Year 3 Autumn 1

Year 3 Autumn 2

Where would you like to live? NON-FICTION: (3 weeks)
In this unit, the children explore the Big Question: Where would you like to live? They read the interactive eBook, retrieving and collating information about different countries and identifying the similarities and differences between the lives of children around the world. They learn about how to present information using paragraphs and headings. In their writing tasks, compose a report in response to the Big Question.

Storm FICTION: (4 weeks)
The children listen to the story and predict what may happen at various points. They focus on character, setting and mood, asking questions as the story progresses and locating evidence in the text to answer questions. They understand why descriptive sentences are important and how setting affects mood. They revise and develop punctuating direct speech and then work on nouns, adjectives and expanded noun phrases. They will plan and write a description of a setting and learn how to punctuate direct speech correctly.

All About Me LIVE: (3 weeks)
The children are introduced to the idea of the unit: creating an autobiography that they will then present on film or to a live audience. As a class, they read an autobiographical blog post from Little Red Riding Hood, responding to and asking questions about the text to develop their comprehension skills. They look at the use of language and gather success criteria for what makes a good autobiography. They then see the same text in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, and analyse the differences between the two types of text.

Shape Poems POETRY: (1 week)
In this unit, the children learn about and enjoy reading calligrams before writing their own. They go on to look at and explore shape poems, writing their own both as a whole class and individually.

S.P.A.G.:

First and Third person

Past and present tense

Revising Verbs

S.P.A.G.:

Introduce direct speech

Powerful verbs

Expanded noun phrases
Suggest improvements to grammar and vocabulary

S.P.A.G.:

Add prefixes to nouns

Articles
Revise tense

Revise basic sentence forms

S.P.A.G.:

Select from further activities bank according to the needs of your class

READING:

Retrieve information from non-fiction texts

Ask relevant questions

Use a dictionary to check the meaning of unfamiliar words.

READING:

Predict what might happen

Draw inferences about character’s feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions

READING:

Ask relevant questions to clarify meaning
Explore features of an autobiography

Infer characters’ motivations and feelings

READING:

Compare different poems

Attempt to pronounce unfamiliar words
Read aloud using appropriate intonation, tone and volume

WRITING:

Use a dictionary to check spellings

Use paragraphs to organise ideas around a  theme/ Use simple organisational devices in non-fiction

Draft and write a non-chron. report

WRITING:

Develop detail of characters, settings and plot/Plan and write descriptive sentences

Use & punctuate direct speech

WRITING:

Adopt features of existing texts to shape own writing

Use appropriate handwriting joins

Evaluate own and others’ work

WRITING:

Use existing texts to shape own writing

Draft a class poem about a creature
Improve, edit and evaluate own poems
 

MATHEMATICS:

Number and place value

Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
Recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number

(hundreds, tens, ones)
Compare and order numbers up to 1000
Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations

Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and words

MATHEMATICS:

Addition and Subtraction

Add & sub. nos.  mentally, inc.

• A three-digit number and ones
• A three digit number and tens
• A three digit number and hundreds

Add and subtract numbers with up to three digits using formal written methods of columnar add. & sub.

Estimate

Inverse operations to check answers

Solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value and more complex addition and subtraction.

MATHEMATICS:

Multiplication and Division

Recall and use multiplication facts for the 3, 4 and 8 times tables

Pupils develop efficient mental methods, for example, using commutativity and associativity to derive related facts.

Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the times tables they know for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers.

MATHEMATICS:

Multiplication and Division

Develop reliable written methods for multiplication and division, starting with calculations of two-digit numbers by one-digit numbers and progressing to the formal written methods of short multiplication and division.

Solve missing number problems for multiplication and division.

PSHE:

Me and My Relationships

PSHE:

Valuing Difference

SCIENCE: Rocks, Soils and Fossils

COMPUTING: Computing systems and networks - Connecting computers

SCIENCE: Forces and magnets

COMPUTING:Creating media - Desktop publishing

HISTORY: tbc

GEOGRAPHY

What’s the Score Here?

(Counties and cities of the UK)

MUSIC: Writing Music Down

MUSIC: Playing in a Band

ART:

Van Gogh - line, texture, light and shade

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY:

We are Exhibition Designers - levers, linkage and popups

Food Tech - Healthy Eating -Stir Fry 

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:

What does it mean to be Christian in Britain today? Christians

P.E.   Fitness, Fundamentals Y3/4

SPANISH:

Name, age, feelings, where you live Numbers 1 – 10 (in and out of sequence, add) Body parts Colours 

SPANISH:

Objects in pencil case Classroom instructions (basic) Numbers 1 – 20 (in and out of sequence, number bonds to 20) More colours – linked to Christmas