Year 3
Autumn 1 - Vanishing rainforests
In Vanishing Rainforests, we will be learning about how diverse, wonderful and unique our rainforests are as well as what we need to do to ensure their survival. Did you know that rainforests once covered 14% of our world’s surface? Now sadly they cover between 3-4% of the world. Why are they vanishing? During the unit, you will need to be geographers, scientists including being botanists who explore the plant world to find out the answers to critical real-life problems. If we don’t act soon it could be too late!



Autumn 2 - Living Together
We all belong to different communities - groups of people that come together for different reasons such as sports, interest groups, learning groups etc. We will be thinking and learning more about how our own communities are made up and sharing how we contribute towards our communities and how we can support and work with others to become valuable contributors to the communities we are a part of. We will be learning how important it is to respect each others’ different communities.


Spring - Island life
Geographers and explorers estimate that there are over one million islands on earth! In this unit, we will be learning about the islands of the world, how they are formed, what life is like on some islands, as well as some of the threats to people’s lives and their unique cultures. We will explore how islands range hugely in shape, size, location and climate but that they are all surrounded by water. We will need to be geographers and cartographers as well as artists and musicians. As almost one in ten people on earth live on an island, let’s explore what some islands are like across the globe! Can you imagine what life would be like to live on a small island?





Summer 1 - Inventions that changed the world
We will be learning about inventions and how they can transform our lives. We will need to be historians and scientists in order to study inventions from the past that have changed our world. Can you think of ways we could use our knowledge to think about current problems and what inventions may be necessary in the future?
Summer 2 -Scavengers and Settlers (New for 2023)
We will be learning about how historians find out about the past civilisations and what clues we can uncover about the people that lived during different eras from the evidence that has been left behind. We will be historians and explore how early humans adapted and developed new skills in order to survive, as well as exploring the different settlements they created long ago. We will also be finding out about our ancestors, who they were and what they did during three key eras: the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Are our ancestors different to the p