1. Year 3/4 Curriculum Overview Topic: What lurks in the rainforest?
SCIENCE
ENGLISH
MATHS
LIVING THINGS
First half term
Plants
How do plants grow? What do they need?
Investigation: How will different condition affect the rate of plant growth?
Second half term
Animals and Habitats
Classifying different types of animals, looking at the food chain and discussing an animal’s hierarchy of needs.
Investigation: What sort of habitat do woodlice like best? – linked to DT bug hotels
First half term
Narrative: Pie Corbett
Using the Gruffalo story to inspire some creative forest setting stories.
Second half term
Non-chronological reports
We will be creating a class database on rainforest animals by conducting independent research and compiling information in the form of a report.
Continuing multiplication and division
Fractions
Measure: weight and capacity
Area
Money
We will also begin some National Test preparation this term.
HOME LEARNING
Reading, reading, reading! 
Children will also have some spellings and times tables to learn which will come home in a home/school book.
Year 3/4 Curriculum Overview
Term Spring 2019
Topic: What lurks in the rainforest?
ART
OTHER CURRICULUM
Gond tribal art project
Followed by:
A look at the work of Henri Rousseau
TOPIC
Rainforest: Geography based
PE: Games and fitness with Mr Hamilton
RE: The Easter Story
Music: ‘STOP!’ Hip-hop rap music linked to anti-bullying (PSHE)
Followed by the Carnival of the Animals by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns
Class novel: The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
We will be asking and answering:
Where in the world do we find rainforests?
What grows in a rainforest?
Who lives in a rainforest?
What animals can be found in a rainforest?
WELSH
We will be working through the Matiau iaith to internalise some conversational questions and answers.