Year 3

Mrs Joyce & Miss McHale/Mrs Aqib

Art – As artists we will be producing artefacts from Ancient Britain

• Children will :
• Make Stone Age necklaces.
• Reproduce Stone Age cave art.
• Mix up natural paints.
• Use pastels to represent Stonehenge.
• Produce Celtic designs from the Iron Age.

Computing –

• Look and understand how to keep safe on line — internet safety, e-safety and cyber safety .
• Maximise our awareness of personal safety and security risks to private information and property associated with using the internet, and the self-protection from computer crime.
• Use a keyboard with one finger and type without using sight, recognizing the location of the key on a keyboard.

Design Technology – As designers we will:

• Design, make and evaluate an iron age roundhouse.
• Children will :
• Build a prehistoric shelter.
• Build a biscuit Stonehenge.
• Make a model woolly mammoth.

English – As writers and communicators we will :

• Write adventure stories.
• Describe settings and develop characters.
• Write newspaper reports.
• Write instructions and directions.
• Write non-chronological reports.
• Use wider range of conjunctions and sentence structures.
• Become more accurate in our use of more sophisticated punctuation.
• Spell most of the Y2 and Y3 common exception words correctly.
• Read and listen to a wide range of styles of text.
• Read and listen to whole books.
• Make predictions based on what we have read.
• Use the text and inference to answer questions.
• Engage in meaningful discussions in all areas of the curriculum.
• Listen to and learn a wide range of subject specific vocabulary.

French — As linguists we will:

• Develop our understanding of how to introduce myself in French.
• Recognise and Count from 0 –20 in French.

Geography – As geographers we will :

• Research and understand how earthquakes and volcanoes are formed.
• Be able to locate volcanoes around the world.
• Interpret a range of geographical sources to gather information.

History – As historians we will :

• Study the Stone Age to the Iron Age.
• Recognise the part archaeologists have had in helping us to find out about the past.
• Use various sources of evidence to answer questions.

They will be able to :

• Investigate and interpret the past.
• Understand chronology.
• Communicate historically.
• Build an overview of world history.

Maths – As mathematicians we will :

• Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number.
• Read and write numerals to 100 in numbers and words.
• Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 and estimate numbers .
• Add and subtract numbers mentally including 3-digit numbers and units, tens, and hundreds.
• Solve problems including missing numbers and place value and more complex addition and subtraction.
• Use and recall multiplication and division facts for 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
• Be able to multiply a 2-digit number by a 1 digit number.
• Solve problems including missing numbers involving multiplication and division.
• Learn to measure, compare and add and subtract lengths.
• Learn how to measure the perimeter of simple 2D shapes.
• Learn how to identify horizontal, vertical, perpendicular and parallel lines in relation to other lines.

Music  – As musicians we will :

• Describe and compare the features of R ‘n’ B music.
• Improvise alongside a piece of music.
• Compose our own pieces of music.
• Be able to describe the pulse, rhythm and pitch of a piece of music.

P.E. – As athletes we will

• Continuing to develop our agility.
• Develop our balance and co-ordination through a range of sporting activities such as dance and gymnastics.
• Be learning and combining a range of balances/poses to create a sequence.

PSHE – we will be looking at friendships and getting on with each other.

• We will focus on ourselves and why it is good to be me.
• We will be doing this through drama, reflective time in class, whole class discussions and art work.

R.E.  – As theologians we will :

• Learn about the Christian Family .
• Think about what it means to be part of a Christian family.
• Know that we can join the Christian family when we are baptized.
• Know what happens when we are baptized.
• Know baptism is a sacrament.

Science  – As scientists we will :

• Observe and compare different rock types.
• Observe and analyse fossils.
• Research Mary Anning and understand her role in the science of rocks and soils.
• Understand how rocks become soil.