Year 3 Summer Term Planning 2024

Welcome back everybody to the Summer Term. As ever, we shall be busy learning new things. 

Please remember PE is on a Thursday and Friday and PE kit should be in school for these days.

In English, we shall begin by continuing our writing about The Day the Crayons Quit and developing our persuasive writing skills, with a spelling focus of silent letters. We shall then return to our narrative writing skills which we first started in Autumn Term, by looking at a familiar text, Aladdin and an unfamiliar one, The Happy Prince. We shall then focus on explanation writing by writing about How Bees Make Honey before finally writing about Angler Fish - a busy term.

In our focused reading we shall look at King of the Skies by Nicola Davies, focusing on the theme and character of the story before looking at the Jacqueline Wilson story, The Suitcase Kid.

In Spelling we will use our Read, Write Inc practice books and spelling logs. We will also be making sure we can spell our Y1 and Y2 words and begin to learn spellings from the Year 3 and Year 4 word list. We shall also focus on grammar this term looking at word objectives, sentence objectives and punctuation in readiness for Year 4.

In Maths, we will be continuing to look at fractions including adding and subtracting simple fractions and considering equivalent fractions. We shall then look at money and time before considering shape. Children will also continue to explore measurement of length, mass and liquids.  

This will be supported by using Mathletics and your challenge is to earn  1000 points each week will earn you a Bronze certificate! Last year I saw children really developing their Maths knowledge by using Mathletics and hopefully the new challenge will help. Children will also use Times Table Rockstars to develop their recall of the times tables.

Children will continue to receive written homework with a focus on practicing their arithmetic skills. 

In Year 3 we have begun to look at the new Vine and Branches RE curriculum and this has changed the order of our learning this year. In RE this term we shall begin by looking at The Ends of the Earth. This begins with Jesus meeting with the disciples at the Meal of Emmaus before his Ascension. This will lead us to look at the early Church and at the life of St Paul. Our final topic this year will be Dialogue and Encounter where we look at the Jewish faith and the story of Moses and the Feast of Passover. We shall look briefly at  the similarities between Islam and Christianity before returning the our Christian faith.

In Science topic this term, we will learn about our skeletons and muscles and how we can look after our bodies with exercise and healthy eating. We will help advise some athletes on their exercise and eating to maximise their performance. We shall then look at plants and will explore this topic in our visit to Forest School.

In Geography we shall continue to learn about l the physical and human geography of the continent of North America. if anyone has any persoanl pictures of visits to North America they would be willing to share on Seesaw they would be very welcome.

In History we shall learn about the Romans, focusing specifically on our local area and Hadrian's Wall. We shall consider whether or not barriers between people are effective and how the Romans influenced British society to this day. I am hopeful that the children will be able to visit the Roman Army Museum and Vindolanda to bring this local history to life.

In Art we shall be learning to see like an artist.

In Computing, we will look using computers and electronic devices sensibly and safely before exploring Scratch and using a DARES challenge to make a character move across a screen. We are also going to take the opportunity to use the Micro:Bits to explore physical computing and make sequences to make sound - we shall also explore this with Garageband.

In PSHE, we will consider our Health and Wellbeing, specifically looking at keeping safe.  Children will also think about relationships, and the links to their feelings and emotions.  We will use PSHE themed comprehension tasks in Reading workshop.  Relax Kids will be part of life in Year 3. We will also have an active Class Council.

In our Ten:Ten lessons this term, we will learn the story of Jarius's daughter and how we are created and loved by God. We shall explore our relationships with other people and how they develop and what they mean to us.

In French we shall learn about animals and colours.

In PE we will be learning tennis and athletics with hopefully an improvement in the weather allowing us to be outside a lot more!

Mrs Dodds will be teaching music.