PEDAGOGY

German objectives – Cycle 3 – 5P/6P

• Read and understand very short and simple texts 
• Listen to and understand short oral texts
• Recognise simple idioms
• Listen to and understand instructions used in class
• Introduce self or introduce a classmate (last name, first name, age, etc.)
• Communicate simple information
• Read aloud new words, simple instructions, game instructions with familiar words
• Establish a basic social contact using elementary forms of courtesy and civility (Guten Tag, Hallo, Tschüs, Auf Wiedersehen, Ja, Nein, bitte, danke, etc.)
• Participate orally in class, asking questions and giving responses
• Memorise some vocabulary related to familiar themes
• Identify gender and number in words
• Know the present tense of regular verbs
• Use simple forms and types of sentences (affirmative/negative, declarative, interrogative, imperative)
• Organise elements in a sentence (place of the verb, syntax)

German objectives – Cycle 3 – 7P/8P

• Read and understand very short and simple texts
• Identify familiar words in a compound word
• Understand simple instructions and rules of games related to class activities
• Understand a form and know where to fill out the main information
• Write phrases and sentences
• Write letters, cards or emails
• Introduce self, family and hobbies
• Write a short informative message to friends (an information, a question)
• Understand how much something costs in a shop
• Understand instructions related to classroom routines
• Express food and clothes preferences
• Establish a simple conversation with several speakers helping each other
• Develop and enrich vocabulary
• Know the present tense of regular verbs and a few frequently used irregular verbs
• Use simple forms and types of simple sentences (affirmative/negative, declarative, interrogative, imperative)
• Organise elements in a sentence (place of the verb, syntax)
• Use in an implicit manner the nominative and the accusative form, by repetition and imitation of common short sentences

Visual Arts – Cycle 3

• Train one’s sense of observation and produce sketches by working with colors and materials
• Recognise colors and their shades
• Discover contrasts
• Compare and analyse different materials’ uses
• Associate, oppose, classify artistic objects based on the material, volume and structure
• Explore different elements of an art work    
• Use stains or blank page using overlaying techniques, superimposing and juxtaposing
• Transform surfaces in different ways
• Vary the different possible types of lines
• Vary points of views in artworks
• Experiment with artistic movements, tools and materials
• Use simple finishing techniques
• Discover and study different artists
• Choose and present one’s productions
• Participate, in a group with the school, in the organisation of an art exhibition
• Observe and identify artworks that come from different time periods, cultures and styles
• Compare the roles of artists, craftsmen and designers from different times and cultures

Physical education objectives – Cycle 3

Team and Collective Games

• Understand the importance of warm ups and cool downs
• Experiment teamwork (sport days, camps…)
• Run without stopping for a few minutes (equivalent and appropriate to age)  
• Understand the importance of having regular physical activity in order to be healthy
• Practice several types of movements
• Practice techniques for:
  • races (speed and endurance)
  • jumps (high and far)
  • throws (accurately and far)
• Discover games and obstacles courses
• Apply rules of offense and defence in games
• Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the rules of fairness
• Play in collaboration with one or several partners

Capoeira and Hip hop (5–8P)

• Explore movements by varying tempo, rhythm, and pace
• Combine different movements, with or without apparatus, moving or standing still
• Create and present a group choreography

Sailing (5–6P)

• Familiarise with the main safety measures of water sports
• Take part in outdoor challenges, in familiar, unfamiliar and changing environments
• Use a range of orienteering and problem-solving skills
• Work in collaboration with others to overcome a challenge

Climbing (7-8P)

• Select climbing holds and decide on a route to travel
• Commit to the action including the emotional task and overcome challenges
• Agree to work collaboratively with someone and ensure their safety and rely on them for you own safety
• Adapt movement to different types of environment

