Year 3 Curriculum Projects 2016-2017
Autumn 1 / Autumn 2 / Spring 1 / Spring 2 / Summer 1 / Summer 2Topic / Mighty Metals
/ Dinosaurs/Tribal Tales
/ Flow
/ Scrumdiddlyumptious
/ I Am Warrior
/ Burps, Bottoms And Bile
WOW Day / Let’s fly down to the air museum / Step into the Dino dome… / Fieldwork on the River Stour / Mmmm…chocolate tasting / Be a Roman for the day – Salve! / Meeting the professionals…
Curriculum focus areas / · Science (forces and magnets)
· Spreadsheets / e-presentations
· Electricity / circuits / product design / · History (prehistoric Britain / dinosaurs)
· Tool / jewellery design and making
· Building structures
· Human and physical geography (using maps)
· Plants / light / · Geography (mapping, water cycle, rivers, UK geography)
· Mechanical systems
· Soil / water cycle
· Painting / · D.T. (cooking and nutrition)
· Food miles and fair trade
· Nutrition and diet / · History (Roman Empire)
· Mosaic
· Design Roman artefacts
· Locational knowledge: Italy / · Science (teeth, digestion)
· Digital imagery
· Textiles
· Health and well-being
· Composing lyrics
Text / Iron Man – Ted Hughes / Stig of the Dump – Clive King / Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl / Roman adventures/Thieves of Ostia – Caroline Lawrence / The Sheep Pig – Dick King-Smith
Writing / Non-chronological reports; explanations; recounts; sci-fi narrative (Iron Man) / Information books, adventure stories, fact files, letters, poetry using similes and metaphors. / Newspaper reports, journals, debates, instructions and setting descriptions. / Recounts, recipes and instructions, non-chronological reports and adverts / Soliloquies, historical narrative, invitations and menus, letters and biographies. / Fact files, explanatory texts, fantasy narratives, slogans and persuasive texts.
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