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Year 3 Curriculum

Year 3                Termly  Curriculum              2023 – 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2024

Summer 2024

CUSP Reading

  • Greta and the Giants Block 1
  • Pebble in my Pocket Blocks 2,3
  • Leon and the Place Between Blocks 4,5
  • ‘Twas the Night before Christmas Anon Block 6
  • Sam Wu is Not Afraid of the Dark
    Blocks 7, 8, 9
  • Operation Gadgetman (includes My Shadow Robert Louis Stephenson)  Blocks 10, 11, 12
  • Dancing Bear
    Blocks 13, 14, 15
  • The Magician’s Nephew
    Blocks 16, 17, 18

CUSP Writing    Introduce = green (Block A) Revisit = orange (Block B)

Strong Start Sentence Composition (optional)

  • Poetry on a theme (emotions) A
  • First person narrative descriptions A
  • Non-chronological reports A
  • Formal letters to complain A
  • Dialogue through narrative (historical stories) A
  • Performance poetry (including poetry from other cultures A
  • Third person narrative (animal stories) A
  • Non-chronological reports B
  • Advanced instructional writing A
  • First person narrative descriptions B
  • Performance poetry (including poetry from other cultures) B (Enrichment)
  • Third person narrative (animal stories) B
  • Formal letters to complain B
  • Dialogue through narrative (historical) B
  • Poetry on a theme (emotions) B  (Enrichment)
  • Advanced instructional writing B

Maths- White Rose 

  • Place value
  • Addition and subtraction
  • Multiplication and Division A
  • Multiplication and division B
  • Length and Perimeter
  • Fractions A
  • Mass and Capacity 
  • Fractions B
  • Money
  • Time
  • Shape
  • Statistics

CUSP Science

  • Rocks
  • Animals, including humans
  • Revisit Rocks
 
  • Forces and magnets
  • Plants
 
  • Light

CUSP Art and Design

  • Drawing and painting Block A
  • Printmaking Block B
 
  • Textiles and collage Block C
  • 3D Block D
  • Painting Block E
  • Creative Response Block F

Computing – school sequence

  • Connecting computers
  • Stop frame animation
  • Sequencing Sounds
  • Branching databases
  • Desktop publishing
  • Events ands actions in programs 

CUSP Design and Technology

  • Textiles Block A
  • Food and Nutrition Block B
    Science – Animals including humans
  • Mechanisms Block C
    Science – Forces and magnets
    Writing – Advanced instructional writing A
  • Food and Nutrition Block D
    Science – Animals including humans
 
  • Systems Block E
  • Structures Block F

CUSP Geography

  • Fieldwork – human and physical features
 
  • UK Study
 
  • Revisit human and physical features
  • OS maps and scale

CUSP History

  • Stone Age – Iron Age
  • Stone Age – Iron Age 
  • Rome and the impact on Britain

CUSP Music - mastering the glockenspiel

Singing 

  • Singing focus: Introducing texture Block A
  • Sing parts in an ensemble (e.g. rounds) Block A

Untuned percussion 

  • Untuned focus: Mastering rhythm Block B
  • Recognise beats in a bar (time signatures/metre) Block B

Music

Singing 

  • Singing focus: The history of singing Block C
  • Singing for togetherness e.g. folk songs, war chants, hymns Block C

Glockenspiel

  • Tuned focus: Musical notation Block D
  • Introduce the staff Block D

Music

Glockenspiel

  • Tuned focus: Composition Block E
  • Compose in pairs Block E
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Range of instruments studied

  • Performance focus: Introducing timbre Block F
  • Perform as an ensemble (range of instruments) Block F

CUSP French

  • Greetings and the classroom
  • Colours, emotions and numbers (0-10)
  • Introductions and questions
  • Working together (Following instructions)
  • Playing together (Asking to play)
  • Eating together

PE - Real PE

  • CORE - Personal
  • CORE - Social 
  • GYM - physical
 
  • CORE- cognitive
  • CORE - Creative
  • GYM - Cognitive 
  • Dance - personal 
 
  • CORE - Physical
  • CORE - Health and Fitness

PSHE - SCARF

  • Me and My Relationships
  • Valuing Difference

PSHE

  • Keeping Safe
  • Growing and Changing

PSHE

  • Being my Best
  • Rights and Responsibilities 

RE - Leicestershire Agreed Syllabus 

  • What do Christian learn for the Creation Story? (UC CREATION/FALL)
  • What do Hinuds believe God is like?
  • What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?
  • Why do Christainds call the day jesus died ‘Good Friday’ (UC SALVATION)
  • What is it like for someone to follow GOD? (UC PEOPLE OF GOD)
  • How and why do people try to make the world a better place?

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