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Year Three/Four

On this page you will be able to find the overview for our Year 3/4 classes. The overviews shows what will be taught in each subject over the course of the school year. For more information about any of these subjects, go to the curriculum by subject section of the website.  There you will find further details of the subject specific curriculum: 

  • the rationale 
  • the overview for the whole school
  • progression of skills

 

If you would like to know any more details about the curriculum being taught, contact either your child's class teacher or the subject lead through the school office. Details are under the contact us page.

Whole year group overview Years 3 and 4

Locking Primary School Curriculum Overview- Year 3/4, Cohort 21-22

 

Term 1

 

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

English

Text: ‘Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs’ Marcia Williams

‘Egyptian Gods and Pharaohs’ Robert Swindells

Genre: myths

Written Outcome: non-chronological report

Additional Writing Opportunities:

 

 

Term 2

Text: ‘Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx’ Joe Todd Stanton

Genre: graphic novel

Written Outcome: narrative (voyage and return)

Additional Writing Opportunities: biography (recount); diary (recount); conversation

 

Text: ‘Mark of the Cyclops’ Saviour Pirotta

‘The Odyssey’ David Walser, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski (includes the story of the Cyclops)

Genre: historical mystery novel

Written Outcome: narrative (quest)

Additional Writing Opportunities: letter writing (recount), diary entry (recount), persuasion, play script scene

 

Text: ‘Until I met Dudley’ Roger McGough, illustrated by Chris Riddell

Genre: explanation (fantasy and reality)

Written Outcome: explanation of a scientific process

Additional Writing Opportunities: fantasy explanation

Text: ‘Song of the Dolphin Boy’ Elizabeth Laird

Legends about selkies

Genre: novel

Written Outcome:  narrative (7S)

Additional Writing Opportunities: xxx

 

Text: ‘Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle’ Susan Jeffers

Genre: poetry (speech)

Written Outcome:  persuasion; performance poetry

Additional Writing Opportunities: research

 

Maths – Y3 objectives

Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find 10 more or less than a given number

Identify and estimate numbers using different representations

Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and in words

Recognise the place value of each digit in a three digit number (hundreds, tens, ones)

Compare and order numbers to a thousand

Solve number problems and practical problems involving these ideas

Estimate the answer to a calculation and use the inverse operation to check answers

Add and subtract numbers mentally, including:

  • A three-digit number and ones
  • A three-digit number and tens
  • A three-digit number and hundreds
  • Add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction

Solve problems, including number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction

Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find 10 more or less than a given number

Estimate the answer to a calculation and use the inverse operation to check answers

Add and subtract numbers mentally, including:

  • A three-digit number and ones
  • A three-digit number and tens
  • A three-digit number and hundreds
  • Add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction

Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why

Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to written formal methods

Recall and use multiplication and division facts for 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables

Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods

 Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to written formal methods

Recall and use multiplication and division facts for 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables

Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods

Count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into ten equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10

Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators

Recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators

Recognise and show using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators

Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators

Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole (for example, five sevenths add one seventh =six sevenths)

Solve problems that involve all of the above

Measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml)

Measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes

 

Count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into ten equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10

Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators

Recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators

Recognise and show using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators

Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators

Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole (for example, five sevenths add one seventh =six sevenths)

Solve problems that involve all of the above

 

Measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml)

 

Add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts

Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks

Estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hour; use vocabulary such as o’clock, a.m/p.m., morning, afternoon, noon and midnight

Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year

Compare durations of events (for example to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks)

Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables

Solve one-step and  two-step questions (for example, “How many more?” and “How many fewer?”) using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictogram tables

Draw 2-D shapes

Make 3-D shapes using modelling materials; recognise 3-D shapes in different orientations and describe them

Recognise angles as a property of shape or a description of a turn

Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half turn, three make a three quarters of a turn: identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle

Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines

Maths – Y4 objectives

Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000

Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers

Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations

Read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value

Find 1000 more or less than a given number

Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens and ones)

Order and compare numbers beyond 1000

Round any number to the nearest 10, 100, or 1000

Solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly large positive numbers

Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation

Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate

 Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000

Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers

 

Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation

Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate

 

Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout

 

Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12x12

 

Use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers

Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations

Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout

 Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout

 

Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12x12

 

Use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers

Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations

Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout

Count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten

Solve simple measures and money problems involving fractions and decimals to tow decimal places

Find the effect of dividing a one-digit or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths

Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator

Solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-fractions where the answer is a whole number

Convert between different units of measure (for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute)

Estimate, compare and calculate different measures

Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres

Find the area of a rectilinear shapes by counting squares

Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths

Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths

Recognise and write decimal equivalents to quarter, half, three quarters

Round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number

Compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places

Convert between different units of measure (for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute)

Estimate, compare and calculate different measures

Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence

Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24 hour clocks

Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes: minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days

Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs

Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information represented in a bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs

Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes

Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations

Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size

Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations

Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry

Describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant

Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down

Plot specific points and draw sides to complete a given polygon

Science

States of matter

Electricity

 

Plants

 

Animals including humans

Living things and their habitats

History

 

 

Romans

 

The Greeks

Geography

Extreme Weather

Extreme Earth- Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Romans

Marvellous Mountains

 

Religions Education

Unit 3: What do Hindu people believe about Dharma, Deity and Atman?

Unit 4: What do Christians believe about Salvation? (Links with Easter)

Unit 6: What do Christians believe about Agape?

Design and Technology

Biscuits

 

Light it up (as it links with the science unit)

 

Storybook

 

 

Art and design

 

Character galleries OR  What’s in the egg? Painting and printing (We’re waiting for the new art SOWs to be released)

 

Character galleries OR  What’s in the egg? Painting and printing (We’re waiting for the new art SOWs to be released)

 

Make me a character

Music

Mamma Mia

Glockenspiel 2

Stop!

 

Lean on me

Blackbird

Reflect, Rewind and Replay

Physical Education

Skills

Personal Skills

Social Skills

Cognitive and Creative Skills

Cognitive and creative skills

Health and Fitness

Physical Skills

PSHE

Being in my world

Celebrating difference

Dreams and Goals

Healthy me

Relationships

Changing me

Computing

The internet

Audio editing

Photo editing

Data logging

Repetition in shapes

Repetition in games

Spanish

Greetings

Numbers

Classroom instructions

Ask for and give name

Colours

Colours and verbs

Names of fruit

Food items

Days of the week

Months of the year

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