Year 3 and 4 Curriculum
Cycle 1
Subjects
Term 1 – The Stone Age
Term 2 – The Romans
English
New National Curriculum
Mysteries, Diaries and Poems with a Structure
Fables and Non-Chronological Reports.
‘The Croods’ Cine-literacy link
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Fairytales and Folktales, Persuasive Texts, Poems
on a Theme, Playscripts, Discussion text.
Maths
Science
Computing
Art and Design
Design Technology
Geography
History
Music
P.E.
R.E
Languages
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Place Value, Written Addition and Subtraction, 2D
Shape and Time
Famous Scientist/Materials/Solids Liquids and
Gases/Mixing and separating
Programming
Computational Thinking
Stone Age Cave paintings
Sketching Stone Age tools
Design and Make a Stone Age Village from
Recyclable Materials
Locating Landmarks
Mapping
Human features of Pre-historic Britain
History of the Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze
Age
Recorder Tuition
Year 3 and 4 Gymnastics/Dance
Year 3 Netball/Football
Year 4 Swimming
Journey to the Promised Land
Living as a Christian
All about me- Moi
Games and Songs - Jeux et chansons
New National Curriculum
Place Value, Mental Addition and Subtraction,
Roman Numerals, Fractions, Decimals and Division,
Position and Direction and Volume, Capacity, Mass
and Area
Changing States
The Human Body
Creativity
Computer Networks
Research, evaluate, design and make Roman Mosaics
from a range of materials.
Shield designs and sketching.
Term 3 - Camulodunum
New National Curriculum
Novel as a Theme, Explanation Texts, Performance
Poetry, Recounts: Biography.
New National Curriculum
Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Measures
and Statistics, 2D and 3D Shapes, Decimals,
Addition and Subtraction and Money, Multiplication
Facts, Multiplication and Division. Mental
Calculation, Counting and Sequencing, Fractions and
Decimals, Measures, Statistics, Position and Area
and Fractions with Written Division.
Forces
Electricity
Communication and collaboration
Productivity
Sketching Colchester Castle
Toga designs
Design and Make a Roman Chariot
Computing Roman Patterns
Roman board games
Location of Rome
Roman Homes
Human and Physical features
Mapping and locating Roman Roads in Colchester.
Geographical skills and fieldwork in the local area
The Romans
Roman Colchester
Recorder Tuition/ Roman theme songs – appraise,
compose, perform and evaluate
Year 3 and 4 Gymnastics/Dance
Year 3 Basketball/Football
Year 4 Swimming
The story of Moses andThe festival of Pesach
Guru Nanak, Guru Gobing Singh and The 5 Ks
The four friends - Les quatre amis Growing thingsCa pousse!
Compose and Perform Gladiator Theme Tune
Recorder Tuition
Year 3 and 4 Athletics
Year 3 Net games and Striking games
Year 4 Swimming
The local Anglican Church
Mohammed and the Koran
All aboard -On y va
Tell me a story - Raconte-mo une histoire