Year 3G 2018 - 2019

Mrs Gill

Well Year 3 it’s great to see you back after the holidays, for our final half-term! Let's hope the final few weeks bring us some fantastic weather. We have a trip to Blackpool Sea Life planned, we have St Peter's day and sports day coming up. A very exciting half term!

RE will be continuing looking at rules and how they affect other religions. We will be studying the Big Question: “How Can Following God Bring Freedom and Justice?” We will then move on to The Lord’s Prayer. We will look into this significant prayer and why Jesus taught it to us.

The children will look at Calligrams and Shape poetry in English. Children learn features of recount writing and write their own recounts based on The Magical Garden of Monet and The Journey. Maths will be refining the skills we have developed over the course of the year with more multiplication and division methods as well as lots of reasoning and problem solving.

Our science topic will be focusing of animals including humans, this involves looking at nutrition how animals and humans gain this from their food. We are also looking at skeletons and muscle structures of bodies.

There will be a shift in our humanities lessons back to geography for this final half term. We are looking at the coastal regions of the country and the features that are typical of this environment. Our trip is linked into this as we shall be looking at some of the animal life that you'd find at the coast.

Textiles is where we get to have a huge amount of fun in art. A topic which will give children opportunity to try new skills and hopefully produce some lovely pieces of work to bring home and show off to all of you! Our computing topic is going to expand the children's critical thinking skills. This topic is all about finding and fixing bugs. This is another way of describing problem solving. The process can be achieved both with and without technology and can be applied to many different subjects.

DT’s focus will still be on our packaging topic, the children have enjoyed looking at the marketing and physical structures of various packaging and have even completed the design for their own! This last half term will be using those skills to craft their creations and design them using environmentally friendly attitudes.

We really hope you have enjoyed your year with us and look forward to a very busy yet rewarding final half term. Don't forget to be reading as much as possible at home and practising those times tables!