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Year 3
Autumn Term
Year 3 Curriculum content
Understanding physical development, health and wellbeing
- Take Ten
- Healthy Eating
- Brain Gym
- Dance and Drama – Using Jason and the Argonauts as inspiration for their compositions.
- Indoor P.E. – using apparatus. Exploring different levels, jumps and travelling.
- Outdoor P.E. – Invasion games and passing including netball, football, basketball and rugby.
Understanding English, communication and languages
- Speech – Caesar- convincing his men to go to war.
- Caesar talking to the Celts to convince them that they are better off under Roman Rule.
- Speech – Boudicca rallying her people to oust the Romans.
- Inter class debate.
- Various non fiction texts about the Romans and Celts
- Guided reading groups every day
- A variety of writing opportunities for different purposes linking to termly topics
- Weekly Spanish language lessons
Historical, geographical and social understanding
- Linked to topic learning about Romans Where did they come from? Were they the only group of people to move around? What was the effect of the new culture on the Celts?
- Verulanium visit – St Albans
- Role play – Roman and Celt battle
- Role Play – Roman Day Feast etc
- SEAL: New beginnings – Dealing with emotions and problem solving
- R.E. How do our friends celebrate Diwali?
- Why is the Bible special for Christians and why are the stories of Jesus important for them?
- How do people around our world celebate Christmas?
Scientific and technological understanding
- Science – Teeth and healthy eating
- Think about a Roman diet. What are the differences/similarities between our diets? How would their diets of effected their teeth and dental health.
- Investigate – How do different liquids effect your teeth?
- ICT – Combining text and graphics – Research and compile a poster/article about the Romans.
- ICT & Music – Manipulating sound –Use ‘2simple’ to create their own music. *
- Consider tempo and pitch to explore mood.
- Children will be participating in ‘The Recorder Project’ from EEAS.
Understanding the arts
- Singing songs with control, using the voice expressively.
- Roman Gladiator – Compose a piece of music to express the feelings of a Gladiator going to fight.
- Art & Technology including: Making shields,
- Roman writing tablets, clay oil burners, head bands, helmets, standards, armour, swords.
- Dance – Jason and the Argonauts
- ‘Myths & Legends’ Write their own Myth and create their own mythical beast.
- Christmas Crafts
Mathematical understanding
- Using and applying number in problem solving, communicating and reasoning
- Investigating a variety of approaches to mathematical problems.
- Number and the number system, including counting on and back from a given number.
- Number patterns and sequences, using different symbols >, <, =.
- Counting, partitioning and calculating, including looking at number bonds from 20 to 100.
Year 3 Teachers Miss Cooper and Mrs Harmon