TOPICS/CURRICULUM

Summer Term 2

We hope you all had a lovely, restful half term break.

We can hardly believe that we are in the last half term of Year 3 already.

We continue to have a Geography focus for our ‘Explore’ topic this half term. Our enquiry question continues to be “How would you deal with a disaster?”

Hopefully, the sunshine and warmth will continue this half term as we look forward to our upcoming events. Towards the latter part of the half term, we will be looking ahead to Year 4.

Please ensure that children have a water bottle in school during our warmer weeks, and sun hats/sun cream when appropriate!

Summer Term 2 Topic: - Explore - Volcanoes and Earthquakes

We will be learning:

About hurricanes in and around the UK
How earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur
That earthquakes can cause tsunamis and other disasters.
That volcanoes and earthquakes can have a negative and a positive effect on the environment around them
That Japan and Indonesia are significant countries in regard to volcanoes and earthquakes
How countries prepare and deal with natural disasters.

Our project concepts this term are: fear, value, adversity and consequence.

English Learning

In English, we will be looking at the story, Escape from

Pompeii by Christina Balit.

We will be learning:

To respond to a text giving our thoughts and feelings about what has happened, what we like or don’t like, how we feel about the characters
To plan and write a recount in role as a given character
About the features of leaflets and how to plan and create one
To plan and write poems of varying structures

Mathematical Learning

This half term we will be learning:

What a unit fraction is
To compare and order unit fractions based on the denominator
That the greater the denominator, the smaller the fraction
To place fractions between 0 and 1 on a number line
To identify what a non-unit fraction is
To compare non-unit fractions with the same denominator
To add up fractions with the same denominator
To add on fractions with the same denominator
To subtract fractions with the same denominator
To subtract fractions from a whole by converting the whole to a fraction

PSHE Learning

We will continue our unit on Economic wellbeing.

We will be thinking about:

Understanding our feelings about money
The impact of spending
The wide range of available jobs and opportunities

Towards the end of the year we will be looking ahead to September and transitioning to Year 4. We will consider what we are proud of and what we have achieved during our time in Year 3. We will think about what we are looking forward to about Year 4 and what we want our goal for next year to be.

French Learning

We will be look at the story of Little Red Riding Hood and learning how to say different parts of the body in French.

Scientific Learning

We will be looking at magnets!

We will learn:

Every magnet has two poles
Predict and understand when magnets will attract or repel
To sort items based on whether they are magnetic or not
That magnetism works at a distance

Music Learning

We will be working through our next unit on Charanga about improvisation.

Computing Learning

We will be continuing our learning about how to plan and film a video trailer for a book. The children will be learning to use iMovie to film and edit.

PE Learning

Indoor PE – We will be focusing on shape during our gymnastic lessons.

Outdoor PE – We will be developing our existing running, jumping and throwing skills in preparation for Sports Day. We will also be looking at striking and fielding: considering how to catch a ball, throw and strike a ball with increasing accuracy.

Faith and Wonder Learning

This half term, we will be looking at the first chapters of Genesis to understand the Christian story of creation. We will look at what God created on each day and think about the story of Adam and Eve. We will also look at the ‘Creation’ section of the Big Frieze artwork.

How can you help?

Continuing to read regularly at home to an adult, with lots of discussion about the books.
Supporting your child with learning their spellings, discussing the meanings of words, putting them into sentences and reviewing spellings from previous weeks.
Lots of regular times table testing and quick maths skills following the instructions indicated on the home learning sheets. The faster the response, the better!
All of this will be on the weekly home learning sheets.

Events/Trips planned for this half term

Tuesday 17th June – Year 3 and 4 Sports morning, 9:15 - 10.30am
Wednesday 18th June – Class photos
Friday 20th June – Community Links theatre visit
Tuesday 24th June – St Margaret’s Church service, 10am
Wednesday 25th June – The Big Sing at The Angmering School – further details to follow
Tuesday 1st July – Legacy Games at The Angmering School – further details to follow
Wednesday 2nd July – Transition Day
Friday 18th July – Last day of term
Further dates and information may come out from the Office throughout the half term.

If you have any resources you are happy to loan to us or have any particular knowledge about any of our focuses, please let us know.

Class emails:-

badger@stmargaretsprimary.org.uk

otter@stmargaretsprimary.org.uk

The Year 3 team