1. Topic Adventure English. Year 3 Objectives: Use some drama strategies to explore stories or issues. Infer characters’ feelings in fiction and consequences in logical explanations. Identify features that writers use to provoke readers’ reactions. Use beginning, middle and end to write narratives in which events are sequenced logically. Dramatic Conventions: Explore and create stories related to Adventure. Create and perform adventure stories. Interview with characters from stories. Story Writing: Look at different stories of adventures before trip. Compare and Contrast. Read and run through the unit ‘The Magical Adventures of Grandfather’s Book.’ Children write their own version of this story with sequence of events in paragraphs for the opening, problem, resolution, ending. Write portraits of characters: use story text to describe behaviour and characteristics, and presenting portraits in a variety of ways, e.g. as posters, labelled diagrams, letters to friends about them. Art Year 3 Objectives: To develop exploratory inventive thought and action. To develop visual and tactile sensitivity. To form and be aware of space in the environment. To develop understanding of different forms of art. Children look at different buildings and compare them in Northamptonshire and sketch them. Build a Tower cross curricular with DT. Maths Counting, partitioning and Calculating. Year 3 objectives: Describe and explain methods, choices and solutions to adventure puzzles and problems, orally and in writing, using pictures and diagrams. Read, write and order whole numbers to at least 1000. Partition three digit numbers into multiples of 100, 10 and 1 in different ways.Add or subtract mentally combinations of one digit and two digit number. Use images of Dragons, and Max from the story. Geography Adventure stories, information books, instructions, maps. Year 3 Objectives: Children will be looking at how features are shown on a map, and being able to use the grid references to find places on a map (cross- curricular with maths). Children will be looking at the local area of Northampton, and specifically at Abington Park and comparing current maps to those from the early 1900s. On the school trip children will be using a map to navigate their way around, putting all their map reading skills into practice. Then, children will be creating their own maps of how to find their way around school using an IPad App (cross curricular ICT). PE Dance: Creation myth, Traditional dance and Forces. Year 3 objectives: To be able to create an adventure story dance. To practice and perm a dance. Use Mr Instrumentalist ‘Epic Adventure’ music. Children work in groups and combine movements to create an adventure story dance. History. Year 3 objectives: Children look at History of Northampton in the 1600’s. They can compare and contrast travel,jobs and law to modern day. Read the story ‘Witch Child’ by Cecilia Ahern and discuss opinions about this. Children can research about punishment, including witch trials on relevant websites. Children find past information from the church at Abington Park and share ideas on what they think the history of the tower maybe. Research findings from the visit to Abington. Children learn about the water tower and its relevance and compare it too their estimated history. Music Year 3 objectives: Music Express - Rhythmic patterns, repeating patterns, identify and perform rhythmic patterns, use percussion instruments. consider the intended effect about expressive use of elements about presentation, how to present a class performance. Cross curricular links PSHE - social and team working skills (pair and group working). Explore musical composition. Children use percussion and voice to create their own adventure sound track.