Curriculum Overview – Year 3

English

Reading

• Use knowledge to read 'exception'
• Read range of fiction & non-fiction
• Use dictionaries to check meaning
• Prepare poems & plays to perform
• Check own understanding of reading
• Draw inferences & make predictions
• Retrieve & record information from non-fiction books
• Discuss reading with others

 Writing

• Use prefixes & suffixes in spelling words
• Use dictionary to confirm spellings
• Write simple dictated sentences
• Use handwriting joins appropriately
• Plan to write 'based on familiar forms
• Rehearse sentences orally for writing
• Use varied rich vocabulary
• Create simple settings & plot
• Assess effectiveness of own and others' writing

  Grammar

• Use range of conjunctions
• Use perfect tense
• Use range of nouns & pronouns
• Use time connectives
• Introduce speech punctuation
• Know language of clauses

 Speaking and Listening

• Give structured descriptions
• Participate activity in conversation
• Consider & evaluate different viewpoints

Mathematics

Number and Calculation

• Know 3, 4 and 8x tables
• Secure place value to 100
• Mentally add and subtract units, tens of hundreds of numbers of up to 3 digits
• Written column addition and subtraction
• Solve number problems, including multiplication and simple division and missing number
• Use commutativity to help calculations

 Geometry and Measures

• Measure and calculate with metric measures
• Measure simple perimeter
• Add/subtract using money in context
• Roman numerals up to XII; tell time
• Calculate using simple time problems
• Draw 2D and make 3D shapes
• Identify and use right angles
• Identify horizontal, vertical, perpendicular and parallel lines

 Fractions

• Use and count in tenths
• Recognise, find and write a fraction
• Recognise some equivalent fractions
• Add/subtract fractions up to <1
• Order fractions with common denominator

 Data

• Interpret charts and pictograms

Science

 Biology

• Plants: parts, lifecycle and requirements for life
• Animals: skeletons and nutrition

 Chemistry

• Classification of rock types
• Simple understanding of fossilisation

 Physics

• Sources of light; shadows and reflection
• Simple forces, including magnetism

 History

 British History 9taught chronologically)

• Stone Age to Iron Age Britain, including hunter-gatherers and early farmers, bronze age religion, technology and travel and iron age hill forts

 Broader Study

• A local history study, for example a depth study linked to a studied period, a study over a period of time or a post-1066 study of a relevant period in local history

  Art and Design

• Use sketchbooks to collect, record and evaluate ideas
• Improve mastery of techniques such as drawing, painting and sculpture with varied materials
• Learn about a range of artists, craftsmen and designers

Computing

• Design and write computer programs to achieve specific goals, including problem solving
• Use logical reasoning
• Understand computer networks
• Safe and appropriate use of the Internet and World Wide Web
• Organise, store, retrieve and manipulate data
• Collect and present data appropriately

 Design and Technology

• Use research criteria to develop products which are fit for purpose
• Use annotated sketches and prototypes to explain ideas
• Evaluate existing products and improve own work
• Use mechanical systems in own work
• Understand seasonality, prepare and cook mainly savoury dishes

 Modern Languages

• Listen and engage
• Ask and answer questions
• Speak in sentences using familiar vocabulary
• Develop appropriate pronunciation
• Show understanding of words and phrases
• Appreciate songs, poems and rhymes
• Broaden vocabulary

Geography

• Locate the world’s countries, focussing on Europe and the Americas. Focus of key physical and human features
• Study a region of the UK(not local area)
• Use eight points of the compass, symbols and keys
• Describe and understand climates, rivers, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, settlements, trade links etc.
• Use fieldwork to observe, measure and record

 Music

• Use voice and instruments with increasing accuracy, control and expression
• Improvise and compose music
• Listen with attention to detail
• Appreciate wide range of live and recorded music

Physical Education

• Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
• Play competitive games, modified as appropriate
• Develop flexibility and control in gym, dance and athletics
• Compare performances to achieve personal bests
• Swimming proficiency at 25m

Religious Education

• Continue to follow the locally-agreed syllabus for RE