Term 1 - "The magic Faraway tree" by Enid blyton

The Magic Faraway Tree is the second story in the Faraway Tree series. This book will transport children to multiple lands of fantasy and wonder. It has been chosen as our class text to inspire children to explore their imaginations when writing stories and to develop a love of reading for pleasure.

If you enjoy this book, here are some other suggestions of books you may like to read.

 

 

Term 1

This term we will be learning about three different genres of writing. 

By the end of this term, the children will have written a letter, written a persuasive text and a diary entry. The books that we will use to support our learning will be 'The Stone Age Boy' by Satoshi Kitamura and 'How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth' by Michelle Robinson.

We will be focusing on our sentence structure by making sure capital letters and full stops are in the right place and we will be using difference sentence types with exclamation and question marks.

In our spelling lessons, we are following the Read, Write Inc Scheme which has a different focus each week. The children get to practice their new skills in these lessons and transfer them into their writing.

  

                                        

Term 2

In our English lessons this terms, we will be using our class text to support development of our descriptive writing. We will be writing setting description using a range of descriptive techniques and thinking about how we can extend the vocabulary that we use in our writing.  In terms of developing our grammar and punctuation, we will begin to use inverted commas to show direct speech.

In some of our English lessons this term, we will also develop our non-fiction writing skills by writing about what we learn about magnets from our science enquiry. This will involve the use of headings, sub-headings and paragraphs.

                                             

In term 3, our English lessons will be linked to our scientific and geographical enquiries for the term.  We will start the new year by writing acrostic poems about our impressions of volcanoes. This forms an introductory unit to our geographical enquiry.

We will then use non-fiction text such as 'The Science of Rocks and Minerals' by Alex Woolf to support our non-chronological reports about what the Earth is made of.  We are also using 'The Pebble in my Pocket' by Meredith Hooper to fully appreciate how interesting rocks can be. 

                                            

Term 3

Term 4

In term 4, our English lessons will be used to support the development of our story writing skills. We will use short stories like 'Into the Forest' by Anthony Browne to consider how we can develop the beginning, middle and end of our stories. We will also develop our use of speech in our stories using the correct punctuation.

                         

Term 5

In term 5, we will begin with creating a graphic novel based on the wordless picture book Flotsam. We will also start to look at what a clause and a phrase is and how we could use both in a sentence. 

We will finish the term using the BFG playscript to create a drama performance using correct intonation and volume. 

                                                

Term 6

In Term 6, we will be looking into Roman mythology. This links into this terms history enquiry. We will be retelling the Roman myth 'The Olympians'. This term we will be applying all of our practise on subordinate clauses!

Year 3 Maths Long Term Plan

  

Term 1 - Place value, Addition & Subtraction

The first term starts with the children learning place value for numbers up to one thousand. They will be able to read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1000 and determine the value of each digit. 

As the term continues, we will be moving onto addition and subtraction. In this unit, the children will be applying their place value knowledge to add and subtract 3-digit numbers using mental methods. We will then move on to using formal written methods and using the inverse to solve missing number problems.

To help at home, the children can practice their skills by logging onto IXL and TTRockstars.

 

Term 1 - What are magnets and how can they be useful?

Term 1 Science lessons will be all about magnets and forces.

We will investigate the force of friction and then explore the properties of magnets. Our experiments will involve finding out which materials are attracted to magnets, discovering the magnetic forces of repulsion and attraction and how these forces relate to the poles of a magnet. We will also think about how magnets are used.

Term 1 - What was prehistoric life like for HUMANS?

To answer this question we will be learning about the typical lifestyle of a Stone Age person living in Britain. We will explore examples of Stone Age settlements like Skara Brae and draw conclusions from archaeological evidence that has been recovered. Then we will consider how life may have changed for people during the Stone Age when people began to farm.