Year 3

Welcome to Year 3's page. Please check back regularly to see galleries of what we have been doing in class as well as other useful documents. Below you will find the summer term's curriculum booklet as well as our current homework menu.

This term, PE will take place every Monday and Thursday. Children should have appropriate PE kit in school at all times. Earrings must be removed for all PE sessions.

Spellings will be set via Seesaw every Thursday. Please submit all other homework via Seesaw.

Thank you,

Mr Ellingham and Mrs Hall

Spring term 2022 curriculum booklet

 Homework task grid

SPring term Curriculum

• Religious Education
  Religious Education

  This term our topics are: Journeys, Listening and Sharing and Giving All. This will focus on our personal and Church journeys during the year before focusing on the Eucharist and finally on the Easter story.

• English
  English

  This term, we will begin by creating non-chronological reports based on the book Flanimals. Following this, we will be using the fantasy story The Wolves in the Wall to investigate features of this genre before writing our own fantasy stories. We will also be looking at poetry and persuasive writing later in the term.

• Mathematics
  Mathematics

  It is a busy term in Mathematics! We will be￿furthering our understanding of multiplication and division before completing units on Money, Statistics and Length and Perimeter.￿ We will finish the term by beginning our work on Fractions.

• Art and Design
  Art and Design

  In Art lessons we will be focusing on painting which will allow us to expand our learning about line, shape, form and tone in classic and modern art.

• Computing
  Computing

  This term we will be learning about branching databases and how these can be useful in computing. We will then learn about the importance of sequences in coding using Scratch.

• Design and Technology
  Design and Technology

  We will be learning about Kites which will give the children the opportunity to learn about frame structures, before designing and making their own kites.

• French
  French

  The children will continue to learn French this term, revising the language that they have learned so far and expanding their understanding further to cover interesting and exciting new topics.

• Geography
  Geography

  In Geography, we will begin our topic about Megacities and what this can teach us about migration.

• History
  History

  This term we will complete our topic on Prehistoric Britain by￿finding out about the Iron Age. We will draw comparisons with life in the Bronze and Stone Age as well as looking how our lives in the present day are different.

• Music
  Music

  In Music we will be studying singing units of work from different genres as well as preparing for our Easter Production.

• Physical Education
  Physical Education

  We will be completing our unit on gymnastics in the first half term before moving on to invasion games. Our Thursday lessons will be skills based games with Coach Niamh.

• PSHE
  PSHE

  This term we will be focusing on the topics of Family and Friends and My Emotions which help us to understand more about our relationships with each other and how we can understand how we are feeling at different times.

• Science
  Science

  This term our focus will be Magnets which we will investigate through a range of practical investigations. We will follow this by studying the topic of Light and Shadow which will allow the children to investigate both inside and outside of the classroom.