Curriculum Map
Year
Gp
3
Term
Spring 2
Teacher
Theme
Miss Santopietro
Ancient Egypt
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Handley
The information within this leaflet will help you to help your child.
The Curriculum Map shows the main areas of learning that your child will undertake during the forthcoming term.
The Class Timetable will enable you to talk to your child about their school day!!
This is what
we will be
teaching
through our
creative
curriculum
The creative curriculum for this term will be Ancient Egypt. In this unit children find out about the way of
life of people living in ancient Egypt from archaeological discoveries. Children will develop their
understanding of characteristic features of a society; identify the different ways the past is represented;
and use sources of information to make simple observations, inferences and deductions.
This topic will include; geography, literacy and design and technology.

The Numeracy aspect will include links made to Pyramids through perimeters
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The Art aspect will include Hieroglyphics
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The Literacy aspect will include Mummification Process
Through our
RE lessons this
½ term the
children will
cover the
following. Do
try and attend
your child’s
class Mass
These are the
main
objectives
that will be
taught during
this ½ term
The RE curriculum this term will focus on Lent and Holy week.
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In Lent children will think about:
Knowing that Lent is a special season when Christians pray for forgiveness and try to change
to become more like Jesus
Knowing some of the miracles of Jesus which recall his words and actions.
Understanding that through his miracles, Jesus was able to show people the love and
forgiveness of God and bring about change in their lives.

In Holy week children will think about:
That the bible is Gods’ living Word; begin to find their way round the Bible; that in word and
deed Jesus revealed the love and mercy of god his father
Know the story of Palm Sunday.
Understand why Jesus was so popular.
Identify the titles given to Jesus and their meanings.
Literacy
Numeracy
Stories with a familiar setting
-Read and compare stories with familiar
settings.
-Engage in investigations and analysis of
various settings.
-Discuss atmosphere and common features and
themes.
-Reread and analyse, investigate and write
sentences through modelled and shared
composition.
-Investigate and write sentences to describe a
setting.
Geometry – Properties of Shapes
-Draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling
materials; recognise 3-D shapes in different
orientations and describe them.
-Recognise angles as a property of shape or a
description of a turn.
-Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles
make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn
and four a complete turn; identify whether angles are
greater than or less than a right angle.
-Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of
perpendicular and parallel lines.
Y3 Class Timetable
9:00-10:40
Mon
Mass
and
Hymn
Practise
10:4010:55
Guided Reading
Tues
10:55-12:00
12:001:00
Numeracy
Swimming
1:00-3:20
Literacy
Mental Maths
RE
Literacy
ICT
Sports coach
Creative Curriculum
Guided
Reading
Thurs
Fri
Literacy
Guided Reading/
Spellings
Assembly
Guided
Reading
K2M
Literacy
Numeracy
K2M
Numeracy
Numeracy
Lunch Time
Wed
Break Time
Guided Reading
Library
Literacy
Science
RE
MFL
Please Remember
Dinner money
Monday (clearly labelled please)
P.E. Kit
In school each day. Taken home for wash at holiday time
To read at home
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Reading books and
records should be in school every day.
Library Books
Changed Thursday
Spellings
Given Thursday to learn, tested the following Thursday
Violins and Cellos
Children bring instruments into school on Wednesday
Swimming
Children attend swimming lessons every Tuesday morning. Girls should
ensure they have swimming costumes and swimming caps whilst boys
should bring swimming bottoms and a cap if hair covers their eyes. No
goggles are necessary.
Please look in Reading Record for any communication.
Use Reading Record to record Reading Book comments and Library Book comments.
Many thanks for your co-operation. If you have any queries regarding this information, then
please speak to Miss Santopietro or Mr Breeze.
God is at the centre of our lives and as a school community we try to grow in love and care by following the example of Jesus