Year 3 long term plan
TERM
AUTUMN 1ST
AUTUMN 2nd
SPRING 1st
SPRING 2ND
SUMMER 2ND
THEME
Food Glorious Food
(Harvest)
Monstrous Myths
(Myths and Legends)
Rain and shine
(Weather)
QUESTION/
SCENARIO
Roding’s cook is going
on holiday. Can you cook
up a healthy feast?
In the ultimate
mythical creature
battle, will your
monster come out
fighting?
A 3D model using
magnets and springs of
a new mythical world.
Clay models
Have you got what it
takes to be the next
big weather reporter?
You have been enlisted
as a Roman soldier. How
will you survive?
What is special about
your area?
Olympics then and
now, which would you
prefer?
Weather forecast
video (filmed digi blue
cameras)
Season collages
A working weather
station
Claybury woods
Helmets and shields
- re-enactment of
invasion
Travel brochure about
Woodford
Adding commentary to
a short clip of an
event.
Colchester Museum
Woodford Walk
Drama centre visit
Claybury Woods
Allotments
Redbridge music centre
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biographies
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labels, lists &
captions (travel
brochure)
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reports
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presenting
information
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letters to local
businesses
Olympic Park / one of
the 2012 venues e.g.
Lee Valley Park
FINAL PRODUCT
Harvest assembly for
parents
Picnic on the field
TRIP
Allotment
Nurse visit
Police visit Halloween
Trip to a local
supermarket
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narrative including
through oral story
telling
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poetry (similes)
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instructions
TEXT
TYPES/SKILLS
REVISITED
Claybury Woods (story
telling)
Drama day (Wizard’s
stories company)
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narrative
recount
presenting
information (class
assembly and
research)
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VISUAL LITERACY
labels, lists &
captions
recounts
poetry (shape)
non-chronological
reports
letters
Emperors and
Gladiators
(Romans)
SUMMER 1ST
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labels, lists &
captions
narrative
diary entries as a
Roman soldier
play scripts
letters
Wonderful Woodford
(The Local Area)
Ratatouille
Reading mythical
stories online
Watching weather
forecast
Gladiators (Child’s
version-Ben Hur video)
DRAMA/S&L
Harvest performance
Presenting the weather
Boudicca invasion
NUMERACY
Number and the
number system
Handling data
Problem solving
Class assembly
Blodin drama
Numbers and the
number system
Measure shape and
space
Watch back footage
from flip cameras of
local area
Shop scenarios
Number and the
number system
Measure and shape
Number and the number
system
Measure and shape
Number and the number
system
Problem solving
Olympics
biographies
speech writing
recounts
persuasive writing
(letters and
arguing for and
against)
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instructions
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presenting
information (fact
files)
View clips / footage
from various events.
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Debate for and against
Olympics in London
Number and the
number system
Problem solving
PROBLEM SOLVING
Finding rules and
describing patterns.
Word problems.
Finding all the
possibilities.
Word problems.
Logic problems.
Word problems.
Using diagrams.
Word problems.
Time and money word
problems.
Finding rules and
describing patterns.
Word problems.
Numeracy through
topic
Weighing food
Capacity of drinks
Prices of food
Fractions of food
Dividing fruit
Sorting fruit (Venn and
Carroll diagrams)
Shape (Food packaging)
Lists and tallies
(shopping trip)
Ordering packaging
according to product
weight
Measuring, Areas and
perimeters of
monsters caves/woods
Paths through woodslength/angles/directions
Heights of creaturesmm/cm/m
Blodin carpet –
symmetry
Blodin worded
problems
Medusa hat – dividing
snakes on her head
Graphs and charts
Positive/negative
numbers
Temperature
Rain fall
Estimating
Number lines
Scales and decimals
Roman Numerals
Roman trade – money
Time lines-differences,
more, less, place value
Symmetry and shape
mosaics
Position and movement
m, km
Directions
Left, right, north, south,
east, west, Scales
Graphs
Number of houses in a
street.
Survey & graphs of the
different houses we live
in
Money in the local shops
Shapes of local buildings
– nets
Measure time and
distance
Measuring throws and
jumps
Decimals in
measurement
Angles as a
measurement of turn
Analysing data
SCIENCE
Teeth
The names of teeth
The functions of teeth
The effect of food on
teeth
Similarities and
differences between
human and animal teeth
Healthy eating
Food diaries
Food groups
Changing materials
(chocolate test)
Word processing
Cut
Paste
Changing font
Changing size and
colour of text.
Underlining and
italicising
Creating invitations to
the picnic on the field.
History of harvest.
Why do we have
Magnets and springs
Making moving
monsters on springs
Magnetic materials
Identifying different
magnets
Materials which repel
and attract to magnets
Materials
Water proof materials
Clothing for different
seasons – what keeps
us warm/cool?
Rocks and soils
Identifying different
rocks and their uses
Separating soils
Properties of rocks
investigation
Roman Roads and
buildings -what were
they made out of?
Helping plants grow linked to the allotment –
what do plants need to
grow?
Plants in the local area
Growing plants in the
school – cress
Identifying different
parts of a plant
The function of
different parts of
plants
Edible plants
Giving instructions –
routes and directions
e.g. home to school
Logo
Sequencing
Turns
Light and shadows
How shadows are
formed
Why shadows change
at different times of
the day
Light travel
Making shadow
puppets
Making Olympic
torches
Compare maps/photos of
the Woodford area from
History of Olympics –
Greeks.
ICT
HISTORY
Water cycle
Rainbow investigation
with water and mirrors
Handling data – top
trumps.
Fields
Data entry
Questions
Recording
The internet.
How do we research
safely?
Creating mosaic pictures.
Repeating patterns.
Stamp tool.
Famous people from
the past - King Arthur.
Explorers – walking
with the wounded.
Order famous
Romans/Emperors –
Creating graphs
Analysing data
harvest?
(Link to religious
stories and cultures)
Saint George and the
Dragon.
(Harry’s Heroes)
timeline.
Where do our families
come from?
different times.
Census returns.
Diary entries of the old
school head teacher.
Group visits to Kenneth
Chambers Court to talk
to the residents.
GEOGRAPHY
Harvest festivals
around the world.
How Natural disasters
affect harvest.
Farming and cultivation
Scale
Maps/coordinates,
directions
angles/compass points
– mythical worlds.
Different countries
Climate
Seasons
Maps
Map of the Roman
Empire/Europe
Impact of Roman roads –
map of UK
Roman road names
Movement of people immigration and
emigration.
Maps & scales
Google earth
Looking at terrain in
different areas of the
world.
Why are different
plants grown in certain
environments?
ART & DESIGN
Observational drawings
of fruit.
Dried food pictures.
Display work for
Harvest play assembly.
Wax resist, scaly
monsters
Aboriginal art
Clay mythical
creatures.
Painting weather
scenes.
Famous weather
paintings.
Creating a seasons
tree.
Mosaic pictures.
Clay pottery.
Making shields and
helmets. (Papier maché)
Sketches of historical
landmarks – Winston
Churchill statue.
Sketches of school
building and local shops,
church
Portraits of local people
– friends and family.
D&T
Food technology
Making healthy snacks.
Making bread.
Making 3D collages of
mythical worlds.
Making shoes for
different weather
conditions.
Wind chimes.
Design togas for dolls.
Models of Roman
jewellery, statues, coins.
Designing and making a
new bridge for
Woodford Bridge.
RE
Worshipping and
celebrating in the home
Puja and Divali.
Gods and Goddesses in
myths
Jesus and Christmas.
Jesus Baptism and the
beginning of his
ministry.
Roman Gods.
Living as a Christian
The Bible and Prayer.
PE
Gymnastics –
stretching and curling.
Invasion games
Ball control, passing
Indoor athletics
Games
Creative games making
Dance
Games
Net/court wall games
Roman Games
Games
Striking and fielding
Athletics
Gym
Symmetry and
asymmetry pathways
Compare & contrast
Ancient & Modern
games.
Timeline of places that
have hosted the
Olympics.
When the Paralympics
started.
The location of venues.
Travel plans / itinery
to different events –
plan using a map of the
underground.
Locate on a world map
different teams
participating.
Summer /Winter
Olympic venues.
Design an alternative
Olympic 2012 logo.
Sketch various
athletes in motionbody shapes.
Make medals from a
range of materials.
Make your own
mascot- Olympic
website.
Devise a board game
with rules based on
events e.g. track,
running.
Design and make an
Olympic kit for a
teddy/toy.
Greek gods.
Olympic track and
field events.
Athens events.
Outdoor adventure
MUSIC
and receiving
Harvest songs
String quintet.
Make a score using
instruments and voices
for Blodin story.
Using instruments to
create different
weather conditions.
Roman invaders – songs
and stories, high and low
sounds, making rhythms
to match activitiesmarching.
Local bands and singers.
Research famous singers
and bands from the past
who came from the area.
activities
Queen, “We Are The
Champions.”, Heather
Small, “Proud”
Vangelis, “Chariots of
Fire”
Compose a percussion
piece, symbolising the
start, middle & the
end - reaching the
finishing line.
PSHE/SEAL
ROLE PLAY AREA
USING THE
OUTDOOR AREA
Keeping safe and
healthy
The Golden Rules
Developing self esteem.
Everybody’s different.
What great about me?
Coping with a crisis.
Sharing and trusting.
Staying safe on the
internet.
Citizenship – how can we
help others?
Making connections with
other local schools – pen
pals. Community
cohesion.
Fruit and vegetable
stall
Exercise in the
playground – keeping
healthy.
A picnic on the field.
Shanga’s cave
Weather station
Roman school
Local shop
Use fields and woods
for villagers to
re-enact Blodin.
Co-ordinates and
directions for villages
in the playground and
field.
Claybury woods.
Looking at how the
woods change with the
seasons.
Digging up artefacts in
the school grounds.
Sand pits and field.
Looking at school
buildings and plants in
the local area.
Allotment visits.
National anthems
Paralympics.
Striving to win and
coping with not.
Values of competing.
Sportsman’s diet –
healthy eating.
Commentary box
Athletic events on the
field – Olympics.