Year 3
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The Wider Curriculum
Science: In science we will be building on our knowledge of senses, particularly sight. We will be investigating why we can see objects, because of the light and understand that we cannot see in the dark because of the absence of light. We will be looking at the different sources of light, both natural and artificial and carry out investigative activities to learn more about how shadows are formed.
Geography: this half term, we will be learning about mountains. We will look at how they are formed and learn about tectonic plates and how different types of mountains are formed in different ways. We will find and locate famous mountains of the world to develop our map skills. We will look at how tourism is different in mountainous regions and the positive and negative impacts this may have on the environment.
DT: In DT we will be continuing to develop skills in design and productions in textiles. Our outcome will be clothing for a doll or teddy. Throughout the process we will design a product, making sure it is suitable for purpose and think carefully about the materials and resources we would like to use. We will make a prototype and evaluate this before creating our final product for our doll or teddy. The key skill that we will be learning is to develop our ability to perform a running stitch and use this to join fabric together.
Jigsaw: This half term we will be looking at our Jigsaw unit of Changing Me. In this unit we will learn about how animals and humans grow from babies to fully grown. We will learn about how babies grow and develop in the mother’s uterus and what they need to live. We will also learn that boys and girls’ bodies need to change so that when we grow up, our bodies can make babies. For the final part of our Jigsaw learning we will be looking at family stereotypes and discuss our different ideas about parents’ roles within a family.
RE: In RE we will be answering the enquirer question, How does the teaching of the gurus move Sikhs from dark to light? We will be learning that Sikhs believe in one God ‘Waheguru’ and they believe he is the most wonderful teacher. We will learn that some Sikhs believe that guidance from God comes to humans through the ten Gurus. We will learn that Guru Nanak was the first Guru and that he wanted to teach people how they should live their lives and try to bring them into the light.
English
English:
Reading- During Summer 2, the fastest boy in the world.
We will be developing our skills learnt, through using our skill of skimming and scanning the text to retrieve, infer using the information from the text to justify and understand word meanings.
Our reading for pleasure book this half term is:
Some other books children may be interested in around our topics and book of authors being read in school this half term are:
Writing- In English, we will be developing our knowledge and writing skills used in non-fiction writing including diary entries and explanation text with a focus on our Guided reading book ‘The Fastest Boy in the World’ and a literacy shed video ’The Little shoemaker’. We will been developing our knowledge of key skills such as adverbs, conjunctions of cause, time and place and using prefixes sub-. anti, auto- and inter- .We will also be applying previously learnt skills such as first person and using headings and subheadings and paragraphing. By the end of the unit children will have written their own explanation text on ____- and written a diary entry from the perspective of a book character.
Spelling- In spellings we will be reviewing the ‘I’ sound spelt with a ‘y’, word families, contractions, homophones and near homophones as well as personal spelling practise taken from their English writing.
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Maths
Maths: In maths, we will be expanding our knowledge of time and shape. We will be learning how to tell the time to the nearest minute on both analogue and digital clocks and look at working out the duration between a start and an end time. In our shape units, we will be looking at angles, learning how to compare, measure and draw these accurately. We will also introduce new learning on parallel and perpendicular lines and use this vocabulary to help us describe different 2D and 3D shapes.
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