1. New Curriculum Information Evening
Year 3
Thursday 15th September 2016

2. Year 3 Maths Non-Negotiables
Compare and order numbers up to 1000.
Read and write all numbers to 1000 in digits and words.
Find 10 or 100 more/less than a given number.
Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 & 100.
Recall and use multiplication & division facts for 3, 4, 8 tables.
Recognise place value of any 3-digit number.
Add and subtract:
3-digit numbers and ones
3-digit numbers and tens
3-digit numbers and hundreds
Numbers with up to 3-digits using efficient written method (column).
Use inverse to check.
Multiply:
2-digit by 1-digit
Count up/down in tenths.
Compare and order fractions with same denominator.
Addition and subtraction of fractions with same denominator with whole.
Know pairs of fractions that total 1.
Tell time using 12 and 24 hour clocks; and using roman numerals.
Tell time to nearest minute.
Know number of days in each month.

3. Year 3 Objectives: Number
NUMBER AND PLACE VALUE
Objective 1: Read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and words
Read and write all numbers to 100
Read and write all numbers in 100s from 100 to 1000
Read and write all numbers in 50s from 50 to 1000
Read and write all numbers in 10s from 10 to 1000
Read and write all numbers to the value of 1000
Objective 2: Recognise place value of each digit in a 3-digit number (hundreds, tens, ones)
Know and use terms: units, tens and hundreds correctly
Partition any number up to 999 showing the value of each digit
NUMBER AND PLACE VALUE
Objective 3: Compare and order numbers up to 1000
Know which of two 3-digit numbers is the greater and smaller
Order a set of 3-digit numbers from smallest to largest
Order a set of 3-digit numbers from largest to smallest
Objective 4: Count in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 from 0
Count on and back in 10s from 0 to 1000
Count on and back in 100s from 0 to 1000
Count on and back in 50s from 0 to 1000
Count on and back in 4s from 0 to 1000
Count on and back in 8s from 0 to 1000
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4. Year 3 Objectives : Number 6
MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION
Objective 13: Know all table calculations for 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10
Recite all multiplication facts for the x2 table
Recite all multiplication facts for the x5 table
Recite all multiplication facts for the x10 table
Recite all multiplication facts for the x3 table
Recite all multiplication facts for the x4 table
Recite all multiplication facts for the x8 table
Recall all number facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10x table out of sequence
Know the inverse of all table facts involving 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10x table, eg. how many 4s in 24?
Know the inverse of all table facts involving 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10x table, eg. What is 48÷8?
Objective 14: Solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects
MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION
Objective 15: Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for 2-digit times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods
Multiply a 10s number by a single-digit number mentally, using 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10x
Multiply a 2-digit number by a single-digit number using 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10x
Divide 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 into any 10s number (no remainder)
Divide 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 into any 2-digit number (no remainder)
Objective 16: Solve word problems involving 4 operations, including missing number problems
Solve word problems involving addition with numbers up to 1000
Solve word problems involving subtraction with numbers up to 1000
Solve word problems involving multiplication with numbers up to 100
Solve word problems involving division with numbers up to 100
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5. Year 3 Objectives : Number 7
FRACTIONS
Objective 17: Count up and down in tenths
Count up in tenths
Count down in tenths
Know that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts
Objective 18: Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators
Objective 19: Recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators
Know what fractional values are: eg. ¼ is one part of four, etc.
Name all fractions from ½ to 1/12
Find ½,¼,⅕ of a given 2-digit number
FRACTIONS
Objective 20: Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators
Know that ½ is the same as 2/4, etc.
Be able to show 1/3 of a square and 2/6 of a
square
Objective 21: Add and subtract fractions with same denominator within one whole
Add 2 fractions with the same denominator that add up to no more than 1 whole, eg. 5/7 + 1/7 = 6/7
Subtract one fraction from another of the same denominator, eg. ⅘ – 2/5 = 2/5
Objective 22: Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators
Order any fraction between ½ to 1/12
Order fraction where the denominator is the same (between ½ to 1/12th)
Objective 23: Solve problems that involve all of the above

6. How you can help!
Improve your child’s recall of the non-negotiables by practising regularly
Improve your child's recall of multiplication and corresponding division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 times tables by practising regularly (use a variety of different approaches as every child learns in different ways e.g. models or images)
Support your child with their homework

