Year Three - Term One

Objective

Literacy

Speaking and Listening

Reading

Word Level Work

• Use a dictionary correctly to find unknown words.
• Read and spell correctly most of the high frequency words from KS1.
• Select synonyms for high frequency words e.g big, little, good.
• Correctly form one of the basic joins.

Mathematics

Counting, partitioning and calculating

• Read, write and order whole numbers to a least 1000 and position them on a number line; count on from and back to zero in single digit steps or multiples of 10.
• Partition three-digit numbers into multiples of 100, 10 and 1 in different ways.

Securing number facts, understanding shapes

• Derive and recall all addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20, sums and differences of multiples of 10 and number pairs that total 100.
• Multiply one-digit and two-digit numbers by 10 or 100, and describe the effect.

Handling data and measures

• Know the relationship between kilometres and metres, metres and centimetres; choose and use appropriate units to estimate, measure and record measurements.
• Read, to the nearest division and half division, scales that are numbered or partially numbered; use the information to measure and draw to a suitable degrees of accuracy.

Calculating, measuring and understanding shape

• Add or subtract mentally combinations of one-digit and two digit numbers.
• Understand that division is the inverse of multiplication and vice versa; use this to derive and record related multiplication and division number sentences.

Science

Investigating teeth and healthy eating

• Know that all animals need to feed to grow and to be active.
• Know that all different animals have different diets.
• Name the human teeth: molars, canines and incisors.
• Make suggestions about how to look after teeth.

Design & Technology

• Evaluate, select and prepare a range of cold drink ingredients for a purpose.
• Design their own cold drink using diagrams, labels and correct techniques.
• Appraise their own cold drink making suggestions for improvements using a set criteria.

ICT

Exploring Simulations

• Understand that computer simulations can represent real or imaginary situations.
• Understand that computer simulations allow users to try things that would be difficult or impossible to do in practice.
• Evaluate simulations.

Art

Exploring and developing ideas

• Record from their experience and imagination in order to create puppet stories.
• Look at double portraits and discuss the arrangement of the figures.

Investigating and making art, craft and design

• Practise drawing human figures.
• Practise painting skills, including mixing colours.

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Exploring new beginnings

• Recognise their worth as individuals, by identifying positive things about themselves and their achievements, seeing mistakes, making mistakes, making amends and setting personal goals.

Exploring diversity in our world

• Reflect upon spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues, using imagination to understand other people’s experiences.

Spanish

Narración

• Estética del lenguaje: Lee comprensivamente textos literarios.
• Producción textual: Produce textos a partir de  imágenes o situaciones dadas.
• Producción Textual: Describe animales y objetos en forma oral y escrita.
• Ética de la comunicación: Reconoce la importancia de la conversación como proceso de comunicación.
• Otros sistemas simbólicos: Comprende que el lenguaje de los gestos y la música son sistemas de comunicación no verbal.

Cultura Colombiana I

Colombian Context I

• Locate and describe varying landforms and geographic features and explain their relationship with the ecosystem.
• Identify and describe way regional ethnic and national cultures influence individuals´ daily lives.
• Identify and describe selected periods and patterns of change within and across Colombian culture.
• Use economic concepts to help explain historical and current events in Colombia.

Cultura Colombiana II

Media 1

• Describe and analyze the role of television as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
• Describe and analyze the role of radio as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
• Describe and analyze the role of newspaper as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.

Sociales

Relaciones con la historia y la cultura

• Describo las características físicas de mi entorno inmediato.
• Identifico algunas características físicas emocionales que hacen de mí un ser único.
• Identifico y describo cambios y aspectos que se mantienen en mí y en los elementos de mi entorno.
• Reconozco la importancia de las viviendas y sus cambios.
• Me ubico en el entorno físico y de representación utilizando referentes espaciales.

Physical Education

Habilidades Físicas Básicas e Iniciación al Rugby

• Comprender y mejorar los sistemas básicos del movimiento corporal para el desarrollo de la coordinación, el equilibrio, la agilidad y el ritmo.

Music

Violin I – Twinkle Twinkle Theme in Pizzicato

• Bowings strokes on the open strings:

  Four eighth notes and two quarter notes.(Variation 1)
• Eight eighth notes (Variation 2)

Violin II – Suzuki Songs 2 and 3

• Christmas Songs
• Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns.
• Working on the correct position of the body

Choir – Learning to Sing in Good Intonation

• Preparing for Christmas Night
• Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns
• Working on the correct position, breathing and warming up.

