Primary curriculum Map 2016-17
Half term 1
Maths
English
Year 3 Autumn Term
Year
3 Autumn Term
Topics: Owls and Victorians
Half term 2
Ordering numbers; Sequences;
Place value; Counting in groups; Counting on and back in
100s/10s; Addition and subtraction skills including appropriate
recording methods; Problem solving involving measures and
money;
Addition and subtraction skills including appropriate recording
methods; Multiplication and division Fractions; Know doubles
and halves
Weekly SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar); Weekly Big
Write session; Weekly Comprehension; based on topic of owls.
Accelerated Reader Programme
Fiction – Stories of mystery and suspense,
stories with familiar settings.
Texts: The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, Owl Babies
Focus: Character
Non-fiction: Non-chronological report – Owls
Weekly SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar); Weekly Big
Write session; Weekly Comprehension; based on topic of
Victorians. Accelerated Reader Programme. Fiction: Stories of
adventure Text:The Chimney Sweep’s Brush. Focus: plot,
character and setting,
Non-fiction: Biographies and Diaries; Diary of a mill worker at
Coldharbour Mill; life as a Victorian child. Recounts linked to
Nativity; Performance Poetry.
*This is a general guide to the Maths and English skills being taught in this year group. The St John and St Francis
curriculum is flexible and designed to both support and challenge.
Science
Light and Shadows; Sources of light,
we can block light to form a shadow
and how shadows change.
Language
ICT
Bringing it to life
Introduction to French
conversations, grammar
and culture,dates,
classroom instructions,
colours.
e-Safety Protect personal information.
Use safety features of websites, know how to report;
Programming Introduction to Scratch.
Multimedia Paint program to alter an image. Creating ebook; Technology in our lives www as part of Internet.
Different search engines. Using filters for search results.
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What is important to me?
Judaism/ Christianity
What does it mean to belong to a
religion?
Victorian Christmas/ Christmas
traditions.
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Art/DT
Owl drawings and collage
work
Light and shadow drawings
(Victorian theme)
Special events
Geography
Owl visitor
Coldharbour Mill
Music
Children will learning songs
related to the theme and
Christmas Songs.
Locational knowledge.
History
World and continents;
Locate world’s countries and
focus on Europe. Look at
human and physical
features.
The Victorians- Chronological
Knowledge: A significant turning
point in British History, the
Industrial Revolution.
How Victorians lived; Researching
our family trees.
PE
Outdoor games/multiskills
Primary curriculum Map 2016-17
Year 3 Spring Term
Topic: Mythical creatures and imaginary worlds
Half term 1
Half term 2
Maths
English
Addition and subtraction skills including appropriate recording
methods; Multiplication and divisionRounding numbers;
Recognising odd/even numbers Measure in m/mm;
Time (5 minute intervals/problem solving – analogue and digital)
Use units of time (days/hours/minutes/seconds)
Weekly SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar); Weekly Big Write
session; Weekly Comprehension; based on Myths and Legends.
Accelerated Reader Programme.
Fiction- Narrative, Defeat the Monster. Text: The Cobbler and the
Dragon
Focus: Vocabulary, evaluating and editing, proof-reading, planning their
writing. Inverted commas for speech.
Non fiction- Instructions. Text: How to capture a Dragon Focus: Using
organisational devices, planning their writing, using conjunctions, adverbs
and prepositions to express time and cause.
Weekly SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar); Weekly Big
Write session;
Weekly Comprehension; based on topic of Imaginary worlds.
Accelerated Reader Programme
Fiction- stories about imaginary worlds, performance poetry.
Text: Fantastic Mr Fox, Mythical creature poems. Focus:
Extending sentences by using clauses, conjunctions, using
paragraphs to group material.
*This is a general guide to the Maths and English skills being taught in this year group. The St John and St Francis
curriculum is flexible and designed to both support and challenge.
Science
Magnets and compasses
Rocks and Soils, how different soils
are made, how rocks are formed.
including volcanoes, Fossils.
Language
ICT
French animalsmasculine and feminine
Games in a New World
e-Safety Downloading files and games. Good choices
about time online.Post positive comments online.
Programming Kodu used to create a world and interact
with objects Multimedia Creating art in the style of a
famous artist. Create a piece of music. Green
screening travelling to different worlds Handling Data
Generate questions. Inputting data and presenting in
different ways. Using datalogger to collect data
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What can we learn from the life and
teaching of Jesus? Focussing on
Jesus’ parables and their meanings,
how they affect us in our lives today.
Art/DT
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Dragons. Mixed media;
chalks, pastels, papers.
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Special events
Geography
@ Bristol- Magnets?
Mountains and Volcanoes
Visit to synagogue? (Exeter)
PHSE
Going for goals
Music
Work to include songs and focus
on classical music related to the
theme.
PE
Multi skills / teamsports/
gymnastics
Primary curriculum Map 2016-17
Year 3 Summer Term
Half term 1
Maths
English
Topic: Ancient Egypt
Half term 2
2D Shape, Right angles; Recognise. Locate a position on a grid.
Measure and compare weights in g/kg, volume/capacity l/ml
Add and subtract money to give change £/p
Classify and describe 3D shapes; Organise and interpret data
incl venn diagrams and pictograms.
Egyptian Gods and Pharaoh’s of Egypt
Weekly SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar); Weekly Big Write
session; Weekly Comprehension; based on topic of Ancient Egypt.
Accelerated Reader Programme
Fiction-Persuasive writing in role, poetry; kennings.
Texts: Adverts and persuasive letter examples, kennings.
Focus: vocabulary, verbs and nouns.
Non-fiction- An in-depth study of Ancient Egypt, healthy eating.
Texts: Information texts. Focus: headings and sub-headings, paragraphs,
proof-reading and editing.
Egyptian Gods and Pharaoh’s of Egypt
Weekly SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar); Weekly Big Write
session;
Weekly Comprehension; based on topic of Ancient Egypt.
Accelerated Reader Programme
Fiction-Pharaohs & Pyramids Adventure
Story.
Focus: plot,character, setting.
Non-fiction: Newspaper/TV Report – Tutankhamun, InstructionsMummification.
Focus: direct and indirect speech, headings and organisational devices.
Evaluating and editing.
*This is a general guide to the Maths and English skills being taught in this year group. The St John and St Francis
curriculum is flexible and designed to both support and challenge.
Science
Animals including us, Healthy eating
and bones.
Language
ICT
French food
Move it and Sort it e-Safety Secure password.
Protect personal information; Programming Build
and program robots using Lego WeDo or Scratch;
Technology in our Lives Use search tools. Save
and retrieve work online and local device.
Multimedia opt. Photostory to present Handling
Data Branching database to investigate and share
information; 2Investigate to create a simple
database
Make a Canopic jar from clay.
Ancient Egyptians.
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How do people express their beliefs,
identity and experience?
(Hinduism/Christianity)
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Art/DT
Egyptian portraits,
Hieroglyphics.
Make a Canopic jar
from clay.
History
Ancient Egyptians.
Ancient Egypt
PE
Multi skills- striking and
fielding- cricket rounders
Athletics
Music
Create a soundtrack
Special events
Bristol Museum- Egyptians
Sports days
Transition