The 3-year map
See where each subject is heading across all three years of KS3 — what's secure, what's being built this term, and the GCSE horizon ahead.
The 3-year map shows each subject as a small journey across the whole of KS3. Instead of a single term's direction, it lays out the landscape — a handful of broad strands per subject, how confident your child is with each, and where the GCSE horizon sits ahead. It turns "three years of secondary school" from an abstraction into something you can actually see.
It is a read-only view. You don't set anything here — the tutors fill it in as they teach, and you set this term's direction over on the Learning plan. The map simply makes the long view visible.
Where to find it
- Parents: on your Learning plan page, scroll to The 3-year map — one map per chosen subject.
- Your child: on their study home, the My journey tab shows the same maps in a warmer, kid-facing style.
How to read a map
Each subject is a row of strands — the big, coarse areas of the subject, not a checklist of every topic. Maths, for example, is Number · Algebra · Ratio & Proportion · Geometry · Probability · Statistics. Reading left to right:
| Mark | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ● Secure | Confident here — solid ground already covered |
| ◑ Developing | Actively building this right now |
| ○ Emerging | Just getting started |
| · Not yet assessed | No read on this strand yet (perfectly normal) |
The coloured part of the trail shows how far the journey has come; it fades to a faint line for the road ahead.
- ▲ this term — a small marker sits above the strand your child is building this term. It's drawn automatically from the direction you set on the Learning plan, so the map and your plan always agree. Nothing to keep in sync.
- GCSE horizon — the strands that reach toward GCSE sit in a bracketed zone at the end, framed as "a peek, not a jump." It's there to show what's coming, never as a demand.
It's a landscape, not a scheme of work
The strands are deliberately broad. aitutors.me teaches to the three-year landscape, not a term-by-term topic tick-list, and the GCSE horizon is a gentle 15–25% stretch — never the whole syllabus dropped early. See our faculty approach for the philosophy.
Who fills it in
The tutors set the bands as they teach — when your child shows they're secure with a strand, or clearly still building it, the tutor records that quietly. You don't manage it.
A brand-new map is all neutral — every strand shows the "not yet assessed" dot. That's the normal starting point; the map colours in over the first few weeks of sessions as the tutors get to know your child. An empty map is never an error.
How it relates to your Learning plan
Think of them as two views of the same journey:
- Learning plan — where you set the direction for the term (one per subject). This is the control.
- The 3-year map — where you see that direction in the context of the whole KS3 journey. This is the view.
The "▲ this term" marker on the map is simply the subject you've given an active direction to — so setting a plan lights up the map, with nothing to configure twice.
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