Year 3
Long Term Curriculum Plan
Literacy Fiction
Literacy Nonfiction
Literacy Poetry
Numeracy
Autumn 1( 1st
September – 24th
October )(Flow)
8 weeks
Autumn 2- 3rd
November – 19th
December (Urban
prioneers)7 weeks
Tuesday- Creating
own descriptive
story to follow the
story .
The Tunnel/Gorilla
Adventure and
mystery
Stories with
familiar settings
Authors and letters
Settings and
description
Information texts
about frogs ,
Newspaper reports
of events
Diary of the
adventures.
Letters to the
author.
Shape poems
about frogs/
Sensory poetry and
personification rivers
Place value ,
operations , Block
A1.A2.A3
Spring 1- 5th
January – 13th
February
(predators)
6 weeks
Meerkat Mail –
Spring 2- 23rd
February – 27th
March (Tribal
Tales) 5 weeks
Summer 1- 13th April
– 22nd May
(Gods and Mortals)6
weeks
Summer 2 – 2nd June –
20th July
(Scrumdiddlyumptious)
7 weeks
Myths and
legends-
Myths and Legends
Cinderboy
Authors and letters
postcards and
letters as character
Features and
stories with
historic settings
Stonehenge
Dialogue and plays
Meerkat Mail –
Information texts
Reports
Instructions
Non-chronological
report about
meerkats
Stonehenge –
historical enquiry
work.
Research into Greek
myths and legends
Recipes , adverts
Free verse poetry ,
performance
poetry
Block B1, B2 , B3 ( 1
week)
Perseus and the
snake monster
Using similes and
metaphors
B3 (2 weeks ) , C1 ,
C2
C3 , D1 , D2 ( 1
week)
Nonsense poetry
D2 , D3, E1
E2 , E3
Science
History
Geography
RE
D&T
Plants
Aquatic plants ,
working
scientifically
Linked to
geography –
historical enquiry
and chronological
understanding
Light
Animals including
humans
Rocks
Rocks and soils
Fossilisation
Forces and magnets
Animals including
humans – health
Local history study
Discrete work on
Chronological
understanding
Changes in Britain
from stone age to
Bronze age
Ancient Greece
Using maps of
different types
,human and
physical features
and water
Learning and
growing as the
people of God
Map reading ,
compass use ,
studying the local
area and use of
land
Learning and
growing as the
people of God
Investigation of
habitat differences
for Meerkats.
An aspect of British
history stretching past
1066 – food through
the ages, how different
food from around the
world has come to the
UK. Including Heston’s
feasts.
Location of the world’s
countries on the globe.
Learning and
growing as the
people of God
Learning and
growing as the
people of God
Learning and
growing as the
people of God
Learning and growing
as the people of God
Designing a model
of the town.
-
Using mechanical
systems in products
Food preparation and
suitability
Popart –
Investigation into
the famous artists
of the movement
CommunicationEmail to the Author
( Anthony Browne)
Using sketchbooks
to collect , record
and evaluate ideas
Product design –
shelters for the
Croods to avoid
bad weather
Use various
materials to create
art
Understand
computer
networks , use
Design, write and
debug programs,
using logical
-
Art & Design
Sketching through
observation,
Collage work
ICT
Online research
and using
technology safely ,
Online research
and presentation
-
Comparison
between UK and
south east Europe
(Greece)
Sculpture work –
characters from
myths and legends
-
Create a range of
digital products –
advertisements , data
respectfully and
responsibly
Using sequence ,
selection and
repetition to create
art
PE
Team challenges
Dance
Gymnastics
Outdoor and
adventure
Forest schools
PSHE
Expressing
opinions , feeling
positive
Music
Rain music - use of
the voice , body
and instruments to
compose
Performance
poetry – rapping
Use voice and
instruments with
increasing accuracy
Improvise and
compose music –
stone age
materials
Trip/ Experience
Frog experience in
the classroom –
risk assessment ?
Short journey
around the area to
create their own
maps of major
parts
Cannon Hill nature
centre.
Lizard and snake
experience in
school.
Coffee afternoon
Big art attack in the
popart style.
Presentation of
models ,
performance
poetry and dances.
search
technologies
effectively
Forest schools –
creation of dens /
shelters for the
Croods once
designed.
reasoning and
following
instructions – myths
and legends. Pick up
the giant using the
Lego resources.
Athletics
handling around
product production
Musical history –
looking at the
traditional music of
the Greeks including
similar instruments
BMAG – Greek
experience
Develop understanding
of a wide range of
music – music around
the world
Use the lego
creation kits from
computing service at
Walsall council.
Visit from health
professionals
Games
Trip to Asda and
Frankie and Benny’s?
Food preparation
morning – foods from
around the world.