GRADE 3

Subjects:

MATHEMATICS
SCIENCE
  

 

Books
  • Bright Star 3 Pupil’s Book
  • Bright Star 3 Activity Book
  • Spelling for Literacy
  • Novel – Matilda
  • Individual reading books
  • Oxford Junior Dictionary
  • Variety of additional teacher resources as aids for homework (sheets provided every week to learners) and differentiation
Content
First Term
  • Develop and expand vocabulary involved in hobbies, computers, alphabet and objects, numbers, faces, senses, times and texture adjectives clothes, patterns and weather.
  • Recognise, identify and use the verb to be in all tenses.
  • Design and write a personal e-mail .
  • Recognise and use correctly the modal verbs can and must.
  • Use conjunctions to join sentences.
  • Create a riddle.
  • Read a series of different texts and answer questions.
  • Understand, use and differentiate the present simple and present continuous tenses.
  • Use language of sequencing to improve writing style. (first, then, next, after, that, finally.)
  • Understand and use correctly adverbs of frequency with present simple verbs.
  • Differentiate and use correctly the quantifiers some and any.
  • Practice and improve on verb-subject agreement in sentences.
  • Write a recipe in order.
  • Identify and use correctly comparative adjectives including superlatives.
  • Devise and write a simple poem.
  • Choose and use correctly appropriate adjectives relating to size, shape, colour, number etc.
  • Understand and use correctly the simple past tense of regular verbs.
  • Use appropriately the possessive apostrophe.
  • Recognise and use correctly the possessive pronouns.
  • Complete a story from a given beginning.
  • Write a descriptive passage.
  • Identify and conjugate irregular verbs in the simple past tense.
  • Write a description of a period of time.
  • Learn and reproduce spellings appropriate to grade 3.
Second Term
  • Revise and extend adjectives for describing people, animals and things.
  • Develop the concept of and identify opposites.
  • Practice and improve the pronunciation and spelling of words ending in er.
  • Continue to develop and improve reading and listening skills.
  • Understand and use correctly will+ verb to make predictions about the future.
  • Practice and understand the use of the present continuous.
  • Recognise and spell words with suffixes.
  • Write a story with a familiar setting.
  • Read a variety of texts and answer questions of understanding and inference.
  • Create a diagram or map from a descriptive passage.
  • Write a postcard from holiday.
  • Recognise and use speech marks to denote direct speech.
  • Create a simple play script from a familiar story.
  • Use a diagram or table to make notes on information gathered in a text.
  • Write an informative piece using a writing frame.
  • Identify and recognise synonyms.
  • Use the writing hand method to create your own fable or sequel to a story.
  • Design and create a poster.
  • Design and create a flowchart.
  • Identify and use correctly, verbs of command and instruction.
  • Read, understand and create your own shape poems.
  • Recognise compound words and identify their components.
  • Write a book review.
  • Read and compare letters both formal and informal, and other forms of written communication.
  • Change a sentence from first to third person.
  • Use a dictionary correctly to identify unknown words and their meanings.

Assessment

During the term the students will have regular assessments and weekly spelling and dictation tests.At the end of each term there are more formal exams.

  • Classwork, tests and quizzes: 60%
  • Exams 40%

to topÈ

 

Books
  • Collins New Primary Maths – Pupil Book 3A
  • Collins New Primary Maths – Pupil Book 3B
  • Collins New Primary Maths – Pupil Book 3C
  • Variety of additional teacher resources as aids for class work, homework and differentiation
Content
First Term
  • Describe and explain methods, choices and solutions to puzzles and problems, orally and in writing, using pictures and diagrams.
  • Read write and order whole numbers to at 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 in 1 in different ways.
  • 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.
  • Add or subtract mentally combinations of one-digit and two-digit numbers.
  • Follow a line of enquiry by deciding what information is important; make use of lists, tables and graphs to organise and interpret the information.
  • Know the relationships between kilometres and metres, metres and centimeters, kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres; 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 degree of accuracy.
  • 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.
  • Use Venn diagrams or Carroll diagrams to sort data and objects using more than one criterion.
  • Solve one-step and two-step problems involving numbers, money or measures, including time, choosing and carrying out appropriate calculations.
  • Find unit fractions of numbers and quantities.
  • Read and record the vocabulary of position, direction and movement, using the four compass directions to describe movement about a grid.
  • Read the time on a 12-hour digital clock and to the nearest 5 minutes on an analogue clock; calculate time intervals and find start or end times for a given time interval.
  • 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 units of measure.
  • Identify patterns and relationships involving numbers or shapes, and use these to solve problems.
  • Derive and recall multiplication facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 times tables and the corresponding division facts; recognize multiples of 2, 5 or 10 up to 1000.
  • Use knowledge of number operations and corresponding inverses, including doubling and halving, to estimate and check calculations.
  • Relate 2-D shapes and 3-D solids to drawing them; describe, visualize, classify, draw and make the shapes.
  • Use practical and informal written methods to multiply and divide two-digit numbers; round remainders up or down, depending on the context.
  • Learn 2x, 5x and 10x.
Second Term
  • Describe and explain methods, choices and solutions to puzzles and problems, orally and in writing, using pictures and diagrams.
  • Partition three-digit numbers into multiples of 100, 10 and 1 in different ways.
  • Round two-digit or three-digit numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 and give estimates for their sums and differences.
  • 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.
  • Derive and recall multiplication facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 times tables and the corresponding division facts; recognize multiples of 2, 5 or 10 up to 1000.
  • Add or subtract mentally combinations of one-digit and two-digit numbers.
  • Multiply one-digit and two-digit numbers by 10 or 100, and describe the effect.
  • Follow a line of enquiry by deciding what information is important; make use of lists, tables and graphs to organise and interpret the information.
  • Know the relationships between kilometres and metres, metres and centimeters, kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres; 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 degree of accuracy.
  • Read the time on a 12-hour digital clock and to the nearest 5 minutes on an analogue clock; calculate time intervals and find start or end times for a given time interval.
  • 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.
  • Use Venn diagrams or Carroll diagrams to sort data and objects using more than one criterion.
  • 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 units of measure.
  • Develop and use written methods to record, support and explain addition and subtraction of two-digit and three-digit numbers.
  • Use practical and informal written methods to multiply and divide two-digit numbers; round remainders up or down, depending on the context.
  • Find unit fractions of numbers and quantities.
  • Draw and complete shapes with reflective symmetry; draw the reflection of a shape in the mirror line along one side.
  • Read and record the vocabulary of position, direction and movement, using the four compass directions to describe movement about a grid.
  • 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.
  • Solve one-step and two-step problems involving numbers, money or measures, including time, choosing and carrying out appropriate calculations.
  • Identify patterns and relationships involving numbers or shapes, and use these to solve problems.
  • Read and write proper fractions, interpreting the denominator as the part 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.
  • Relate 2-D shapes and 3-D solids to drawing them; describe, visualize, classify, draw and make the shapes.
  • Understand that division is the inverse of multiplication and vice versa; use this to derive and record related multiplication and division number sentences.