Geography objectives – Cycle 3

• Name and locate the main cities of the United Kingdom and Switzerland, know their geographical regions and their characteristics (5P-6P)
• Understand the water cycle and its effect on landscapes
• Locate certain countries of the world, name the big cities and describe their main characteristics (size, population, etc.)
• Identify different populations
• Understand that places are located in a larger geographical context
• Understand the importance of latitude, longitude, the Equator, the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the Arctic and Antarctic circles, the Greenwich meridian and the time zones (7P-8P)
• Use the cardinal points
• Observe and question the use of space and city planning
• Use specific vocabulary and concepts related to space
• Draw maps to represent places
• Understand physical geography and human geography
• Understand the notion of sustainable development and participate in the collective effort 

History objectives – Cycle 3

• Know facts and historical information related to the great ancient civilizations 5P
• Know facts and historical information related to the middle ages 6P
• Know facts and historical information related to the early contemporary period 7P
• Know facts and historical information related to the late contemporary period 8P
• Know the main characteristics of Asian, Christian, Islamic and Judaic religions
• Know how to structure time (make timelines)
• Know certain important dates and vocabulary related to world history (World War I, World War II…)
• Identify heritage from the past, consequences on present life and commemorations
• Know the social, cultural, religious and ethnic diversity of countries studied in class
• Know the events that marked the beginning and end of each historical period

Literacy objectives – 5P

In cycle 3, the programme of study focuses on developing students ‘skills. They learn to read and write longer and more complex texts. They also develop higher speaking and listening skills. The curriculum continues to promote a high standard of literacy. A wide variety of poetry, stories and non-fiction will be introduced each year.

I Reading and Writing

• Reading and understanding different types of texts
• Planning and drafting different types of texts

II Listening and Speaking

• Identify key words in a text that show purpose of text
• Tell stories, real and imagined
• Read aloud and recite text
• Take into account knowledge of spoken French and English
• Use accurate syntax

III Grammar

• Identify : Articles, nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns
• Identify the features of different types of sentences and use them accurately
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Spelling and Grammatical Spelling

• Copy without mistakes
• Spell familiar and common words as well as targeted vocabulary studied in class
• Identify homophones
• Use capital letters appropriately
• Ensure correct subject and verb agreement in simple sentences

Tenses

• Know and use : Simple past, Present and Future of selected verbs in French and in English
• Identify Present Perfect of selected verbs in French and in English

Punctuation

• Know and use: full stop, question mark, exclamation mark, inverted comma
• Begin to show knowledge of punctuation to read aloud

Handwriting

• Write legibly with increasing speed and personal style
• Use a pen

Literacy objectives – 6P

In cycle 3, the programme of study focuses on developing students ‘skills. They learn to read and write longer and more complex texts. They also develop higher speaking and listening skills. The curriculum continues to promote a high standard of literacy. A wide variety of poetry, stories and non-fiction will be introduced each year.

I Reading and Writing

• Reading and understanding different types of texts
• Planning and drafting different types of texts

II Listening and speaking

• Identify key words in a text that show purpose of text
• Tell stories, real and imagined
• Read aloud and recite text
• Take into account knowledge of spoken French and English
• Use accurate syntax and more complex sentence structure

III Grammar

• Identify : Articles, nouns, proper nouns, verbs, Adverbs, adjectives, pronouns
• Identify words that show
  •  when
  • where
  • why

• Identify the features of different types of sentences and use with increasing accuracy

Spelling and Grammatical Spelling

• Check the accuracy of their spelling in their own writing
• Spell familiar and common words as well as targeted vocabulary studied in class
• Spell grammatical homophones
• Spell compound words
  including words with hyphens
• Ensure correct subject and verb agreement

Tenses

• Know and use : Simple past, Present, Future, Present Perfect of selected verbs
• Identify Conditional Present of selected verbs in French and in English

Punctuation

• Know and use: full stop, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, inverted comma
• Apply knowledge of punctuation to read aloud

Handwriting

• Write legibly with increasing speed and personal style
• Use a fountain pen

Literacy objectives – 7P

In cycle 3, the programme of study focuses on developing students ‘skills. They learn to read and write longer and more complex texts. They also develop higher speaking and listening skills. The curriculum continues to promote a high standard of literacy. A wide variety of poetry, stories and non-fiction will be introduced each year.

