Year 3 Yearly Overview

TermEnglishMathsScienceTopicComputingArt / DTPEPSHESMSCMusicLanguagesWow Opportunities
Autumn 1Fiction Adventure stories
Peter Pan
Non-fiction
news reports linked to a cave crime (Stig of the Dump)
Number place value
addition & subtraction
Rock DetectivesEarly SettlersTouch type
Online Safety
Portraits: Portraying relationshipsInvasion games; Object mastery – striking with hand foot.
Sport – Netball
Swimming
New beginningsWhat do people believe about God?Glocks- exploring a new instument and its sound. The Spanish Alphabet
Peter Pan Day
Autumn 2Non-fiction
Instructions
How to make a Pizza.

Information texts based on Italy
Number addition and subtraction
multiplication and division
Amazing BodiesItalySpread Sheets
Graphing
DT: Pizza makingInvasion games; Locomotion skills.
Sport – Basketball
Swimming
Getting on and falling outWhy are festivals important to religious communities?
Diwali
More Glocks
Amassing a repertoire of melodic shapes and patterns (using colours/note names/numbers)
Greetings – Me and YouItalian afternoon (pizza party)
Spring 1Fiction: Myths and legends
Romulus and Remus
Poetry:
poetic structure
Limericks
Number multiplication and division
Measures Length and perimeter
Can you see me?RomansCodingDT: Moving monsters – pneumatics
linked to mythical beasts
Dance; Stability
Moving in rhythm with precise movements
Swimming

Citizenship
Why do People pray?The 6 interrelated Elements of Music:
pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture
ColoursRoman day
Charity Event
Spring 2Fiction:
Dialogue and plays Language play
Measures Mass and Capacity
Number fractions
ForcesClimateBranching Data Base
Simulations
Art: Warm and cool colours using pastels
Object mastery – Long stick.
Sport – Golf

Swimming
ChoicesWhy is the bible important to Christians?Animal Cantata
Performance in Coventry Cathedral
Have you got a pet?Drama and acting

Trip to town to enhance climate unit
Summer 1Non-fiction: Authors and letters (Mark Lowery)
Non chronological reports
(Ancient Egyptians)
Number
fractions
Measures
Time


How does your garden grow?Ancient EgyptEmailArt: clay Investigating patterns Athletics; Locomotion Skills

Swimming
CommunityWhy are festivals important to religious communities?
Easter
Animal Cantata: Meet and work with a composer.
Learn to sing and play an Egyptian song.
FamiliesEgyptian Day
Summer 2Fiction: Stories with familiar settings  (Paddington goes to London)
PoetryPoetry to Perform
Measures
Money
Geometry
properties of shape
Statistics
STEAM Project – Floating Gardens- building on plant knowledge focus is on buoyancy and why they are needed in certain climates.The United KingdomPresentingDT: Photo frames – British souvenir for London gift shopStriking and fielding; Co-ordination.
Sport – Rounders
Swimming
ChangeWhat does it mean to be a Christian today?British
Music
: What makes British Music so popular- the world over?
When is your birthday?British Afternoon Tea