Curriculum Overview
Year 3 Curriculum Overview 2025-2026
  | Autumn 1 8 weeks 
  | Autumn 2 7 weeks 
  | Spring 1 6 weeks 
  | Spring 2 5 weeks 
  | Summer 1 6 weeks 
  | Summer 2 7 weeks 
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English  | *Narrative Alternative Traditional Tale *Direct Speech Fairy Tale 
 The Lost Happy Endings 
 
 
 
 
  | *Geographical Report (disciplinary writing) – Volcanoes and Earthquakes *Note Taking Non Chronological Mentor Texts *Explanation Disciplinary writing Mummification *Narrative: Traditional Folktale When the Giant Stirred  | *Narrative: new chapter 
 
 *Journalistic: news reporting 
 
 Kate on the Case 
 
  | *Classic Fiction/significant author Romeo and Juliet 
 
 Poetry *Rhyming poem Free verse 
 Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots 
 
 
  | Narrative story Contemporary Fiction Call Me Lion 
  | *letter writing *Recount- Diary *Narrative Story 
 Significant Author Butterfly Lion 
 
 Disciplinary writing - Greek City States 
 
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Maths  | Number: place value Number: addition and subtraction  | Number: addition and subtraction Number: multiplication and division  | Number: multiplication and division Measurement: length and perimeter 
  | Number: fractions Measurement: mass and capacity  | Number: fractions Measurement: money Measurement: time  | Measurement: time Geometry: shape Statistics 
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Science  | Animals incl Humans (skeleton) 
  | Rocks  | Forces and Magnets  | Environmental Study Bees  | Plants  | Light and Shadows  | 
History  | 
  | How much did Ancient Egypt change over time? 
 Continuity and change enquiry Evidential thinking enquiry  | 
  | How similar and different were the ancient civilisations? Similarity and Difference enquiry Evidential Thinking enquiry 
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  | What did the Greek city states have in common? 
 (Persia and Greece) Similarity and Difference enquiry  | 
Geography  | Volcanoes and Earthquakes Hemispheres, latitude, longitude, tropics, physical geography  | 
  | Exploring our Local Environment  | 
 
 
  | How does food get to our plate? Mapping, Europe, North/South America, environmental regions. Human geography, economics 
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Computing  | Computing and Networks Connecting computers  | Creating Media Stop frame animation 
  | Programming A Sequencing Sounds 
  | Data and Information Branching databases  | Creating Media Desktop publishing  | Programming B Events and actions in programmes  | 
Design and Technology  | Food Healthy and varied diet Project: wrap/ pita pocket  | Food Healthy and varied diet Project: snack bar  | Textiles 2D shape to 3D product Project: Pencil case (joining) 
  | Textiles 2D shape to 3D product Project: Glove puppet (joining)  | Structures Shell Structures 
 Project: desk tidy 
  | Structures Shell Structures using computer aided design Project: Gift box 
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Music  | Writing Music Down How does music bring us closer together?  | Playing a musical instrument Learning to play the recorder, developing understanding of musical notation  | Compose using your imagination How Does Music Help to Make the World a Better Place?  | More Musical Styles How Does Music Help Us Get to Know our Community?  | Enjoying Improvisation How does Music Make a Difference to Us Everyday?  | Opening Night How Does Music Connect Us with Our Planet?  | 
Art  | Drawing Pencils Shading Using story as a starting point Develop part of an image Pattern, line and shape Vincent Van Gogh Owen Jones  | Painting Colour tinting Thick pain/short brush Tonking & Sgraffito Vincent Van Gogh JMW Turner Sean Scully  | Collage Responding to artist’s work Op art Paul Klee Henri Matisse Victor Vasarely  | Printmaking Respond to artist’s work Explore arts and crafts movt Observe and sketch Create printing block Create repeating pattern William Morris  | Textiles Explore pattern Dip dye technique Collagraph blocks Plasticine stamps Lubaina Himid  | 3-D/Sculpture Transfer designs to a 3D object Roll and form clay slabs 3D relief surfaces Lucie Rie Howard Hodgkin Li Hongbo  | 
PSHE/ safeguarding 
  | Physical & Mental Health  | Keeping Safe  | Relationships: Friends & Family  | Respectful & safe Relationships  | Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy  | Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing  | 
RE  | What do different people believe about God? Christian focus and either or both Hindus and Muslims  | What does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today? (part 1)  | What does it mean to be a Christian in Britain today? (part 1)  | Why are festivals important to religious communities? (Part 1)  | Why is the Bible so important for Christians today?  | Why do people pray?  | 
PE  | Invasion Games Football  | Invasion Games Tag Rugby  | Gymnastics /Dance  | Athletics  | Strike and Field Games Cricket 
  | Net and Wall Games Tennis  | 
French  | Half-term 1: Describing me and others Half-term 2: Saying what I and others have Phonics: the SSC (sound-symbol correspondences) taught this term are: [a] [o] [e] [i] [u] Silent Final Consonant [SFC] -t, -s, -d Silent Final E [SFe] [an/en] open and closed [eu] [ch] [au/eau/o/ô] [on] [ou] Vocabulary: greetings, adjectives to describe mood and character, days of the week, nouns for possessions, positional prepositions in, on, under, ‘I have a present for’ story Grammar: être (singular) regular adjective agreement (-e) with and without pronunciation change, (-eux, -euse) and adjectives already ending in -e, avoir (singular), singular indefinite articles (un, une), intonation questions (including with quoi, où)  | Half-term 1: Saying what I and others do Half-term 2: Saying how many and describing things Phonics: the SSC (sound-symbol correspondences) taught this term are: [é/et/ez/er] [è/ê] [oi] [(a)in] [ai] Vocabulary: verbs and nouns to describe a range of activities, numbers 1-12, à meaning at, in, to Grammar: -ER present tense (singular), singular definite articles (le, la), regular plural marking on nouns (-s), plural indefinite article (des), il y a, intonation question (including with combien)  | Half-term 1: Describing things and people Half-term 2: Expressing likes and saying what I and others do Phonics: the SSC (sound-symbol correspondences) taught this term are: [SFe] soft [c/ç] [-ien] [qu] [j/soft g] [-tion] Vocabulary: colour and other adjectives to describe animals, story creation, loves and hates, Hungry Caterpillar (rouge), revisit days, Toute une année (jaune) months Grammar: revisit definite articles & adjective agreement, subject pronouns (il/elle) with objects to mean ‘it’, plural definite article (les), using aimer | détester + definite article, revisit intonation questions (including with comment, quand)  | |||
Educational Visits  | Natural History Museum Geography  | British Museum History  | Local Field Study Geography  | William Morris Gallery Art  | City Farm Geography/Science 
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