Year 3 Curriculum Long Term Plan
Autumn Term
Learning Journey
Shang Dynasty
Spring Term
Roaming Romans
RE
Come and See
Homes
Promises
Visitors
Come and See
Journeys
Listening and Sharing
Giving all
EPR
New beginnings (SEAL)
Getting on and falling out (SEAL)
Say no to bullying (SEAL)
Circle time
Ancient China. Exploring Willow pattern and
story creating their own images of willow
pattern on plates.
Going for Goals (SEAL)
Good to be me (SEAL)
Circle time
Stunning
starts/fabulous
finishes
Visit Royal Pavilion
Having Chinese tea and biscuits/cakes with
parents in hall children to help.
Journey outcomes
Understand ancient China looking at history
and timelines, food, lifestyle.
Look at modern China and pollution.
Texts
Firework makers daughter.
Poetry and plays
Willow pattern story
Box of Roman Artefacts Children to Guess
Era
Roman Day at School. Making and tasting
Roman Food. Roman numerals in Maths
Writing Roman Postcards.
Roman Trip Fishbourne palace
Know timeline
Roman food
Why they came and ruled for so long.
Pomepii.
Lifestyle
Army
Roman non fiction texts
Roman Myths and legends
Rhymes and poetry
Escape from Pompeii
Summer Term
Mysterious Maya and Rainforest
Explorers
Come and See
Energy
Choices
Special Places
Other faiths - Islam
Relationships (SEAL)
Changes (SEAL)
Circle time
Mysterious Maya
Linking to Rainforest
Guatemalan Games to start.
Drusillas Rainforest Experience
Museum Service visit Mayan artefacts
Know about Mayan life
Mayan achievements
Mayan disappearance
Mayan calendar
Mayan Texts non fiction
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Rainforest Explorer
The great Kapok Tree
The Vanishing Rainforest
The great Rainforest
The Rainforest Grew All Around
Writing genres
Traditional Poem
Maths
History
Geography
Instructions imperative verbs
SPAG
Diary entries ( understanding first and second
person)
Looking at nonfiction books
Gathering information in order to write a
nonfiction recount.
The willow pattern
Letters
non chronological reports
SPAG prefixes and suffixes
Adventure stories.
Poetry
Myths and legends.
Addition and subtraction
place value
multiplication and division
problem solving
identify, represent and estimate numbers
using different representations
fractions
read and write numbers up to 1000 in
numerals and in words
shape
measure
bar charts
Ancient China
Comparisons
Timeline
Chinese lifestyle
partitioning
expanded column subtraction
division sharing
multiplication linking with division
addition subration multiplication
shape
bar charts
Measure, mass, volume, capacity
Securing number facts and understanding
shape
Handling data
Calculating, measuring
Problem solving.
Stonegae to ironage
Pompeii
Pliny
Why they came
Roman Empire Army Roads
Timelines
Italy
finding countries and major cities in
Europe using globes and maps
Key physical and human characteristics of
Europe
Mayan Empire
calendar system invented by Mayans
Mayan religion
Mysterious decline
China today
Maps to locate China
Atlases and their use
Pollution
Handwriting
spelling
SPAG
Advertising persuasive writing.
Dialogue and performance
retelling fairy stories
Mayan traditional warrior poems
Fractions.
Bar charts
Mexico
locating countries in north and south
America
atlas work – equator, Tropics of
Cancer and Capricorn
Rivers
Guatemala today similarities and
difference with UK
Computing
Scratch
Email
Research
French
Where is French spoken?
Hello / how are you?
Names / alphabet
Families
Numbers up to 10
Colours
Christmas
Light
Healthy eating and teeth
Science
Scratch
animation
designing word docs
fonts
design
Numbers to 20
Body parts
Monsters
Easter
Rainforests
scratch
creating adverts
leaflets
digital artists
Animals
Materials rocks volcanos
Forces and Magnets
Plants and animals
DT
Making Dragons
Catapults
Art
Thomas Minton Willow pattern
Self portraits
mosaics
Music
‘Three Little Birds’ unit
Films
Christmas Nativity
Gymnastics
Dance
Invasion games – football
Athletics
‘Let your spirit fly’ unit
Different Genres
Mayan musical instruments
cookery
Guatemalan masks
day of dead boxes
Aztec pictures
Matias Gonzalez Chavajay
Collage: Exploring Rainforests
Artist Study: Jeannie Baker
(use collage as a means of extending
work from initial ideas, e.g add collage
to painted backgrounds)
‘Benjamin Britten – there was a
monkey’ unit
Gymnastics
OAA
Invasion games - hockey
Ball skills
Gymnastics
Athletics
Striking and fielding - rounders
Personal Fitness
PE