers in each question and
use the grid to help them find their
answers.
Pupil Activity TF 138
1 Pupil Sheet 24 Small differences
Provide pairs of pupils with a set of
cards with three-digit numbers on.
Pupils take it in turns to select two
cards and find the difference
between the numbers.
Follow-up for Textbook pages
32-33 TF 140
Home Activity 9
Check-up 9
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Unit
Framework topic
4
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Shape and space
Reasoning about shapes
Read and begin to write the vocabulary related to position, direction and
movement: for example, describe and find the position of a square on a
grid of squares with the rows and columns labelled.
Recognize and use the four compass directions N, S, E, W.
Make and describe right-angled turns including turns between the four
compass points.
2D Shape

Position, movement and angle
Measures, including problems
Use, read and write standard metric units (kg, g), including their abbreviations.
Know and use the relationships between familiar units of mass.
Measure

Weight
3
4
days
Know the equivalent of one half, one quarter, three quarters and
one tenth of 1kg
in g.
4
Suggest suitable units and measuring equipment to estimate or measure mass.
Record estimates and readings from scales to a suitable degree of accuracy.
Teaching File page
Pupil Sheets
Activity Book page
Textbook page
2-5, 389-396
49-51
38-40
109-110
2-5, 357-363
82
95-98
Home Activities
Check-ups
MATERIALS
TOOLBOX
Extension
Textbook page
Resource Sheets
27-28
3
E19
4
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Week
Day 1
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 389-390
Follow me
Revising clockwise/anti-clockwise
movements
Tune-in TF 357
The kilogram and half-kilogram
Main
Teaching
1 Find it TF 390-391
Introducing grid references
1 The quarter- and three quarterkilogram
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 391
2 Pupil Sheet 49
Grid references (four in a row
game)
Pupil Activity TF 359
1 Weighing and labelling containers
Support
Activity Book page 38 TF 396
Textbook page 109 TF 396
Pupil Activities TF 391
1 Pupil Sheet 49
Grid references (first to five game)
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 391
2 Pupil Sheet 49
Grid references (four in a row
game)
Ask the pupils to explain the
strategies they used to try and win.
Plenary
Follow-up for Activity Book page
38 and Textbook page 109 TF 396
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 95 TF 362
Pupil Activity TF 359
1 Weighing and labelling containers
Provide containers which allow the
pupils to say whether they are more
than, less than or about ½ kg only.
Pupil Activity TF 359
1 Weighing and labelling containers
Write the words ‘about’, ‘lighter
than’, ‘heavier than’, ‘between’,
‘1/4 kg’, ‘1/2 kg’ and ‘3/4 kg’ on
the board. Give pupils the
containers and ask them to weigh
them and make up their own labels
to describe each weight using the
words suggested.
Follow-up for Textbook page 95
TF 362
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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Week
Day 2
Year 3
Year 4
Starter
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
2 Right angles TF 391-393
2 Kilograms and grams
TF 359-360
Core
Activities
Pupil Activity TF 393
1 Pupil Sheet 50
Angles
Textbook page 96 TF 362
Support
Extension
Plenary
Activity Book page 39 TF 396
Pupil Activity TF 393
1 Pupil Sheet 50
Angles
Allow children to use a right angle
tester to help them label the angles.
Pupil Activity TF 393
1 Pupil Sheet 50
Angles
Ask pupils to make their own angles
pictures and swap with a friend to
label them.
Discuss children’s work.
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 96 TF 362
For q1, work with the pupils as a
group to convert all the weights to
grams before they order them.
Textbook page 96 TF 362
Provide some examples of kitchen
produce (tins, packets, etc). Ask
pupils to record each item and the
weight of the food contained in g
and kg and g.
Follow-up for Textbook page 96
TF 362-3
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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Week
Day 3
Starter
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
3 Where am I? TF 393-394
Introducing the 4-point compass
3 200g, 100g and 50g weights
TF 360-361
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 394
1 Using a programmable toy
2 Compass directions
Pupil Activity TF 361
1 Pupil Sheet 82
50g, 100g, 200g, 500g weights
Support
Textbook page 110 TF 396
Pupil Activities TF 394
2 Compass directions
Year 3
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 394
1 Using a programmable toy
Ask the children to link more than
one turn together.
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook page 110
TF 396
Year 4
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activity TF 361
1 Pupil Sheet 82
50g, 100g, 200g, 500g weights
Provide pupils with a 100g weight
to hold along with each object when
making their estimates.
Pupil Activity TF 361
1 Pupil Sheet 82
50g, 100g, 200g, 500g weights
Textbook pages 97-98 TF 362
Discuss pupils’ work. In particular
ask pupils to describe how they
made their estimates.
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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Week
Day 4
Year 3
Year 4
Starter
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
4 Follow my leader TF 394-395
Following/drawing pathways
Consolidate Teaching from Day 3
Core
Activities
Pupil Activity TF 395
1 Pupil Sheet 51
Position and movement
Textbook pages 97-98 TF 362
Support
Activity Book page 40 TF 396
Pupil Activity TF 395
1 Pupil Sheet 51
Position and movement
Draw simple paths for the children
in the second section and ask them
for the directions.
Extension
Pupil Activity TF 395
1 Pupil Sheet 51
Position and movement
Ask pupils to make their own maps
on squared paper and draw on
paths. Swap with a friend and write
the directions for each path.
Plenary
Follow-up for Activity Book
page 40 TF 396
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook pages 97-98 TF 362
For p98, provide pupils with the
same weights as Beth and some
objects weighing the same as those
in the questions. Ask the children to
practically find out which
combination of weights will balance
each item.
Extension Textbook page E19
TF 363
Follow-up for Textbook page 98
TF 363
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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Day 5
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Extension
Plenary
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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Mixed Age Planning Year 3 & Year 4
Spring Term
Unit
Framework topic
5
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Measure, and time, including
problems
Read and begin to write the vocabulary related to time.
Use units of time and know the relationships between them (second,
minute, hour, day, week, month, year). Suggest suitable units to estimate
or measure time.
Read the time to 5 minutes on an analogue clock and a 12-hour digital
clock, and use the notation 9:40.
Measure


Time: o’clock, quarter past, half past, quarter to
Time: minutes past/to the hour
Measures, including problems
Use, read and write the vocabulary related to time.
Read the time from an analogue clock to the nearest minute, and from a 12-hour
digital clock.
Use am and pm and the notation 9:53.
Measure