Percussion – Learning the C Major Scale

• Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns.
• Working on the correct position of the hands.

Recorder – Learning G, A, B, C, D notes on the Recorder

• Learning the basics of breathing.
• Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns.
• Working on the correct position.

Guitar – Learning the Chords of A, D and E

• ABRSM Music theory 1
• Learning different strommings
• Learning the  C major scale and arpegio

Year Three - Term Two

Objective

Literacy

Speaking and Listening

Reading

Word Level Work

• Recognise and spell common suffixes and how these influence word meanings, e.g. –ly, –ful, –less
• Use the apostrophe to spell shortened forms of words, e.g. don’t, can’t
• Spell common prefixes  - un, de, dis, re, pre

Mathematics

Counting, partitioning and calculating

• Derive and recall multiplication facts from the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times-tables.
• Round two-digit or three-digit numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 and give estimates for their sums and differences

Handling data and measures

• Answer a question by collecting, organising and interpreting data; use tally charts, frequency tables, pictograms and bar charts to represent results and illustrate observations; use ICT to create a simple bar chart.
• Read and record the vocabulary of position, direction and movement, using the four compass directions to describe movement about a grid.

Calculating, measuring and understanding shape

• Derive and recall all addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20, sums and differences of multiples of 10 and number pairs that total 100
• Use knowledge of number operations and corresponding inverses, including doubling and halving, to estimate and check calculations.

Securing number facts, relationships and calculating

• Represent the information in a puzzle or problem using numbers, images or diagrams; use these to find a solution and present it in context, where appropriate using £.p notation or units of measure
• Partition three-digit numbers into multiples of 100, 10 and 1 in different ways

Science

Helping Plants to Grow

• Know that plants can provide food for us
• Understand that water is taken through the roots and transported through the stem
• Know that plants need healthy roots, leaves and stems to grow well
• Know that plants need light for healthy growth
• Know that plants growth is affected by temperature

Design & Technology

• Design and construct a basic party hat.
• Develop ideas through observation and simple sketching
• Appraise their own party hat making suggestions for improvements

ICT

Exploring Simulations

• Understand that computer simulations can represent real or imaginary situations.
• Understand that computer simulations allow users to try things that would be difficult or impossible to do in practice.
• Evaluate simulations.

Art

Exploring and developing ideas

• Investigate patterns and textiles from different times and cultures
• Question and make thoughtful observations about visual and tactile qualities of materials

Investigating and making art, craft and design

• Explore and make repeating patterns using different techniques
• Develop their control of tools and techniques of print making

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Say No to Bullying

• Realise the nature and consequence of racism, teasing, bullying and aggressive behavior.
• Know how to respond to bullying and ask for help.

RE: The importance of the home in Judaism. 

• Know the importance of the home and the synagogue to the Jewish community.

Spanish

Advanced - Poesía

• Estética del lenguaje: Lee comprensivamente textos poéticos, trabalenguas y retahílas.
• Producción textual: Participará en la creación de diferentes tipos de textos líricos.
• Ética de la comunicación: Reconoce la importancia de la conversación como proceso de comunicación.
• Estudio de la Lengua: Identifica y utiliza dentro de un contexto oral y escrito elementos correspondientes al estudio de la lengua.

Cultura Colombiana I

Colombian Context 2

• Describe and analyze the role of religion as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.

Cultura Colombiana II

Media 2

• Show through specific examples how mass media have changed peoples´ perceptions of their social and cultural vision.
• Seek reasonable and ethical solutions to problems that arise when the communication advances and social norms or values come into conflict.

Sociales

Relaciones Espaciales y Ambientales

• Se ubica en el entorno físico y de representación (planos) utilizando los puntos cardinales
• Valora la importancia de conservar el paisaje
• Ubica en gráficos, elementos que pertenecen a diferentes tipos de paisajes.
• Caracteriza los miembros del grupo familiar

Physical Education

Integración de Experiencias y Conceptos Básicos

• Favorecer el dominio del equilibrio dinámico, la coordinación dinámica general, la coordinación fina y la coordinación óculo-manual.
• Fomentar la integración del grupo mediante el diálogo alumno – profesor, alumno – alumno.
• Posibilitar la definición y aplicación de la dominancia lateral en la solución de tareas.
• Posibilitar experiencias que conlleven a la adquisición de conductas témporo-espaciales.

