Year 3 Curriculum Plan Summer Term
This year we are combining our Literacy, History, Geography and Science into one subject area
called Learning Adventure. We are trying to encourage our pupils to demonstrate a high level
of English writing across the curriculum and hope this will be the best way to achieve this.
Summer 1: ‘Flowing, Glowing Reporters’
In this topic, the children will become news reporters and chat show hosts who report on their
knowledge of all things to do with water. They will be encouraged to look their best, ‘glowing’ as
presenters and ‘flowing’ as writers and speakers. In science, they will study plants and the water
cycle, and in topic, learn about rivers, soil and becoming a news team.
In RE, the children will study Pentecost. As water is an important symbol in the church, they can
begin by looking at why. This leads on to the symbols of the Holy Spirit – fire and wind. As he
‘flows through people’, they learn about the impact of the Holy Spirit on their lives.
Literacy
Science
Cornerstones
RE
1) Shocking
Plants
Flow
Pentecost/Serving
Styles
- Water and life
- Energy
- Newspaper
cycle
Coverage in English,
- Fire and wind
reports in role
- Photosynthesis Geography, Art and
- The wonder
of fashion
- Aquatic plants Design, Computing,
and power of
editors
D&T, Maths, PE, PSHE,
the Holy Spirit
- History –
Science.
fashion
through the
ages
- How far
would I go to
look cool?
Different
styles and
fashions
2) Chat Show
Challenge
- Debates
- History – the
coming of
railways.
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Summer 2: ‘Heroes and Villains’
The topic ‘Heroes and Villains’ joins all that is in this Cornerstones Topic with the book ‘Ottoline
and the Yellow Cat’ in Literacy. Children will learn to write mystery stories whilst exploring the
heroic nature of the detectives Ottoline and Mr Munroe as a string of daring burglaries take place.
In the second topic, they will go on to link their shape poems to their topic through art and create
their own poems based on heroes and villains. In RE, the first topic ‘Reconciliation’ look as
choices. How do heroes and villains differ in the choices they make? What choices can we make
for Jesus? The second topic, Universal World looks at Justice and Solidarity and the year can end
with the concept that we can be heroes when we work together and we can work for the
Christian hero Jesus.
As the final topic, between Literacy and Cornerstones there are lots of genre suggestions for
different styles of writing to build an ‘end of year’ bank for teacher assessment. There is no
science, having covered all the topics Year 3 are required to previously. This leaves time for ‘test
week’ for Literacy and Numeracy as well as any revision in science and finishing off required.
Literacy
Science
Cornerstones
RE
1) Ottoline and the
N/A
Heroes and Villains
1) Reconciliation
Yellow Cat
- choices, sin
- hero detectives
Coverage in English,
and
- villains and
Music, Art and
consequence
disguises
Design, computing,
- prodigal son
- mystery stories
D&T and PSHE.
– creating own
2) Universal World
hero
- special places
detectives/villains
for Jesus and
2) Shape poems
the Christian
- creation of own
community
shape poems
Wk Strands
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Maths – Summer Term
Wk Strands
Problem solving, reasoning and
algebra (PRA); Fractions, ratio and
proportion (FRP)
Mental multiplication and division
(MMD); Problem solving, reasoning
and algebra (PRA); Written
multiplication and division (WMD)
Mental multiplication and division
(MMD); Written multiplication and
division (WMD)
Statistics (STA); Problem solving,
reasoning and algebra (PRA);
Measurement (MEA)
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Written addition and subtraction (WAS); Mental
addition and subtraction (MAS)
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Measurement (MEA) measure and draw to the
nearest centimetre; know 1 litre = 1000 ml;
estimate and measure capacity in millilitres
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Number and place value (NPV);
Mental addition and subtraction
(MAS); Problem solving, reasoning
and algebra (PRA)
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Fractions, ratio and proportion (FRP); Decimals,
percentages and their equivalence to fractions
(DPE
Written addition and subtraction (WAS); Problem
solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA); Written
multiplication and division (WMD); Mental
multiplication and division (MMD)
Mental multiplication and division (MMD);
Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA);
Mental addition and subtraction (MAS)
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