Reading and writing times
3
4days
5
4days
4
Teaching File page
Pupil Sheets
Activity Book page
Textbook page
Home Activities
Check-ups
31-33, 347-362
Clock, Shortcuts 1-4
43-44
34-35
98-102
26
25-26
34-36, 330-336
72-76
85-87
27
23
MATERIALS
TOOLBOX
3
Extension
Textbook page
Resource Sheets
23, 50-52
11
4
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Day 1
Starter
Main
Teaching
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 347-348
Revising ‘o’clock’, ‘quarter past’,
‘half past’ and ‘quarter to’
Tune-in TF 330-331
Reading and writing times
Revising 12-hour notation, am/pm
1 Writing times TF 349
Writing, for example, ‘quarter past
2’
1 Five minute times TF 331-332
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
2 Writing times in a new way
TF 349-350
Writing, for example, 2.15
Core
Activities
Support
Extension
Plenary
Pupil Activity TF 351
1 Pupil Sheet 43
Writing times template
Pupil Activities TF 332
1 Pupil Sheet 72
Reading and writing times
2 Pupil Sheet 73
Textbook page 98
Minutes past and to (digital)
Pupil Activity TF 351
1 Pupil Sheet 43
Writing times template
Ask the pupils to answer the
questions orally first then record
their answers in written notation.
Pupil Activity TF 351
1 Pupil Sheet 43
Writing times template
Once the sheet is completed, ask the
pupils to order the times starting
with the earliest.
Show flashcards of times written in
the two different ways. Invite
children to write on the board the
other way for each card.
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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Textbook page 85 TF 335
Pupil Activities TF 332
3 Setting times on a clock
1 Pupil Sheet 72
Reading and writing times
Pupil Activities TF 332
4 Pupil Sheet 74 am, pm
Pupil Sheet 75 am, pm
Follow-up for Textbook page 85
TF 336
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Week
Day 2
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Time TF 31-33
Specific Starter for Time TF 34-36
3 Ordering times TF 350-351
2 One minute times TF 333
Using analogue displays
4 Introducing am and pm
TF 351-352
Textbook page 99 TF 353
Textbook page 100 TF 353
Support
Textbook page 99 TF 353
Extension
Textbook page 100 TF 353
Give pupils a clock face to help
them answer the questions.
Textbook page 99 TF 353
Plenary
Textbook page 100 TF 353
Ask the pupils to make a plan of a
typical school day with pictures and
times like q1.
Follow-up for Textbook pages
99-100 TF 353
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activities TF 333-334
1 Setting times on a clock
2 Matching times
Pupil Activities TF 333-334
1 Setting times on a clock
3 Pupil Sheet 76
Reading and writing times
Pupil Activities TF 333-334
2 Matching times
4 Ordering times
Discuss children’s work.
Check-up 25
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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Week
Day 3
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 354-355
Linking ‘quarter past’, ‘half past’
and ‘quarter to’ with minutes
past/to
Specific Starter for Time TF 34-36
1 Times past the hour in 5 minute
intervals TF 356-357
Using analogue displays
3 One minute times TF 334
Using digital displays
2 Times to the hour in 5 minute
intervals TF 357
Using analogue displays
Pupil Activity TF 358
1 Pupil Sheet 43
Writing times template
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activities TF 334-335
1 Pupil Sheet 73
Minutes past and to (digital)
2 Ordering digital times
Activity Book page 34 TF 362
Support
Pupil Activity TF 358
1 Pupil Sheet 43
Writing times template
Extension
Plenary
Write all the times on pieces of
card. Ask the pupils to match the
times to the clocks.
Pupil Activity TF 358
1 Pupil Sheet 43
Writing times template
Give pupils blank sheets. Ask them
to draw on the hands and swap with
a partner to label.
Revise times in 5 minute intervals
past and to the hour.
Pupil Activities TF 334-335
1 Pupil Sheet 73
Minutes past and to (digital)
Pupil Activities TF 334-335
1 Pupil Sheet 73
Minutes past and to (digital)
2 Ordering digital times
Having ordered the times ask pupils
to create a storyboard for a day
where key events happened at each
of the times.
Discuss children’s work.
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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Week
Day 4
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Time TF 31-33
Specific Starter for Time TF 34-36
Main
Teaching
3 Times to and past the hour
TF 358-359
Using digital displays
Revise/consolidate work covered in
Days 1-3
Core
Activities
Pupil Activity TF 360
1 Pupil Sheet 44
Minutes past and to (digital)
Textbook page 86 TF 335
Support
Extension
Activity Book page 35 TF 362
Pupil Activity TF 360
1 Pupil Sheet 44
Minutes past and to (digital)
Give the pupils a clock face. Ask
them to show each time on the face
first and then record their answers.
Pupil Activity TF 360
1 Pupil Sheet 44
Minutes past and to (digital)
Plenary
Once the sheet is completed, ask the
pupils to order the times starting
with the earliest.
Revise digital times in 5 minute
intervals past and to the hour.
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 86 TF 335
Provide cards with the times written
on and ask pupils to match the
cards to the questions.
Textbook page 86 TF 335
Give pairs of pupils analogue and
digital clock faces. Pupils take it in
turns to set a clock face and their
partner says the time it shows.
Follow-up for Textbook page 86
TF 336
Home Activity 27
Check-up 23
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notes
Extra
Resources
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Week
Day 5
Starter
Year 3
4 Writing times TF 360-361
Using notation such as 9.05 for
times in 5 minute intervals
Core
Activities
Pupil Activity TF 361
1 Pupil Sheet 43
Writing times template
Extension
Plenary
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Specific Starter for Time TF 31-33
Main
Teaching
Support
Year 4
Textbook pages 101-102 TF 362
Pupil Activity TF 361
1 Pupil Sheet 43
Writing times template
Write all the times down the side of
the sheet. Ask the pupils to match
the times to the clocks.
Pupil Activity TF 361
1 Pupil Sheet 43
Writing times template
For each time ask pupils to write
down one thing they might be doing
at that time if it were a typical day.
Follow-up for Textbook pages
101-102 TF 362
Home Activity 26
Check-up 26
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
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Mixed Age Planning Year 3 & Year 4
Spring Term
Unit
Framework topic
Measure, including problems
6
4days
3
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Read and begin to write the vocabulary related to mass.
Measure and compare using standard units (kg, g).
Know the relationships between kilograms and grams.
Measure

