Year 3

Mrs Joyce & Miss McHale/Mrs Aqib

Art – As artists we will:

• Learn how to use line and tone in their drawing.
• Draw an imaginary creature using ‘The Hippocrump’ poem as inspiration.
• Learn how to mix paint tints, and the paint effects of tonking and sgraffito.
• Paint using techniques seen in Van Gogh and Sean Scully’s work.
• Create a variety of monoprints and a relief stamp print.
• Learn how to create inlaid and relief clay work.
• Turn a 2d painting into a 3d object using Howard Hodgkin’s work.

Computing –As computer technicians we will:

• Look and understand how to keep safe on line — internet safety, e-safety and cyber safety.
• Maximise our awareness of personal safety and security risks to private information and property associated with using the internet, and the self-protection from computer crime.
• Use a keyboard with one finger and type without using sight, recognizing the location of the key on a keyboard.

Design Technology – As designers we will:

• Design, make and evaluate a healthy sandwich.
• Use sewing skills to make decorative panels.
• Build structures for packaging.
• Investigate real life design and learn about designers.

Geography – As geographers we will :

• Research and understand how earthquakes and volcanoes are formed.
• Be able to locate volcanoes around the world.
• Describe routes and places using maps of our local area.
• Learn about land use, settlements and trade around the world.
• Interpret a range of geographical sources to gather information.

History – As historians we will :

• Study the Stone Age to the Iron Age.
• Learn about the impact the Romans had on Britain
• Find out how the ancient civilisation of Egypt lived.
• Recognise the part archaeologists have had in helping us to find out about the past.
• Use various sources of evidence to answer questions.

Maths – As mathematicians we will :

• Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number.
• Read and write numerals to 100 in numbers and words.
• Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 and estimate numbers .
• Round to the nearest multiple of 10 and 100.
• Add and subtract numbers mentally including 3-digit numbers and units, tens, and hundreds.
• Solve problems including missing numbers and place value and more complex addition and subtraction.
• Use and recall multiplication and division facts for 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
• Be able to multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number.
• Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number.
• Solve problems including missing numbers involving multiplication and division.
• Part-whole relationships.
• Fractions as part of a whole or a whole set and as a number.
• Add, subtract, compare and order fractions.
• Tell, record, write and order the time analogue and digital.
• Learn to measure, compare and add and subtract lengths.
• Learn how to measure the perimeter of simple 2D shapes.
• Learn how to identify horizontal, vertical, perpendicular and parallel lines in relation to other lines.
• Collect interpret and present data using charts and table.
• Identify angles including right angles and recognise as a quarter of a turn.

English – As writers and communicators we will :

• Write adventure stories.
• Describe settings and develop characters.
• Write newspaper reports.
• Write instructions and directions.
• Write non-chronological reports.
• Write diary entries.
• Use wider range of conjunctions and sentence structures.
• Become more accurate in our use of more sophisticated punctuation.
• Spell most of the Y2 and Y3 common exception words correctly.
• Read and listen to a wide range of styles of text.
• Read and listen to whole books.
• Make predictions based on what we have read, identify features of text and use them in our writing.
• Use the text and inference to answer questions.
• Read with fluency and have good prosody.
• Engage in meaningful discussions in all areas of the curriculum as a ‘We are a talking School’.
• Listen to and learn a wide range of subject specific vocabulary.

French — As linguists we will:

• Develop our understanding of how to introduce myself in French.
• Recognise and Count from 0 –20 in French.
• Introduce ourselves

• Investigate and interpret the past.
• Understand chronology.
• Communicate historically.
• Be able to name various types of fruits, vegetables and animals.
• Learn a Fairy Tale (Little Red Riding Hood) and recall it using French words to explain it.
• Understand different traditions and celebrations.

Music  – As musicians we will :

• Explore the Musical Spotlights and Social Questions within each unit.

• Begin to use music notation and start to put sound together with symbol where appropriate.
• Listen to and learn about musical styles and how music has changed and shaped lives around the world.
• Think about and explore how singing and playing together can create beautiful sounds and experiences.
• Play instruments together with more confidence and expression.
• Explore where they improvise in a song.
• Using their imaginations when composing using graphic scores and Music Explorer.
• Plan and create a performance with an understanding of the songs they are singing and where they fit in the world.

P.E. – As athletes we will

• Continuing to develop our agility.
• Develop our balance and co-ordination through a range of sporting activities such as dance, gymnastics, Fitness.
• Be learning and combining a range of balances/poses to create a sequence.
  learn to be part of a team through sports like Netball, Rounders.
• Learn to exercise regularly to keep fit and healthy.

RPSHE – we will be looking at friendships and getting on with each other.

• We will focus on ourselves and why it is good to be me.
• We will be doing this through drama, reflective time in class, whole class discussions and artwork.
• We will understand the impact of bullying.
• We will learn and use our British Values.
• We will understand the various family set ups and to respect them.
• We will learn how to be a good friend, making positive relationships.
• We will learn what makes a community, what it is to belong to a groups and identifying the similarities and differences.
• We will look at the benefits of staying healthy and looking after teeth.
• We will look after our health and well-being by learning how to keeping active and taking rest.

R.E.  – As theologians we will :

• Learn about the Christian Family .
• Think about what it means to be part of a Christian family.
• Know that we can join the Christian family when we are baptized.
• Know what happens when we are baptised.
• Know baptism is a sacrament.
• We will learn about Mary our Mother and how she was the chosen one.
• We will understand that Jesus is our teacher and we will learn about the presentation at the Temple and his baptism.
• Through Parables, we will understand that Jesus called us for change.
• We will study the Easter and Pentecost story and realise we are all disciples to spread the Good News.

Science  – As scientists we will :

• Observe and compare different rock types.
• Observe and analyse fossils.
• Research Mary Anning and understand her role in the science of rocks and soils.
• Understand how rocks become soil.
• We will compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
• We will describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock
• We will recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter
• We will study plants and:
• identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers
• explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
• investigate the way in which water is transported within plants
• explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal
• We will learn about animals:
• identifying that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement
• We will learn about Light. We will:
• recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light
• notice that light is reflected from surfaces
• recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes
• recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object
• find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change

• We will learn about Forces and magnets: We will:
• compare how things move on different surfaces
• notice that some forces need contact between 2 objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance
• observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others
• compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials
• describe magnets as having 2 poles
• predict whether 2 magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing