Venus Year 3 Medium Term 1 Autumn 2015
Topic: What secrets lie beneath our feet?
JCP: Development –
How was the Earth formed? What forces have shaped our world? Do humans have the right to extract resources from the Earth? Will
this change the Earth? Do we have a responsibility to people living a 100 years from now?
Literacy
Numeracy
Science
Non-Fiction – instructions and explanations
Features of instructions and explanations ,write
explanations (science and geography)
Grammar focus:
Use grammatical terminology specifically by beginning to
recognise the concept of a verb and by choosing and using
powerful verbs
Understand that writing can be first or third person.
Use and understand grammatical terminology
Narrative – Stories by the same author
Practise writing simple, compound and complex sentences
with powerful verbs, create own story
Grammar focus
Extend the range of sentences with more than one clause
by using a wider range of conjunctions, use conjunctions,
adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause.
Use and punctuate direct speech.
Poetry – creating images
Use a selection of poems to explore how to create images
using words. Find & use adjectives & adjective phrases to
convert a poem to prose. Use voice to add excitement to a
poem performance & compose poems using the themes of
animals & weather.
Grammar focus:
Use grammatical terminology specifically by using and
recognising adjectives, nouns and adverbs
Understand and use adverbials and fronted adverbials.
Number, place value and money
Rocks
Place two and three-digit numbers on a
line; Order and compare three-digit
numbers; Understand place value in threedigit numbers; find a number between two
3-digit numbers; partition and represent 3digit numbers using PV cards and multibase equipment (Dienes); Place 3-digit
numbers on an empty number line; Round
3-digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100;
Understand and use place value with
money, writing amounts in pounds and
pence; Use place value to add and subtract
pounds, 10ps and 1ps, e.g. £4.63 – 60p and
£3.49 + 30p.
Compare and group together different kinds of rocks
on the basis of their simple physical properties
Relate the simple physical properties of some rocks to
their formation (igneous or sedimentary)
Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when
things that have lived are trapped within sedimentary
rock
Global learning – to empathise with others’ situations
Human and physical geographical processes and how they
influence, shape and change the lives and prospects of
people living around the world
Understand the structure of planet earth
Mental addition and subtraction
Know number bonds to 20 and use them in
addition and subtraction; Understand and
use place value to add and subtract; Use =
to represent equality; Add 1-digit to 2-digit
numbers; Subtract 1-digit from 2-digit
numbers; Add pairs of two-digit numbers
by partitioning; Subtract pairs of two-digit
numbers by counting up.
Global learning – to learn that there are
inequalities in access to natural resources
To explore alternative sources of energy
Art/DT
ICT
Using the internet for research
Simulation websites
Use materials and techniques to
represent volcanoes
Humanities
Investigate and identify key facts about planet
earth
Use aerial photographs & satellite images
Identify key facts about planet earth using ICT
Recognise physical features relating to the
make-up of the earth
Describe key aspects of volcanoes and
earthquakes
These activities are flexible and may change if the children are more interested in one area than another.
Global learning - the importance of places and their
locations at different scales, including local, regional,
national, international and global
Human and physical geographical processes and how they
influence, shape and change the lives and prospects of
people living around the world
Music -
Global learning - human and physical
geographical processes and how they influence,
shape and change the lives and prospects of
people living around the world
Recorders
Music appraisal
PE
Games – Net games
Super skills
RE
French
Creation stories
Making something new
Seven days
Source of life
A view from the East
As Science sees it
Global learning - The concepts of interdependence,
development, globalisation and sustainability.
Numbers to 10
Greetings
PSHE
Teamwork
Personal responsibility