Weight
2D Shape

Properties and patterns
Suggest suitable units and measuring equipment to estimate or measure
length, mass or capacity.
Read scales to the nearest division (labelled or unlabelled). Record
estimates and measurements to the nearest whole or half unit (e.g. 'about
3.5kg'), or in mixed units (e.g. '3kg and 500g').
Shape and space
Reasoning about shapes
5days
4
Teaching File page
Describe and visualise 2-D shapes, including the heptagon.
Recognise equilateral and isosceles triangles.
Classify polygons using criteria such as number of right angles, whether or not
they are regular, symmetry properties.
Make shapes: for example, construct polygons by paper folding or using pinboard,
and discuss properties such as lines of symmetry.
Pupil Sheets
Activity Book page
Textbook page
MATERIALS
2-5, 316-321
TOOLBOX
Home Activities
Check-ups
Extension
Textbook page
Resource Sheets
86-88
3
4
2-5, 396-404
SM, Shortcut 1
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Week
Day 1
Starter
Year 3
Tune-in TF 316
The kilogram
Revision
Main
Teaching
1 The half-kilogram TF 317
Core
Activities
Textbook page 86 TF 321
Year 4
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Tune-in TF 396-397
Shape sort
Revising circles, triangles,
quadrilaterals, pentagons,
hexagons and octagons
1 Equilateral and isosceles
triangles TF 397-399
Pupil Activity TF 399
1 Sorting triangles
Textbook page 107 TF 404
Support
Textbook page 86 TF 321
First give the children a set of
objects and work with them to
decide whether each one weighs
more or less than 1/2kg.
Extension
Textbook page 86 TF 321
Write some weights on the board,
e.g. 3 ½ kg, 1 ½ kg. Ask the pupils
to find objects which weigh about
these amounts.
Pupil Activity TF 399
1 Sorting triangles
Ask the pupils to first sort the
triangles in to two categories –
equilateral and not equilateral.
Repeat for isosceles and not
isosceles.
Pupil Activity TF 399
1 Sorting triangles
Using geostrip, ask pupils to make
triangles and put them in the same
three categories.
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook page 86
TF 321
Follow-up for Textbook page 107
TF 404
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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Week
Day 2
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Teaching TF 318
2 Grams
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
3 Weighing in kilograms and
grams TF 318-319
2 Regular and irregular shapes
TF 399-400
Core
Activities
Pupil Activity TF 319
1 Weighing and labelling containers
Pupil Activity TF 400
1 Sorting regular and irregular
shapes
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 87 TF 321
Support
Pupil Activity TF 319
Weigh each container with the
pupils first and discuss how their
weight could be described. Then
give them the labels and ask them to
do the exercise alone.
Extension
Pupil Activity TF 319
Do not give the pupils the labels to
begin with. Ask them to make their
own and then compare them to
yours.
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook page 87
TF 321
Pupil Activity TF 400
1 Sorting regular and irregular
shapes
Give the pupils two cards labelled
‘regular shapes’ and ‘irregular
shapes’. Ask the pupils to place
each shape next to the correct label.
Discuss with the pupils the names
of the shapes in each category.
Pupil Activity TF 400
1 Sorting regular and irregular
shapes
Using geostrip, ask pupils to make
their own shapes which could be
given the same labels as those they
have sorted.
Discuss children’s work.
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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Week
Day 3
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
4 Weighing in grams TF 319-320
3 Introducing the heptagon
TF 400-401
Core
Activities
Textbook page 88 TF 321
Textbook page 108 TF 404
Support
Textbook page 88 TF 321
Revise with the pupils how many
grams are in 1kg and ½ kg first.
Extension
Textbook page 88 TF 321
Ask the pupils to think of four
everyday items and estimate their
weight. Discuss how to find out how
good their estimates are.
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook page 88
TF 321
Textbook page 108 TF 404
Give the pupils a set of cards which
have the names of all the shapes on
the page on. Ask them to lay the
cards next to the right shapes
before they attempt the questions.
Textbook page 108 TF 404
Provide pupils with a set of cards
with shape names on, e.g.
‘irregular hexagon’, ‘regular
pentagon’. Pupils pick a card and
draw a shape to match it. (For
regular shapes provide templates to
select from and draw round).
Follow-up for Textbook page 108
TF 404
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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Day 4
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Year 3
Ask the pupils to work in pairs and
write down two items that would be
weighed in kg and two that would
be weighed in grams. Choose
answers at random.
Give small groups a 1kg weight and
some Plasticine. Show them how to
estimate making a 1kg ball of
Plasticine by holding the weight in
one hand and the Plasticine in the
other and swapping them over.
On the board write 200g, 50g,
250g, 75g.
Give the pupils Plasticine and ask
them to make balls weighing
approximately each amount. Use
scales to find out how good their
estimates were.
As above but ask the pupils to make
1/2kg and 1kg weights only to begin
with.
Extension
Working in pairs, ask the pupils to
challenge each other to make
different weights out of Plasticine.
Use scales to see how good each
estimate is.
Plenary
Discuss how close the pupils’
estimates were
Year 4
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Generic Starter TF 2-5
4 Making shapes and drawing
patterns with triangles
TF 401-402
Textbook page 109 TF 404
Textbook page 109 TF 404
For q2, ask pupils to make the
shapes and show you them but not
draw them.
Textbook page 109 TF 404
Ask pupils to make up their own
patterns with shapes on dotty
paper.
Follow-up for Textbook page 109
TF 404
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
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Day 5
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Teacher Notes
ICT
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
Further Teaching TF 402-403
1 Convex and concave shapes
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 403-404
1 Making concave shapes
2 Pupil Sheet 86
Convex and concave shapes
Support
Pupil Activities TF 403-404
1 Making concave shapes
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 403-404
1 Making concave shapes
2 Pupil Sheet 86
Convex and concave shapes
Ask pupils to draw their own shapes
and label them concave or convex.
Plenary
Additional
notes
Extra
Resources
Review
Discuss children’s work.
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Spring Term
Unit
Framework topic
8
5days
3
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Counting, properties of number and
number sequences
Reasoning about numbers
Count larger collections by grouping them: for example, in tens, then other numbers.
Describe and extend number sequences: count on or back in tens or hundreds,
starting from any two- or three-digit number.
Numbers to 1000

Counting in hundreds, tens and ones
Understanding + and –
Mental calculation strategies (+ and )
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions and checking
results
Properties of numbers
Reasoning about numbers
Use knowledge that addition can be done in any order to do mental calculations
more efficiently. For example: partition into tens and units, then recombine (e.g. 34
+ 53 = 30 + 50 + 4 + 3).
Use known number facts and place value to add mentally.
Bridge through a multiple of 10, then adjust.
Addition to 100

