1. Meet the Year 3 teachers

2. Things to remember… School uniform P.E. / Games Kit Indoor and Outdoor
Please name clothing
Library books
Reading books (bands)
Jewellery and accessories
Water bottles
Medicines

3. Typical Day in Year 3… 8.50am – Registration 9.00 - Handwriting
English
10.10 – Assembly
10.30 – Break
10.45 – Maths
12.00 – Lunch
1.00 – Registration and Spelling
1.30 – Topic (Science, Art, PE, ICT, French, History, Geography)
2.45 – Break
3.00 – Story
3.20 – Home time

4. Our Curriculum

5. Overview - You can see this on our school website
Increased emphasis on core skills in all subjects.
History
Geography
Science
English
Maths
Art
D.T.
R.E.
Music
P.E.
Computing
Autumn Term
The Age of Rock
Term 1
Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.
Describe and understand key aspects of rivers and mountains.
Rocks and Fossils
Poetry Fortnight
Instructions – How to wash a woolly Mammoth.
Comic Strips – Create a Stone Age family.
Creative Writing
Number, place value,
measurement,
shape
Cave Drawings
Natural sculptures
Christianity
Parables
Rhythm, tempo, pitch
Gymnastics
Stretching and balancing
Invasion Games
E safety
Podcasts
Term 2
Geographical skills and fieldwork.
Adventure stories – The Tunnel & The Journey
Recount – Fossils and Bones.
Number, place value, multiplication,
division
Colour mixing, shades, tones
Picture frames
Ancient Civilisations
Spring Term
Ancient Sumer
The Indus Valley
Ancient Egypt
The Shang Dynasty
Locate the world’s countries
Geographical skills and fieldwork
Nutrition, muscles, skeleton
Explanations – the process of mummification
Egyptian adventures
Newspaper reports – the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb
Number and place value.
Mental + & - ; Problem solving, reasoning and algebra.
Mental x & ÷;
Statistics Fractions, ratio and Geometry: properties of shapes;
Geometry: position and direction;
Measurement & proportion
Sketchbook work.
Collage
Make cardboard mummies.
Draw sarcophagus in sketchbooks. Use card, ink, folk and paper mache to make 3D sarcophagus.
Create pharaoh mask and head dress.
Make canopic jars.
Scarab beetle sketches
Designing and making a healthy sandwich.
Animal Magic – Exploring Descriptive Sounds
Balance
Coding:
-creating sprites
-changing colours
-adding sounds
-Saving and recording programs
-Introducing variables
-devising their own instruction card for a program they have created.

6. Year 3 Curriculum Term 2 Forces (pyramids)
Forces (pyramids)
Stories with historical settings – Egypt and the Nile.
Poetry based on the book of the dead.
Number and place value;
Problem solving, reasoning and algebra;
Written addition and subtraction ;
Tell the time to the nearest minute on analogue and digital clocks;
Mental multiplication and division ;
Written multiplication and division.
Christianity – Jesus and his ministry
Term 1
Name and locate cities, regions and landmarks in the UK.
Key Human and Physical features of the UK and Romiley.
Topographical features incl. rivers &mountains.
Fieldwork in the local area – village trail and river study.
Plants
Identify different parts of plants.
What plants need for life and growth.
Improving sentence structure (slow writing)
Short story writing.
Author study – Roald Dahl
Number and place value.
Mental + & - ;
Formal written + and - including column addition and subtraction.
Problem solving, reasoning and algebra.
Mental x & ÷;
Written x & ÷ including grid method.
Statistics Fractions, ratio and Geometry:
Geometry: position and direction;
Measurement & proportion (length)
Nature pictures
Perspective.
Making mountains with contours.
Tennis
Dance
Gymnastics.
Coding:
Code.org

7. Maths
Increased expectations content/uploads/year-group-expectations-year3.pdf
Number bonds
Times tables (Topmarks)
Frog method frog
Column addition & subtraction A1
Grid methodGR
Time
Measures (ml, l, mm, cm, m, km, g, kg)

8. English - Spelling
We all, including children, need a range of spelling strategies to become proficient spellers…

9. Practical spelling activities to support a variety of learning styles
Break words into syllables
Identify root words
Use or create mnemonic
Sky writing
Spellamadoodle
Highlight the tricky bit
Find words within words
Exaggerate pronunciation
Imagine word in mind
Rhythmic recitation of spelling

10. Assessment No longer any levels Children will be assessed at either
emerging, developing, being secure in or mastering the objectives for Year 3.
Children have to meet all statutory objectives to be secure at the end of the academic year.
Significantly raised expectations may mean it feels like your child’s abilities have changed.
Your child will receive these grades for all core subjects in their end of year report.

11. What can you do? Reading at home
Bring reading books into school everyday
Ask questions about what your child is reading
Bugclub
My Maths
Support with all homework

12. Helpful websites: Topmarks.co.uk readingeggs.co.uk/apps/spelling/