| Year 3 Curriculum: Block 3 - January to February |
| English: |
- Traditional Tales- "The Fisherman and his Wife"
- Non-fiction Texts- Research Skills and Writing, Non-chronoloogical Reports
- Reading and writing short stories- "The Upside Down Mice"
You may find it useful to read and discuss some different non-fiction books with your child during the course of this unit or conduct a library visit.
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| Maths: Primary Framework for Mathematics |
The planning structure for each year is organised into five blocks. The structure is the same for each year group. Each block has incorporated into it objectives from the Using and applying mathematics strand and from two or three of the other core strands. The blocks are:
- Block A: Counting, partitioning and calculating
- Block B: Securing number facts, understanding shape
- Block C: Handling data and measures
- Block D: Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
- Block E: Securing number facts, relationships and calculating
Each block is made up of three units. A unit represents 2 or 3 weeks of teaching. The units are designed to be used independently when planning a period of 2 or 3 weeks' work.
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| Science: Teeth and Eating |
- To know what is meant by a balanced diet
- To know the four types of teeth
- to kow how to look after our teeth
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| Information and Communicaton Technology: Introduction to Databases (Information Workshop) |
- understand the need to structure information
- understand the terminology of field, record and file
- place information in the correct fields and add new record cards to a file
- use a computer database to store and search information
- answer simple questions by sorting the records of a single field
- generate a bar chart
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| Religious Education: Stories about Mohammad, Joseph and Moses |
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| History: Ancient Egypt |
- To know the importance of the River Nile
- To know how Ancient Egyptian society was organised
- To know how the Ancient Egyptians wrote
- To understand the importance of the pharaoh
- To Understand the religion of Ancient Egypt
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| Art: Printing |
- Understand what printing means
- Know how to use a relief block (block that makes a repeated pattern)
- Be able to make a block for a relief print using string
- Understand different methods of printing with their blocks
- Create cardboard prints of fruits from observation
- Be able to print a landscape using cardboard only
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| Physical Education: |
- Dance -
- Outdoor Education – Trails
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| Music: |
- Composition and appreciation
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| SEAL - Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning |
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| NB Geography and Design Technology are not taught during this study block
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