Welcome to Year 3!
Ruby Class
Class Teacher: Liz Waller
Class Teaching Assistant: James Taylor
Turquoise Class
Class Teacher: Hannah Walker
Class Teaching Assistant: Katie Wrigley
Year 3 Curriculum Overview for 2021-2022
| Half Term | Topic | Curriculum Area | |
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| Autumn 1st Half | Dinosaurs | English: Core Text - 'Dinosaur Cove' Non-Chronological Reports; Adventure Stories Maths: Place Value ; Addition And Subtraction; Multiplication And Division; Problem Solving; Mental Maths Science: Forces History: Dinosaur Timelines; The Life of Mary Anning Art: Sketching; Warm & Cool Colours; Fossil Printing Computing: We Are Presenters RE: Harvest Festival PE: Invasion games | |
| Autumn 2nd Half | Power of the Earth | English: Core Text - 'Escape from Pompeii' Explanation Writing; Disaster Stories Maths: Addition And Subtraction; Multiplication And Division; Measurement - Time; Statistics; Fractions; Problem Solving; Mental Maths Geography: Volcanoes - Causes and effect History: Pompeii Science: Rocks Art: Mosaics DT: Create a working model of a volcano Computing: We Are Programmers RE: Hinduism PE: Net and Wall Games | |
| Spring 1st Half | Weather | English: Core Text - 'The Wizard of Oz' Setting descriptions; Play scripts; Non- Chronological Reports
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| Spring 2nd Half | Stone Age to Iron Age | English: Core Text - 'Stone Age Boy' Adventure Stories; Newspaper Reports Maths: Statistics; Measurement; Mental Maths, Calculation Revision; Multiplication Tables History: Stone Age to Iron Age Geography: How human geography has changed over time Art: Cave paintings DT: Designing and making a Stone age tunic Science: Bodies and Bones Computing: We Are Bug Fixers RE: Christianity - Jesus and Easter PE: Striking & Fielding | |
| Summer 1st Half | Ancient Greece | English: Core Text - Various Greek myths including 'Pandora's Box' & 'The Quest of Perseus' Myths and Legends; Persuasive Letters; Quest Myths Maths: Place Value And Money; Addition And Subtraction; Multiplication And Division; Measurement; Statistics; Money; Problem Solving; Mental Maths History/Geography: What did the Ancient Greeks do for us? Science: Light DT: Make Greek food Art: Greek vases Computing: We Are Opinion Pollsters RE: Why should we care for our world? PE: Athletics | |
| Summer 2nd Half | Europe | English: Core Text - 'The Boy who Biked the World' & 'On the Move: Poems about Migration by Michael Rosen' Recounts; Poetry; Travel Brochures Maths: Place Value And Sequences; Multiplication And Division; Addition And Subtraction; Fractions; Geometry, Statistics And Measures; Problem Solving; Mental Maths Geography: Study of Europe; Migration DT: Make and taste European foods Art: Studying the work of European artists Science: Plants Computing: We Are Network Engineers RE: Why should we care for our world? PE: Greek dance, preparation for School Games Day |
If you have any queries, please contact the Class Teacher or the Learning and Teaching Leader for this phase: Donna Rankine
Please read our half termly curriculum letters for more information.
Homework
Autumn Term
Year 3 have had an exciting start to the year! We are currently enjoying reading the adventure time-travel story called 'Dinsoaur Cove' and are looking forward to writing our own stories filled with cliff-hangers and suspense! We had fun acting out scenes from the book for our classmates.
We have begun our sketchbook journeys in Year 3 and have been busy experimenting with warm and cool colours before we create our final piece- a sunset silhouette watercolour painting with dinosaurs! Have a look at our work so far below:
We had a go at Archery for Reach for the Stars week. It was really fun but quite difficult at first!
We have been learning all about forces in Science in Year 3 this half term. We have learnt about pushes and pulls and have been investigating which materials are magnetic and non-magnetic.
This week we have been adding features of suspense to our time-travel adventure stories. We have been looking at how we include lots of descriptive vocabulary, end on a cliff-hanger and leave the reader wanting more...
On the 13th October Ruby & Turquoise walked to Crystal Palace Park to see the famous dinosaur statues. Even though we know they're not accurate representations of what dinosaurs looked like, we still had fun sketching the statues! We experimented using a range of different sketching pencils and graphite in our sketchbooks and tried to add detail too through shade and tone.
Spring Term
We have been having fun performing the different parts in a play script before we have a go at writing our own one based on our class text, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'
Year 3 have been lucky enough to have some yoga sessions with Tabitha for our wellbeing focus this half term! 🥰
Maths
This half term we have been consolidating our knowledge of the column method to add and subtract. We are having a go at some challenging questions and playing games too!
Summer Term
In DT, we are going to be making our own healthy savoury dips. First, we did some taste testing and tried some different dips. We recorded what they smelt like, how they tasted, what they looked like and what their texture felt like. We then ranked them from our favourite to least favourite!