Music

Violin I – Singing and clapping rhythmic patterns.

• Twinkle with variation 1 and 2

• Bowing strokes on eighth and sixteenth notes (Variation 3)
• Singing and clapping rhythmic patterns

Violin II – ABRSM songs

• Christmas Songs
• Singing and clapping 5 beat rhythmic patterns.
• Working on the correct position of the bow

Choir – Preparing for the Christmas Concert

• Preparing for the First Communion ceremony.
• Singing and clapping 5 beat rhythmic patterns.
• Learning about the staff and clefs

Percussion –  Playing popular and Latin songs

• Preparing for the Christmas Concert
• Singing and clapping 5 beat rhythmic patterns.
• Learning about the staff and treble clef.

Recorder – Learning basic songs with 5 notes

• Singing and clapping 5 beat rhythmic patterns.
• Preparing for the Christmas Concert
• Learning D,E and F
• Learning about the staff

Guitar – Learning the basic harmonic circle I, IV, V

• ABRSM Music theory 2
• Learning the Chromatic scale
• Learning the  D major scale and arpegio

Year Three - Term Three

Objective

Literacy

Speaking and Listening

Reading

Word Level Work

• Recognise and spell common prefixes and how these influence word meanings, e.g. – mis, con, ex, co, anti
• Use the apostrophe to spell further contracted forms.
• Investigate, spell and read words with silent letters, e.g. knee, gnat, wrinkle
• Explore homonyms which have the same spelling but multiple meanings
• Recognise and spell common suffixes and how these influence word meanings, e.g. –ly, –ful, –less
• Recognise and spell compound words
• Form three of the basic joins correctly

Mathematics

Counting, partitioning and calculating

• Add or subtract mentally combinations of one-digit and two-digit numbers
• Develop and use written methods to record, support or explain addition and subtraction of two-digit and three-digit numbers

Securing number facts, understanding shapes

• Use a set-square to draw right angles and to identify right angles in 2-D shapes; compare angles with a right angle; recognise that a straight line is equivalent to two right angles
• Relate 2-D shapes and 3-D solids to drawings of them; describe, visualise, classify, draw and make the shapes

Calculating, measuring and understanding shape

• Round two-digit or three-digit numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 and give estimates for their sums and differences
• Read and write proper fractions, interpreting the denominator as the parts of a whole and the numerator as the number of parts; identify and estimate fractions of shapes; use diagrams to compare fractions and establish equivalents

Securing number facts, relationships and calculating

• Find unit fractions of numbers and quantities.
• Represent the information in a puzzle or problem using numbers, images or diagrams; use these to find a solution and present it in context, where appropriate using £.p notation or units of measure

Science

• To identify a range of common materials
• To recognise properties of materials
• To recognise that different materials are appropriate for making different objects because of their properties
• To plan, carry out & evaluate an experiment

Rocks and Soils

History

Ancient Greeks

• Locate Greece on a map and Ancient Greece on a timeline
• Describe important features of Athens and Sparta
• Explain some of the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks and why they held them

Design & Technology

• To learn how simple musical instruments work
• To plan, design, make and appraise their musical instrument
• To compose a short piece of music for four players

ICT

Introduction to Databases

• To understand the need to structure information
• To know that information can be taken from pictures and text.
• To answer simple questions by ordering records

Art

Exploring and developing ideas

• Collect visual information that helps them develop their ideas.
• Review public sculpture and discuss the role of the artist in improving the quality of an environment.

Investigating and making art, craft and design

• Explore new materials and techniques to add quality to work.
• Explore ideas for a site specific sculpture

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Citizenship

• Talk and write about their opinions and explain their views on issues that affect themselves and society.

