Victoria College Preparatory School Long Term Planning: 2015-2016 Year 3

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

English

Fiction & Poetry: Stories with a familiar setting, shape poems and

calligrams and play scripts.Fiction & Poetry: Fiction & Poetry: Traditional tales

and colour poems. Fiction & Poetry:Fiction & Poetry: Danny the

Champion of the World. Word play and riddles.

Fiction & Poetry:

Non-Fiction: Thesaurus and dictionary

Non-Fiction: Instructions, non-chronological report and letter

writing.

Non-Fiction: Letter writing – informal letter. Bird report.

Non-Fiction: Recount - Howard Carter. Explanatory texts – how to

mummify someone.Non-Fiction: Non-Fiction: Letter to Year 2. Life

cycle of a plant.

Handwriting: Letter formation Handwriting: Flicks and joins. Handwriting: Joins. Handwriting: Joined and legible is the focus.

Handwriting: Joined and legible is the focus.

Handwriting: Joined and legible is the focus.

SPAG: Weekly grammarDifferentiated high frequency

spellings followed by Weekly PSP

SPAG: Weekly PSP.Weekly focused grammar lesson

SPAG: Weekly PSP.Weekly focused grammar lesson

SPAG: Weekly PSP.Weekly focused grammar lesson

SPAG: Weekly PSP.Weekly focused grammar lesson

SPAG: Weekly PSP.Weekly focused grammar lesson

Reading: Reading week – book review, shared read and class

reading. Planet readers allocated through benchmarking.

Differentiated group reading.Class reader. Free reading.

Weekly comprehension.

Reading: Differentiated group reading. Class reader. Planet

readers updated through benchmarking. Free reading.

Weekly comprehension.

Reading: Differentiated group reading. Class reader. Planet

readers updated through benchmarking. Free reading.

Weekly comprehension.

Reading: Differentiated group reading. Class reader. Planet

readers updated through benchmarking. Free reading.

Weekly comprehension.

Reading: Differentiated group reading. Class reader. Planet

readers updated through benchmarking. Free reading.

Weekly comprehension

Reading: Differentiated group reading. Class reader. Planet

readers updated through benchmarking. Free reading.

Weekly comprehension

Speaking & Listening: Play scripts – puppet shows (recorded on iPad). Class readers. Reading

written work aloud. Teeth song.

Speaking & Listening: Class readers. Reading written work

aloud. Pneumatics explanation.

Speaking & Listening: Charity posters and presentation. Read

fables aloud – drama. Class readers. Reading written work

aloud.

Speaking & Listening: Interviews for Howard Carter’s discovery. Class readers. Reading written

work aloud.

Speaking & Listening: Class readers. Reading written work

aloud. Riddle reading and tongue twisters.

Speaking & Listening: Class readers. Reading written work aloud. Speaking and listening

with their Year 2 buddy.

Assessments: Familiar setting (writing portfolio) and play script. C/D spelling test. Benchmarking.

PIRA.

Assessments: Benchmarking. Instructions and non-chronological report.

Assessments: Fables Assessments: Recount of the discovery of Howard Carter.

Assessments: Danny the Champion of World

Assessments: Letter to the Year 2.

Maths Mental addition and subtraction (MAS); Problem solving,

reasoning and algebra (PRA)Number and place value (NPV); Mental addition and subtraction

(MAS); Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)

Mental multiplication and division (MMD); Problem solving,

reasoning and algebra (PRA)Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA); Measurement

(MEA); Geometry: properties of shapes (GPS)

Number and place value (NPV); Mental addition and subtraction

(MAS); Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)

Mental multiplication and division (MMD); Fractions, ratio and proportion (FRP); Problem

solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)

Measurement (MEA); Problem solving, reasoning and algebra

(PRA); Mental addition and subtraction (MAS)

Measurement (MEA)Number and place value (NPV); Mental addition and subtraction

(MAS); Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)

Mental multiplication and division (MMD); Problem solving,

reasoning and algebra (PRA); Mental addition and subtraction

(MAS)

Number and place value (NPV); Mental addition and subtraction

(MAS); Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)

