Year Group: 3
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Meet the Flintstones
English links
We will be writing stories related to the Stone Age and using our book ‘Stone Boy’ as
inspiration.
We will be travelling back in time to the Stone Age and writing letters to the people back at
school!
We will be writing instructions about how to complete Stone Age tasks such as how to light
a fire, how to make a weapon.
Term: 1
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Autumn
Maths links
Place value, ordering, rounding, identifying and estimating related to Stone Age ways of
counting.
Multiplication – word problems linked to Stone Age
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Addition and subtraction – using mental methods of working out questions related to the
Stone Age
We will be placing events on a timeline and looking at the different events that shape the
history of the Stone Age.
We will be looking at life in the Stone Age and how people used cave paintings as a form of
communication and evidencing early inventions.
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We will be looking at comparing and grouping rocks
Describe the formation of fossils
Look at nutrition through healthy eating and how to relates to our bodies
Look at the muscle system of animals and humans
We will be looking at the differences over time in the UK between now and during the Stone
Age period.
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Look at the skeleton system of animals and humans
Topic
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SCIENCE
COMPUTING
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RE
E-safety – Children will be looking at
how to use the internet safely and how
detrimental it is to keep personal
information safe
Use search engines to research
different topics (Stone Age)
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Our school follows the Wakefield
agreed syllabus for Religious
Education.
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Children will look at Wakefield in
relation to the different religions that
are celebrated and the ways they are.
Use programs such as Espresso and
Purple Mash
PE
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Gymnastics
Games such as netball, football,
cricket
HOMEWORK
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Topic Homework grid – related to Stone Age (due every week)
Maths homework – linked to what we have covered that week in our lessons.
Spellings – given out on a weekly basis (test the following week)
Enriching the curriculum
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Class Books
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Stone Boy by Sophie Loubiere
(Visits, Visitors, special days)
Trip to Yorkshire Museum in York
(focusing on the Stone Age)
Visitor (caveman)