Topic map for Year 3 Autumn Term Making Music / Earth Rocks
English
Language and Literacy Units 1 & 2
A story with a familiar setting, Information texts
Playscript, instruction texts
Art & Design
Pastel Self Portrait
Designing xmas cards
Design Technology
Make: an instrument
Mathematics
multiples of 5 & 10 to solve + & -, TU +/- U
order HTU & TU, count on & back in 20s, 1s, TU – TU
X & / facts for 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 x tables, doubling & halving
days weeks months years, time to 5 mins, 3D shape properties
place value of HTU, HTU – TU, prediction to estimate
double and halve to 100 using partitioning, fractions
+ & - money, partitioning & recombining TU + TU + TU
use equipment to measure length, capacity equivalents
round HTU to nearest 100, count up to – either side of 100
x tables & / facts, division with remainders, solve word probs
Science
Rock detectives
Good Vibrations
RE & PSHE
Cook: fairy carrot cakes
Beginning & Belonging
Family & Friends
Anti-bullying
Judaism
Christian worship
Computing
Music
Singing for xmas performance
Internet research
Presentations
General IT skills
History
Stone-age to Iron age
Who built Stonehenge?
Modern Languages
SPANISH
Phonics
Numbers 1-10
Age
Stationery
Christmas
Recorders
Exploring untuned instruments
Geography
PE
Gym – curling & stretching
Our European Neighbours
Games – Ball in the hand
Gym – pathway & level
Dance – Dorset ring
Topic map Year 3 Spring Walk like an Egyptian / Whether the Weather
English
Art & Design
Hieroglyphs Mummies and
sarcophagi
Language and Literacy Units 3 & 4
Sci-fi/fantasy story, Discussion text
Poem, Explanation text
Design Technology
Clay: a coil pot & an Egyptian
Artefact
Mathematics
order HTU, compare number sentences, count in 10, 50, 100
partition to TU + TU + TU, 4 & 8x table
fractions to 1/8, equivalent fractions, fractions of amounts
angles and turns to 90 º, properties of 2D shapes, perimeter
place HTU on empty line, round HTU to 10, count up to - £.p
partition HTU, TU+HTU using expanded vertical written addition
TU+HTU mentally, HTU+HTU expanded written method
move towards formal written addition, patterns
Time to min & sec, time after interval, word probs for time
double/halve to 100 inc word probs, grid method to 25
Modern Languages
SPANISH
Animals
Pets
Colours
RE & PSHE
Cook: chunky veg soup
Diversity and Communities
Personal Safety
Drug Education
Creation: Christianity
Creation: other faiths
Computing
Music
Recorders
Programming
General IT skills
Science
Can you see me?
The power of forces
History
Ancient Egypt
What's inside a pyramid?
Geography
PE
Dance – Egyptians
Living in the Freezer
Games – ball on the ground
OAA – navigation/prob solving
Games - invasion
Topic map for Year 3 Summer Term How Does Your Garden Grow/Who's at Sutton Hoo
English
Art & Design
L. S. Lowry
Language & Literacy Units 5 & 6
Mystery story, Non-chronological report
Folktale, Biography and autobiography
Design Technology
Grow:salad Veg from seed
Mathematics
HTU+/- U mentally, +/- fractions with same denominator
function machines, scaling to x height & weight, grid method
/ without remainders to 12x12, / by chunking inc remainders
bar graphs & pictograms, tallys, g/kg, weigh objects to 100g
mental and column written addition to HTU+HTU
column addition for 3 HTU or 4 TU/HTU, - HTU using counting up, word
problems inc using measures
angles in 2D shapes, symmetry, perimeter, time, 24 hour clock
grid method TuxU, / with remainders, find tenths of numbers
column +, written -, inverse, grid method, tables, use inverse
Science
How does your garden grow?
Amazing bodies
RE & PSHE
Make: frame for self portrait
Managing Change
Sex and Relationships
Education
Is it fair?
What makes us special
Computing
Music
Sorting data
Egyptian music
E-safety & Email
History
Anglo Saxons & Scots
Who's buried at Sutton Hoo?
Modern Languages
SPANISH
Food
Ordering in a cafe
Cyclical patterns (West African
Drumming)
Geography
PE
Athletics – throw/run/jump
Village settlers
Games – strike & field
Athletics – triathlon
Games – net & wall