I Reading and Writing

• Select books and finish them
• Write texts with a range of purpose
• Plan a text, draft, use a dictionary to improve spelling and vocabulary

II Listening and Speaking

• Identify with accuracy language used for different types of texts
• Use vocabulary with greater accuracy
• Speak with confidence in a range of contexts, adapting their speech for a range of purposes and audiences

III Grammar

• Identify groups in a sentence
• Identify the value of adverbial phrases
  • Time – purpose – place – manner – causation – consequence

Spelling and Grammatical Spelling

• Proof read a text to improve spelling
• Copy without mistakes
• Spell words with common prefixes and inflectional endings
• Use capital letters appropriately and recognise the differences between French and English usage
• Know the plural of nouns including irregular plurals
• Ensure correct subject and verb agreement

Vocabulary

• Use targeted vocabulary with greater accuracy
• Understand the connection between opposites
• Understand that a word can have several meanings
• Name different parts of a word, such as prefix, suffix and root

Tenses

• Know and use simple past, present simple, future, present perfect, present progressive conditional present, past progressive in French and English
• Ensure consistent and correct tenses throughout a piece of writing

Punctuation

• Understand that the connection between punctuation and sentence structure
• Use capital letters, full stop, coma, exclamation point, question mark, inverted coma
• Use the apostrophe to show possession in English

Handwriting

• Write legibly with increasing speed and personal style
• Use a fountain pen

Literacy – 8P

In cycle 3, the programme of study focuses on developing students ‘skills. They learn to read and write longer and more complex texts. They also develop higher speaking and listening skills. The curriculum continues to promote a high standard of literacy. A wide variety of poetry, stories and non-fiction will be introduced each year.

I Reading and Writing

• Select books and read with greater accuracy and understanding
• Write texts with a range of purposes, using appropriate vocabulary and punctuation
• Plan, draft and evaluate own writing

II Listening and Speaking

• Identify features of language used for a specific purpose
• Use vocabulary with greater accuracy
• Speak with confidence in a range of contexts, adapting their speech for a range of purposes and audiences

III Grammar

• Identify in a sentence
  • Subject – verb- object or adverbial phrase – attribute – adjective
• Identify the value of adverbial phrases
  • Time – purpose – manner – place – causation – consequence

Spelling and Grammatical Spelling

• Use a rich range of targeted vocabulary
• Spell words with common prefixes and inflectional endings
• Use homophones
• Ensure correct subject and noun agreement
• Ensure correct subject and verb agreement
• Ensure correct past participle agreements in the French present perfect

Vocabulary

• Constitute and use lexical fields
• Understand the connection between opposites, generic and specific terms
• Understand that a word can have several meanings
• Analyse substructure of words

Tenses

• Know and use simple past, present simple, future, present perfect, present progressive conditional present, past progressive, past perfect, future II simple in French and English
• Ensure consistent and correct tense throughout a piece of writing

Punctuation

• Understand the connection between punctuation and sentence structure
• Use capital letters, full stop, coma, exclamation point, question mark, inverted coma
• Use the apostrophe to show possession in English

Handwriting

• Write legibly with increasing speed and personal style
• Use a fountain pen

Mathematic objectives – 5P

Shape, space and measures

• Recognise right angles, and draw perpendicular and parallel lines
• Split a 2D shape into basic shapes and surface areas
• Use conventional units of measurement for length (mm, cm, m, km)
• Use units of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks)
• Begin to interpret scales

Numeracy

• Begin to understand decimal numbers
• Go from number word (oral or written) to units, tens, hundreds
• Write a number in different ways
• Compare and order a set of whole numbers on a number line
• Use a calculator to check results
• Find number sequences and express the rule to continue the sequence
• Know multiplication tables up to 12
• Begin to use mental arithmetic to solve the four operations
• Multiply and divide any whole number by 10 or 100
• Know and use the written techniques for 3 digit additions and subtractions with carrying over

