Year Three

Subject Term One Term Two Term Three
English

Stories with familiar settings

Observation poems

Shape poems

Information texts on topics of interest

Non-chronological reports

Thesaurus / dictionary work

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

 

Myths, legends, fables and parables

Traditional stories, stories with related themes

Oral and performance poetry from different cultures, Instructions, Dictionaries without illustrations, thesauruses

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

 

Adventure and mystery stories

Stories by the same author

Humorous poetry and poetry that plays with language word puzzles, puns, riddles

Letters written for a range of purposes: to recount, explain, enquire, congratulate, complain

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

 

Maths

Place value, ordering, estimating, and rounding

Reading numbers from scales, Understanding + and -(x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 7∏), Mental calculation strategies

Money and ‘real life’ problems, Making decisions, checking results, Measures, including problems

Shape and space and Reasoning about shapes

Counting, properties of numbers

Reasoning about numbers

Fractions, Time, including problems

 

Place value, ordering, estimating, rounding, Reading numbers from scales, Understanding and  Mental calculation strategies using (+and -), Money and ‘real life’ problems

Making decisions, checking results

Shape and space, Reasoning about shapes, Measures, and time, including problems, Counting, properties of numbers , Reasoning about numbers, Understanding and Mental calculation strategies (x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 7∏), Fractions, Handling data

 

Place value, ordering, estimating, rounding

Reading numbers from scales,

Understanding and Mental calculation strategies (+ and -) (x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 7∏)

Money and ‘real life’ problems

Making decisions, checking results

Pencil and paper procedures

Measures, including problems

Shape and space, Reasoning about shapes

Counting, properties of numbers

Reasoning about numbers, Fractions, Time, including problems, Handling data

 

Science

Teeth and Healthy eating

Helping plants to grow

 

Characteristics of Materials

Light and Shadows

 

Rocks and soil

Magnets and Springs

 

History

The Romans

 

The Anglo-Saxons

 

The Vikings

 

Geography

Connecting ourselves to the world

Geographical skills

 

Weather around the world

 

What’s in the News

 

Art

Monet

Portraying relationships

 

Viewpoints

 

Journeys

 

DT Sandwiches / snacks Photograph frames Moving Monsters