Year 3

This term of English work begins with the book Escape from Pompei. The children will be learning about the following:

to describe the senses of a scene; describe a setting; make inferences about a character; use the possessive apostrophe accurately; use conditional sentences to give advice; make inferences about how a character’s feelings have changed; create vivid descriptive sentences; write a vivid description; identify the features of newspaper articles; ask & answer questions in role. 

The spellings they will be learning are used within the book and have been carefully selected based on the statutory word lists for years 3 and 4. 

In Maths, we begin the term by learning about place value. We will continue with addition and subtraction, multiplication and division.  

In Science this term we will be learning about scientific enquiry. We will also be learning about animals, including humans.   

In RE we begin looking at Christianity. We will consider what Christians learn from the creation story. We will also learn about people of God. We will consider what it is like to follow God. 

This term’s topic work: 
Geography – Settlements. 
Music -All the learning is focused around a song.   We will use music games, consider the dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments.  
History – British History: stone age, bronze, iron age. 
Computing – Key skills for Year 3. 
PE – Indoor PE will be floor Gymnastics. Outdoor will be Hockey and Basketball. 
Art – Prehistoric Art.  
DT – Exploring food. 
PSHE –Keeping safe.
Spanish – Phonetics and Animals.