Ferney Lee Primary School

What Year 3 are learning about this half term?

Welcome to Year 3

Our previous learning

Spring 1

Our key Geographical enquiry question is : Are volcanoes and mountains linked?

In our Geography lessons, we will learn about the structure of the earth and how volcanoes and mountains are formed.

In English, we will complete a non chronological report on fictional extinct animals. We will use the text 'Last: The story of the white rhino.' by Nicola Davis to support our reports. This unit focusses heavily on the key skills learnt in our PVPG unit of work of being able to punctuate and build single clause and multi-clause sentences successfully and will consolidate grammatical language.

For our class text, we continue to read, 'The Wild Robot', by Peter Brown

In Science, our unit is Rocks. Our key enquiry question is: What types of rock are there?

In Art, our unit is Chromatic. Our key question is: What is illustration.

We will also create volcano art inspired by Andy Warhol's painting of Mount Vesuvius

In French, our unit is French playground games - numbers, time and age.

In Music, our unit is Developing singing techniques

In RE, our unit is How do people express spirituality?

In PE, our unit is Gymnastics.

In Computing, our unit is Google - Email

In RHE, our unit is Caring and responsibility.

Autumn 2

Our key Historical enquiry question is : How did life progress throughout the Stone Age?

In English, we will complete our Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar unit concentrating on different nouns, verbs and clauses to create accurate sentence structure. For our class text, we will be reading, 'The Wild Robot', by Peter Brown

In Maths, we will learn addition and subtraction. In the unit we will develop our understanding of the key skills of formal addition and subtraction through place value, checking strategies and mental methods.

n Science, our unit is Animal including Humans. Our key enquiry question is: Are all skeletons the same?

In Art, our unit is Painting with mixed media: Prehistoric Art.

In Computing, our unit is Programming - Scratch

In French, our unit is French adjectives for shape, colour and size.

In RE, we will continue our unit on How do Jew remember God’s convent Abraham and Moses?

In Music, we will continue to learn to play the Ukulele with Mrs Morrison.

In PE, our unit is Dance

In RHE, our unit is Similarities and difference

Autumn 1

In our first half term, our Geographical enquiry question is: What physical features make Britain a good place to settle?

In our Geography lessons, we will identify the counties and regions of the UK, research how land is used in different settlements and identify human and physical features on a map.

In English, we will complete a Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar unit concentrating on different nouns, verbs and clauses to create accurate sentence structure.

For our class text, we will be reading, 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes.

In Maths, we will learn about the Place Value of numbers up to 1000, which includes rounding, ordering, comparing and representing numbers in different ways.

In Science, our unit is Forces and Magnets. Our key enquiry question is: Are all materials magnetic?

In Art, our unit is Monochromatic, we will learn how artists draw faces.

In PE, our first unit is Invasion Games

In Music, we will learn to play the Ukulele with Mrs Morrison.

In RHE, our unit is Healthy and Happy Friendships. In the unit we will learn what the different qualities of a healthy, happy friendship are.

In RE, our unit is How do Jew remember God’s convent Abraham and Moses?

In French, our unit is French Greetings. In the unit we will look carefully at the speaker and respond confidently with the appropriate gesture and phrase.

In Computing, our unit is Networks and the Internet. We will also learn how to stay safe online.