Year 3 and 4 medium term plan: Autumn term
Wk1
Number, place value and money
Wk3
Day 1: Y3: Revise placing 2-digit nos on an empty number line
Y4: Place value in 4-digit nos
S: Place value
Day 2: Y3: Place three-digit numbers on a landmarked line
Y4: Write place value subtractions
S: Count in 1s from 101 to 200
Day 3: Y3: Place value and ordering 3-digit and 4-digit numbers
Y4: Place value and ordering 3-digit and 4-digit numbers
S: Count in 10s
Day 4: Y3: Use £.p notation
Y4: Placing and ordering 3-digit numbers
S: Place 2-digit numbers on a 0-100 line
Day 5: Y3: Place value and comparing amounts of money written in
pounds and pence
Y4: Placing and ordering 4-digit numbers on a landmarked line
S: Write amounts in £ and p
Mental and written addition/ Frog subtraction
Day 1: Y3: Add 2-digit numbers by partitioning
Y4: Add two 3-digit numbers using compact written addition
S: Objective
Day 2: Y3: Add two-digit numbers by partitioning;
Y4: Adding three 3-digit numbers using compact written addition
S: Add three 1-digit nos
Day 3: Y3: Subtract by counting up (answers less than 20);
Y4: Using counting up (Frog) to subtract, e.g. 402 – 356
S: How many more to the next 10
Day 4: Y3: Subtract by counting up (answers more than 20);
Y4: Use Counting up (Frog) to subtract (e.g. 421 – 356) and check with
addition
S: Subtraction facts
Day 5: Y3: Count up to find change from £1.
Y4: Use counting up (Frog) to subtract; check with addition.
S: Add pairs of 2-digit nos
Wk2
Mental addition and subtraction
Day 1: Y3: Addition and subtraction facts up to 20
Y4: Add pairs of 2-digit numbers
S: Know by heart totals of any pair of 1-digit nos
Day 2: Y3: Use the = sign to represent equality
Y4: Add two–digit numbers to three-digit numbers
S: Count in 10s
Day 3: Y3: Use number facts to add a 1-digit number to a 2-digit number
Y4: Use Frog to subtract pairs of 2-digit numbers
S: Complements to multiples of 10
Day 4: Y3: Use number facts to subtract a 1-digit from a 2-digit number
Y4: Count up and use number bonds to subtract two-digit nos from 100
S: Number facts
Day 5: Y3: Add several small numbers, using number facts
Y4: Choose counting up or back to subtract two-digit numbers from nos >100
S: Pair to 100
Wk4
SHAPE
Day 1: Y3: Recognise symmetry and complete symmetrical drawings
Y4: Use compasses to draw circles to given radii
S: Lines of symmetry
Day 2: Y3: Describe, name and sort 2D shapes
Y4: Draw different polygons; identify their properties
S: 2D shapes
Day 3: Y3: Describe, name and sort 2D shapes using diagrams
Y4: Identify properties of triangles and sort them using
S: 2D shapes
Day 4: Y3: Describe, name and sort 3-D shapes (cube, cuboid, cylinder, sphere, cone,
pyramid)
Y4: As Y3 with addition of prisms
S: Naming 3D shapes
Day 5: Y3: Identify and use diagrams to sort 3-D shapes according to their
properties;
Y4: As Y3, to include prisms
S: Number bonds to 10 and 20
Wk5
Mental multiplication and division
Day 1: Y3: Double two-digit numbers up to 50
Y4: Double & halve 2-digit numbers, incl. odd numbers
S: Doubles to double 20
Day 2: Y3: Halve even 2-digit numbers
Y4: Double and halve 3-digit numbers
Wk6
S: Halve multiples of 10
Day 3: Y3: Add and subtract money using place value
Y4: Add/subtract 1 or 1000 to/from 4-digit numbers
S: £ and p place value
Day 4: Y3: Add 1, 10 and 100 to any three-digit number
Y4: Add/subtract 10 to/from 4-digit numbers
S: Count in 5s and 10s to at least 100
Day 4: Y3: Revision of 2 times table, focusing on division
Y4: Double the 3 times table to get 6 times table
S: Count on and back in steps of 1 and 10 from 3-digit nos
Day 5: Y3: Subtract 1, 10 and 100 to any three-digit number
Y4: Add/subtract 100 to/from 4-digit numbers
S: Count in 2s
Day 5: Y3: Recognising multiples of 2, 5 and 10
Y4: Division facts for 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 times tables
Wk7
Day 1: Y3: Use place value to add 3-digit numbers
Y4: Use place value to add and subtract 4-digit numbers
S: Place value in 3-digit and 4-diigt nos
Day 2: Y3: Use place value to subtract 3-digit numbers
Y4: Use place value to subtract 4-digit numbers
S: Compare pairs of 3/4-digit nos
Day 3: Y3: Revise 5 and 10 times tables, division facts and
commutativity
Y4: Revise 4 and 8 times tables, and divisions
