Science: ROCKS (see scheme of work for more detail)

• Compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple properties.
• Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within the rock.
• Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

Science: LIGHT (see scheme of work for more detail)

• Recognise that children need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.
• Understand that light is reflected from surfaces.
• Recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and there are ways to protect their eyes.
• Recognise that shadows are formed when the light source is blocked by a solid object.
• Find patterns in the way that the size of the shadows changes.

Digital Data: Collect data on shadow length and make a table and bar chart using Purple Mash 2 Graph

• Create bar charts, pie charts and tables with software
• Choose an appropriate way to show data in graphical formHistory: PREHISTORIC TIMES
• Identify the stone age era, the Bronze Age era and the Iron Age era on a timeline and in chronological order.
• Distinguish between evidence from each of the three periods.
• Learn about the Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers through the study of Skara Brae.
• Learn about the Bronze Age religion, technology and travel.
• Find out how Stonehenge was built.
• Identify how farming changed people’s lives through the study of Danebury Hillfort.
• Identify when the most important changes in Britain between the Stone Age and the Iron Age.

Digital Publication: Complete Purple Mash Stone Age/Bronze Age Writing projects to publish reports etc – read and give feedback on classmates published work

• Use appropriate templates, layouts, and formatting tools
• Use tables, text boxes, and borders to layout content
• Evaluate and annotate their own work, give reasons for choicesGeography: TIME ZONES
• Know there are different time zones across the world.
• Locate the different time zones on a map.
• Understand that when you travel, you travel through different time zones.
• Know that day and night are different across the world.
• Know the links between the position of the sun and the earth’s rotation.
• Identify where it is day or night in different areas.
• Identify the prime meridian and know that every place on earth is measured from this line in terms of its distance.
• Know that the prime meridian divides the earth into East and West.
• Realise the importance of Greenwich and the prime Meridian

Digital Research: Compare information on selected websites to answer questions about time zones, day length etc

• Use search tools to find specific information effectively/safely
• Use selected digital resources to answer questions
• Compare the same information on different websites and booksArt: LASCAUX CAVE ART
• Experiment with different effects and textures including blocking in colour, washes, thickened paint creating textural effects.
• Work on a range of scales e.g. thin brush on small pictures etc.
• Create different effects and textures with paint.
• Mix colours and know which primary colours make secondary colours.
• Use specific colour language.
• Mix and use tints and shades.
• Know about great artists in history.

D.T: MAKE A MOVING, PREHISTORIC MONSTER

• Understand pressure can be used to produce and control movement.
• Understand and compare techniques for making simple pneumatic systems.
• Assemble a simple pneumatic system and use it in conjunction with simple levers to control movement.
• Explore ideas through 3D modelling.
• Work safely with a range of simple hand tools.
• Use a storyboard to sequence work.
• Evaluate the product.

Digital Media:– make short film clips of the working monsters to show how they work

• Shoot digital video clips to record an event or processMusic: FOCUS STUDY – WORLD MUSIC.
• Play in ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing instruments with increasing accuracy.
• Improvise music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music.
• Listen with attention to detail of sounds.
• Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music.
• Develop an understanding of the history of music.P.E:

(follow Val Sabin’s scheme of work –located in the PPA room)

• Games, gymnastics and danceR.E: (Follow Southwark agreed syllabus) Buddhism (units 1 and 2)

Computing

Using Technology Safely

• Communicating Online
• Personal Information
• Staying Safe/Getting HelpComputing

Coding and Programming

• Algorithms and Decomposition
• Programming on screen
• Sequence, Repetition, Selection
• De-bugging Entitlement and enrichment: Greenwich observatory and maritime museum. British museum.  Natural history museum. 

Topic writing links: (please teach during Friday’s literacy lesson and work in topic/Science books:

• Write a description of people from the different eras.
• Write a fact file about someone from Bronze age/stone age/Iron age – what they wore/where they lived/ what they ate/who they worshipped.
• Write a diary from a hunter-gatherer’s and early farmer’s point of view.
• Write a brochure about Stonehenge
• Write a guide to Skara Brae.
• Write about a typical day living at Danebury hill Fort.
• Choose a country from a different time zone and write a postcard.
• Retell ‘At the same moment around the world’ (Clotilde Penn)
• Write an explanation about the sun’s position and the earth’s rotation (make a book for a younger child)
• Write a contrast between what happens at daytime and what happens at night times.
• Write an explanation of how an animal becomes fossilised.
• Write a poem about the dark.

Maths topic Links: (work to be in topic/Science books)

• Measure work linked to Meridian prime.
• Time work based on time zones.
• Data-handling (light)

Literacy books which link to the topic:

• At the same moment around the world.
• Stone Age Boy
• Ug
• Cavemen Dave
• Minnow and the Bear

Year 3 Autumn – Download here in PDF format

Year 3 Spring – Download here in PDF format

Year 3 Summer – Download here in PDF format