Addition of two-digit numbers, with bridging
Number Properties

Number properties
4
Recognise and extend number sequences formed by counting from any number in
steps of constant size, extending beyond zero when counting back:
for example, count on in steps of 25 to 500, and then back to, say, -100.
Recognise odd and even numbers up to 1000, and some of their properties, including
the outcome of sums or differences of pairs of odd/even numbers.
Recognise multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10, up to the tenth multiple.
Recognise negative numbers in context (e.g. on a number line, on a temperature
scale).
Make and investigate a general statement about familiar numbers or shapes by
finding examples that satisfy it.
Teaching File page
Pupil Sheets
Activity Book page
Textbook page
Home Activities
Check-ups
7-13, 55-57,
108-113
NC, Shortcuts 1-3
NG, Shortcuts 1-3
2-5, 312-321
NC, Shortcut 1
NG, Shortcut 1
10-11
11-13
13-16
7
6
MATERIALS
TOOLBOX
3
4
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Textbook page
Resource Sheets
2a, b
69-71
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19-25, 32-34
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Week
Day 1
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 55
From 0-1000
Revising number sequences to
1000
Tune-in TF 312-313
Odds and evens
Main
Teaching
1 Stickers TF 56
Counting in hundreds, tens and
ones
1 Counting on and back
TF 313-314
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 57
1 Counting given materials
2 Laying out materials
Pupil Activity TF 314
1 Pupil Sheet 69
Odd/even, counting on/back in
threes, fours, fives
Support
Activity Book page 11 TF 57
Pupil Activities TF 57
1 Counting given materials
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 57
1 Counting given materials
2 Laying out materials
Plenary
Follow-up for Activity Book pages
11-13 TF 57
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activity TF 314
1 Pupil Sheet 69
Provide the odd and even numbers
on cards and ask pairs of pupils to
sort them into the two categories.
Work as a group to start colouring
in the squares in q2-4 before asking
pupils to complete independently.
Pupil Activity TF 314
1 Pupil Sheet 69
In pairs give pupils a set of 1 – 100
cards and a die labelled 2, 3, 4, 5.
Take it in turns to pick a card and
roll the die. The pupil’s partner
tells them to count forward or
backwards in the steps shown on
the die from the number on the
card. They check the sequence by
looking at a number square.
Discuss children’s work.
Additional
notes
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Week
Day 2
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Numbers to
1000
TF 7-9
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
2 Money TF 56
Counting £1, 10p and 1p coins
2 Finding a rule TF 314-315
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 57
2 Laying out materials
3 Laying out and counting materials
in teams
Pupil Activity TF 315
1 Pupil Sheet 70
Rules for sequences
Support
Activity Book page 12 TF 57
Pupil Activities TF 57
1 Counting given materials
2 Laying out materials
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 57
3 Laying out and counting materials
in teams
Plenary
Follow-up for Activity Book pages
11-13 TF 57
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activity TF 315
1 Pupil Sheet 70
Provide a similar set of questions
with sequences going up and down
in steps of 3, 4 and 5 and numbers
below 100.
Pupil Activity TF 315
1 Pupil Sheet 70
Rules for sequences
Ask pupils to make up their own
sequences with missing numbers.
Swap with a partner to complete the
gaps and state the rule.
Give children examples of more
sequences to find the rule in.
Discuss.
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Week
Day 3
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Numbers to
1000
TF 7-9
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
3 Cubes TF 56
Counting hundreds, tens and units
3 Multiples TF 315-317
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 57
3 Laying out and counting materials
in teams
4 Laying out materials to represent
3-digit numbers in teams
Activity Book page 13 TF 57
Pupil Activities TF 57
3 Laying out and counting materials
in teams
Textbook page 80 TF 321
Support
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 57
4 Laying out materials to represent
3-digit numbers in teams
Plenary
Follow-up for Activity Book pages
11-13 TF 57
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 80 TF 321
Provide pupils with a set of 1 – 100
cards. Ask them to find all the
multiples of 5 then 10. Ask them to
find 10 multiples of 3 and then 4.
Textbook page 80 TF 321
Give pairs of pupils a set of 20 twodigit cards all multiples of 2,3,4,5
or 10. Ask them to lay them out face
down. Pupils take it in turns to say
what multiple they want e.g. ‘ I
want a multiple of 3’. They then
turn one card over and if it matches
their statement they keep it. If not
they turn it back again. The winner
is the person with the most cards.
Follow-up for Textbook page 80
TF 321
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Week
Day 4
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Extension
Plenary
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 108
Pass the envelope
Adding a two-digit number and a
teens number, with bridging
Generic Starter TF 2-5
1 Figure it out TF 109-110
Pupil Sheet 10
Adding two-digit numbers, with
bridging
Pupil Activity 1 TF 110
1 Pupil Sheet 11
Adding two-digit numbers, with
bridging
4 Negative numbers TF 317-319
Textbook page 13 TF 112
Pupil Activity 1 TF 110
1 Pupil Sheet 11
Adding two-digit numbers, with
bridging
Let pupils use a hundred square to
help them answer the questions.
Pupil Activity 1 TF 110
1 Pupil Sheet 11
Give pupils the total of all the
answers on the page. Ask them to
find the total of their answers and
compare it to yours.
Follow-up for Textbook page 13
TF 113
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activities TF 319
1 Ordering negative number cards
2 Using < or > with negative
numbers
Textbook page 81 TF 321
Pupil Activities TF 319
1 Ordering negative number cards
Pupil Activities TF 319
2 Using < or > with negative
numbers
3 Pupil Sheet 71
Number lines with negative
numbers
Follow-up for Textbook page 81
TF 321
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notes
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Week
Day 5
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Addition to
100
TF 9-13
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
2 In the bank TF 110-111
Adding several small numbers
5 Temperature TF 320
Core
Activities
Textbook pages 14-16 TF 112
Pupil Activity TF 320
1 Ordering temperatures
Textbook page 82 TF 321
Support
Textbook pages 14-16 TF 112
Go through each page with the
children first and discuss the
strategies that could be used to
solve each question, e.g. looking for
near doubles.
Textbook pages 14-16 TF 112
Ask the pupils to make up their own
number chains and swap with each
other to solve.
Pupil Activity TF 320
1 Ordering temperatures
Once the pupils have identified the
below and above freezing point
temperatures work with them as a
group to order the cards.
Pupil Activity TF 320
1 Ordering temperatures
On the board write a list of possible
temperatures, e.g. ‘water when it
boils’, ‘outside on a summers day’,
‘on the top of a mountain in the
alps’ ‘inside a freezer’. Ask pupils
to order them from coldest to
hottest and suggest possible
temperatures for each situation.
Discuss their choices.
Follow-up for Textbook page 82
TF 321
Extension
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook pages
14-16 TF 113
Home Activity 7
Check-up 6
Topic Assessment 2a, b
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ICT
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Mixed Age Planning Year 3 & Year 4
Spring Term
Unit
Framework topic
9
3
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Understanding + and –
Mental calculation strategies
(+ and -)
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions and checking
results
Use knowledge that addition can be done in any order to do mental
calculations more efficiently. For example:
partition into tens and units, then recombine
(e.g. 34 + 53 = 30 + 50 + 4 + 3).
Use known number facts and place value to add/subtract mentally.
Bridge through a multiple of 10, then adjust.
Subtraction to 100

