Overarching themes: Rainforest and Food Miles
Year: 3 - 4
Context for
learning – NC
Statutory
Content etc.
Music
Improvise and
compose music for
a range of
purposes
Hemsby Primary School
HPS Curriculum
Medium Term Plan – Curriculum Overview
Rainforest music compositions
Rainforest music and instruments
Art &
design
Colour shades
Study of artist – Henri Rousseau
Great artists
Clay Rainforest animals
Develop techniques
that use control of
materials.
DT
Literacy
materials
Geography

HOW stories – Stories form other cultures (South
America)
Non-Chronological reports – rainforest animals

Year 3
Myths and Legends
Stories from imaginary worlds
Non-chronological reports

locate the world’s countries, using
maps to focus on Europe (including
the location of Russia) and North
and South America, concentrating
on their environmental regions…
physical geography, including:
climate zones, biomes and
vegetation belts, rivers, mountains,
volcanoes and earthquakes, and the
water cycle
human geography, including: types
of settlement and land use,
economic activity including trade
links, and the distribution of
natural resources including energy,
food, minerals and water
Languages
HPS
Curriculum
Identify the
position of the
Equator and
northern and
Southern
hemisphere.
Describe and
understand key
aspects of
climate zones.
Understand the
key physical
features of
North and South
America.
Amazon
Rainforest
Spanish
Assessment through National Curriculum end of year
Listen and explore patterns in language
attainment statements – see next page
through rhymes, songs. Join in and
respond with teacher.
Use mechanical
systems
Science
Maths
Year 4 Living things and their habitat
 recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety Year 4
of ways
 explore and use classification keys to help group,
identify and name a variety of living things in their
local and wider environment
 recognise that environments can change and that this
can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
Context for learning – NC
Statutory Content etc.
Year 4
Rainforest moving animals
Select
appropriate
Term: Spring 1
Place Value – negative numbers, x and ÷ by 10 and 00
Addition and Subtraction – compact written methods
Measurement ad Data – measure mm, cm, m, converting
measures
PSHE/RE
Every locally agreed syllabus must reflect
that the religious traditions of Great
Britain are in the main Christian, while
taking account of the teaching and
practices of the other principle religions.
(Edu Act 1996)
PSHE - Provision drawing on good
practice.
ECRE
RTime and Seal
What does
eternal life men
to Christians?
Overarching themes: Rainforest and Food Miles
Year 3 Animals including Humans
Notice that animals including humans have offspring which
grow into adults
Find out and describe the basic needs of animals to survive
Describe the importance of exercise
Computing
design, write and
debug programs
that accomplish
specific goals,
including
controlling or
simulating physical
systems; solve
problems by
decomposing them
into smaller parts
Year 4
Design a moving Rainforest animal
using Scratch.
Year 3
Place Value
Addition and Subtraction
Measure and Data
Fractions
PE
Gymnastics –
Assessment through National Curriculum end of year develop flexibility, strength, technique,
attainment statements – see next page
control and balance [for example, through Val Sabin
athletics and gymnastics]
Year 3
Use technology responsibly,
safely and respectfully. - emailing
Reading KPIs – Year 4
Reading KPIs – Year 3
Draws inferences such as inferring characters feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions,
and justifies inferences with relevant evidence.
Independently retrieves and confidently records information from non-fiction.
Develops positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by:
* listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, nonfiction and reference books or textbooks;
* using dictionaries to check the meaning of words they have read; and
* identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books.
Reads further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound, and where these
occur in the word
Understands what they have read independently by:
* drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying
inferences with evidence; and
* predicting what might happen from details stated and implied.
Retrieves and records information from nonfiction
Writing KPIs – Year 4
Writing KPIs – Year 3
In narratives creates settings, characters and plot, with some ideas and material developed in
detail (e.g. descriptions elaborated by adverbial and expanded noun phrases).
Uses fronted adverbials (eg 'Later that day, I heard the bad news').
Some correct use of apostrophes to mark plural possession (e.g. the girl’s name, the girls’ names).
Uses commas after fronted adverbials (e.g. 'Later that day, I heard the bad news').
In narratives creates settings, characters and plot, with some attempt to elaborate on basic information or events
(e.g. nouns expanded by simple adjectives).
Expresses time, place and cause using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions
Limited use of inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.
In non-narrative material, uses simple organisational devices (e.g. headings and sub-headings).
Shows awareness of headings and sub-headings to aid presentation
Attempts to use paragraphs as a way to group related material
Maths KPIs – Year 4
Maths KPIs – Year 3
Counts backwards through zero to include negative numbers.
Finds the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the
digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths.
Counts from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; finds 10 or 100 more or less than a given number.
Compares and orders numbers up to 1000.
Adds and subtracts numbers mentally, including a three-digit number and ones
Add and subtracts numbers mentally, including a three-digit number and tens
Overarching themes: Rainforest and Food Miles
Rounds decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number
Converts between different units of measure.
Adds and subtracts numbers mentally, including a three-digit number and hundreds
Adds and subtracts numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and
subtraction
Measures, compares, adds and subtracts: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml).
Recognises, finds and writes fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small
denominators.
Recognises and uses fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators