Year 3 Term 3

May to July

Last updated

2 March 2025 at 09:49:09

Rivers & Trade 🛶

Maths 🧮

Fractions

Add fractions
Subtract fractions
Partition the whole
Unit fractions of a set of objects
Non-unit fractions of a set of objects
Reasoning with fractions of an amount

Money

Dollars and cents
Convert dollars and cents
Add money
Subtract monet
Find change

Time

Roman numerals to 12
Tell the time to 5 minutes
Tell the time to the minute
Read time on a digital clock
Use a.m. and p.m.
Years, months and days
Days and hours
Hours and minutes - use start and end times
Hours and minutes - use durations
Minutes and seconds
Units of time
Solve problems with time

Shape

Turns and angles
Right angles
Compare angles
Measure and draw accurately
Horizontal and vertical
Parallel and perpendicular
Recognise and describe 2-D shapes
Draw polygons
Recognise and describe 3-D shapes
Make 3-D

Statistics

Interpret pictograms
Draw pictograms
interpret bar charts
Draw bar charts
Collect and represent data
Two-way tables

Science 🧬

Plants (Biology) ♻️

Parts of a plant and their functions
Plant dissection
Plant growth
The stem and water transportation
Looking at seeds
Reproductive parts in plants
Pollination
Seed dispersal
Life cycle of plants

Biodiversity (Sustainability) ♻️

What is biodiversity?
How can we increase biodiversity in our local area?

Nutrition and Diet (Biology)

Food groups
Understand the five good groups
Balanced diet
Animal diets

Food Waste (Sustainability) ♻️

What is food waste?
How can we reduce food waste?

Reading 📖

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Author: Roald Dahl Illustrator: Quentin Blake

Every day, Charlie Bucket walks past Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory, with its heavenly smells wafting out. When the eccentric chocolatier Mr Willy Wonka announces that there are five Golden Tickets to be won, and the prize is a visit to his wonderful factory itself, children everywhere rush to buy his products - but Charlie's family are very poor and can only afford to buy him one bar of Wonka's chocolate each year on his birthday. He never dreams he'll have the chance to see the inside of the factory for himself - but then his dreams unexpectedly comes true.

Soon Charlie, his Grandpa Jo and his fellow winners are setting out on a magical tour of the factory, where a whole host of extraordinary inventions and a river of melted chocolate await them. But what else is in store for Charlie and the other children when they enter Wonka's chocolate factory?

Roald Dahl's wicked sense of humour is perfectly in evidence in this marvellously imaginative classic story, which has been loved by generations of children.

Reading age: 8+

Writing ✍️

Diary Entries

Linked to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Sustainability and Fair Trade
Express time and place using conjunctions (so, because etc.)
Adverbs and prepositions
Inverted commas can be used to punctuate direct speech
Accurate use of past, present and future tense
Emotive language to engage the reader
Punctuate with speech marks
Commas after an adverb starter
Use bullet points to list information
Use past and present tense including progressive
Use past, present and future tense
Use fronted adverbial phrases to say how, where or when
Use correct form of a or an
Form comparatives and superlatives
Use simile with -like
Use adjectives to describe a noun
Use -ly adverbs for descriptions and information
Use -ing clause sentence starters
Write a diary entry about the day Charlie found the golden ticket, or when he entered the chocolate factory

Newspaper Reports

Sectioned newspaper recount
Planned sections using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to sequence events
Word choices and developed sentence structures to match recount texts
Express time, place and cause using conjunctions (so, because etc.)
Inverted commas can be used to punctuate direct speech, if appropriate
Apostrophes for single possession
Punctuate with speech marks
Commas after an adverb starter
Use past and present tense including progressive
Use past, present and future tense
Use fronted adverbial phrases to say how, where or when
Use correct form of a or an
Form comparatives and superlatives
Use simile with -like
Use -ly adverbs for description and information
Use -ing clause sentence starters
Use -ly sentence starters
Newspaper article linked to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and finding/winning the golden tickets

Narrative

Developing narrative with focus on paragraphing
5 clear sections
Conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to sequence events or to mark changes in setting
Dialogue including direct speech
Past perfect tense
Prepositional phrases for settings
Simple noun phrases
Verbs and adverbs chosen for effect, cohesion created and repetition avoided through the use of nouns and pronouns
Punctuate with speech marks
Commas after an adverb starter
Use nouns and pronouns to avoid repetition
Use past and present tense including progressive
Use fronted adverbial phrases to say how, where or when
Write a descriptive narrative

Across the curriculum 🌏

Overview: Rivers and Trade ♻️

Rivers, trade and settlements
Natural resources
Tourism

Curriculum Objectives & Expectations ♻️

Brunei case study (1400's Kampong Ayer)
Timeline
Who am I?
When/where am i?
What do I need to survive and thrive?
Compare Brunei past and present (food, clothing & community)
Ask and answer geographical questions about a location
Use fieldwork to observe and record human and physical features in the local area (sketch maps)
Compass points
4-figure grid reference
Symbols and keys
Describe key aspects of physical geography and human geography
Settlements along a river
Trade using the river
Why do cities locate on a river?
Order an increasing number of significant events, moments and dates on a timeline using dates accurately
Begin to give an overview of life in Brunei past and present
Describe the key features of the past, including attitudes, beliefs, and everyday lives of men, women and children
Identify and note connections, contrasts, and trends over time in the everyday lives of people
Use appropriate historical terms, such as culture, religious, social, economic, and political when describing the connections, contrasts, and trends over time
Mapping, fieldwork and data collection
Use a database to illustrate fieldwork findings
Ask geographical questions
Use annotated sketches from observation including descriptive/explanatory labels
Select views to photograph
Locate positions if photographs on a map
Identify features on an aerial photograph
Compare Brunei in two different periods of history to evaluate cause and effect
Discuss and have evidenced opinions as to why some things change and others stay the same
Use a range of primary and secondary sources to inform ideas
Look at specific details such as clothing to make informed judgements and to prompt further questioning (I can see this... I wonder if that means...?)

Key Vocabulary ♻️

North, south, east, west, scale, contour, symbol, navigation, patterns and trends, mouth, source, tributary, Sultan, settlements, trade, transformation, industrialisation, transition, regalia, trends, fashion, tradition, location, requirement, agriculture.

Art, Design & Technology 🎨 👷

Design a healthy snack with food arranged creatively
Chop, slice, dice and grate and design a suitable package for the meal
Continue to explore the work of a range of artists
Express thoughts and feelings
Use knowledge and understanding of artists and techniques
Investigate, design, plan and evaluate techniques for making simple pneumatic systems
Paint using watercolour techniques
Animation: Design, draw and create an animation using Ink Animation
Programming
Dash and Dot continued

PSHE 😀 🫶

Personal, Social, Health and Economic education

Physical health and mental wellbeing

About the choices that people make in daily life that could affect their health and to identify healthy and unhealthy choices (e.g. in relation to food, exercise, sleep)
The positive and negative effects of habits, such as regular exercise or eating too much sugar, on a healthy lifestyle and what is meant by a healthy, balanced diet including what foods should be eaten regularly or just occasionally
About the things that affect feelings both positively and negatively including strategies to identify and talk about their feelings
About some of the different ways people express feelings e.g. words, actions, body language

Growing and Changing

That everyone is an individual and has unique and valuable contributions to make and recognise how strengths and interests form part of a person’s identity
How to identify their own personal strengths and interests and what they’re proud of (in school, out of school)
To recognise common challenges to self -worth e.g. finding school work difficult, friendship issues
Basic strategies to manage and reframe setbacks e.g. asking for help, focusing on what they can learn from a setback, remembering what they are good at, trying again

Keeping Safe

How to identify typical hazards at home and in school
How to predict, assess and manage risk in everyday situations e.g. crossing the road, running in the playground, in the kitchen
About fire safety at home including the need for smoke alarms
How to help keep themselves safe in the local environment or unfamiliar places, including road, rail, water and firework safety