Subtracting a two-digit number, bridging multiples
of 10
Understanding  and 
Mental calculation strategies
( and )
Extend understanding of the operations of × and ÷, and their relationship to each
other and to + and -. Understand the principles (not the names) of the commutative,
associative and distributive laws as they apply to multiplication.
Begin to derive division facts from the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables.
Use doubling or halving, starting from known facts. For example: double/halve twodigit numbers by doubling/halving the tens first; to multiply by 4, double, then
double again; to multiply by 5, multiply by 10 then halve; to multiply by 20,
multiply by 10 then double.
Use closely related facts (e.g. to multiply by 9 or 11, multiply by 10 and adjust).
Partition (e.g. 23 × 4 = (20 × 4) + (3 × 4)).
Use the relationship between multiplication and division.
Use known number facts and place value to multiply and divide integers, including
by 10 and then 100 (whole-number answers).
Approximate first. Use informal pencil and paper methods to support, record or
explain multiplications and divisions.
Choose and use appropriate number operations and appropriate ways of
calculating (mental, mental with jottings, pencil and paper) to solve problems.
Check with the inverse operation.
Estimate and check by approximating (round to nearest 10 or 100).
Multiplication

Multiplication beyond tables: mental strategies
Division

Dividing by 8
4
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions and checking
results
Teaching File page
Pupil Sheets
13-16, 144-152
18-22
20-25, 170-176,
193-197
MF, Shortcut 1
38-39, 43-45
Activity Book page
Textbook page
Home Activities
Check-ups
29-32
11
10
17
13-14
MATERIALS
TOOLBOX
Extension
Textbook page
Resource Sheets
29-35
3
4
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Week
Day 1
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 144-145
Two-steps
Revising subtraction of a singledigit, bridging a multiple of 10
Tune-in TF 170
Revising multiplication of a twodigit number by 2, 3, 4 or 5
No bridging
1 Three steps TF 145
Subtracting a teens number,
bridging a multiple of 10
1 Multiplying a two-digit number
by 2, 3, 4 or 5 TF 171
Bridging a multiple of 10, but not
100
2 Missing numbers TF 145-147
Involving subtraction of a teens
number
Pupil Activity TF 145
1 Pupil Sheet 18
A teens number from a two-digit
number, bridging a multiple of ten
Textbook page 29 TF 151
Pupil Activity TF 145
1 Pupil Sheet 18
A teens number from a two-digit
number, bridging a multiple of ten
Give the pupils labelled number
lines to work with first.
Extension
Pupil Activity TF 145
1 Pupil Sheet 18
Encourage the pupils to do the
question mentally first and then use
the number line to check their
answer.
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook page 29
TF 152
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Pupil Activity TF 171
1 Pupil Sheet 38
Beyond tables by 2, 3, 4 or 5
Pupil Activity TF 171
1 Pupil Sheet 38
Beyond tables by 2, 3, 4 or 5
Work with the pupils as a group
and complete the first section for
each question together before
pupils work independently.
Pupil Activity TF 171
1 Pupil Sheet 38
Beyond tables by 2, 3, 4 or 5
Provide pupils with a set of 20-100
cards and a spinner labelled
2,3,4,5. Pupils take it in turns to
select a card and spin the spinner.
They must multiple the two numbers
together, recording their workings
on paper.
Discuss children’s work.
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Week
Day 2
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Subtraction to
100 TF 13-16
Specific Starter for Multiplication
TF 20-22
3 Three steps again TF 147
Subtracting a two-digit number,
bridging a multiple of 10
4 Missing numbers TF 147-149
Involving subtraction of a two-digit
number
Pupil Activity TF 147
1 Pupil Sheet 19
A two-digit number from a two-digit
number, bridging a multiple of ten
Textbook page 30 TF 151
Pupil Activity TF 147
1 Pupil Sheet 19
Give the pupils labelled number
lines to work with first.
2 Multiplying a two-digit number
by 4, by 20 and by 5 TF 171-173
Mental strategies
Extension
Pupil Activity TF 147
1 Pupil Sheet 19
Encourage the pupils to do the
question mentally first and then use
the number line to check their
answer.
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook page
30 TF 152
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activity TF 173
1 Pupil Sheet 39 Beyond tables,
mental strategies for x4, x5, x20
Textbook page 45 TF 175
Pupil Activity TF 173
1 Pupil Sheet
Discuss the strategies for each
section with the pupils as a group
and complete the first three
questions in each section together
before asking pupils to complete the
rest of the sheet.
Pupil Activity TF 173
1 Pupil Sheet 39 Beyond tables,
mental strategies for x4, x5, x20
Provide pupils with the same
questions but not the sheet. Ask
them to find the answers to the
questions and explain the strategies
they used.
Follow-up for Textbook page 45
TF 176
Home Activity 11
Check-up 10
Additional
notes
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Week
Day 3
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Extension
Plenary
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Subtraction to
100 TF 13-16
Specific Starter for Multiplication
TF 20-22
5 A new way TF 149
Preparing for a standard written
method of subtracting a two-digit
number, no bridging
Pupil Activity TF 149
1 Pupil Sheet 20
Subtraction of two-digit numbers,
no bridging
3 Multiplying a multiple of 10 by
2, 3, 4 or 5 TF 174-175
Textbook page 31 TF 151
Pupil Activity TF 149
1 Pupil Sheet 20
Subtraction of two-digit numbers,
no bridging
Provide tens and units material for
support.
Pupil Activity TF 149
1 Pupil Sheet 20
Subtraction of two-digit numbers,
no bridging
Put the questions on the board and
ask the pupils to find the answers
mentally before doing the sheet.
Follow-up for Textbook page 31
TF 152
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook pages 46-47 TF 175-176
Textbook pages 46 TF 175-176
Decide as a group on the
calculations needed to answer each
word problem before asking pupils
to find the answers.
Textbook pages 46-47 TF 175-176
Ask pupils to make up their own
number puzzles and swap with a
partner to solve.
Follow-up for Textbook page 46
TF 176
Further Teaching TF 174-175
1 Multiplying a two-digit number
by 11 or 9
Check-up 13
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notes
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Resources
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Week
Day 4
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Subtraction to
100 TF 13-16
Tune-in TF 193
Eight times table
Revising mental multiplication by 8
Main
Teaching
6 Ten for one TF 150
Rearranging a two-digit number by
exchanging 1 ten for 10 units
1 Dividing by 8 TF 193-194
Sharing
Core
Activities
Pupil Activity TF 150
1 Pupil Sheet 21
Exchanging 1 ten for 10 units
Pupil Activities TF 195-196
1 Sharing cubes/counters
2 Division by 8 bingo
Support
Pupil Activity TF 150
1 Pupil Sheet 21
Exchanging 1 ten for 10 units
Provide tens and units material for
support.
Pupil Activity TF 150
1 Pupil Sheet 21
Exchanging 1 ten for 10 units
Ask pupils to write down five
numbers, swap with a partner and
break them down in the same way
as sheet 21.
Discuss further examples involving
exchanging 1 ten for 10 units.
Pupil Activities TF 195-196
1 Sharing cubes/counters
Extension
Plenary
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activities TF 195-196
2 Division by 8 bingo
Revise division facts for 8.
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Week
Day 5
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Support
Extension
Plenary
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Subtraction to
100 TF 13-16
Specific Starter for Division
TF 23-25
7 A new way TF 150-151
Preparing for a standard written
method of subtracting a two-digit
number, with bridging
Pupil Activity TF 151
1 Pupil Sheet 22
Subtraction of two-digit numbers,
with bridging
2 Dividing by 8 TF 194-195
Grouping
Textbook page 32 TF 151
Pupil Activity TF 151
1 Pupil Sheet 22
Subtraction of two-digit numbers,
with bridging
Provide tens and units material for
support.
Pupil Activity TF 151
1 Pupil Sheet 22
Subtraction of two-digit numbers,
with bridging
Put the questions on the board and
ask the pupils to find the answers
mentally before doing the sheet.
Follow-up for Textbook page 32
TF 152
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activities TF 195-196
2 Division by 8 bingo
3 Pupil Sheet 43
Textbook page 51 TF 197
Pupil Activities TF 195-196
3 Pupil Sheet 43
Give pupils cubes and the octopus
cards again to help them find the
answers.
Pupil Activities TF 195-196
4 Division game Pupil Sheets 44-45
Follow-up for Textbook page 51
TF 197
Home Activity 17
Check-up 14
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Mixed Age Planning Year 3 & Year 4
Spring Term
Unit
Framework topic
10
3
4
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Understanding  and 
Mental calculation strategies
( and )
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions and checking
results
Understand division as grouping (repeated subtraction) or sharing. Read
and begin to write the related vocabulary.
Recognize that division is the inverse of multiplication.
Derive quickly:
division facts corresponding to the times-tables.
Say or write a division statement corresponding to a given multiplication
statement.
Division


