Curriculum notes

Curriculum notes

Year 3 - Summer Term 2008

ENGLISH
Comprehension & WritingFiction

  • Group reading of a class book.  Discussions, creative activities and comprehensions based on the book
Non-Fiction
  • Reading and writing formal letters, looking at the layout and features
  • Formal and informal register
Grammar and Punctuation
  • Revising full stops, question marks, exclamation marks & commas
  • Sentence types (simple, compound, complex)
  • Revising paragraphs
  • Revising work classes: nouns (common, proper and collective); adjectives and verbs (tense and agreement)
  • Connectives
  • Apostrophes
 MATHEMATICS
  • Handling data
  • Number
  • Shape and space
  • Number
  • Time
 SCIENCE
  • Characteristics of invertebrates to include arthropods, insects, arachnids, molluscs and annelids
  • Communities – woodlands
  • Capturing terrestrial invertebrates
  • Characteristics of the major vertebrates
 FRENCH
  • Greetings, alphabet
  • Colours
  • Numbers
  • Days of the week
  • Foods and drink
  • Shopping and café/restaurant dialogues
 SPANISH
  • Greetings and farewells
  • Numbers
  • Days and months
  • Colours
  • Animals
 HISTORYAncient Greece
  • Athens, The Parthenon
  • Greek gods and goddesses.  Oracles.  Prophecy
  • Warships and Greece’s conflict with Persia.  The Battle of Marathon
  • Legacy
 GEOGRAPHY
  • Rainforests
  • Mexico
 RELIGIOUS STUDIESOld Testament
  • Ruth and Naomi
  • Samson
  • David and Goliath
  • Jonah and the Whale
  • Daniel in the Lion’s Den
 ICTUsing control
  • Draw shapes using Logo.  Use the REPEAT command to make patterns
Research Skills 
  • Using a range of programs collect information about Ancient Greece and produce a fact sheet
Handling Data
  • To learn about and use Mango Data dogs database to solve the problem ‘Who stole the sausages’
 DRAMA·         Improvisation techniques concentrating on scenes from the Year 3 play·         Studying discipline within the theatre and stage directions MUSIC
  • Singing – learning songs for the Year 3 production
  • Exploring pitch using percussion
  • Theory is Fun workbook
  • Instruments of the orchestra – strings and percussion
 ARTColour:
  • Replicate the Colour Wheel 
  • Improve understanding of colour theory
  • Painting a landscape using these techniques
  • Looking at modern and impressionist artists as examples
 DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
  • Building bridges.  Involves designing, making and testing the strength of the structures built
 PSHE & CITIZENSHIP
  • Welcome back and target setting
  • Similarities and differences
  • World culture
  • Healthy eating
  • Feelings