• Begin to use written techniques of two digit multiplications and divisions

Problem solving

• Solve simple problems
• Sort and organise data
• Learn through trial and error
• Find new information using context and known facts
• Interpret tables, lists and charts to answer simple questions

Mathematic objectives – 6P

Shape, space and measures

• Describe 2D and 3D shapes with increasing accuracy
• Use conventional units to compare measurements
• Double and triple a length or area; divide a length or area

• Know that angles can be measured in degrees with a protractor
• Find lengths, perimeters of squares and rectangles and paths on grids
• Use units of time and know the relationship between them

Numeracy

• Explore different ways of writing numbers 
• Recognise prime numbers to 20 and squared numbers to 10²
• Round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 and then 1000
• Compare, sort, frame and insert decimal numbers
• Round a decimal number with one or two digit past the decimal place to the nearest whole number and to one significant digit past the decimal place
• Convert lengths

• Use written techniques for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

• Understand how the commutative, associative and distributive laws can improve mental calculations
• Use calculators efficiently
• List multiples of a number
• Find remainders after division, then express as a fraction or decimal; round up or down after division

Problem solving

• Understand a problem independently
• Sort, organise and check work
• Develop flexible approaches to problem solving and look for ways to overcome difficulties
• Communicate mathematically, including the use of precise mathematical language
• Check results
• Sort and organise data using graphs and diagrams
• Interpret tables, lists and charts used in everyday life

Mathematic objectives – 7P

Shape, Space and Measures

• Recognise, describe and name 3D shapes using targeted vocabulary
• Use conventional units of measurement
• Double, triple or divide lengths
• Use geometric tools with increasing accuracy
• Use and interpret city maps
• Measure and sort angles
• Record measurements using decimal notation
• Find surface area of squares and rectangles using the formula

Numeracy

• Recognise and continue number sequences extending to negatives
• Understand that ‘percentage’ means the ‘number of parts per 100’
• Split whole and decimal numbers
• Order simple fractions with a common denominator
• Use the commutative, associative and distributive laws to calculate mentally
• Double and halve any two digit number
• Multiply and divide decimals by 10 or 100
• Understand the use of brackets to determine the order of operations
• Use the written methods for the four number operations efficiently

• Know and use the basic functions of a calculator appropriately

Problem solving

• Communicate mathematically, including the use of precise mathematical language
• Explain mathematical method and reasonning
• Make mental estimates and check results
• Break down a complex problem into simpler steps before attempting a solution
• Begin to use cross multiplication technique

• Begin to use proportional reasoning in simple contexts

Mathematic objectifs – 8P

Shape, Space and Measures

• Know geometrical features and properties of 3D shapes
• Use geometric tools to draw 2 D shapes with increasing accuracy
• Read scales with increasing accuracy
• Use conventional units of measurement
• Calculate the surface area of simple and complex 2D shapes

• Calculate the volume of simple 3D shapes numeracy

• Write numbers using powers
• Order negative whole numbers
• Recognise that numbers are not finite
• Write a number in both fraction and decimal form
• Understand that ‘percentage’ means the ‘number of parts per 100’
• Use decimal numbers with ease
• Reduce simple fractions
• Develop a range of mental arithmetic methods
• Understand multiples and divisors
• Carry out an operation in the right order
• Use written methods for the four number operations efficiently

Problem solving

• Express results and interpretations in writing
• Make mental estimates and check results
• Offer a solution to a complex problem
• Begin to discover the concept of probability
• Use cross multiplication technique with increasing ease