Mental addition and subtraction (MAS); Mental multiplication and division (MMD); Statistics (STA); Problem solving, reasoning and

algebra (PRA)Fractions, ratio and proportion

(FRP); Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)

Geometry: properties of shapes (GPS); Geometry: position and direction (GPD); Measurement (MEA) Number and place value

(NPV); Mental addition and subtraction (MAS)

Number and place value (NPV); Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA); Written addition

and subtraction (WAS)Mental addition and subtraction

(MAS); Written addition and subtraction (WAS); Problem

solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)

Measurement (MEA)Number and place value (NPV); Mental addition and subtraction

(MAS); Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)

Mental multiplication and division (MMD); Written multiplication and division (WMD); Problem solving,

reasoning and algebra (PRA)

Mental addition and subtraction (MAS); Problem solving,

reasoning and algebra (PRA); Fractions, ratio and proportion

(FRP)Mental multiplication and division

(MMD); Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA);

Written multiplication and division (WMD)

Mental multiplication and division (MMD); Written multiplication and

division (WMD)Statistics (STA); Problem solving,

reasoning and algebra (PRA); Measurement (MEA)

Mental addition and subtraction (MAS); Written addition and subtraction (WAS); Problem

solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)

Written addition and subtraction (WAS); Mental addition and

subtraction (MAS)Written addition and subtraction (WAS); Measurement (MEA);

Mental addition and subtraction (MAS); Problem solving,

reasoning and algebra (PRA)Geometry: properties of shapes

(GPS); Measurement (MEA)Written multiplication and division

(WMD); Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA);

Mental multiplication and division (MMD); Fractions, ratio and proportion (FRP); Decimals,

percentages and their equivalence to fractions (DPE)Mental addition and subtraction

(MAS); Written addition and subtraction (WAS); Problem

solving, reasoning and algebra

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Victoria College Preparatory School Long Term Planning: 2015-2016 Year 3

(PRA); Written multiplication and division (WMD); Mental

multiplication and division (MMD)

Science Teeth Healthy Eating Forces and magnets Digestion, the skeleton and muscles.

Plants Light and shadow

ComputingIntroduction to VCP system / logins etc.

Video puppet theatresSwitched on ComputingWe are programmers

Switched on Computing

We are Presenters – Indoor Athletics Skill

Switched on ComputingVideo Howard Carter

We are pollsters

Switched on ComputingWe are communicators

- Ins and out of emails.

Switched on Computing- Emails to boys

starting in Sept.- Video conferencing.

History Ancient Egyptians

Geography Locational geography and human geography

Compass work/ find Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern

Hemisphere, the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and

Antarctic Circle

Comparisons of location- Egypt/ Jersey

Locational geography and human geographyFieldwork- trip to market/ farms

RE Christianity Christianity

Art Paul KleeSketch Book

Contemporary artist and abstract. Sketch book.

Art from a different culture (Egyptians)Architecture – pyramid posters

House ArtSketch book

SketchingFruit, vegetables and general

food drawing.Observational Drawing

Sketch book

Sketching with emphasis on observational skills.

Sketch book.

Design and Technology Pizza making Pneumatics Shadufs Baking

PE Football / rugby / hockey Football / rugby / hockey Football / swimming / hockey / rugby

Football / swimming / hockey / rugby

Tennis / cricket / athletics Tennis / cricket / athletics

Dance and Drama TBC TBC TBC TBC TBC TBC

PSHENew beginnings

Core values will be reinforced throughout the year.

Getting on and falling out. Good to be me.Charity posters

Going for goalsCharity presentations Relationships Changes

French

Greeting people. Understanding numbers 1-12. Saying and asking name, ages, brothers and sisters and where they live. Saying the

parishes of Jersey.

Greeting people. Understanding numbers 1-12. Saying and asking name, ages, brothers and sisters and where they live. Saying the

parishes of Jersey.

Revision of term 1 – extend numbers to 20

Revision of term 1 – extend numbers to 20 Rooms of the house - revision

Months of the year/ Days of the week

Revision

Music Pitch – notation B,A,G Duration – notation crotchet, quaver, minim, quaver rest Tempo

Dynamics – listening and appraising, performing Dynamics - composing Pitch and Duration - composing

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