Class 2 Long Term Plan 2015/16 Year 3
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
English
Fictional text
Mystery
Recount Diaries
Non Chronological reports Use a range of
connectives
Use a perfect tense (past,
present, future)
Use range of nouns &
pronouns
Poems with a structure e.g. shape, calligrams ,
rhyming couplets
Phase 6 Letters and sounds-past tense
Fairy Tales / Folk Tales
Explanation texts
Recount Biography
Mystery
Recount Diaries
Non Chronological reports
Poems with a structure e.g. shape, calligrams , rhyming
couplets.
Phase 6 Letters and sounds-past tense Use prefixes &
suffixes in spelling
Use a dictionary to confirm
spellings
Write simple dictated sentences
Myths and legends
Play scripts
Information texts
Classic Poetry for performance
Discussion for and against
Phase 6 Letters & Sounds-longer words
Maths
Learn 3,4 & 8 x tables
Secure place value to 100
Mentally add & subtract units,
tens or hundreds to number of
up to 3 digits
Use commutatively to help
calculations
Measure & calculate with metric
measures
Measure simple perimeter
Add/subtract using money in
context
Use Roman numerals up XII; tell
the time
Calculate using simple time
problems
Material and their properties
Changing materials
Objects made from materials changing by
shape process
Light
To recognise that they need light in order to
see things and that dark is the absence of
light.
To notice that light is reflected from
surfaces.
To recognise that light from the Sun can be
dangerous and that there are ways to protect
Written column addition &
Subtraction.
Solve number problems,
including multiplication & simple
division and missing number
problems.
Draw 2D / Make 3D shapes
Identify and use right angles
Identify horizontal, vertical,
perpendicular and parallel lines
Mental maths
Read and write numbers with one decimal place
Use and count in tenths
Recognise, find and write
fractions
Recognise some
equivalent fractions
Add / subtract fraction up
to Less than 1
Order fractions with
common denominator
Interpret bar charts and
pictograms.
Magnets and springs
Forces between
magnets. Attract / repel.
Magnetic and non
magnetic materials.
Uses of magnets. Plan
a fair test.
Ways in which springs
are used.
Predictions: the effect
of stretching elastic
bands.
Rocks
To compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of
their simple physical properties. To recognise that soils are made from
rocks and organic matter.
Animals inc humans
To identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and
muscles for support, protection and movement
Science
History
their eyes
Castles -history of medieval castles and the
Normans, where castles are built, who lived in
castles, the structure of castles,
Travel and Transport
How is transport different today than in the
past?
Identifying modern forms of transport
Investigating what modes of transport people
used before
cars, trains and planes were invented
Grouping recent and early modes of transport
Non-European Society Mayan Civilisation
Study of Greek life and achievements and
their influence on the western world.
Name and locate the world's seven
and five oceans.name, locate and identify
characteristics of the four countries and
capital cities of the United Kingdom and its
surrounding seas. .Use simple compass
directions (North, South, East and West) and
locational and directional language [for
example, near and far; left and right], to
describe the location of features and routes
on a map use aerial photographs and plan
perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic
human and physical features; devise a simple
map; and use and construct basic symbols in a
key.
Investigating pattern
Comparing and contrasting localities
Continents and oceans
Rivers , mountains, volcanoes
And earthquakes.
The water cycle
Portraying Relationships
Titian, Raphael, Rego, Van Dyke
Sculpture
French
Listen & engage
Ask & answer questions
Appreciate French customs, culture
and places in France
Speak in sentences using familiar
vocabulary
Develop appropriate pronunciation
Show understanding of words & phrases
Appreciate stories and songs, poems &
rhymes
Broaden vocabulary
D&T
Select ad use wider range of tools and
equipment to perform tasks,
Musical instruments- playing with increasing
accuracy.
Christmas songs
Use mechanical systems
Healthy and varied diet - cooking
Great composers and musicians
Cnstruction
E- safety
Word Processing &
Touch Typing.
Using the internet,
E safety
Programming:
Scratch
E safety
Multi media
E safety
Visual Media
Geography
Art
Music
Computing
Locate world’s countries using maps significance of latitude,
longitude, Equator, Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Use
basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical
features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain,
sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather.
use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United
Kingdom and its countries, as well as the countries, continents
and oceans
Listen to and appreciate music, recognising the sounds of different
instruments
Great composers and musicians
PE
SEAL/PSCHE
RE
assessing
websites.
Data handling
Swimming
Gymnastics
Swimming
Competitive Games
New Beginnings
Making a Positive Contribution
Buddhism
Introducing Moses and why is is important to
Christians, Jews and Muslims
Reading the story of the Israelites in Egypt
and the ten plagues. Finding out about the
Jewish festival of Passover.
Christmas
Using technology to create graphs, databases and present information
Swimming
Dance
Compose refine
and perform a
dance.
Going for goals
Good to be me
The Christian and
Muslim idea of God
as creator.
Easter
Swimming
Athletics
Swimming
Athletics
Relationships
Changes
The life of Muhammad.
Who he was. What he
said and did. Story of
Bahira. The night of
power. The cave.