Summer Term 2024

Our Learning

Key Concepts - identity, change, fairness, conflict, care and power.

How did the Romans change Britain?

Humanities  - The Romans

Children will learn about the Roman empire and the power of its army, we will also look at how the Romans lived. 

(Our class trip will look at Romans, we have a class trip planned to the Roman Circus, Colchester.

The children will also experience a Roman Day in school.

Science - Plants and Animals including Humans

We will look at pollination, reproduction, nutrition, excretion, respiratory and growth

Literacy (Escape from Pompeii)

We will be looking at diary entries and will be producing an instruction text.

Year three/common exception words, daily phonics for 5 and handwriting, will continue.

We will teach spelling rules, patterns and strategies, using the 'No Nonsense Spelling Scheme'

Class reading book - Granny Ting Tang

Maths

We will look at mass and capacity, money, time and statistics.

A focus will be on multiplications, 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8.

RE -

Islam and Human/social sciences

What do Muslims believe about God?

PE -

We will enjoy athletics with Mark, cricket with Chance to Shine and Multiskills with Mrs Glasgow

Music

We will use glockenspiels and recorders/toots when learning our next song in Charanga

Art/DT

Design and build a Roman Chariot.

Our focus will be on George Seurat and pointillism.

Highlights of Spring Term 2

We have been constructing our volcanoes in DT, then exploding them (some were very successful).

We are all able to skip, move whilst skipping and perform a sequence of skills whilst skipping.

In science we have been looking at natural light, once the sun finally came out we were able to draw our shadows on the playground.

Our maths unit has included mass and capacity, we had lots of fun weighing classroom objects.

For our ICT unit we have all learnt how to do pic collages, login into our teams accounts and use the podcast room to record ‘how to stay safe in an earthquake’.

Spring Term 2024

Our Learning

Key Concepts - identity, change, fairness, conflict, care and power.

What makes the earth angry?

Where in the world are we?

Humanities  - Extreme Earth

Children will learn about earthquakes and volcanoes and locate these on world maps.

Children will name and locate counties, cities and rivers using maps, atlases and globes to locate countries

Science - Light, Magnets and Forces (which links to our Extreme Earth topic).

Literacy (instruction writing and traditional tales)

We will be looking at characters, settings and speech.

We will also look at reports, leaflets and posters, we will then create and plan our own based around The Extreme Earth topic.

Year three/common exception words and daily phonics and handwriting, will continue.

We will teach spelling rules, patterns and strategies, using the 'No Nonsense Spelling Scheme'

Class reading book -The Hodgeheg by Dick King-Smith

Maths

Focus will be on helping children solve simple problems using written and mental methods (using Statistics).

We will develop our knowledge on using pounds and pence and giving change plus looking at measure and perimeter.

We will look at measurements and fractions.

A focus will be on multiplications, 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8.

RE 

Christianity vs Humanist (Philosophy - How do people make moral decisions).

Love and forgiveness, utilitarianism, talking about the difference between knowing and believing. 

PE 

Spring Term 1: Thursday morning (Off the Wall squash) and Friday afternoon (skip to the beat or netball). 

Spring Term 2: Friday afternoon (skip to the beat or netball) and Monday morning (Multiiskills)

Music

We will begin to use glockenspiels when learning Three Little Birds by Bob Marley.

Art/DT

 Look at the life and works of George Seurat

Design and sculpt a volcano as part of a team.

Computing

The children will learn to use Pic Collage, create title pages using Word, start to learn to touch type and develop coding skills.

Highlights of Spring Tern 1 2024

We have enjoyed squash lessons in school and then finishing with a visit to the Garrison for a squash lesson on the courts.

We learnt lots about magnets and forces (we especially liked using the magnets in class).

In mathematics we learnt about measure and explored the perimeter of different shapes.

We had the opportunity to use the winbooks, we were able to successfully login and access LBQ and TTRS.

Highlights of Autumn Term 2

We’ve had Stone Age Day, we made cave paintings, we made Stone Age stew and built our own Stonehenge.

In PE we learnt a dance based on The Stone Age Boy, we then learnt news skills for our indoor athletics competition, we even managed a Santa Dash!

We created our own front covers using word and discovered new skills and shortcuts in ICT.

In music we finished our unit with Essex Music, we performed to EYFS.

Highlights of Autumn term 1.

We have been on a school trip to Walton on the Naze for our science topic’Rocks and Soils’.
We have had a gymnastics coach teaching us safe landing  plus Essex Cricket teaching us some batting and fielding skills. 
We have also enjoyed learning the ‘toot’ as part of our music lessons.

Welcome to Year Three 2023-24

Autumn Term 2023

Our Learning

Key Concepts - Identity, change, fairness, conflict, care and power.

How do we get from Stone Age to Steel?

Our class text is - Stig of the Dump

Humanities (Topic) - Stone Age

We will look at and label a time line and record changes from Stone Age to Iron Age which will include Neolithic hunter-gatherers, hill forts: tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture. We will also have a 'Stone Age Day' (dress up day) in Autumn term 2.

Science - Rocks and Soils 

Class Trip to Walton - planned for October.

Literacy (class text - The Stone Age Boy, Autumn 1, The Tunnel Autumn 2).

Creating our own adventure stories.

Looking at characters and settings.

Year three/common exception words.

Maths

Children will begin by recognising place value up to 1,000 and solve simple problems using written and mental methods, multiplication in year three will concentrate on 3,4, 6 and 8 times tables.

RE 

We will look at Islam, Hinduism and Christianity.

PE - 

Gymnastics and football/other ball skills

(Monday and Tuesday - Autumn term 1).

Music

We will use Charanga and also introduce 'toots and flutes'.

French

The children will begin by saying and recognising phrases.

Summer Term 2023

Our Learning

Key Concepts - identity, change, fairness, conflict, care and power.

What did the Romans do for us?

Highlights of Summer Term Two.

We had a visit from Sarah, the 🐝 bee keeper, sports day, the circus came to school, chance to shine cricket training, two farm visits (peach and pippin plus Boxford fruit), we made our Roman chariots, children came armed with their homemade shields 🛡️, a trip by train to the Roman Circus in Colchester and finally our Roman day.

Highlights of Summer Term One

We’ve visited Colchester Zoo for our science and art lessons.

We’ve enjoyed cricket with Chance to Shine

We’ve visited Old Knobbley in Mistley as part of our science and local history units.

Humanities  - The Romans

Children will learn about the Roman empire and the power of its army, we will also look at how the Romans lived. 

(Our class trip will look at Romans in more details).

Science - Plants and Animals including Humans

We will look at pollination, reproduction, nutrition, excretion, respiratory and growth.

(We have three trips planned for our plants topic-we will be visiting two local farms and also walk to 'Old Knobby' where we will look at the local area).

Literacy (Escape from Pompeii)

We will be looking at diary entries and instruction writing.

Year three/common exception words, daily phonics for 5 and handwriting, will continue.

We will teach spelling rules, patterns and strategies, using the 'No Nonsense Spelling Scheme'

Class reading book - Charlotte's Web

Maths

We will look at money, time and statistics.

A focus will be on multiplications, 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8.

RE -

Islam and Human/social sciences

What do Muslims believe about God?

PE -

We will enjoy athletics with Mark, cricket with Chance to Shine and Multiskills with Mrs Glasgow

Music

We will continue to use glockenspiels and recorders/toots when learning our next song in Charanga

Art/DT

Design and build a Roman Chariot.

We will visit Colchester Zoo, we will look at mosaics, 3D art and sculpture.