Year 3 Spanish Overview - Autumn 1 to Summer 2

Sep 28, 2026

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Year 3 Spanish overview outlining term-by-term learning units for Autumn 1, Autumn 2, Spring 1, Spring 2, Summer 1 and Summer 2. Each unit states a main learning aim and clear learning intentions with success criteria. Focus areas include greetings, classroom instructions, body parts, colours, food vocabulary, family and pets, school objects, counting up to 31, and using key tenses such as past and future.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages28

Reading Time1 h 11 min

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Autumn 1

Meet and Greet

Autumn 2

My Body

Spring 1

Time to Eat

Spring 2

The People Around Me

Summer 1

All About School

Summer 2

Tell Me When

| Year 3 Spanish Overview | | | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | | Unit Title | Meet and Greet | My Body | Time to Eat | The People Around
Me | All About School | Tell Me When | | Main Aim of Learning | To learn to greet eachother, exchange names, ask how someone is, count toten and say how old they are. | To understand and follow instructions, name parts of the body, identify colours and say what they are wearing. | To learn the vocabulary for a range of food, to express likes and dislikes, to count and use plural nouns and to modify adjectives to describe colours. | To learn how to identify and introduce family and pets and spell their names. | To learn vocabulary for school places and classroom objects; they will take part in a PE lesson conducted mostly in Spanish andwill combine learning to express preferences. | To learn to say the days of the week, months and dates and how to count on up to 31. To be introduced to past and future tenses | | Learning Intention 1
Success Criteria
New/Key Vocab | Hello!
I can say hello at different times of day
I can use formal and informal language appropriately
I can use gestures to support my conversation
¡Hola! [Hello!],¡Adiós! [Goodbye!], buenos
días [good morning], buenas tardes [good afternoon], buenasnoches [good evening] | Classroom instructions
I can say instruction words/phrases
I can do the correct action for an instruction
I can match an instruction to its illustration.
Siéntate [sit down], levántate [stand up], arregla las sillas [put your chairs under], cállate [be quiet], escucha [listen], mira [look],
mírame [look at me], ven a la alfombra
[come
to the carpet], repite [repeat], recoge la | The greedy mouse
I can understand and join in with a story
I can name food items in Spanish
Una manzana [an apple], dos peras [two pears], tres ciruelas [three plums], cuatro fresas [four strawberries], cinco naranjas
[five oranges], un pastel [a cake], un helado
[an ice cream], un bocadillo [a sandwich], | Meet my family
I can identify family members
I can say ‘My…’
I can use ‘Aquí está(n)’to explain who’s who in a picture
¿Quién es? [Who’s this?], yo [me], mi (singular)/mis (pl)[my], padres [my parents], madre [mother], padre
[father],
hermano [brother], hermana [sister], abuela [grandmother], abuelo [grandfather], | What’s in the classroom?
I can identify and name classroom objects
I can use ‘Dónde’ to ask where things are
I can use the phrase‘Aquí está(n)’ to say where things are
La clase [classroom], la puerta [door], la ventana [window], la mesa [table], la silla [chair], el ordenador [computer], el libro [book], las luces [lights], ¿Dónde está…?
[Where is it?], ¿Dónde están…? [Where are they?], Aquí | Counting up to 31
I can count up to 31
I can use patterns to make predictions about new vocabulary
I can copy modelled sounds accurately
Once [eleven], doce [twelve], trece
[thirteen], catorce [fourteen], quince [fifteen], dieciséis
[sixteen], diecisiete [seventeen], dieciocho [eighteen], diecinueve [nineteen], veinte [twenty], veintiuno [twenty-one], | | | | mesa
[tidy up the desk],¡vamos! [off you go!], vamos a jugar [let’splay] | un trozo de queso [apiece of cheese], una salchicha [a sausage], una piruleta [a
lollipop], una magdalena [a cupcake], jamón [ham], pan [bread], un trozo de sandía [apiece of watermelon] . | abuelos [grandparents], familia [family], padrastro [stepfather], madrastra [stepmother], hermanastro [stepbrother], hermanastra [stepsister] aquí está/están [here is/are] . | está/están [Here it is/ they are] | veintidós
[twenty-two], veintitrés [twentythree], veinticuatro [twentyfour], veinticinco [twenty
five], veintiséis [twenty-six], veintisiete
[twenty-seven], veintiocho [twentyeight],
veintinueve [twentynine], treinta [thirty], treinta

FAQs

What units are included across Year 3 Spanish terms?

The overview lists six term units: Autumn 1 Meet and Greet, Autumn 2 My Body, Spring 1 Time to Eat, Spring 2 The People Around Me, Summer 1 All About School, and Summer 2 Tell Me When.

What key language skills are targeted in Autumn 1?

Students learn greetings, exchanging names, asking how someone is, counting to ten, and saying how old someone is, using formal and informal language appropriately.

What topics are covered for counting and time in the later units?

Counting up to 31 is included, along with vocabulary for days of the week, months and dates, and an introduction to past and future tenses.

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