Curriculum notes
Curriculum notes
Year 3 - Autumn Term 2008
ENGLISH
Reading and Writing
• Stories with familiar settings
• Writing - settings
• Traditional tales
• Play scripts
• Poetry: rhyming and non-rhyming and shape poems
• Features of non-fiction texts
• Report writing
• Dictionary and thesaurus skills
Grammar and Punctuation
• Full stop
• Capital letters
• Question mark
• Exclamation mark
• Speech marks
• Commas
• Paragraphing
• Alphabetical order
• Nouns
• Adjectives
• Verbs
MATHEMATICS
• Place value, ordering and rounding
• Measuring
• 2-D shapes
• Properties of number
• Multiplication and division
• Fractions
• Addition and subtraction
• Time
NB Daily mental starters ensure the continued development of mental strategies
SCIENCE
• Our Place in Space
• Magnetic Forces
• Reading Scales
• The Human Body processes including digestion and breathing
FRENCH
• Greetings – questions and answers
• Alphabet
• Colours
• Numbers
• Days of the week and months of the year
• Food and drink
• Shopping and café/restaurant dialogues
SPANISH
• Greetings
• Names – I am called etc.
• Colours
• Numbers
• Age
• Months of the year
HISTORY
Ancient History
• Understanding of A.D. and B.C.
• The Nile and the seasons
• Food and diet
• The Pharaoh
• Archaeology
• Pyramids and burial
• The Gods
• Hieroglyphs
GEOGRAPHY
• Map skills
• Deserts
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
• Old Testament stories and what they mean for people today
• Learn about the Bible as a library of books
• The Creation
• The Sabbath
• Noah
• Abraham and Isaac
• Jacob
• Christmas story
ICT
• Word Processing skills
• Desktop Publishing combining text and graphics
• Use of the Internet
MUSIC
• Singing – including learning songs for the Year 2 & 3 Christmas production
• Exploring beat, rhythm and dynamics using percussion
• Introduction to note values of crotchet and quaver through percussion exercises
• Theory is Fun workbook – introduction to the stave and treble clef
• Introduction of the orchestra – brass
DRAMA
• Introduction to Drama
• Greek history to include tragedy / comedy / mask making
• Acting out of various Fables in the style of the Greek Theatre
ART
SLD
• Analysing and recording the shapes, colours and textures of leaves and plants
• Using theories of colour mixing, create a composition of a forest/jungle inspired by Henri Rousseau
MCD
• Studying the artist and basket maker, Lizzie Farey
• Starting a project using weaving to represent different environments such as landscapes and jungles
• Experimenting with different materials, colours and textures in the expression of their individual ideas
JDE
• Developing and using observational skills centred around ‘food’
• Using collage and painting techniques
• Looking at a variety of different artists
JLM
• Producing a self portrait to include information about us as well as our physical appearance
• Looking at the artists Picasso and Matisse
• Using a variety of materials to include paint and collage
DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
• Using an Ancient Egypt theme, design and make photo frame, using wood and card
• Design a frame for a particular person
• Learn some basic measuring, sawing and gluing techniques to complete finished design
PSHE & CITIZENSHIP
• Welcome back and target setting
• Friendship
• Safety talk by Police and calling ‘999’
• Health talk by Community Nurse
• Christmas around the world