YEAR 3 CURRICULUM SPRING Term 2010

YEAR 3

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Our class theme this term is ‘The Iron Man / recycling’

These are the main areas of learning that we will be working on this term:

Literacy:

· Writing instructional texts

· Poetry

Writing an adventure / mystery story

Mathematics:

· Develop understanding of place value

· Be able to solve problems using numbers, measures, time and money

· Classify shapes

· Develop methods of multiplying and dividing

· Use inverse operations

· Be able to follow and describe a route

· Be able to find unit fractions

Science:

· Know the characteristics of different materials

· Understand why we use different materials for different purposes

· Be able to carry out a simple test

· Understand concept of ‘fair test’

Geography / History:

·      Know what Rugby was like in the past

·      Understand why people settled here

·      Identify ways in which rugby has grown

P.E:        

·      Dance

PSHE:

Our themes will be:

·      Changes

·      It’s Good To Be

 

Art / Design Technology:

·      Using simple pneumatics to produce movement in a model

Music:

·      We will continue working with Mrs. Wormley from County Music Services to build up our ability to produce rhythmic patterns

ICT:

·      Using simulations to predict what might happen next, then test this

·      Communicating via safe e-mails

 

French:

·      Playground songs / games

R.E:

·      Making choices – understanding why there are some rules that we have to abide by while having freedom to choose our behaviours in other situations

·      Remembering – thinking about how we remember people we have loved who are no longer with us. Reflecting on why we want to remember them.

 

Homework: please make sure that your child practises his/her spellings every day and completes any homework set, returning it by Thursday at the latest. It is especially beneficial if your child practises spellings in the context of a sentence. Home Readers will be changed on a Friday this term and sent home on Mondays. Please make sure Home Readers are returned by Friday.

Please make sure that your child has his/her Link Book in school every day. This is our way of communicating information to you as well as acting as an aide memoir for your child. Please sign it at the end of each school week but look at it regularly, as the children make a note in it of letters that are going home. These also contain our only record of how many merits the children have so if the Link Book is lost, your child may miss out on merit badges.

 

PE kit: the children should always have in school, shorts, t-shirt, pumps or trainers. It is a good idea for the girls to have a pair of socks in school in case they are wearing tights on PE day. P.E will be on Wednesdays and Fridays this term.

 

Year 3/4 production: Just before we break up for the Easter holiday we will be performing a musical related to saving our planet. More details of this will be sent home soon.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for supporting your children with their learning; it makes such a difference when the children know that their families take an interest in what they do at school. It was great to have so many playscripts written at home and brought in for us to act out.