Lawford C of E Primary School
High quality learning and caring together in an encouraging Christian environment.
Year 3
Spring Term 2023
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 (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.
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 Thursday afternoon (Skip to the beat or netball).
Spring Term 2: Thursday afternoon (skip to the beat or netball) and Tuesday morning (Gymnastics).
Music
We will begin to use glockenspiels and recorders/toots 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.
We shared our Christmas songs with the residents at Mistley Manor.
Year three were very excited to use their own bibles.
Some highlights for Year Three in Autumn term
Autumn Term 2
PE days will be on a Monday with Coach Mark and a Thursday, these sessions will involve ball skills, cool core and fitness levels.
Literacy-We will be looking at the book ‘The Tunnel’, we will look at the characters and setting.
Maths-we will continue our key maths methods.
We will have a science day and a Stone Age day (dressing up).
Great trip to The Naze, the children enjoyed the views from the top of the tower and fossil hunting on the beach. Lots of smiles and lots of sunshine
Welcome to Year Three 2022-3
Autumn Term 2022
Our Learning
Key Concepts - Identity, change, fairness, conflict, care and power.
How do we get from Stone Age to Steel?
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 early October.
Science Day - Autumn Term 2.
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 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 -
Multi-skills and Bootcamp with Mrs Glasgow and Mark (Tuesday and Thursday - Autumn term 1).
Music
We will use Charanga and also introduce 'toots and flutes'.
French
The children will begin to learn simple phrase and begin to learn numbers in french.
Highlights of Summer 2022
Roman Chariots
We have been designing and making our Roman Chariots in DT.
Summer Term 2022
Our Learning
Key Concepts - identity, change, fairness, conflict, care and power.
What did the Romans do for us?
We visited two local fruit farms, this supported our science topic 'Plants'. We were also lucky to have a visit from a local farmer and his tractor, who gave us a talk on how planting is done on his farm.
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 two trips planned for our plants topic-we are hoping to visit two local farms).
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 fractions and time.
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 -
Summer term one, athletics on a Monday and Wednesday afternoon PE with Mrs Glasgow.
Summer Term two, cricket with Masen @ Col U and Wednesday afternoon sports day practice 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.