Year3
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Our Learning Wheel explained Our learners Our schools are small enough to ensure that each learner is known. By placing our learners at the centre of our approach, we create an education that allows individuality to flourish.
Developing character Fostering a secure bedrock of self-esteem and a sure moral compass is essential preparation for a future in a complex world.
Learning segments We group our subjects together into six curriculum areas. We teach subjects in an
integrated way, because the future belongs to those who can think way beyond narrow subject boundaries.
Learning to think Education is not just about imparting knowledge. It’s about teaching young people how to think for themselves: critically, creatively and collaboratively.
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Year 3 Curriculum Outline Summer 2019 Form Teachers: 3T - Miss Terry 3K - Mrs Knowles
Curriculum areas and subject teachers: Humanities - social understanding Mrs Knowles, Miss Terry (RS, PSHEE, thematic learning) Language and Communication Mrs Knowles, Miss Terry (English), Ms Prowse (French), Mrs Foreman (Spanish), Mrs Fernández Smart (Spanish) Mathematical Understanding Mrs Knowles, Miss Terry Physical Education and Well-being Mr Evans (Games), Mr Godfrey (Games), Mrs Parkin (Games), Mr Leggoe (PE) Creative and Performing Arts Mrs Knowles, Miss Terry (Creative and Design Engineering), M iss Mullaly (Music) Scientific Understanding Mrs Knowles, Miss Terry
Humanities - Social Understanding Key Topics Our thematic learning will extend back to prehistoric man in our whole term Scavengers and Settlers topic. We will study developments from the Stone Age to the Bronze and Iron Ages, thinking about what prompted and encouraged the change from a hunting and scavenging life to a settled, farming society. We will develop a greater understanding of chronology and will begin to understand the concept of evidence and to consider its interpretation.
Religious Studies Key Topics In RS we will study Sikhism as one of the six major world faiths. We will learn about the Sikh view of God as the Supreme Being, Guru Nanak, the main tenets of the Sikh faith, religious festivals and Sikh Gurdwaras (places of worship). Key skills will include describing religion, asking questions and responding sensitively, making comparisons and forming and expressing opinions.
Personal Social Health and Economic Education (PSHEE) Key Topics We will think about healthy and safer lifestyles. We will identify physical and emotional risks and suggest ways of reducing risk in everyday situations. We will learn more about how the body works and what it needs, and be able to explain that some choices are healthy and some are unhealthy. Demonstrating our good learning habits and the key skills of listening and talking to each other will, as always, be encouraged. Digital safety will continue to be reinforced.
Language and Communication English Key Topics Language and Literacy this term will cover a mystery story, a folktale, a non-chronological report and a biography. We will be developing the children’s reading comprehension and writing composition and teaching grammar, vocabulary development, critical thinking and spoken language. We use the Read, Write, Inc. ‘Language and Literacy’ scheme to ensure that children: ● Read fluently and with good understanding ● Acquire a wide vocabulary ● Use grammar correctly ● Develop the habit of reading widely for pleasure and information ● Write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences ● Use discussion in order to learn ● Be competent in speaking and listening and debating In addition we follow the Read, Write, Inc. ‘Spelling’ programme which is a robust and fast-paced scheme teaching children to spell accurately through an understanding of phonics and spelling rules, underpinned by regular practice.
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Spelling tests Half termly writing task Summer assessment
French Key Topics We will be looking at all things to do with food and drinks, getting ready to order from the menu and buy things with confidence for the upcoming holidays! Pupils will start with fruits, then link these to ice cream, jam and yoghurt flavours and fruit drinks. We will then progress to ordering sandwiches and breakfast, dealing with basic cafe and restaurant menus and market situations. Pupils will learn through songs, rhymes, conversation, reading of menus and basic writing. To help at home: pupils can practise vocabulary and conversation from the free website languagesonline.org.uk
Spanish Key Topics
The focus for this term will be based around the story of the hungry caterpillar, which will give pupils a chance to talk about which fruit they like or don’t like and to consolidate vocabulary such as days of the week and adjectives of colour. The languages collaboration day will give Year 3 the chance to work with their friends on a variety of activities inspired by the beautiful arabic art and architecture of the Mezquita in Córdoba. There will also be a variety of activities that will complement the Thematic Learning topics. The focus will be on speaking and listening with stories, songs, rhymes and language learning games. Pupils are encouraged to use Linguascope or Grow Story Grow in order to consolidate their learning in their own time.
Mathematical Understanding Key Topics
We will continue to work on fractions, understanding and recognising both unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators. We will count up and down in tenths, and start to use decimal numbers; recognise and use fractions as numbers; compare fractions and find equivalent fractions, and add and subtract fractions. We will further develop measuring and estimating skills including time, length, mass and capacity, and explore the properties of shapes. Our approach to learning and teaching mathematics is based on direct interactive teaching, a systematic development of mental calculation and regular reinforcement of tables and number bonds. Children are expected to involve themselves actively in answering questions, to contribute to discussions, and to explain and demonstrate understanding of their learning to others (including using talk partners). We use a wide variety of resources - concrete, pictorial, abstract and digital - to help pupils to develop mastery in each topic. The children are challenged to use and apply their skills through regular problem solving, and homework is set weekly to reinforce current topics. You can help your child by: ● practising telling the time accurately on both analogue and digital clocks; ● involving your child in practical tasks using mass or capacity, eg weighing and measuring.
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In-class topic tests Summer assessment
Physical Education and Well-being Key Topics A variety of striking and fielding activities alongside athletics will be the focus in games lessons. Pupils will learn key skills and techniques required in these sports and begin to understand some of the rules and regulations within these activities. We aim to develop technique and allow the students to apply what they have learnt in a variety of practical situations. Pupils will continue to have their Fencing session with Cambridge Sword every Thursday morning during the first half of term, before switching to swimming on a Thursday morning after the May half term. Swimming lessons will focus on improving their stroke techniques and basic water safety. How you can help: If your child has a sporting interest, encourage them to join a club outside school and any clubs within school time. Encourage your child to engage in a healthy lifestyle by eating the correct food and participating in sport. Play a mixture of team and individual sports with your child to help develop their basic skills including throwing and catching. Encourage swimming outside school time.
Creative and Performing Arts Key Topics In music, pupils will explore programmatic music through close study of Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Pupils will have lots of opportunity to develop their own animal-inspired compositions on a range of acoustic instruments. By the end of the topic, the class will create their own ‘Carnival of the Year 3 Animals’. There will be an emphasis on two-part singing, recorder playing and the continual growth and peer appraisal of practical and theoretical skills. In create we will look to nature for materials and colours to produce cave paintings. We will develop our design and engineering skills to produce moving iron age chariots. We will showcase these, having studied the machine designs by Leonardo Da Vinci, at our Summer Exhibition.
Scientific Understanding Key Topics In science we will learn about the human skeleton, looking at bones, joints and muscles. We will assess the effects of exercise and diet on our bodies. We will investigate how light travels and how shadows are made. We focus both on knowledge and on scientific skills, emphasising observations, fair tests, predictions and recording our results. You can help at home by encouraging your child to make predictions about a scenario, asking why might that happen and what could the result be?