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Emmer Green Primary School

Termly Curriculum Overview

Year 3 Autumn 2013Light and Shadows

Understand light and the formation ofshadows

Observe the apparent movement of theSun and the associated changes in

shadowsCharacteristics of materials

Look at range of materials and properties

Uses of materials

Science

Text genres

Fiction work will focus on settings of stories Poems based on the senses Report writing linked to our topic subject The

Tudors

Word work

Dialogue and speech punctuation Sentence structure Using powerful verbs to improve their writing

You can help your child by:

Regularly readingLearning weekly spellings

En lish

Place value, calculation strategies foraddition and subtraction

Read time to 5 minutes

Recognise all coins and notes in Englishcurrency

Doubling and halving, to estimate and checkcalculations

Multiplication as an array Simple fractions of shapes and numbers

You can help your child by:

Supporting them with their homeworkPractising their multiplication and division tables

regularly

Mathematics

History/Geography:

History:

In this topic the children will find out about

the Tudors through:

the story of Henry VIII's marriages the lives of different types of people

living in Tudor times

developing their ability to use writtenand pictorial sources to discover facts

about the Tudors

looking at evidence and asking andanswering questions

Useful Websites:

http://resources.woodlands-

junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/Tudors.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhisto

ry/famouspeople/henry_viii/

TopicHistory / Geography

Hampton

Court Trip

Tuesday 12th

November

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Termly Curriculum Overview

Seeing themselves as valued individualswithin a community

Understanding the different types ofbullying

Importance of having and handling money

Personal Social and Health Education

Investigate how paintings, prints, photographs andother images that include figures communicate ideas

about relationships Use composition skills to make a double portrait that

conveys ideas about themselves and their relationship

with another person in their lives

Art

Year 3 Autumn 2013

Internet safety - using email, chat areas,mobiles and other new technologies

Using Publisher to create a class book aboutthe Tudors

ICT

Learn about stiffening materials and making stablestructures through the context of free-standing

photograph frames Design their frames for the portraits they created in

art sessions

Design Technology

Judaism

Significance of the Torah Ways in which Jewish people should live

The celebration of Bar MitzvahChristianity The Creation Story Rules and codes for day to day life The work of Christian charities.

Religious Education

Gymnastics Sequences and balances

Travelling using apparatusGames

Invasion games Attacking tactics during football and hockey

Physical EducationAll about me

Asking and answering simple questions suchas what is your name? How are you?

Talking about our families Counting to 12

Modern Foreign Language (French)