7. Year 3 Unit Overview Autumn 1
UG Raymond Briggs
HOOK: Using the film The Croods/Stig of the Dump to stimulate ideas and understanding about how life was different during the Stone Age. .
Capturing Ideas:
Use literacy shed for clip as a stimulus.
Role play
Hot seat the main character Ug or Ug’s parents.
Debate of characters from the book using P4C style discussion.
Freeze frames
Comparing characters
Interviewing characters
Edit and improve an extract from the text.
Re-write from a different point of view.
Conscience alley.
Design a blurb and front cover.
Act out Dug and Dug’s telling a neighbour about their child Ug.
Act out Ug telling his friend Ag about how frustrating his parents are.
Guided Reading Possibilities:
Whole class reader (30 books)
Guided reading exploring an extract from the text (chapter)
Follow up activities to be taken from capturing ideas- related to what has been read.
Use literacy shed for clip as a stimulus.
Responding to the Text:
Researching the author
Read the description of Ug without showing pictures children visualise and sketch.
Study use of language to develop characters.
How does the author use punctuation to build tension?
Making predictions throughout the story of possible endings.
Compare Ug’s lifestyle/homelife to their own.
Contextualised Grammar Teaching:
Formation of nouns using prefixes such as super-, anti-, auto-
Use a or an correctly.
Use conjunctions (e.g. when, before, after, whie, because, so)
Use adverbs (e.g. then, next, sooon, therefore)
Use prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because, of)
Paragraphs.
Headings//sub headings.
Inverted commas for speech.
Sentence Games (use throughout unit):
Build noun phrases about the setting/characters
Identifying main and subordinate clauses in real text and comma splicing.
Sentence types: Comma Boys, similes, 3ed, noun phrases and 2a. (consolidate learning from year 2).
Sentence starters, adverbial, ing, ed.
Possible Written Outcomes or Incidental Writing Opportunities:
Character study of a main character
Dictionary for Ug’s Mum and Dad of useful words.
Setting description
Letter to Ug telling him about clothes today.
Comic strip of nowadays.
Instructions – How to join a pair of trousers.
Explanation text – How to catch a stone age animal.
Poetry – Calligrams – Ug’s words or Stone Age things. E.g terrific, nice, soft.

8. Year 3 Objectives: Writing
TRANSCRIPTION
Know how to spell
Words with additional prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them to root words. For example – form nouns using super, anti, auto.
Recognise and spell additional homophones. For example – he’ll, heel, heal.
Use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary.
Word families based on common words. For example – solve, solution, solver.
Spell identified commonly misspelt words from Year 3 and 4 word list.
Handwriting
Practise and develop fluency of joined script
Use the diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters.
Understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined.
Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting:
downstrokes of letters are parallel and equidistant
lines of writing are spaced sufficiently so that the ascenders and descenders of letters do not touch
Apply spelling rules and strategies
Identify the root in longer words.
Use syllables to divide words.
Make analogies from a word already known to apply to an unfamiliar word.
Write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words and punctuation taught so far.

9. Year 3 Objectives: Writing
COMPOSITION
Plan writing.
Look at and discuss models of writing of the text type, purpose and audience to be written, noting
Structure
Grammatical features
Use of vocabulary
Discuss and record ideas for writing.
Use an appropriate planning format for the text type.
Annotate plan with key language and vocabulary.
Draft and write
Compose sentences using a wider range of structures linked to the grammar objectives.
Make careful choices about vocabulary used.
Orally rehearse structured sentences or sequences of sentences.
Group related material together to form simple paragraphs.
Write a narrative with a clear structure, setting, characters and plot.
Write a non-narrative using simple organisational devices such as headings and sub-headings.
Evaluate and edit
Self-assess the effectiveness of writing.
Assess writing with peers.
Suggest improvements to writing.
Make improvements by proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, e.g. the accurate use of pronouns in sentences.
Proof-read to check for errors in spelling and punctuation errors.
Read writing to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear.

10. Year 3 Objectives: Grammar

11. Year 3 Non Tolerance Spelling

12. Year 3 Objectives: Reading
COMPREHENSION
Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding.
Experience and discuss a range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks.
Begin to understand that narrative books are structured in different ways. For example, quest stories and stories with dilemmas.
Know that non-fiction books are structured in different ways and be able to use them effectively.
Choose books for specific purposes.
Use dictionaries to check the meaning of unfamiliar words .
Discuss and record words and phrases that writers use to engage and impact on the reader.
Know a wider range of stories, including fairy stories and legends .
Orally re-tell some of the above stories.
Know and recognise some of the literary conventions in text types covered.
Prepare poems to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action.
Begin to recognise some different forms of poetry – list poems, shape poems, free verse etc
Understand what they read in books they can read independently
Check the text is meaningful.
Discuss responses to text.
Explain the meaning of words in context.
Ask questions to improve understanding of a text.
Draw inferences such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions.
Predict what might happen from details stated.
Identify main idea of a text.
Identify how structure, and presentation contribute to the meaning of texts.
Retrieve and record information from non-fiction.
Discuss books, poems and other works that are read aloud and independently, taking turns and listening to others’ opinions.
Explain and discuss understanding of books, poems and other material, both those read aloud and those read independently.

13. How you can help!
Help to ensure your child develops a love for reading by giving them opportunities to read to you and you read to them
Visit a library and read a variety of texts
Question your child about what they have read to elicit their understanding
Support your child to learn their spellings by identifying and recalling patterns in the words
Give your child lots of opportunities to talk and present their ideas and opinions

14. Curriculum Overview