Year 3
Autumn: Stone Age and Bronze Age
YABBA DABBA DO – MEET THE
FLINTSTONES!
Spring: Ancient Egyptian Civilisation
WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN!
Summer: Africa
TINGA TINGA!
Literacy
Aut 1-2x Familiar settings
1x Fantasy settings POR- ‘Tuesday’
3x Traditional Fairy tales
1x Book reviews
1x Instructions
Aut 2-1x Instructions
4x Power of Reading – “The Story of Ug”
2x Poetry
Power Of Reading -“The Frog Prince”
Number and Place value:
 count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and
100
 find 10 or 100 more or less than a given
 number
 recognise the place value of each digit in a
three-digit number (hundreds, tens, ones)
 compare and order numbers up to 1000
 read and write numbers up to 1000
Aut 1-Animal Skeletons – Cross curricular with
History
Spr 1-Fairytales& Fables-Fiction
Adventure and Mystery-Fiction
Sum 1-Dialogue and Plays-Non fiction
Power of Reading “Orphan Boy” - Cross Curricular
Poems to Perform-Non fiction
Power of Reading – “Lila and The Rain” Cross
curricular
Sum 2-Authors and Letters-Non fiction
Power of Reading “ Butterfly Lion” - Cross
curricular
Reports-Non fiction
Written methods all operations
Measure-Capacity/Time
Handling Data
Fractions/Geometry
Estimation
Mathematics
Science
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identifying and grouping animals with and
without skeletons and observing and
comparing their movement.
Aut 2-Rocks- Cross curricular with History
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History
compare and group together different kinds of
rocks.
describe how fossils are formed when things
that have lived are trapped within rock.
recognise that soils are made from rocks and
organic matter.
Stone Age and Bronze Age
 Stone Age to Iron Age Britain, including:
hunter-gatherers and early farmers
Spr 2-Myths-Fiction
Information Texts-Non Fiction
Written methods all operations
Measure-Mass/Time
Handling Data
Estimation
Ongoing: Daily Mental Maths & Number
Worded problems and Investigations
Ongoing: Daily Mental Maths & Number
Worded problems and Investigations
Spr 1-Light
 exploring what happens when light
reflects off a mirror or other reflective
surfaces.
 looking for, and measure, shadows, and
find out how they are formed and what
might cause the shadows to change.
Sum 1-Plants -Cross curricular with History &
Geography
 exploring the relationship between
structure and function: the idea that
every part has a job to do.
Sum 2-Forces and Magnets- Cross curricular with
History
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Ancient Egypt- What can we find out about
ancient Egypt from what has survived?
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Children will find out about the way of life of
people living in ancient Egypt from
archaeological discoveries.
Africa-
observe that magnetic forces can act without
direct contact.
explore the behaviour and everyday uses of
different magnets
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Bronze age religion, technology & travel
Iron age hill forts
Geography
Black History Month (October/November)
UK based-London/Croydon
Map skills-small focused area-Local
Art and
Design
Cave man drawings-exploring materialscharcoal/pencil/fine motor skills/sketching
Design and
Technology
Use sources of information to make simple
observations, inferences and deductions.
Kenya and other African Country
Global- map skills on a larger scale
Artwork, in the style of the ancient Egyptians
Making paper.
Patterns
History-Egypt Shaduf
Photo Frames
Healthy food – Cross Curricular
Computing
E-safety
Word Processing – Too
Simple to Type
Religious
Education
Judaism
Harvest and Christmas
Challenge Unit-Why do You Judge Me?
Easter
Personal,
Social &
Health
Education
New Beginningsto recognise their worth as individuals, by
identifying positive things about themselves and
their achievements, seeing their mistakes, making
amends and setting personal goals.
Going for Goals- to resolve differences by looking
at alternatives, making decisions and explaining
choices.
Relationships & Sex Education - Differences
Changes and Relationships- be aware of different
types of relationships, including marriage, and
those between friends and families, and to
develop the skills to be effective in relationships.
Modern
Foreign
Languages
French
La Jolie Ronde
L1-5 and then Christmas lesson
French
La Jolie Ronde
L6-10 and then Easter lesson
French
La Jolie Ronde
L11 (2 lessons) then review of the lessons covered
Numbers 0-10; Greetings; Classroom instructions; Ask
for and give name; Ask for and state age
Colours; Names of fruit; Days of the week
Months of the year
Body Percussion
Bones and Wood instruments
Egyptian Music-Flutes/Recorders – cross curricular
with P.E
Egyptian Reggae
Sustained Physical Activity
Recycling – Cross Curricular with DT
Djembe drums
Dance
Xylophone
Sustained Physical Activity
Food – Cross curricular with Science &Topic
Music
HEALTHY
SCHOOLS
We are Communicators
Creating story boards
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E-safety
Microsoft Word editing
skills
We are Bug-fixers
E-safety
We are Opinion
pollsters
Data handling –traffic
survey
Sikhism or Hinduism
Programming
 Creating our
own programs
PE
Games: basic skills/Basketball
Country dancing/Gym
EDUCATIONAL Natural History Museum: cross-curricular
VISITS/FIELD
Science/History
TRIPS ETC
Games: Rugby –basic skills( end with tournament)
Swimming/Adventurous activity challenges
Egyptian Dance /Racquet sports
Horniman Museum-Cross curricular with Music
&Topic
Hobgoblin Theatre Group
Egyptian Day
Games: Swimming/Athletics
Gym and Dance
Science Museum
Sports Day
Dance Festival
African Dance Company