Assessment

1 st Term

2 nd Term

 

Examination

40%

40%

 

Assessments

20%

20%

 

Mental Maths

20%

20%

 

Class work

20%

20%

 

Total

100%

100%

to topÈ

 

Books
  • Let’s Learn Science: Textbook
  • Let’s Learn Science: Workbook
  • Variety of additional teacher resources as aids for class work, homework and differentiation.
Content
First Term
  • State that plants need light to grow healthily.
  • State that plants need water to grow healthily.
  • Place animals into different groups – birds, fish amphibians, reptiles and mammals.
  • State some common characteristics in each group of animals.
  • Identify animals that feed on plants.
  • Identify animals that feed on other animals.
  • Construct food chains of at least three links.
  • Explain the terms ‘food producer’ and ‘food consumer’.
  • Describe ways to protect the eyes.
  • Perform simple tests to determine the status of their eyesight.
Second Term
  • Demonstrate a technique for soil analysis.
  • Describe the various components of a soil sample.
  • Separate a soil sample into different components.
  • Describe the various components of a soil sample.
  • Compare soil samples from different locations.
  • Compare the time taken by water to soak into various soil.
  • Compare living organisms found in man-made ponds to those found in natural ponds.
  • Determine the affects of adverse weather conditions on aquatic habitats.
  • Describe the use of solar energy in daily lives.
  • Predict the effect on our lives if the Sun did not exist.
  • Name some objects that are combustible and incombustible.
  • Know some precautions that may be taken when using fire or preventing a fire.
  • Explain how forces affect the stability of a structure.
  • Describe how forces affect the shape and strength of a structure.

Assessment

1 st Term

2 nd Term

 

Examination

40%

40%

 

Tests & Quizzes

30%

30%

 

Class work & Projects

30%

30%

 

Total

100%

100%

to topÈ

Assessment

Teachers will continually assess the students' progress throughout the year, but there are no formal exams in Science.

to topÈ

 

Books
  • Topic Activity Book
  • World Watch
  • Oxford First Atlas
  • Variety of additional teacher resources as aids for class work, homework and differentiation.
Content: GEOGRAPHY
First Term
  • Climates:
    • Hot Desert: Characteristics, climate, where some of the deserts are located and its animal and plant life.
    • Cold Desert: North and South Pole, characteristics, location and its animal and plant life.
    • Rainforest: Location, climate and plant life.
  • Seasons:
    • Characteristics of the different seasons
    • Cause of seasons to change, their effects on people, plants and creatures.
    • Cause of day and night.
    • Clothing for different seasons.
    • Activities.
  • Continents:
    • Names of continents.
    • Countries on different continents.
    • Study countries from different continents; their capital, currency, language, tourist attractions, resources and neighbouring countries.
Second Term
  • Water:
    • Vocabulary: evaporation, condensation, etc.
    • Where water is found – fresh and salt.
    • Water pollution – causes and prevention.
    • Conservation of water and its use as a resource.
    • Water cycle and how it affects our water supply.
  • Ways of traveling:
    • Methods of transport; ancient and current.
    • Characteristics of different methods of transport.
    • Traffic problems and possible solutions.
    • Advantages and disadvantages of different forms of transport.
Content: HISTORY
First Term
  • The Romans:
    • Houses.
    • Lifestyle.
    • Food and clothing.
    • Roads and transport.
    • Heritage.
Second Term
  • Explorers:
    • Marco Polo
    • Ibn Battuta

Assessment

The students are assessed continuously during the year with quizzes and tests.At the end of each term a more formal assessment takes place.

  • Classwork and assessment 60%
  • Exams 40%

to topÈ
 
 
 
© Wesgreen International School. All rights reserved.