• To be able to group rocks according to observable characteristics
• To know that there are different kinds of soils
• To use results to make comparisons, and draw and explain conclusions

Year Three - Term Four

Objective

Literacy

• To listen to the key features of - openings and endings of letters read out
• To briefly identify the main points of a text
• To describe how to locate a piece of information from an index or find a book in the library

• To compare and contrast work by the same author
• To read examples of letters written for a range of purposes
• To scan indexes quickly and accurately

• To collect new words from reading and work in other subjects
• To collect common expressions
• To be able to form all basic joins correctly, developing handwriting speed and fluency
• To use a thesaurus correctly
• To use the term: definition

• To use conjunctions consistently in writing
• To become aware of the use of commas in marking grammatical boundaries within sentences

• To write letters, notes and messages
• To summarise in writing the content of a passage or text
• To write more extended stories based on a plan of incidents to use paragraphs to organise the narrative

Mathematics

• To solve one-step and two-step problems involving numbers, money or measures

• To describe and explain methods choices and solutions to puzzles
• To know the relationship between kilograms and grams, litres and milliliters; choose and use appropriate units to estimate, measure and record measurements

• To find unit fractions of numbers and quantities

Science

• To understand that there are forces between magnets
• To make and test prediction about whether materials are magnetic or not
• To understand that magnets have a variety of uses
• To know that forces act in particular directions

• To understand that shadows are formed when objects block light from the sun
• To be able to explain that shadows are similar in shape to the objects forming them
• To understand that shadows change in length and position throughout the day
• To understand that the sun does not moves its movement is caused by the spinning of the Earth on its axis
• To use their knowledge about light and shadows to predict which materials will form a shadow and to plan how to test this.

Geography or History

• Locate Greece on a map, and ancient Greece on a timeline
• Describe important features of Athens and Sparta
• Explain some of the beliefs of the ancient Greeks and why they held them

Design & Technology

• To learn about displays and their functions
• To make and hang frames
• To produce attractive flat display panels
• To appraise their own display, making suggestions for improvements

Information Technology

• To locate and record sounds.
• To organise and re-organise sounds

Art

• To make a proposal and initial design for a personal project
• To explore qualities of known materials and select appropriate ones to develop project
• To write a 3- paragraph text explaining their work.
• To produce a final 3-D or 2-D piece based on their original idea

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

• To understand that there are different functional family units
• To be aware of different types of relationships including marriage and those between friends

Spanish

• Estética del lenguaje: lee comprensivamente textos narrativos, líricos y dramáticos.
• Estética del lenguaje: Lee comprensivamente las obras literarias asignadas.
• Producción textual: Ordenará y complementará la secuencia de viñetas que conforman una historieta. Recreará relatos y cuentos cambiando personajes y lugares para elaborar pequeños guiones teatrales.
• Otros sistemas simbólicos: Comprende que el lenguaje mímico y de danza es parte de la actuación.

• Identificar diferentes tipos de texto.
• Lectura y análisis de textos
• Buscar información para una exposición.
• Preparar una exposición.
• Presentar una exposición.

Cultura Colombiana I

• Explain the need for agreements within the different social classes for the best quality of life in all the country.
• Differentiate among various forms of cultural expressions according to the cultural regions.
• Examine strategies designed to strengthen the “common good”, which consider a range of options for Colombians citizen action.

Cultura Colombiana II

• Describe and analyze the role of photography as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
• Describe and analyze the role of architecture as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
• Identify and describe the basic features of the plastic arts in Colombia, and identify leaders from various levels and regions.
• Give examples and explain how plastic artists attempt to achieve their cultural ideals at home and abroad.

Sociales

• Identificar los componentes de un paisaje.
• Diferenciar un paisaje contaminado de otro no contaminado.
• Proponer soluciones al problema de la contaminación de sus espacios más cercanos (casa, colegio, parque).

Physical Education

• Favorecer la creatividad en los alumnos, mediante la asociación de formas de expresión corporal a melodías infantiles.
• Incrementar el control de la tensión, la relajación y la respiración en el niño mediante la ejecución de tares específicas.

Music

• Learning the G major scale
• Learning the son “Go Tell Aunt Rhody”
• Learning the song “Happy birthday”

• Learning the song “Allegro”
• Learning the song “Perpetual Motion”
• Learning C Major scale

• Rhythmic dictation
• Singing in two and three voices

• Rhythmic dictation
• Learning about the different kinds of instruments

• Rhythmic dictation
• Learning about the different kinds of instruments

• Preparing for the final exam
• ABRSM Music theory 4