S: Division facts for 2, 5 and 10 times tables
Mental addition and subtraction
Number, place value and money
S: Count in steps of 25 from 0 to at least 2000
Wk8
Written addition and subtraction
Day 1: Y3: Add 100s, 10s and 1s; (3-digit nos)
Y4: Add/subtract using PV and number facts
S: Add any pair of single-digit numbers
Day 2: Y3: Subtract 100s, 10s and 1s
Y4: Add using PV and number facts (3-digit and 4-digit nos
Day 1: Y3: Know multiples of 5 which total 100
Y4: 3-digit expanded decomposition with one exchange
S: NO STARTER
Day 2: Y3: Know pairs of 2-digit numbers which total 100
Y4: 3-digit expanded decomposition with one exchange
S: Add/subtract 10/100 to /from 3-digit and 4-digit nos
S: NO STARTER
Day 3: Y3: Add and subtract near multiples of 10 to/from twodigit numbers
Y4: Subtract using PV and number facts (3-digit and 4-digit nos)
Day 3: Y3: Subtract numbers on either side of 100 by counting up
Y4: Expanded decomposition, 3-digit – 3-digit
S: Add/subtract multiples of 10 to or from any 2-digit number
Day 4: Y3: Add near multiples of 10 to 3-digit numbers
Y4: Add near multiples of 10 or 100 to 3-digit numbers
S: Count on and back in 10s from a 3-digit number
Day 5: Y3: Subtract near multiples of 10 from 3-digit numbers
Y4: Subtract near multiples of 10 or 100 from 3-digit numbers
S: 3 and 6 times tables
S: Bonds to 20
Day 4: Y3: Subtract numbers on either side of 100 by counting up (Frog);
Y4: Expanded decomposition, 3-digit – 3-digit
S: Subtract any 1-digit no. from a teens numbers
Day 5: Y3: Subtract numbers on either side of 100 using Frog;
Y4: Subtracting using decomposition or Frog;
S: Change from £1
Wk9
MEASURES/DATA Time, bar charts, pictograms
Day 1: Y3: Revise telling time past the hour (to 5 mins) on both analogue
and digital clocks
Y4: Revise telling time, am and pm to the nearest minute on both analogue
and digital clocks, convert between the two;
S: Objective
Day 2: Y3: Revise telling time past the hour (to 5 mins) on both analogue
and digital clocks
Y4: Find times later, crossing the hour, both analogue and digital clocks
Wk10
Day 3: Y3: Writing division facts to go with multiplications
Y4: Use grid method to multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit
number; S: 4 and 8 times table
Day 4: Y3: Dividing using multiplication facts, with remainders;
Y4: Divide numbers above the 10th multiple using chunking
Day 3: Y3: Know equivalent analogue and digital
Y4: Use am and pm; Calculate time intervals, crossing the hour, using both
analogue and digital clocks
S: Units of time
Day 4: Y3: Time events in seconds, record on bar graph, 1 step is 10 secs
Y4: Time events in seconds, record on a bar graph, one step is 5/10 secs
S: Division facts for 5 times table
Day 5: Y3: Dividing using multiplication facts, with remainders
Y4: Divide numbers above the 10th multiple using chunking;
S: One minute
Day 5: Y3: Collect/ represent data in pictograms, one symbol = 2 units;
Y4: Collect and represent data in pictograms, one picture = 4 units
Wk11
Day 1: Y3: Understand the concept of ½, ⅓ and ¼ of shapes and number
Y4: Divide two-digit numbers just above the 10 th multiple with remainders
S: NO STARTER
Day 2: Y3: Finding ½ of quantities, including odd numbers
Y4: Divide 2-digit nos just above the 10th multiple with remainders
S: Doubles to double 15
Day 3: Y3: Finding halves of quantities less than 100
Y4: Count ins 1/4s, 1/3s and 1/10s saying equivalent fractions
S: Sort odd and even numbers
Day 4: Y3: Finding ¼ and ¾ of quantities
Y4: Find unit and non-unit fractions of amounts
S: NO STARTER
Day 5: Y3: Finding 1/3 and 2/3 of quantities
Y4: ; Find unit and non-unit fractions of amounts
S: Tell the time
Day 1: Y3: x and ÷ facts for the 3 times table;
Y4: Use grid method to multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit
number
S: NO STARTER
Day 2: Y3: x and ÷ facts for the 4 times table;
Y4: Use grid method to multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit
number
S: NO STARTER
S: Months of the year
S: 2 and 4 times tables
Mental multiplication and division / Fractions
Mental multiplication and division
S: Division facts for 3 and 6 times tables
Wk12
ASSESS AND REVIEW
A day each on five key things from the term.
Starters on number facts (all four rules)