Here is an overview of what the children will be learning this year.
Curriculum Overview 2023-24 Year 3
Please send an email to admin@gaytonj.derby.sch.uk if you require any further information or click here to view the Primary National Curriculum.
National Curriculum Expectations for Reading, Writing and Maths can be found here. Links to other curriculum subjects can be found at the bottom of the page.
Reading
* Listen to and discuss a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, and non-fiction books.
* Use dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read.
* Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination.
* Check that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding of words in context.
* Ask questions to improve their understanding of a text.
* Make inferences about characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, using evidence from the text.
* Predict what might happen from details stated and implied.
* Identify the main ideas from more than one paragraph and summarise these.
* Retrieve and record information from non-fiction texts.
Year 3 children who require additional support with phonics following infant school also take part in Read, Write, Inc as part of their daily Literacy lessons.
Writing
¨ Organise paragraphs around a theme.
¨ In stories, create settings, characters and plot.
¨ Use conjunctions, adverbs & prepositions to inform the reader of shifts in time & explaining why things happen: conjunctions: because, so, if; adverbs: carefully, finally, lately; prepositions: behind, above, in.
¨ Use inverted commas (speech marks) to punctuate direct speech.
¨ Use pronouns in sentences.
¨ Place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words.
¨ Write from memory simple sentences, dictated by the teacher, that include words and punctuation taught so far.
¨ Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting.
Maths—Number only
* Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100.
* Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number.
* Recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number (hundreds, tens, ones).
* Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numbers and in words.
* Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and ones; a three-digit number and tens and a three-digit number and hundreds.
* Add & subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods.
* Recall & use x and ÷ facts for the 3, 4 and 8 tables.
* Recognise, find and write fractions of a set of objects.
* Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators.
* Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole [ e.g. 5/7 + 1/7 = 6/7].
* Solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above.
