Year 3

Welcome to Year Three!

Miss Brownbill and Miss Parkinson

Please check our school Twitter for weekly updates on what's happening in Year Three

@SWOYThornton

Spring Term

Religious Education

Domestic Church – Local Community

Journeys

Listening and Sharing

Literacy

Spring1

Author Study – Anthony Browne

Narrative Focus

Voices in the Park

Spring 2

Local Study

Thornton, then and now

Poetry – Local poet Roger McGough

Performance Poetry

Class Novel– Charlotte’s Webb by E.B.White

Numeracy

Number –Multiplication and Division

Within this unit, children will be taught to recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables.

Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods.

Solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objectives.

Formal written methods of multiplication and division.

Science

Spring 1

Animals including humans

Children will be taught to identify that animals, including humans need the right types and amounts of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food.

They will identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

Art and Design

Children will learn to compare and contrast the works of impressionist artists

They will study ‘The Water Lily Pond’ and create their own lilies using various media.

Design Technology

Health and Nutrition.

Making a healthy sandwich.

Children will apply the principles of a healthy, varied diet to choose the right ingredients for a sandwich and make sure their product looks attractive!

Geography

Children will study Volcanoes (Human and Physical Geography)

And also explore the local area using historical enquiry, studying continuity and change, and cause and consequence in periods of history.

History

Local History –Link to Literacy Topic

Children will study local history sites that are significant- The Stocks and Sundial- what do these tell us about life in the past of Thornton?  

Computing

Spring 1

Get Blogging

Children will explore -Email, Social Media, Texting, Phone, Blogging, Instant Messaging, Skype, Facetime

Spring 2

We are publishers

Children will create an eBook retelling the story of a famous book including illustrations that they will create themselves using

P.E

Spring term 1

Gymnastics

Children will be taught to consolidate and improve the quality of their actions, body shapes and balances and their ability to link phrases of movement

To improve their ability to select appropriate actions and use simple compositional ideas

To know the importance of suppleness and strength

To describe and evaluate the effectiveness and quality of a performance

Spring term 2

Cricket

Children will  learn how to strike a ball with accuracy and confidence

Understand the importance of warm up and warm down

Recognise god performance and what needs improving.

Music

Spring  1 and 2

Year Three will continue learning to play the recorder with Musician Mrs Davies.

Spanish

Senoirita Bradley will teach the children (among other things) how to speak about their self, family and friends, and how to discuss numbers, clothes and colours in Spanish.

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Homework will be given out each Friday afternoon and should be returned before the following Wednesday

Please feel free to come and speak to me if you have any questions, or would like any more information

Miss Brownbill