YEAR THREE: SUMMER TERM

ITS SUMMER IN YEAR 3!

OUR CORE INTENTION IN ACTION

Take a look at the page below, including our curriculum project posters and mats, and download copies at the base of the page.

We have looked at the work of Mark Rothko during our painting studies during Art & Design. We then attempted our own pharaoh profiles using paints in our own sketchbooks and final pieces. Summer means composing in Music: we have tried to create a simple set of sounds to accompany of story. Almost creating the idea of early soundtrack to capture mood.

As our chronological 'I Dream of Being' historical journey continues we take a slight departure and look at The Ancient Egyptians. We deliberately study this civilisation at this point with its overlaps to the Romans. Allowing us to feed into each other and build from what we discovered before. Geography asks What are rivers so important? This is a study of human and physical geography and allows us to study rivers in our locality but also touch upon their importance in relation to our previous theme of farming. Our Religious Education work focus upon learning about the Book of Proverbs. We think about how it can be relevant today and then ask if there are rules for living.

We look at the life cycle of plants, the conditions for life and growth and the jobs of the different parts of flowering plants during our Science studies this term. For our Computing work, we look at databases and consider what they are and what they can hold. Looking at ways they can be sorted and filtered to help us find the information that we need in a quicker manner. Networks, the internet and websites are the ongoing feature of our computing systems work. We study 'Les Vetements' (My Clothes) and 'Les Saisons' (The Seasons) in our final term of French work in Year 3.

The children have chance to develop their food and diet work during their Design & Technology project. Inspired by the TV programme, the children will create bread during The Great Egyptian Bake Off. Athletics and netball based sport specific and motor competence skills are the projects undertaken in Physical Education.

Continually building our mathematical understanding, again we have a major timestable focus. Fractions, time, shape, mass and capacity are our other units/projects for this term. The Missing Mummy (an exciting entertainment project), The Ancient Egyptians (an information piece) and Get Carter (a persuasive letter) form the basis for our three English projects this term. All with a historical spark! 

During My Happy Mind/PSHE & Relationships work we focus upon how we deal with sad times and times of change and discuss what we can do to try and come through these difficult periods. We also consider what is a community and what makes a community work. Our E-Safety work focuses upon search engines, how these sometimes go wrong and how we can try to follow lines of enquiry safely on there, whilst spotting signs of danger.