Dividing by 3
Dividing by 4; consolidation
Understanding  and 
Mental calculation strategies
( and )
Extend understanding of the operations of × and ÷, and their relationship to each
other and to + and -.
Begin to know multiplication facts for 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables and derive
corresponding division facts.
Use the relationship between multiplication and division.
Choose and use appropriate number operations and appropriate ways of
calculating (mental, mental with jottings, pencil and paper) to solve problems.
Check with the inverse operation.
Division



Dividing by 6
Dividing by 9
Dividing by 7; consolidation
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions and checking
results
Teaching File page
Pupil Sheets
17-22, 204-216
3
23-25, 198-211
45-50, 96
Activity Book page
Textbook page
Home Activities
Check-ups
51-56
19-21
15-17
18-21
15-18
MATERIALS
TOOLBOX
Extension
Textbook page
Resource Sheets
18-21, 29-35
3
4
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Week
Day 1
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 204
Three times table
Revising mental multiplication by
3
Tune-in TF 198
Six times table
Revising mental multiplication by 6
Main
Teaching
1 Dividing by 3 TF 204-205
Sharing
1 Dividing by 6 TF 198-199
Sharing
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 206-207
1 Sharing cubes
Ask the pupils to find the answers
without using the cubes, then use
the cubes to check them.
Pupil Activities TF 200
1 Division using a number line
2 Pupil Sheet 46 By 6
Support
Pupil Activities TF 206-207
1 Sharing cubes
Pupil Activities TF 200
1 Division using a number line
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 206-207
2 Matching divisions and answers
Without using the practical
apparatus, ask the pupils to time
themselves to see how quickly their
group can complete each activity
Pupil Activities TF 200
2 Pupil Sheet 46 By 6
Ask pupils to time themselves to see
how quickly they can complete the
sheet mentally.
Plenary
Consolidate sharing activities and
division facts for 3.
Revise division facts for 6.
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Week
Day 2
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Multiplication
or Division TF 17-22
Specific Starter for Division
TF 23-25
Main
Teaching
2 Dividing by 3 TF 206
Grouping
2 Dividing by 6 TF 199-200
Grouping
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 206-207
2 Matching divisions and answers
3 Pupil Sheet 3 Domino template
Pupil Activities TF 200
3 Connection cards
Pupil Sheet 96 Domino Template
Support
Textbook pages 51-52 TF 207
Pupil Activities TF 206-207
2 Matching divisions and answers
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 206-207
3 Pupil Sheet 3
Domino template
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook pages
51-52 TF 208
Textbook page 52 TF 201
Pupil Activities TF 200
2 Pupil Sheet 46 By 6
Give pupils a number line marked
in sixes to help them find their
answers.
Pupil Activities TF 200
3 Connection cards
Pupil Sheet 96 Domino Template
Ask pupils to make their own set of
connection cards for the six times
table.
Follow-up for Textbook page 52
TF 201
Home Activity 19
Check-up 15
Home Activity 18
Check-up 15
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Teacher Notes
ICT
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Week
Day 3
Starter
Main
Teaching
Core
Activities
Year 3
Tune-in TF 209
Four times table
Revising mental multiplication by
4
Tune-in TF 202
Nine times table
Revising mental multiplication by 9
1 Dividing by 4 TF 210-211
Sharing
1 Dividing by 9 TF 202
Introducing mental division by 9
2 Dividing by 4 TF 211
Grouping
Pupil Activities TF 212
2 Matching multiplication, division
and answer cards
Support
Pupil Activities TF 212
1 Division by 4 using a number line
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 212
2 Matching multiplication, division
and answer cards
3 Pupil Sheet 3
Domino template
Consolidate division facts for 4.
Plenary
Year 4
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Pupil Activities TF 204
1 Dominoes
Pupil Sheet 48 Dividing by 9
2 Pupil Sheet 96 Domino template
4 Pupil Sheet 47 By 9
Textbook page 53 TF 205
Pupil Activities TF 204
1 Dominoes
Pupil Sheet 48 Dividing by 9
Pupil Activities TF 204
3 Pupil Sheet 45 Game template
4 Pupil Sheet 47 By 9
Follow-up for Textbook page 53
TF 205
Home Activity 19
Check-up 16
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notes
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Week
Day 4
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Multiplication
or Division TF 17-22
Tune-in TF 206
Seven times table
Revising mental multiplication by 7
Main
Teaching
3 Quarters TF 212-213
Finding one quarter of a number
1 Dividing by 7 TF 206-207
Introducing mental division by 7
Core
Activities
Textbook pages 53-54 TF 215
Support
Textbook pages 53-54 TF 215
Provide the pupils with cubes for
support.
Extension
Textbook pages 53-54 TF 215
Ask the pupils to make up their own
racetrack problems using 3 and 4
times table facts. Swap with a friend
to solve.
Pupil Activities TF 208
1 Division game (Resource Sheet
40)
3 Pupil Sheet 49 By 7
Textbook page 54 TF 210
Pupil Activities TF 208
1 Division game (Resource Sheet
40)
Give pairs of pupils one board and
one set of number cards. Ask them
to work together to try and place all
the number cards in the right place
on the board. Check their answers
and then ask them to play the game.
Pupil Activities TF 208
1 Division game (Resource Sheet
40)
Ask pupils to make up their own
base board with questions about the
seven times table.
2 Connection cards
Pupil Sheet 96 Domino template
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook pages
53-54 TF 216
Home Activity 20
Check-up 16
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Follow-up for Textbook page 54
TF 211
Home Activity 20
Check-up 17
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Week
Day 5
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Multiplication
or Division TF 17-22
Specific Starter for Division
TF 23-25
Main
Teaching
4 Consolidation TF 213-214
Dividing by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10
2 Consolidation TF 208-209
Dividing by 6, 7, 8 and 9
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 214
2 Writing division statements
Support
Textbook pages 55-56 TF 215
Pupil Activities TF 214
1 Pupil Sheet 3 Domino template
Pupil Activities TF 209-210
2 Connection cards
Pupil Sheet 96 Domino template
3 Division bingo
Textbook page 55 TF 211
Pupil Activities TF 209-210
1 Matching division and quotient
cards (Resource Sheets 41-42)
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 214
3 Division bingo
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook pages
55-56 TF 216
Pupil Activities TF 209-210
3 Division bingo
2 Connection cards
Pupil Sheet 96 Domino template
Ask pupils to make their own sets of
cards and swap with other pupils to
play.
Follow-up for Textbook page 55
TF 211
Home Activity 21
Check-up 17
Home Activity 21
Check-up 18
Additional Resources
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Mixed Age Planning Year 3 & Year 4
Spring Term
Unit
Framework topic
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Fractions
Recognize unit fractions such as 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/10 and use them to find fractions
of shapes and numbers.
Begin to recognize simple equivalent fractions: for example, five tenths and one
half, five fifths and one whole.
Fractions

