ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES Curriculum Overview Year Group 3 Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 TOPIC Tomb Raiders Transport Meet the Flintstones Science Trip Botanical Gardens Theme Trip Jaguar Land Rover Car Experience ENGLISH MATHS The Plot on the Pyramid The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery Character descriptions to understand how use of vocabulary can capture the imagination of the reader. Recount text Howard Carter discovering Tutankhamun s tomb. SLOW WRITING Compare and order numbers up to 1000. Recall and use multiplication facts. Addition and subtraction. Solve problems based on weight and capacity (linked to weighing a heart against the feather of truth) Adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator. The Wright Brothers (Amelia) Earheart Newspaper report Amelia Earhart s disappearance. SLOW WRITING Instruction writing how to pack a suitcase. SLOW WRITING Postcards Fact Files Calculate costs of different transport (ticket prices, repairs, holidays, flights) Road traffic survey using tally charts, pictograms and bar charts. Read and interpret bus and train timetables. Tell and write the time to the nearest minute. RE Trip Catholic Church Theme Trip Sutton Park Stone Age Rangers Stone Age Boy Horrible Histories (Savage Stone Age) Stig of the Dump Narrative writing creating characters, setting and plot. SLOW WRITING Non-chronological report incorporating key features of a text type into their writing. Letter writing. Commutative law. Measure and mark accurately to the nearest mm to create Stone Age carts. Equivalent fractions. Measure the perimeter of simple shapes.
Comparing and ordering fractions. Counting up and down in tenths. How does your garden grow? Investigate how water travels through a plant. Study the different parts of a plant. Look at different ways for pollination to occur and the effects it has. Mirror, Mirror Look at how light travels. Focus on shadows and how they change shape/size at different points in the day. Man-made and natural light sources. Transparent, translucent and opaque. SCIENCE Opposites Attract Investigate how materials react towards magnets and how magnets attract and repel different materials. Write an investigation plan. Produce own magnetic game, using scientific vocabulary (verbal and written) to explain the processes involved. We Are Astronauts Research the moon landings. Write newspaper report based on moon landings (link to English) Different phases of the moon. Earth Rocks Look at 3 main types of rock (sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous) and their uses. Investigate the hardness of different rocks. Create a table to show results from a child lead investigation. Analyse fossils, looking at palaeontology, the process of fossilisation and comparing fossils to the animals that they belonged to. Food and Our Bodies Look at different food groups, creating an eat-well plate (link to D&T) Create a food diary and analyse using data tables, looking at types of food consumed and how often. Build a skeleton, ensuring that all parts are fitted properly and in the right place. Learn about the muscles in the body and how they support us every day. We are network engineers. We are opinion pollsters. Know the location and context of places studied and some significant other places, focussing on how the COMPUTING We are animators. We are computer programmers. Use an atlas to find out key information about a given place. Understand why the River Nile was We are presenters. We are communicators. Use maps/atlases to identify a travel route. Identify the quickest possible route using a range of transport GEOGRAPHY
important to the Ancient Egyptians. methods. Understand the importance of identity (looking at passports, and why they are needed) Complete a traffic survey of our local area and analyse data. Find out about a key figure in history James Starley, Amelia Earhart and the Wright Brothers. Look at the history of flight placing key events on a timeline. Stone Age people migrated to the rest of the world, using maps. HISTORY Complete role play on Egyptian s preparation for death, and order the events of the process of mummification. Arrange events from Ancient Egypt in chronological order. Investigate the use of hieroglyphics in Ancient Egypt. Understand social structure and how it impacts on people s lives. Study the life and death of King Tutankhamun. Sketch ancient Egyptian death masks. Paint Egyptian artefacts. Use watercolour to create Egyptian landscapes. Generate questions about events in the past. Sequence events on a timeline (beyond 0AD) Understand the importance of Stone Age inventions (fire, the wheel, hunting, weapons, shelters, farming) Understand cause and effect of main events in history. Study life on the Skara Brae. ART & DESIGN Create a road safety poster. Design a page print using wheels and tracks select a range of materials for striking effect. Focus on how texture conveys movement. Use k nect equipment to create a prototype futuristic vehicle. Design, make and evaluate your own airport through junk modelling. Use modelling materials to create vehicles. Use dowelling, wheels and joins to Make drawings of the stages of early man. Reproduce cave paintings. Create a mould for an arrow head to be made out of chocolate. DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY Design, make and evaluate Egyptian death masks (mod roc) Use clay to make Egyptian trinkets (scarab beetles, canopic jars & Eye of Horus) Design, make and evaluate a Stone Age loin cloth, choosing the stitch that you use to sew and joining materials together effectively. Use the outdoor environment and resources to create a lifelike Stone Age hunting tool/weapon.
improve an existing design. Create Stone Age hand puppets and miniature campsites. Les quatre amis appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language describe things and actions orally and in writing MFL Jeux et chansons appreciate songs in the language develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they are reading aloud or using familiar words and phrases Moi explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and link the spelling, sound and meaning of words develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they are reading aloud or using familiar words and phrases Gymnastics Basketball Term 1 Glockenspiel Stage (exploring and developing playing skills through the glockenspiel) Term 2 Benjamin Britten There was a monkey (learn more about Britten s life and music) PE Football Dance (Haka) Term 1 Let your spirit fly (learn about the interrelated dimensions of music) Term 2 Ho, Ho, Ho (sing the song and play instrumental parts within the music) Tennis Athletics Term 1 Three Little Birds (look at pitch, tone and duration, singing the song and performing composition) Term 2 Reflect, Rewind and Replay (understand how pulse, rhythm, pitch and also tempo and dynamics fit into the music we listen to). Being Silent and Attentive Being Courageous and Confident Being Hopeful and Visionary MUSIC RE Sharing and Being Generous Caring for Other Animals and the Environment Creating Unity and Harmony Participating and Willing to Lead Being Fair and Just Being Accountable and Living with Integrity Remembering Roots Being Loyal and Steadfast
PSHE Living in the Wider World Relationships Health and Well-being BRITISH VALUES & SMSC CHIPS Are you a boy or a girl? British Values Democracy CHIPS The Paper Bag Princess British Values Rule of Law CHIPS And Tango Makes Three British Values Tolerance and Mutual Respect