Year 3

Curriculum Coverage

Year 3

Literacy

Autumn

• TAKE ONE BOOK Focus week
• Play-scripts
• Diary entry
• Story from a significant author
• Information texts
• Stories set in imaginary worlds
• Read, write and perform free verse poetry
• Haiku and Tanka poetry

Spring

• TAKE ONE BOOK Focus week
• Myths and Legends
• Persuasive adverts
• Senses poetry
• Stories that raise issues and dilemmas
• Read, write and perform free verse poetry

Summer

• TAKE ONE BOOK Focus week
• Adventure stories
• Formal and informal letters
• Instruction texts
• Report writing
• Read, write and perform free verse
• Poetry in different forms: kennings 

Maths

Autumn

• Place Value
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication and Division

Spring

• Multiplication and Division
• Money
• Statistics
• Length and Perimeter
• Fractions

Summer

• Fractions
• Time
• Geometry
• Mass and Capacity

Science

Autumn

• Animals (including humans)
• Nutrition and the body

Spring

• Rocks and Soils
• Plants

Summer

• Forces
• Light