Download Y3 Modern Europe MTP - Sandylands Primary School

Key Focus (subject)
Theme
Experiences/visits/visitors
Big Picture – what will we see at the end of the theme
Geography
Modern Europe
More Music
Chn will create a fact file of key countries in Modern Europe
T.S.
Strands
Geography – Communicate Information
Competency
Communicate geographical
information in a variety of ways,
including through maps, numerical
and quantitative skills, writing at
length and use of digital media
Use and select primary and
secondary sources of information
and evidence, suggest conclusions
and present findings in a variety of
ways
Threads
• Use maps to identify Italian mountain ranges
• Create a winter ‘sports map’ of Norway linking
climate and landscape to sports
• Create a 3D map of a given German geographical
football region that includes one a major river,
forest and/or mountain range
English and MFL
TS
Strands
English –
Writing
Composition
• Research a given capital city
MFL (French)
Speak
Geographical skills and fieldwork
Use maps, atlases, globes and
digital/computer mapping to locate
countries and describe features
studied
• Research locations in Modern Europe
• Investigate the key European rivers and
mountains
Human and physical geography
Physical geography, including:
climate zones, biomes and
vegetation belts, rivers, mountains,
volcanoes and earthquakes, and the
water cycle
• Select physical and human geography
descriptions for some of the Vuelta cycling stages
• Research the weather in a country from each of
Europe’s climate zones
Human geography, including: types
of settlement and land use, economic
activity including trade links, and the
distribution of natural resources
including energy, food, minerals and
water
• Investigate the natural resources and famous
exports of countries in Europe
• Investigate and identify the human and physical
geography of a given German football town/region
Place Knowledge
Understand geographical similarities
and differences through the study of
human and physical geography of a
region of the United Kingdom, a
region in a European country, and a
region within North or South America
• Compare a given German town to Morecambe
Local, National, Global Knowledge
Locate the world’s countries, using
maps to focus on Europe (including
the location of Russia) and North and
South America, concentrating on
their environmental regions, key
physical and human characteristics,
countries, and major cities
• Contribute to a class display of a map of Europe
Competency
Threads
Discussing writing
similar to that which
they are planning to
write in order to
understand and
learn from its
structure,
vocabulary and
grammar
Create a ‘Mountain
Tours of Italy’ tourist
brochure
Speak in sentences,
using familiar
vocabulary, phrases
and basic language
structures
Know how to greet
one another and ask
how are you?
Create narrative art
stories
T.S.
Strands
DT – Cooking
& Nutrition
Science and DT
Competency
T.S
Threads
Prepare and cook a
variety of
predominantly
savoury dishes using
a range of cooking
techniques
Research, plan and
cook a French menu
Art, Music, Drama
Competency
Strands
Art –
Appreciate and
Communicate
About great artists,
architects and
designers in history
P.E.
Threads
Explore a range of
works by French
artists depicting a
variety of French
landscapes
Explore the 19th
Century paintings of
Cézanne’s local area
Develop
technique
Music Appreciate
History, Geography, R.E.
TS
Strands
Competency
To improve their
mastery of art and
design techniques,
including drawing,
painting and
sculpture with a
range of materials
Study techniques
used by Picasso
Appreciate and
understand a wide
range of high-quality
live and recorded
music drawn from
different traditions
and from great
composers and
musicians
Explore and create
traditional music from
European countries
Maths
Threads
TS
Strands
Competency
Competency
Threads
PE –
Competitive &
Cooperative
Strands
Play competitive
games, modified
where appropriate,
and apply basic
principles suitable for
attacking and
defending.
Play a five-a-side
football match
representing a specific
German football team
Agility, Balance
& Co-ordination
Develop flexibility,
strength, technique,
control and balance.
Play a ‘rivers, forests
and mountains’ game
to identify and
understand the ways
these physical features
are used
TS
Take part in a ‘training
camp’ for Norwegian
winter sports
BLP and Values
Threads
Strand
Thread
Understanding
Apply value
when
working in
small groups
Resilience
Managing
Distractions
Resourcefulnes
s
Capitalising
Reflectiveness
Revising
Reciprocity
Collaboration
Computing
T.S.
Strands
Competency
Threads
Computing –
Create
Select, use and
combine a
variety of
software
(including
internet services)
on a range of
digital devices to
design and
create a range of
programs,
systems and
content that
accomplish
given goals,
including
collecting,
analysing,
evaluating and
presenting data
and information
Create travel
brochures using
mixed media