Year 3

Mrs Joyce & Miss McHale/Mrs Aqib

Art and Design - As artists we will:

• Look at the work of Sean Scully and Van Gogh.

Children will:

• Learn that painting can be done with a range of tools, including sponges and newspaper.
• Know that artists use different thickness of paint to create different effects.
• Understand that abstract art does not represent recognisable things but instead involves the use of lines, shapes and colours that can be appreciated in their own rights.

Computing – looking at coding and emails, we will:

• Learn how to read and understand code and remix code to achieve a particular outcome.
• Learn to open and respond to an email.
• Learn to attach work to an email and understand the meaning of CC.

Design and Technology– As designers we will:

• Design, make and evaluate packaging.

Children will:

• Know that different stitches look different and can be used for different purposes.
• Make a decorative panel using different stitches.

English – As writers and communicators we will:

• Write adventure stories.
• Describe settings and develop characters.
• Write newspaper reports.
• Write non-chronological reports.
• Use wider range of sentence structures (Alan Peat).
• 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:

• Locate different types of UK settlements.
• Understand the use of land in Dewsbury and how this has changed over time.
• Know that trade is the buying and selling of  goods and know this can happen locally and globally.

History - As historians we will:

• Study the Romans.
• Recognise the part the Romans played on our history and about the past.
• Use various sources of evidence to answer questions.

The children will be able to :

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

Maths - As mathematicians we will:

• Recognise multiplication is the inverse operation to division.
• Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 and estimate numbers.
• Multiply and divide numbers mentally including the 3-, 4-, 6- and 8-times tables.
• Solve problems including the 3-, 4-, 6- and 8-times tables.
• 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 mass.
• Learn to measure, compare and add and subtract capacity
• Read and understand various measurements including time.

Music - As musicians we will:

• Describe and compare the features of different music styles.
• 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 with yoga.     
• Develop our cooperation skills through games -rounders, ball games,
• Learn to throw and catch accurately - dodgeball.

R.E. - As theologians we will:

• Learn about the sacrament of Reconciliation and Jesus the Teacher.
• Think about what it means to make the wrong choices.
• Know how Jesus showed us to turn away from sin.
• Know God always loves us.
• Know what happens during the sacrament of Reconciliation.

RPSHE - we will be looking at how families have similarities and differences.

• We will learn about how families are not all structured the same way.
• How people within families should care for one another.
• How to ask for help if family relationships are making you feel uncomfortable.

Science - As scientists we will:

• Learn about light, reflections and shadows.
• Research different sources of light.
• Find out about reflective surfaces.
• Find out about how and why shadows change.
• Develop our scientific enquiry, understanding and vocabulary.
• Animals and Humans.
• Children will learn that animals can be classed as herbivores, carnivores and omnivores
• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.
• Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.