Year 3

Autumn 1

During our first term in Year 3, we will be focusing on the book “Stone Age Boy” by Satoshi Kitamura.

“Step back 15,000 years as a modern boy enters a Stone Age village and learns a few prehistoric tricks of the trade. One day a boy falls down a hole, and an amazing thing happens — when he wakes, he’s in a camp full of people wearing animal skins!”

Year 3 will be predicting, inferring, explaining and justifying alongside improving our comprehension skills.

Our first half term will conclude by writing a Diary Entry.

Abacus Scheme of Work

In our Maths lessons, we follow the Abacus scheme of work.

We will continue to work on multiplication, division, addition and subtraction using word problems.

Times Tables

Children are encouraged to practice their times tables – especially their 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s and 10’s, before moving onto 6’s, 7’s and 8’s.

You could help your child by encouraging them to rapidly recall these facts regularly.

Your child also has a login for Times Tables Rockstars at the back of their reading diary.

The children will be aiming for bronze, silver and gold stars in all of their times tables throughout the academic year.

Bronze – Be able to say complete timetables without long pauses or errors. e.g “one times two is two, two times two is four…”

Silver – Be able to give the products of numbers multiplied out of sequence. e.g (Teacher) “What are two threes?” (Child) “six”

Gold – Be able to give the answer to the associated division calculation (using inverse) e.g (Teacher) “Twenty-seven divided by three?” – (Child) “Nine”

Also to give the multiplication fact when provided with the product. e.g (Teacher) “Twenty-four?”  (Child) “Four sixes or six fours”

Our PE lessons take place on Monday afternoons and Wednesday mornings.

On Monday afternoons, the children will be participating in dance lessons with our dance coach, Anna. This half term, the children will be focusing on Street Dance. The children are encourage to practice at home what they have learnt in their lessons in preparation for the following lesson.

On Wednesday mornings, the children will be working with our specialist Manchester City coach, Connor. We will be learning the skills needed for a number of invasion games and learnt how to be a good team player.

After this half term, Miss Parr’s PE lessons will vary between indoors and outdoors. PE lessons will consist of a range of activities including circuit training, dancing and outdoor games.

Please can you ensure that your child is wearing a pair of trainers or PE pumps in school on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Stone Age to Iron Age

We will begin our topic lessons by discussing what we already know about the Stone Age and what we would like to learn during this term.

Our learning will include:

• How do people often imagine the Stone Age to be like?
• Who left their footprints on the beach and what were they doing there?
• What clues help archaeologists reconstruct how people might lived in Stone Age Britain?
• Why did Stone Age Britons spend most of their time living in camps rather than caves?
• Why was the Red Lady of Paviland so important?
• How were people living in Britain at the end of the Stone Age compared with the beginning?

We will link our History work to other subjects including English, ICT and Art & Design.

Animals including Humans (Muscles and Skeletons)

Our learning this term will include:

• To identify different types of skeletons.
• To understand what an endoskeleton does.
• To understand how we move.
• To label and identify parts of The Human Skeleton.
• To understand how muscles contract and relax.
• To understand the importance of food and the types of food groups and there purpose/functions.

Why do some earthquakes cause more damage than others?

During our Geography lessons, we will be looking at letters and diary entries of people who have witnessed an Earthquake. We will be locating continents and countries on World Maps. We will be finding the locations of Earthquake sites in New Zealand and looking at the Richter scale. The children will also be looking at the inside of the Earth and plate boundaries. We will also produce a story board about the formation of a volcano.

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We will upload some of the art work to our class page. 

Harvest (Autumn 1)

We will be exploring some key questions through discussion with a range of opportunities to reflect.

• Why do we celebrate harvest?
• How do we celebrate harvest?
• What do we celebrate at harvest?
• What are we actually giving thanks for?
• When do we celebrate harvest?
• Who celebrates the harvest?
• How is the harvest celebrated around the world?
• Why is the harvest celebrated by everyone?

Body Percussion

In Year 3, the children usually have the opportunity to learn how to play the recorder with our music teacher, Mrs Compston. However, due to the current circumstances the children are participating in Body Percussion.

Our music lessons take place each Thursday afternoon for an hour.

Singing

At St. Wilfrid’s, we follow the music syllabus, Charanga.

These areas include Listening & Appraising, Musical Activities (warm up games, optional flexible games, singing, playing instruments, improvisation and composition) and performing.

Autumn 1 – Let Your Spirit Fly

Autumn 2* – Christmas Production Practice

Spring 1 – Three Little Birds

Spring 2 – The Dragon Song

Summer 1 – Bringing Us Together

Summer 2 – Reflect, Rewind and Replay

Online Safety (Autumn 1)

Celebrating Achievements and Being Resilient (Autumn 2)

Being Part of a Community (Spring 1)

Exercise (Spring 2)

Stereotypes (Summer 1)

What I Like (Summer 2)

Coding (Autumn 1)

• To design algorithms using flowcharts.
• To design an algorithm that represents a physical system and code this representation.
• To use selection in coding with the ‘if’ command.
• To understand and use variables in 2Code.
• To deepen understanding of the different between timers and repeat commands.

Branching Databases (Autumn 2)

• To sort objects using just ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions.
• To complete a branching database using 2Question.
• To create a branching database of the children’s choice.
• To think about different methods of communication.

E-mail (Spring 1)

• To open and respond to an email using an address book.
• To learn how to use email safely.
• To add an attachment to an email.
• To explore a simulated email scenario.

Simulations (Spring 2)

• To consider what simulations are.
• To explore a simulation.
• To analyse and evaluate a simulation.

Spreadsheets (Summer 1)

• To use the symbols more than, less than and equal to, to compare values.
• To use 2Calculate to collect data and produce a variety of graphs.
• To use the advanced mode of 2Calculate to learn about cell references.

Touch Typing (Summer 2)

• To introduce typing terminology.
• To understand the correct way to sit at the keyboard.
• To learn how to use the home, top and bottom row keys.
• To practice typing with the left and right hand.