WESTFIELDS JUNIOR SCHOOL
Y3 CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
Before beginning the topic theme in the first half term, Year 3 will spend some time setting expectation, team building to form good relationships within the
class and year group and securing a strong foundation in maths, reading and writing.
Theme
English
Reading
Writing
Spelling
Grammar
Maths
Using and applying
maths and problem
solving will happen
throughout the
areas of maths.
AUTUMN 1
Let There be Light
AUTUMN 2
Going Underground
Poetry – focusing
on similes and
alliteration
Sharing experiences
from Gordon Brown
Centre visit through
writing
Short explanations
in Science
Revising key word
classes
Stories focusing on
settings
Writing recounts
using conjunctions,
adverbs and
prepositions
accurately
Number
Place value
Addition and
Subtraction
Geometry: 2D
shapes, length and
perimeter
Multiplication and
division
Statistics
SPRING 1
Food Farming and
Livelihood
Play scripts focusing on
adverbials
Poetry – style
Presenting
information
Vowels and
consonants and
correct use of
articles (a, an)
SPRING 2
Plants
SUMMER 1
Amazing Animals
SUMMER 2
Ancient Egyptians
Non-chronological
reports –
organisation and
paragraphing
Explanation –
focusing on causal
connectives (e.g. if
… then, when)
Heading and sub
headings
Writing linked to
topic theme across
a range of genres
Reading for
information
Finding story
Presenting
information
Use of present
perfect form of
verbs
Inverted commas to
punctuate direct
speech
Prepositions, conjunctions, word families, prefix, clause, subordinate clause, direct
speech, consonant, vowel, inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)
Place value
Geometry: angles
Statistics
Number and
Measures :adding
and 3D shape
Measures: Money Four operations:
and subtracting
Measures: time
missing numbers
addition,
lengths
Fractions:
subtraction,
Fractions: division,
multiplication and addition
ratio and
division
equivalence
Measures: mass
and capacity
Science
Light
How we see and
how light travels
(rocks, soil, fossils)
natural distribution
of rocks and soils)
How was
Stonehenge
built/constructed?
(link to forces mini
topic)
Conditions for
growth, survival
Animals: nutrition,
skeleton, muscles
WESTFIELDS JUNIOR SCHOOL
Y3 CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
Computing
History
Digital Literacy –
keeping safe on line
SMART rules
Digital Literacy Digital Literacy Discuss mobile
Recap the SMART
phone ownership
rules and how they
and etiquette
apply to everyday
Discuss bullying via online activities
mobile phone
Coding with Scratch
Coding with Scratch – multiple
– multiple
sequences and
sequences
timing
Software will routinely be used across the curriculum through use of iPads, PCs and other devices to enrich and enhance children’s
learning and understanding, as well as for research and presentation of information.
Stone Age to Iron
Egyptians
Age
How we find out
How did people
about the past
live? How did this
Everyday life for
change? Why?
men, women and
children
How society was
organised
Geography
Art and
Design/design
Technology
Shadow puppets
using levers, linked
to light.
Powerful Passwords
–
Strong, secure
passwords and their
importance
Digital Literacy how emails can be
used, recognising
audience and
purpose and style
Distribution of
rocks and soils. Use
of maps and
patterns
Where were the
Iron Age
settlements? Why
were they here?
Map work skills
Clay fossils
Fossil sketches
using various media
Design and make a
stone age farming
vehicle.
Coding with scratch
Revise rules for
Internet safety
Learn to use search
engines effectively.
Where is Egypt? location and places
in the world
Plant Printing
Study of William
Morris
Sketching flowers
and leaves
Design and print
repeated pattern
Design and make a
healthy snack - fruit
salad, dips, salads
etc.)
Egyptian wall
hanging
Collage Egyptian
wall hanging
WESTFIELDS JUNIOR SCHOOL
Y3 CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
RE
PE
PSHE
MFL
(French)
Music
plant wall paper.
Use of digital
images
Identity
Angels
Authority – Guru
Temptation -Lent
Messages –
Creation – creation
Nanak
and the Easter
religious stories
stories
Story
Net and wall games Invasion games –
Dance – farming,
Striking and fielding Athletics
Athletics
– tennis
ball skills
weather and
games – skills
Striking and fielding Dance - Egyptians
Orienteering and
Gymnastics –
seasons
Gymnastics –
games - cricket
team challenges
stretching and
Invasion games symmetry and
curling
netball
asymmetry
New Beginnings
Getting on and
Going for Goals
Good to be Me
Relationships
Changes
Rights, Respect and falling out
Healthy Lifestyles
Road Safety (led by
World of Work
Responsibilities
Anti-bullying
Junior Road Safety
Officers)
France
Greetings
Greetings
Strategies for
Minibeasts and
Spelling of familiar
greetings
Number
Alphabet
remembering
creatures
words
classroom phrases
Masculine nouns
Classroom objects
Numbers
Songs and stories
Plurals
Colours and rhymes Stories
Simple sentences
Plan, practise and
Numbers
Stories
Stories
perform a
Stories
songs
presentation
Traditional French
Stories
games - petanque
Children in Year 3 have weekly music sessions led by specialist music teachers as part of the Listen2Me programme. In each term
they are introduced to how to play a different musical instrument. This year they are brass, African drums and clarinet. Notation,
pitch, tempo, rhythm and other musical skills are developed throughout the year within this programme.
Short focused unit ‘Focus on Forces’ looking at different surfaces and magnetism