Year 3
Please support in ensuring your child reads at least 5x a week and encouraging them to use Doodle regularly at home.
Homework will be sent out on a Thursday, to be marked together as a class the following week.
Autumn 1
What Makes Me Special?
By exploring the characters of Lila (The Firework-Makers Daughter' and Nim (Nim's Island) the children will unpick the attributes determined, dedicated and motivated. The children will recognise the positives of these attributes and how they enabled the characters to fulful their ambitions. They will understand that barriers and stereotypes can be broken and how they can break down their own barriers.
The children will develop self-awareness about the skills and interests they have. After looking at their own skills, children will be able to articulate their aspirations for their futures.
Autumn 2
Through the Ages
The children are challenged to bring the Stone Age, Bronze and Iron Age to life. Through recreating life during this time and recounting events, our historians will create a tourist poster for Time Travel Tours for the period which they think was best of the three to live in. Our Year 6 audience will read our posters and choose which time period they would like to visit. In order to ensure a greater understanding of chronology, the children will also study the theme of tools, farming and burials and how inventions throughout history have impacted on modern day living.
Spring 1
Our Story
Throughout the topic, the children will develop their understanding of what a community is. They will unpick the positive role that they play within a community and how they can contribute to make their community even better. With a focus on the school community initially, the children will raise awareness of the littering issue with their fellow pupils. Linking back to the hook, the children will discuss the positive contribution that they can make to their community and how to share this with their community.
Spring 2
Are We Nearly There Yet?
The children arrive at school and find a range of items in the shared area linked to National Parks, and the different activities tourists can take part in. In order to achieve this successfully, they will need to get an understanding of their local geography and understand how to use maps. A variety of activities using maps, will develop their knowledge of the physical and human geography of different National Parks. Children will engage in fieldwork in their locality to explore biomes, with a focus on temperate biomes. The topic culminates with the children creating a tourism board, which they will present to an audience.
Summer 1
Who is afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
The children discover that The Big Bad Wolf has destroyed the Three Little Pigs’ homes and begin to investigate the truth behind the story. Opportunities are given to them to look at things from different viewpoints and to develop an understanding that there are at least two sides to every story. Using a range of subjects and skills, children will gather evidence to be able to consider whether the wolf is guilty or innocent. Speaking and listening skills feature highly in this topic as children have the opportunity to speak in both formal and informal discussion, supported through drama.
The topic culminates in a court case where the children must make a decision based on the evidence they have assembled. They decide whether or not the wolf is guilty, and with this, a means of punishment that doesn’t take away from him any of his rights.
Children relate articles from the UNCRC to the story throughout this topic in a meaningful context, which is relevant to their own lives. It is an opportunity for children to explore what is fair and unfair.
Summer 2
What have the Romans done for us?
During our History-led topic this half-term, the children will explore the impact of the Roman invasion in Britain, and what life was like before they conquered. This project will build on the work that the children have completed earlier in Year 3, where they have studied the Stone Age through to the Bronze Age, a time when the Romans began to build their empire.
Throughout the topic, children will look at why the Romans invaded Britain, as well as the legacy of the invasion and the impact on life in Britain, and within the Roman Empire. The project does not only aim to increase the depth of the children’s factual knowledge and understanding, but it will also focus on developing the children’s historical enquiry and chronology skills.
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