Y3 Summer Term Connected Curriculum Overviews

  Year 3 - Summer 1  
     

Topic Question

Core Text

Visits/Visitors

Can I grow lettuce on a mountain summit?

Manchester Food Bank representatives

Driver and Enhancer

Experience

(linked to Global Citizenship skills)

Geography and DT

Making a sandwich to sell to raise money for Manchester food banks

Key Learning

Geography

Key Learning

DT

Golden Question

(linked to British Values and SMSC)

  • Mountain ranges of the UK
  • What is a typical mountain biome?
  • Nutrition: Developing a nutritional snack for a different diet

Should we give food to food banks?

Key Vocabulary

climate zone, vegetation belt, characteristic, biome, 4-figure grid references, vegetarian, vegan, halal, kosher, pescatarian

How to Help at Home

Talk to your child about how to stay healthy; balanced diet, exercise, sleep, talk

     

 

  Year 3 - Summer 2  
     

Topic Question

Core Text

Visits/Visitors

What can we see in Blackpool?

 

                                 

Blackpool

Driver and Enhancer

Experience

(linked to Global Citizenship skills)

Geography, DT and Art

Using made torches, create a light show

Key Learning

Geography

Key Learning

DT & Art

Golden Question

(linked to British Values and SMSC)

  • Coastal Study in the UK: Blackpool
  • Electrical Systems: Designing a Torch
  • Artist focus: LS Lowry – ‘At the Seaside’ painting

If you had a picnic in Blackpool, why shouldn’t you leave your rubbish on the beach?

Key Vocabulary

authority, council, government, borough, district, administration, north west, area, population, tourism, coastline, shore, erosion, beach

How to Help at Home

Visit the Lowry Art gallery in Salford Quays

     

 

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