Year 3

Spring Term 2 Planning 2020-2021

Our theme this half-term is based around the Geography topic North America. Through this theme, we will be exploring the theme of Fair Trade in Mexico and writing persuasive leaflets to buy such products sold in the local super markets. We will also be reading the story ‘The Tin Forest’ and writing persuasive letters to encourage others to look after our environment inspired by the story.. In RE, we will be focusing on sacred places, and in PSHE, we will be completing learning around the theme of ‘Healthy Me’. In Science, we will be focusing on the topic of plants, and to link to this, we will be making greenhouses in DT. In Music, we will be focusing on learning and appraising the song Dragon Song which all  about kindness, respect, friendship, acceptance and happiness.

Spring Term 1 Planning 2020-2021

Our theme this half-term is based around the Geography topic the Caribbean. Through this theme, we will be exploring the book ‘Gregory Cool’ and writing entertaining story sequels to explain what the main Character Lennox misses about Tobago. We will also be reading a selection of poems from ‘A Nest Full Of Stars’ and writing our own that reflect our own cultural identifies just like James Berry . To link to this, we will be exploring the work of Caribbean artists Romare Bearden and creating some of our own collage artwork in thestyle of his work. In RE, we will be focusing on worship, and in PSHE, we will be completing learning around the theme of challenge. In Science, we will be focusing on the topic of Animals Including Humans.

Autumn Term Planning 2020-2021

In year 3, we are learning all about the Stone Age. We will learn about what life was like to be a hunter gather and the village of Skara Bare on the Orkney Islands which is just to name a few bits of our exciting topic. We will also be handling real Historical Artefacts which we have borrowed from the local library. We will potentially be visiting Bestwood Country Park to acquire knowledge about foraging for fruit.

Spring Term Planning 2019/2020