Year 3 curriculum coverage map
Spring 2
The pebble in my pocket (mountains)
Launch/Hook event
Missing picture reveal –children to use existing knowledge and inference to fill in
the missing sections.
End Event
Art gallery paintings in the style of Turner.
History
History of the Earth
Timelines/time periods
Skills
- Can they place a
specific event on
a
timeline
by
decade?
Design
Technology
N/A
RE
What is the Bible and
why is it important
to Christians?
Skills
- Make links
between values
and
commitments,
including
religious ones,
and their own
attitudes and
behaviour.
- Describe what a
believer might
learn from a
religious
story.
Geography
Place knowledge:
Understand
geographical
similarities and
differences between
Science
Rocks, Fossils
and Soils
Compare and
group together
different kinds
Computing
‘We are opinion
pollsters’
Collect, organise and
present data and
ALL READING SKILLS ARE TO
BE TAUGHT THROUGHOUT THE
CURRICULUM AND REFERENCED
IN YOUR WEEKLY READING
PLANNING.
Pebble in my pocket
Reading
Develop their understanding
and enjoyment of stories and
non-fiction.
Developing knowledge and
skills in reading non-fiction
about a wide range of
subjects.
Justify their views about
what they have read: with
support at the start of year
3 and increasingly
independently by the end of
year 4.
Listen to and discuss a wide
range of non-fiction and
reference books or textbooks.
Retrieve and record
information from non-fiction
books.
Use dictionaries to check the
meaning of words.
Daily supported reading
taking place in every class
with the modelling of the
reading process.
Trip/experience
Maths workshop
(tbc)
Year 3 curriculum coverage map
Spring 2
the human and physical
geography of a region
of the united
Kingdom….Lake District
(Mountains)
Mountain and volcano
environment.
Journey of a pebble
from
a
mountain
to
coast land.
Describe and understand
mountains
and
volcanoes.
Study
of
the
lake
district.
Skills
-Use photos to
critically study
features of areas in
UK- link to mountain.
-Study digital maps to
make assumptions on an
area. Would people
live here? Why/ why
not?
-Use 4 point compass
to build knowledge of
UK and wider world.
- Discuss natural
resources including
energy.
-Use maps to locate
countries and describe
features studied.
-Use
4
figure
grid
reference, symbols and
keys
of rocks on the
basis of their
appearance and
properties.
Describe in
simple terms
how fossils are
formed when
things that
have lived or
trapped within
rock.
Recognise that
soils are made
from rocks and
organic matter.
Skills
- Ask
relevant
questions
.
- Set up
simple
practical
enquiries
,
comparati
ve and
fair
tests
- Record
findings
using
simple
scientifi
c
language
information in
digital content.
‘We are programmers’
Create programs that
implement algorithms.
Skills
- Online opinion
poll survey,
charts showing
analysis of
data, brief
illustrated
report.
- Creating art
using shapes.
E-Safety
Personal Information
(Kara Winston and the
smart crew)
Access to essential texts and
completion of book reviews
Shared reading of core texts
Maintaining a high quality
reading environment including
an inviting book area,
providing an opportunity to
develop good reading habits
Completing regular reading
comprehension tasks during
whole class reading
comprehension sessions.
Skills
- Reading books that are
structured in different
ways and reading for a
range of purposes.
- Discussing words and
phrases that capture
the reader’s interest
and imagination.
- Discussing words and
phrases that capture
the reader’s interest
and imagination.
Beginning of spring 2 –PIRA
TESTS
Writing
Descriptive/imaginative
writing – a volcano erupting.
Children writing from the
perspective of the volcano.
Children to watch a variety
of clip and as a class think
of/develop vocabulary.
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-Describe and show an
understanding
of
mountains.
-use digital mapping to
locate countries and
describe features.
and
labelled
diagrams
-
Use
results
to draw
simple
conclusio
ns
Non Fiction – Write a fact
sheet about volcanoes.
Journalistic Writing
Interviews – Interview a
local resident who lives near
a volcano. Imagine that they
are returning from a recent
eruption.
Diary Entry.
End of Spring 2 assessment –
Newspaper Report
Skills
- Identify how language,
structure and
presentation contribute
to meaning.
- Spell further
homophones.
- Use prefixes and
suffixes and understand
how to use them.
- Propose changes to
grammar and vocabulary
to improve consistency
including the accurate
use of pronouns in
sentences.
- Proof read for spelling
and punctuation errors.
Grammar
This must be taught
explicitly using accurate
terminology through the
overall teaching of English
- Formation of nouns
using a range of
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prefixes [for example
super–, anti–, auto–]
Use of the forms a or
an according to whether
the next word begins
with a consonant or a
vowel [for example, a
rock, an open box]
Word families based on
common words, showing
how words are related
in form and meaning
[for example, solve,
solution, solver,
dissolve, insoluble]
Expressing time, place
and cause using
conjunctions [for
example, when, before,
after, while, so,
because], adverbs [for
example, then, next,
soon, therefore], or
prepositions [for
example, before, after,
during, in, because of]
Introduction to
paragraphs as a way to
group related material
Headings and subheadings to aid
presentation
Use of the present
perfect form of verbs
instead of the simple
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Art and design
In the style of Turner
use pastels and water
colours to create
mountain paintings
Artist: Turner
mountain/volcano.
Skills
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Maths
Create a
background using
a wash.
Comparison of
different
artists.
PE
Activity
Net + Wall Games
Throwing and
Catching
Skills
- Able to strike the
ball accurately
- Understand Serve,
Forehand and
Backhand
- Throwing
accurately and
catching two handed
Music
Soundscape of pebbles
from mountain to sea
using own symbols.
Skill
- Improvise and
compose music
for a range of
purposes using
the
interrelated
dimensions of
music.
Beliefs and
Values/Rights
Respecting
- International
Mother Language
Day 21st Feb
(Article 30)
- World Book day
(Article
31)
past [for example, He
has gone out to play
contrasted with He went
out to play]
- Introduction to
inverted commas to
punctuate direct speech
Outdoor learning
Collect pebbles and make a mosaic.
Focus author
Nicola Davies 3PR
David Lucas 3CD
Jessica Souhami 3MI
Links to cultural identity/British Values
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democracy
the rule of law
individual liberty and mutual respect
tolerance of those with different faiths and
beliefs
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Problem solving
 solve problems,
including
missing number
problems,
involving
multiplication
and division,
including
integer scaling
problems and
correspondence
problems in
which n objects
are connected to
m objects.
Links to topic
Temperature – how hot
is lava?
International
womens’ day 8th
March (Article
2)
Comic Relief
(Article 24)
Slavery
(Article
35)
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