Year  3     Autumn Term 2008

LITERACY

• Stories with familiar settings
• Reports
• Poems to perform
• Dialogue and plays

NUMERACY

• Counting, partitioning and calculating
• Securing number facts
• Handling data and measures
• Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
• Identifying number relationships

SCIENCE:

Characteristics of materials:

• Identifying common materials; recognising their properties; plan and carry out a fair test; make comparisons; draw conclusions.

Magnets and springs:

ICT:

• Combining texts and graphics – use appropriate effects and re-size graphics
• Email – send, receive and reply to emails; develop and refine text messages

• Recognise that forces act in a particular direction
• Describe the direction of forces between magnets and springs
• Investigate and make predictions about magnetic materials

GEOGRAPHY:

• Compare and contrast a locality
• Map work – British Isles
• Reading and constructing maps using symbols

RE:

• Old Testament stories
• Christmas

DT:

Not this term

ART:

• Portraying relationships and faces

MUSIC:

• Peter and the wolf
• Carnival of the animals

PSHE:

New Beginnings;

• Have opportunities to appreciate and celebrate differences and similarities between them
• To value their gifts and talents

Getting on and falling out:

• Consider the qualities of becoming good friends
• Practise using ‘peaceful problem solving’

• Exploring rhythmic patterns
• Pentatonic scales