Writing:

Our writing learning will continue to follow the ‘Pathways to write’ scheme and this term our 2 focus texts will be ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker and ‘Zeraffa Giraffa’ by Dianne Hofmeyr.
In Summer 1, our learning will be leading up to writing our own adventure story based on ‘Journey’ using the language of Berlie Doherty’s text ‘Tilly Mint Tales’. We will learn how to:
Use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense; Use prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs to express time, place and cause; Group related ideas into paragraphs; Use a or an according to whether the next word begins with a vowel or a consonant; Use small details to describe characters;  Include a setting to create atmosphere; Sequence of events to follow the structure of the model story; Write an opening paragraph and further paragraphs for each stage; Create dialogue between characters that shows their relationship with each other; Use 3rd person consistently and use tenses appropriately.
In Summer 2, our learning will be leading up to writing a persuasive guide for visiting Zeraffa at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. We will learn how to:
Build an increasing range of sentence structures; In non-narrative material, use simple organisational devices including headings and sub-headings to aid presentation; Use present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive and present perfect form; Use persuasive language e.g. alliteration, repetition; Write in logical order; Use 2nd person or 3rd person to talk directly to the reader and select organisational features e.g. opening statement, sub-headings.

Reading:

Our reading will continue to follow the Grammarsaurus: Comprehension Crusher scheme and will begin in Summer 1 with reading non-fiction texts about the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. We will then learn about explanation texts and connect our History and Science learning by reading about mummification and the seasons. The Royal Escape will see us applying context to the focus text.
 

Spelling:

In the first half term, Year 3 will be learning about words with the suffix ‘er’; words where the digraph ‘ch’ makes a /k/ sound; words ending in ‘-gue’ and ‘-que’; words where the digraph ‘sc’ makes a /s/ sound and words that are homophones. In the second half term, our spelling learning will focus on challenge words (words with irregular spelling patterns) and then revision of the spelling rules covered throughout.

Maths:

In the Summer Term, Year 3 will continue to develop our knowledge and understanding of Fractions including how to add and subtract unit and non-unit fractions. We will then learn about measurements focussing on money including converting between pounds and pence and how to add and subtract. We will then learn about time including telling the time, reading the time on a digital clock and units of time. Following this, we will learn about shape in Geometry including angles and 2D and 3D shape properties and finally statistics where we will focus on understanding and using pictograms, bar charts and 2-way tables.

Science:

Our Science learning in the Summer Term will be ‘Flowering plants and plant growth’ in Summer 1, followed by ‘The life cycle of flowering plants’ in Summer 2. In the first half term, Year 3 will learn about the role function of leaves, stems, roots, the parts of a flowering plant and why plants need space to grow successfully. In the second half term we will know what pollination is and the different ways this can occur as well as different methods of seed dispersal in plants, fruits and vegetables.

History:

As our Summer Term topic is ‘Ancient Egypt: What made it so successful?’, our History learning will be an important part of this term. We will begin by finding out the answer to the question ‘How did Early Egypt begin and what was it like there?’ before moving on to knowing more about the ‘Old Kingdom’ including beliefs in Ancient gods and the afterlife, the role of the pyramids and significant changes as a result of the transition to the New Kingdom.

RSHE:

In RSHE, Year 3 will continue to link our ‘Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds’ learning whilst developing our knowledge of how to make healthy choices and dealing with feelings. In our equality and inclusion learning, we will be exploring the topic of including everyone and know that there is a protected characteristic of sexual orientation. As always, we will continue to learn about online safety and will become knowledgeable about the ways technology can be used to sadly bully others and strategies to address this.

Geography:

Our Geography learning will be based on the topic of ‘The conservation of bees’. We will learn about the importance of bees nationally and within our school environment. We will undertake fieldwork to investigate conservation strategies and record our findings as geographers.

Art:

In Art, our artist focus will be Georges Seurat. We will find out more about who he was and explore his style of art before learning more about the pointillism style whilst developing our skills of using different colours, shading and how other effects can be created.

Computing:

In computing, upon completion of our Computer systems and networks learning, Year 3 will be learning about events and actions in programming, including how to fix bugs and adapt a programme to a new context. In Summer 2, we will be learning about stop frame animations as part of our ‘Creating Media’ topic. We will know what an animation is, plan an animation and create this before reviewing and evaluating it.

RE:

Year 3 will be exploring the topic of Inspirational People From The Past. As part of our RE lessons we will be building upon our knowledge of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed. We will learn about:  who Abraham was, Moses and The Ten Commandments, The 10 Plagues and the miracles of Jesus and how Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed are inspirational people.

Music:  

 Our music lessons will see us exploring the structure of songs, the patterns within songs and improvising using our voices and instruments. During the topic Enjoying Improvisation, we will be learning and performing songs such as ‘He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands’and Panda Extravaganza. Opening Night will see us learning the songs, ‘Michael Row The Boat’ and ‘The Dragon Song.’ Keep your eyes peeled on Seesaw for videos of our progress.

Physical Education:

Wednesdays and Fridays are Jackals PE days this term.

Express Coaching lessons will see Jackals playing ‘Ball Games’ and we shall be honing the skill of hitting a ball with accuracy. Athletics will see us demonstrating a variety of jumps, under control and landing safely. During Summer 2 we will continue with Ball Games and shall be attacking and defending using a ball. We will also be getting in lots of practice for our Sports day races.

Modern Foreign Languages

French:

During the Summer Term, Year 3 will be continuing to build upon our French vocabulary. The two topic areas we shall be covering are: Les Glaces (Ice Creams) and Les Legumes (Vegetables).  By the end of the topic Les Glaces we will have learnt the names of ten flavours of ice cream, explored the determiners- ‘a’ and ‘the’ and placed these Wonderful Words into sentences in French. At the end of Les Legumes (Vegetables) we will be able to identify ten infinitive verbs and say whether we like or dislike the verb and write these in the written form.

Design and Technology:

During the second half of the Summer Term we will be undertaking a project to design and build a strong, defensive castle using recycling materials. We will be investigating the shapes of castles to see which shapes will help us design a castle that attackers can not breech. We will investigate the strength of both 2d and 3d shapes and use these to add not only strength but practical elements to our designs, such as turrets and curtain walls.