Tenths, thirds, fifths
Fractions and decimals
Understand decimal notation and place value for tenths and hundredths, and use it in
context. For example:
order amounts of money; convert a sum of money such as £13.25 to pence, or a
length such as 125cm to metres; round a sum of money to the nearest pound.
Recognise the equivalence between the decimal and fraction forms of one half and
one quarter, and tenths such as 0.3.
Decimals

Language and notation
3
11
4
Teaching File page
Pupil Sheets
Activity Book page
Textbook page
Home Activities
Check-ups
25-27, 261-269
29-34
30-32
72
24-25
21
7
29-30, 276-290
63-64
70-73
26
8
E11
MATERIALS
TOOLBOX
3
Extension
Textbook page
Resource Sheets
22
51-55
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 1
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 261-262
Revising halves and quarters
Tune-in TF 276-277
Rectangles
Revising tenths of a shape
Main
Teaching
1 Tenths TF 262
Introducing one tenth of a shape
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 263
2 Matching fractions
1 Rectangles and number lines
TF 277-278
Introducing decimal notation for
tenths
Pupil Activities TF 278-279
1 Matching fractions and decimals
2 Fractions of shapes
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Activity Book page 30 TF 268
Textbook page 70 TF 283
Pupil Activities TF 278-279
1 Matching fractions and decimals
Support
Pupil Activities TF 263
1 Pupil Sheet 29
Tenths
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 263
3 Pupil Sheet 30
Tenths
Pupil Activities TF 278-279
1 Matching fractions and decimals
2 Fractions of shapes
Give pupils four different colours of
cubes.
Plenary
Follow-up for Activity Book
page 30 TF 268
Follow-up for Textbook page 70
TF 283
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 2
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Fractions
TF 25-27
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
2 Tenths TF 263-264
Introducing one tenth of a number
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 264-265
2 Matching fractions stories
2 Towers and number lines
TF 279-280
Extending decimal notation:
numbers greater than 1.0
Pupil Activities TF 280
1 Matching fractions and decimals
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 72 TF 268
Support
Pupil Activities TF 264-265
1 Showing fractions with cubes
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 264-265
2 Matching fractions stories
3 Pupil Sheet 31
Half of, quarter of, tenth of
Plenary
Follow-up for Textbook page 72
TF 268
Pupil Activities TF 278-279
2 Fractions of shapes
Give pupils two different colours of
cubes.
3 Pupil Sheet 63 Notation for tenths
Pupil Activities TF 280
1 Matching fractions and decimals
2 Pupil Sheet 64
Notation for units and tenths
Home Activity 26
Home Activity 24
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 3
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Fractions
TF 25-27
Specific Starter for Decimals
TF 29-30
Main
Teaching
3 Thirds TF 265
Introducing one third of a shape
Consolidate teaching from Days 12
Core
Activities
Pupil Activity TF 266
1 Pupil Sheet 32
Thirds (Tri-track game)
Pupil Activities TF 280
2 Pupil Sheet 64
Notation for units and tenths
Activity Book page 31 TF 268
Textbook page 71 TF 283
Support
Ask the pupils to draw simple things
such as pizzas and chocolate bars
and show 1/3 and 2/3 on them.
Extension
Pupil Activity TF 266
1 Pupil Sheet 32
Thirds (Tri-track game)
Ask the pupils to decide whether
there is a strategy for winning the
game.
Follow-up for Activity Book
page 31 TF 268
Pupil Activities TF 280
1 Matching fractions and decimals
Match the picture cards with one
other set of cards at a time.
Pupil Activities TF 280
1 Matching fractions and decimals
Ask pupils to make up their own
sets of cards. Swap with a partner
to sort.
Plenary
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Follow-up for Textbook page 71
TF 283
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 4
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Specific Starter for Fractions
TF 25-27
Specific Starter for Decimals
TF 29-30
Main
Teaching
4 Fifths TF 266-267
Introducing one fifth of a shape
3 Comparing and ordering
decimals TF 281-282
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 267
1 Matching fractions
2 Pupil Sheet 33
Tenths, thirds, fifths
Textbook page 72 TF 283
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
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Activity Book page 32 TF 268
Support
Pupil Activities TF 267
1 Matching fractions
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 267
2 Pupil Sheet 33
Tenths, thirds, fifths
Ask the pupils to order the
fractions on the sheet from
smallest to largest.
Follow-up for Activity Book
Plenary
page 32 TF 268
Home Activity 25
Check-up 21
Topic Assessment 7
Provide pupils with a decimal
number line from 0 to 10 marked in
tenths. Give pairs of pupils a set of
number cards showing decimals
below 10. Using the number line for
reference, ask the pupils to order
the cards from smallest to largest.
Textbook pages 72-73 TF 283
Follow-up for Textbook page 72
TF 283
Topic Assessment 8
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 5
Starter
Revision/Consolidation
Specific Starter for Decimals
TF 29-30
Main
Teaching
Revise half, quarters, tenths, thirds
and fifths.
Consolidate Teaching from
Day 4
Core
Activities
Pupil Activities TF 267
3 Pupil Sheet 34
Tenths, thirds, fifth
Textbook page 73 TF 283
Support
Pupil Activities TF 267
2 Pupil Sheet 33
Tenths, thirds, fifths
Textbook page 72 TF 283
Extension
Pupil Activities TF 267
3 Pupil Sheet 34
On the board write a mixture of
fractions. Ask the pupils to write
down the fraction that must be
added to each to make 1. Ask them
to order the fractions from smallest
to largest.
Follow-up for Activity Book
page 32 TF 268
Extension Textbook page E11
TF 286
Plenary
Year 3
Year 4
Additional Resources
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Follow-up for Textbook page 73
TF 284
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Mixed Age Planning Year 3 & Year 4
Spring Term
Unit
Framework topic
Objectives: children will be taught to…
NHM Topic
NHM Section
Handling data
Solve a given problem by organizing and interpreting numerical data
in simple lists, tables and graphs, for example:
simple frequency tables; pictograms - symbol representing two units.
Data Handling