• Use proportional reasoning in simple contexts
• Sort and interpret data

Music objectives – Cycle 3

• Master a repertoire of varied songs with one of a few voices, with music or a cappella
• Create, reproduce and combine body movements in relation to the music
• Improvise and elaborate a rhythm and a melody  
• Develop focus and curiosity when in contact with diverse sounding and musical environments
• Listen to various musical pieces and describe impressions with precise musical vocabulary
• Discover, recognise and distinguish between the different families of instruments
• Recognise musical pieces of different styles
• Use the voice as an instrument and practice vocal activities in songs and voice placement
• Read musical notation in simple songs of the repertoire
• Reproduce a well know pattern (rhythmic and/or melodic)  
• Improve one’s own and others’ work
• Listen to and identify diverse musical pieces from different times, cultures and styles
• Describe characteristics of the musical pieces approached in class (period, origin, subject, instruments)
• Interpret songs in different languages
• Participate, in a group within the school, in the organization of a cultural event

Health and citizenship – Cycle 3

• Distinguish between « sensible » behaviors and « at risk » behavior
• Identify different groups people belong to and discuss the concept of difference
• Discuss and debate
• Participate in an active democracy in the classroom or in school
• Know the rules of courtesy and of respect and apply them
• Know the classroom and school rules (respect and sanctions)
• Identify the consequences of breaking the rules
• Describe the different roles of students  
• Understand and respect rules and measures to protect the environment
• Identify one’s achievements and challenges
• Set goals in handling schoolwork and learning
• Identify own strengths and understand learning styles
• Participate in collaborative projects, identify skills in each in relation to the tasks to be carried out
• Plan a project in steps by establishing objectives
• Identify a few addictive behaviors (dependence to television, videogames, substance abuse, etc.)
• Identify a healthy way of life, the benefits of physical exercise and of healthy eating habits
• Understand the changes the body goes through during puberty  
• Know the rules of school on health and safety, the emergency procedures and know where to find help
• Meet people who contribute to society in cultural life, protection of the environment or religious life
• Take into consideration social and moral problems of everyday life

Sciences objectives – Cycle 3

• Develop strategies of exploration
• Gather, and organise data, observations and measures
• Conduct an experiment
• Check own work
• Present findings of research and experiments
• Observe and describe changes in observable states
• Construct simple series electrical circuit, and experiment the principle of electrical conductivity
• Discover some properties of light
• Understand that objects are pulled downwards because of the force of gravity
• Describe the movement of the Earth and other planets in the solar system around the Sun
• Compare natural resources
• Observe and represent transmissions of movement
• Observe the evolution of the body and describe the changes on the human bod
• Know the different organs of the digestive system
• Build a representation of the human skeleton
• Draw the inside of a human body
• Highlight the different movements of the body
• Study some livings beings and their habitats
• Explore a current event to demonstrate the fragility of the natural environment
• Compare the life cycle of animals and plants  

Theater objectives – Cycle 3

• Develop attention and awaken curiosity
• Recognise the notion of continuity (beginning, development and ending)
• Be a spectator
• Be self-aware in time and space
• Substitute words with movements (mime)
• Research and become a character
• Use accessories and props
• Articulate words
• Know how to follow a course
• Know how to participate in an activity alone or with others
• Develop flexibility and freedom of movement
• Develop precision and regularity of movement
• Set up decorations and props
• Discover theatrical culture

ICT objectives – Cycle 3

• Use an iPad
• Use in an autonomous and targeted manner online learning resources (school sanctioned sites, educational apps, learning tools online, digital homework)
• Choose and use, in an autonomous manner, diverse digital resources adapted to a spcific task (texts, presentations, drawings, music) and save the documents
• Use contextual menu
• Explore the possibilities (synonyms, grammar, punctuation) and the limits of spell check
• Create a document with the help of an ipad, save and open to print independently
• Type a personal text independently, respecting the rules (spacing, layout) and spelling
• Choose and use a digital resource based on a learning project
• Be aware and sensitive to the origin of information (source, Internet address)
• Identify the intentions of a message by taking into consideration the context of communication
• Find information, sort it and check its accuracy
• Analyze and compare the uses of ICT inside and outside of school
• Be aware about material ownership and copyrights
• Use a class e-mail address and a communication platform (blog, forum)