Year Three

Religious

Education

English

Maths

Science

PSHCE/RHE

History

Geography

Languages

Design & Technology

Computing

Art & Design

Music

Physical

Education

Module 1

Explore homes

Explore journeys

Explore special places for Christians.

Look at Special places in Judaism.

Look at special buildings in Islam.

Use the diagonal & horizontal strokes needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left un-joined.

Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of handwriting, e.g. by ensuring that down strokes of letters are parallel and equidistant; that lines of writing are spaced sufficiently so that the ascenders and descenders of letters do not touch.

Using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read.

Use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary

Define and spell further homophones

Read & write numbers to at least 100 in numerals and in words.

Recognise the place value of each digit in a 2-digit number.

Compare & order numbers from 0 up to 100; use <, > & = signs.

Make systematic and careful observations.

Record findings using simple scientific language and drawings.

Recognise reasons for rules and laws.

Religion, technology tribal kingdoms, farming, art, culture and travel. (8 features of civilisations.

Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the UK.

Describe physical features of mountains.

Use the eight points of a compass to build their knowledge of the UK.

Listen attentively to spoken French and join in

Speak in French using familiar vocabulary

Present ideas and information orally

Appreciate songs and rhymes in French

Use knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in iterative process.

Create sketchbooks to record observations.

Module 2

Reveal the joys and sorrows of being a family at home; God s vision for every family

Reveal a journey through a year; the Christian family s journey, linked with our parish of the Holy Family, with Jesus through the Church s year.

Reveal everyone has a special place; special places for Jesus and the Christian community.

Discover the synagogue is important for Jews.

Discover Friday is a day of special prayer for Muslims; and, the call to prayer.

Plan writing: Discuss writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.

Discuss and record ideas.

In narratives, create settings, characters & plot

Propose changes to grammar & vocab to improve consistency,

Use spoken language to develop understanding through exploring ideas (ALL)

Add & subtract numbers mentally, including: 3-digit no & ones; 3-digit no & tens; 3-digit no & hundreds;

Add & subtract numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition & subtraction;

Estimate the answer to a calculation & use the inverse operations to check answers.

Asking relevant questions.

Using different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions.

Set up fair tests.

Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stems, trunks leaves and flowers.

Compare how things move on different surfaces.

Notice that some forces need contact between two objects but magnetic forces can act at a distance.

Record findings using labelled diagrams.

Compare different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties.

The importance of having compassion towards others.

Understand that belonging to the Church family means that I should love others in the same way as Jesus.

Describe a healthy lifestyle, including physical activity, dental health, healthy eating, sleep and hygiene.

Celebrating difference.

How to respond safely and appropriately to adults they may encounter in all context, including online, whom they do not know.

Name the capital cities of the four countries of the UK.

Locate key topographical features e.g., mountains, lakes, hills and rivers.

Use symbols to represent.

Read carefully (in French)

Gain a linguistic foundation in an ancient language (Latin) to support further study of modern language (French) in key stage 2

Read carefully (in Latin)

Work in a range of contexts including school.

Understand the principles of a healthy and varied diet.

Use research to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose.

Use sequence in programs

Recognising the Modern Movement.

Learn to sing and to use their voices.

Appreciate and understand a wide range of high quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions.

Listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of genres and styles.

Develop flexibility through gymnastics.

Building improvised shelters and put-up sleeping tents.

Module 3

Respond to the joy and sorrow of homes.

Respond to the Church year.

Respond to special places.

Respect the importance of the synagogue for Jews.

Respect how Muslim people worship.

Retrieve & record information from non-fiction.

Introduction to paragraphs as a way to group related material.

Organise paragraphs around a theme.

In non-narrative material, use simple organisational devices such as headings and sub-headings. (ALL)

Headings & sub-headings to aid presentations. (ALL)

Interpret & present data using:bar charts; pictograms; tables

Solve one-step & two-step questions such as How many more? and How many fewer? using information presented in scaled bar charts & pictograms & tables.

Set up simple practical enquiries.

Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil and room to grow).

Explore how the requirements of plants vary.

Observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others.

Describe magnets as having two poles,

Equality: unique and diverse.

Be courteous, showing good manners at home and in school as a way to show respect to self and others.

Achievements of the earliest civilisations: where and when the first civilisations appeared.

Deploy vocabulary of civilisations.

Note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Write reports and use analyses of information.

Describe people orally

Read carefully and show understanding of words and phrases (in Latin)

Work in a range if contexts, for example, industry.

Understand computer networks

Increasing awareness of different kinds of art.

Develop balance through gymnastics.

Use running in isolation and combination.

Module 4

Explore promises

Explore listening & sharing

Explore choices

Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

Compose & rehearse sentences orally (including dialogue)

Preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action.

Word family, prefix

Synonyms.

Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 & 100.

Recall & use the multiplication & division facts for the 3, 4, 8 tables.

Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition.

Know that animals, including humans, cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.

Predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing.

What constitutes a healthy diet.

Use a varied vocabulary to describe feelings, both positive and negative.

Immersion into Stone-Age Britain s ancient woodland.

Investigate late Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers.

Look at long term timescales.

Know some geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics including counties.

Speak using phrase

Pronounce familiar words and phrases

Work in a range of context, for example, leisure.

Basic orienteering using compass directions.

Module 5

Reveal belonging to a group involves promises and rules; the meaning of the promises made at Christian Baptism.