Pictograms
Handling data
Solve a problem by collecting quickly, organising, representing and interpreting data
in tables, charts, graphs and diagrams, including those generated by a computer, for
example:
Venn and Carroll diagrams (two criteria).
Data Handling

Carroll and Venn diagrams
3
12
4
Teaching File page
Pupil Sheets
Activity Book page
Textbook page
44-45
115
MATERIALS
2-5, 413-415
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Home Activities
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Resource Sheets
3
4
2-5, 432-436
ST, Shortcut 1
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Week
Day 1
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Tune-in TF 413-414
Which colour?
Revising pictograms
Tune-in TF 432
Number sort
Revising Carroll diagrams
Main
Teaching
1 Which colour? TF 414-415
Pictograms with the symbol
representing 2 units
1 Shape up TF 433
Using Carroll diagrams
Core
Activities
Textbook page 115 TF 415
Pupil Activities TF 434
1 Sorting 2D shapes onto a Carroll
diagram
3 Pupil Sheet 94 Carroll diagrams
Support
Textbook page 115 TF 415
Read the page with the children and
discuss the answers then ask them
to complete it.
Textbook page 115 TF 415
Activity Book p44 TF 415
Pupil Activities TF 434
1 Sorting 2D shapes onto a Carroll
diagram
Follow-up for Textbook page 115
TF 415
Discuss criteria children used when
sorting shapes and numbers.
Extension
Plenary
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Pupil Activities TF 434
2 Sorting numbers onto a Carroll
diagram
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NHM Mixed Age Planning Year 3 and Year 4 Spring Term
Week
Day 2
Starter
Year 3
Year 4
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
Consolidate teaching on pictograms
Consolidate Teaching from Day 1
Core
Activities
Activity Book pages 44 TF 415
Pupil Activities TF 434
2 Sorting numbers onto a Carroll
diagram
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Textbook page 122 TF 436
Support
Activity Book pages 44 TF 415
Extension
Activity Book pages 45 TF 415
Plenary
Follow-up for Activity Book
pages 44 TF 415
Pupil Activities TF 434
2 Sorting numbers onto a Carroll
diagram
Give the pupils labelled diagrams
and a set of numbers less than 100.
Pupil Activities TF 434
3 Pupil Sheet 94 Carroll diagrams
Ask pupils to draw their own
Carroll diagram to sort the shapes
in a different way.
Follow-up for Textbook page 122
TF 436
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Week
Day 3
Starter
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
Further Teaching TF 415
1 Using a computer to display data
2 Sorting shapes TF 435
Revising Venn diagrams
Core
Activities
Activity Book page 45 TF 415
Pupil Activity TF 436
1 Pupil Sheet 95 Venn diagrams
Year 3
Year 4
Additional Resources
Teacher Notes
ICT
Further Teaching TF415
1 Using a computer to display data
Enter the data from Textbook p115
and Activity book p44-45.
Support
Activity Book page 45 TF 415
Extension
Further Teaching TF 415
1 Using a computer to display data
Plenary
Follow-up for Activity Book
pages 45 TF 415
Pupil Activity TF 436
1 Pupil Sheet 95 Venn diagrams
Put a large version of the Venn
diagrams on the board and work
with the pupils as a group deciding
where each number should be
placed.
Pupil Activity TF 436
1 Pupil Sheet 95 Venn diagrams
Give pupils a random set of 20
number cards labelled from 100 to
200. Ask them to create their own
Venn diagrams sorting the numbers
in ways of their choice.
Discuss children’s work.
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Week
Day 4
Starter
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
Revise hand drawn bar charts and
tables.
Consolidate Teaching from Day 3
Core
Activities
Further Teaching TF 415
1 Using a computer to display data
Further Teaching TF 415
1 Using a computer to display data
Enter the data from Textbook p115
and Activity Book p44-45.
Year 3
Support
Further Teaching TF 415
1 Using a computer to display data
Enter the data from Textbook p115
and Activity Book p44-45.
Extension
Ask pupils to choose something to
survey with the class. They must
make their own tables and graphs
either by hand or on a computer.
Plenary
Display and discuss children’s
work
Year 4
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Textbook page 123 TF 436
Textbook page 123 TF 436
Work through the questions with the
pupils as a group answering orally
before they answer them
independently. For q4 provide a
selection of shapes for pupils to
choose from as oppose to drawing
their own.
Textbook page 123 TF 436
Provide pupils with a set of cards
showing pictures of houses and
some particulars, e.g. number of
bedrooms, age of house, number of
rooms downstairs. Ask pupils to
draw a large Venn diagram and put
the cards onto it sorted in a way of
their choice.
Follow-up for Textbook page 123
TF 436
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Week
Day 5
Starter
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Generic Starter TF 2-5
Main
Teaching
Revise hand drawn bar charts and
tables.
Revision/Consolidation
Core
Activities
Further Teaching TF 415
1 Using a computer to display data
Ask pupils to choose something to
survey with the class. They must
make their own tables and graphs
either by hand or on a computer.
Year 3
Support
Further Teaching TF 415
1 Using a computer to display data
Enter the data from Textbook p115
and Activity Book p44-45.
Extension
Continue with surveys.
Plenary
Display and discuss children’s
work
Year 4
Additional Resources
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Ask the pupils to sort the class in a
particular way – e.g. boy or girl
and aged 8 or 9. Provide them with
labelled Carroll or Venn diagrams
to record their results.
Provide pairs of pupils with a set of
cards showing numbers less than
100 and a large Venn diagram
labelled, for example, ‘even
numbers greater than 20’ and
‘multiples of 3’. Ask pupils to
shuffle the cards and take it in turns
to pick one and place it in the right
place on the diagram.
Ask pupils to sort the class in a way
of their choice and show their
results on a Venn or Carroll
diagram. E.g. ‘blond hair’ and
‘wears glasses’
Discuss children’s work.
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