Year 3

Year 3 has children aged 7-8 years old. We have 3 classes in year 3, with 30 pupils in each class.

The classes are named after famous people, They are Brontë, Hockney and Nightingale.

The teachers in Year 3 are Mrs Jones in Bronte, Miss Rehman in Hockney and Mrs Ahmed in Nightingale. They are supported by Teaching and Learning Partners Miss Rasool, Mrs Sheikh and Mrs Mehmood.

What will we be learning this year?

Autumn 1 Term

Curriculum Theme: Why do people choose to live in dangerous places? (Volcanoes and Earthquakes)
Literacy: Story Opening – Fiction: Escape from Pompeii. Description fiction – floods.
Supporting texts: Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit.
Science: Rocks and soils.
Maths: Place Value – numbers to 1000.

Autumn 2 Term

Curriculum Theme: Why do people choose to live in dangerous places? (Continued)
Literacy: Poetry: silly poems from our book spine: Michael Rosen.
Supporting texts: Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet by Zanib Mian
Science: Forces and Magnets.
Maths: Place Value – numbers to 1000.

Spring 1 Term

Curriculum Theme: How did humankind move from surviving to thriving? (Human Prehistory)
Literacy: Narrative text: The wild girl, Instructions: How to catch a woolly mammoth.
Supporting texts: The Boy with the Bronze Axe by Kathleen Fidler
Science: Animals including humans.
Maths: Addition and subtraction.

Spring 2 Term

Curriculum Theme: Environment (Farming/Food/Water/Trade)
Literacy: Stone Age Boy.
Supporting texts: You’re a Bad Man Mr Gum by Andy Stanton.
Science: Animals including humans.
Maths: Geometry.

summer 1 Term

Curriculum Theme: What makes a civilisation significant? (Ancient Egypt)
Literacy: Description of a tomb, Diary entry of an Egyptian.
Science: Plants.
Maths: Multiplication and Division.

summer 2 Term

Curriculum Theme: What makes a civilisation significant? (Continued)
Literacy: Non-chronological reports: Egypt now and then.
Supporting texts: Matilda by Roald Dahl.
Science: Light and Shadow.
Maths: Fractions.