Reveal listening and sharing with one another; listening to the Word of God and sharing in Christian & Catholic Holy Communion

Reveal choices have consequences; the importance of conscience in making choices.

Expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions (e.g. when, so, before, after, while, because)

Discussing words & phrases that capture the reader s interest and imagination.

Prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in because)

adverbs (e.g. then, next, soon, therefore)

In narratives, create settings

Write & calculate mathematical statements for multiplication & division using theultiplication tables that they know, incl 2-digit x 1-digit, 3-digit x 1-digit using mental & progressing to formal written methods

Explain remainders fractionally

Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet.

Identify some magnetic materials.

Set up a comparative test.

Group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties.

Define discrimination and how it feels.

Understand knowledge of the past is constructed from a wide range of sources.

Explore patterns and sounds of French through songs and rhymes

Design & use questionnaires.

Develop design criteria aimed at a particular individual or group.

Use reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work

Design and write programs that accomplish specific goals

Make and use natural pigments.

Learn about great architects.

Produce creative work, exploring their own ideas with a range of materials.

Develop an understanding of musical composition.

Perform a traditional song.

Use a range of strokes effectively.

Module 6

Respond to Baptismal promises.

Respond to the Word and Communion (in Catholic Mass)

Respond to consequences.

Use of the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past (e.g. He has gone out to play contrasted with He went out to play)

Use of indefinite article: a and an

Count up & down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts & in dividing 1-digit numbers or quantities by 10.

Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular & parallel lines.

Report on findings from enquiries and draw conclusions.

Recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by a solid object.

Find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.

Identify discriminatory behaviours.

Recognise individuality and personal qualities.

Introduce confidential whistling-blowing.

Identify features common to civilisation past and present.

Land use of four nations.

Introduce the compass.

Use the eight points of a compass to build their knowledge of the countries of Europe, recognising North and near-North orientation of maps.

Apply the principles of a healthy diet.

Generate annotated sketches.

Understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.

Use and understand staff and other musical notations.

Listen to and review the work of great musicians.

Learn a musical instrument.

Develop an understanding of how to improve in physical activities

Module 7

Explore visitors

Explore giving all

Explore energy

Drawing inferences such as inferring characters feelings, thoughts & motives from their actions, & justifying inferences with evidence.

Predicting what might happen from details stated & implied

Measure, compare,

Lengths (m/cm/mm)

Mass (kg/g)

Volume/capacity (l/ml)

Add & subtract measures:

Investigate the way that water is transported within plants.

Using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions.

Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within a rock.

The ethics of scientific investigation.

Use maps and atlases to understand and explain how physical and human geography changes over time.

Use eight points of a compass.

Understand how different scales are shaped.

Select a wider range of ingredients.

Design programs that accomplish specific goals

Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.

Module 8

Reveal the demands and joys of visitors; Advent, for Christians, is time waiting for the coming of Jesus.

Reveal how people give themselves; Lent is a time for Christians to remember Jesus total giving

Reveal the energy of fire and wind; the wonder and power of the Holy Spirit for Christians.

Increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths, legends.

Reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes.

Identifying themes & conventions in a wide range of books.

Checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding & explaining the meaning of the words in context.

Participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those that they can read for themselves, taking turns & listening to what others say.

Recognise angles are a property of shape or a description of a turn.

Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters & four a complete turn; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle.

Tell & write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII

Estimate & read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record & compare time in terms of secs, mins, hrs; use vocabulary such as o clock, am/pm, morning, afternoon, noon & midnight

Know the numbers of seconds in a minute; the number of days in each month, year & leap year

Compare durations of events, for example to calculate time taken by particular events or tasks

Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons for support and protection.

Gather, record and present data in a variety of ways.

Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

Recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.

Recognising micro-aggressions hurt and are unacceptable.

Human gestation.

Making diversity real.

Recognise that we don t always get what we want.

Recognise everyday things can affect feelings, positively and negatively and the importance of talking about feelings.

Know the elements of a balanced healthy lifestyle.

Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical organisation.

Significance of National Parks and World Heritage Sites in Britain.

Ask and answer questions

Read carefully and show understanding of words and phrases (in French)

Express opinion

Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks for example cutting, shaping and joining.

Select from and use a wider range of materials according to their functional properties.

Develop prototype.

Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques.

Use software to accomplish a given goal

Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

Experience outdoor living and the need for basics : shelter . . .

Module 9

Respond to visitors.

Respond to sacrifice.

Respond to energy and power.

Write from memory simple sentences, dictated by the teacher, that include taught words and punctuation taught so far.

Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraphs & summarise these.

Recognise, find & write fractions of a discrete set of objects; unit fractions & non-unit fractions with small denominators

Recognise & use fractions as numbers; unit fractions & non-unit fractions with small denominators

Recognise & show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators

Add & subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole (e.g. 5/7 +1/7 = 6/7)

Solve problems that involve all of the above.

Explore the part that flowers play in the life-cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

Identify that humans and some other animals have muscles for movement.

Notice that light is reflected from surfaces.

Recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes.

The nine protected characteristics of the Equality Act.

Ways to change society to be inclusive.

Our mission to welcome all.

Understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations and the characteristics and features of non-European societies.

Extend locational knowledge to cities of the UK.

Write phrases from memory

Evaluate ideas and products against design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.

Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly

Gallery art work.

Sing and play (drumming) musically with increasing confidence and control.