Church of England Junior School
Achieving more together
We are following the National Curriculum which provides a balanced and broad curriculum – promoting spiritual, moral, cultural,
mental and physical development & preparing pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life. Click here
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Year Three
Spring Term 2017
Dahl, the Play and Me/ Romans: Ruthless or Remarkable?
Subject
Areas covered
Learning
Enrichment
English
Mathematics
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Science
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Art and
design
History
Computing
Design and
technology
Languages
(French)
Music
Physical
Education
Physical,
Social, Health
Education
(PSHE)
Religious
Education
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Play based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Orchestra Unwrapped with the Philharmonic Orchestra at the Anvil
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Trip to Fishbourne Roman Villa
Texts:
Reading skills:
Writing genres:
Writing skills:
Charlie and the
Predicting
Narrative writing
Simple and compound
Chocolate Factory
Clarifying
Play scripts
sentences
Matilda
Retrieval
Instructions
Use of conjunctions
James and the Giant
Inference
Explanation texts
Speech
Peach
Comparing
Descriptive writing
Exaggerated language
George’s Marvellous
Irregular past tense
Medicine
Use of adverbs
Concepts covered:
Multiplication tables 3 & 4
Place value
Reading the time
Representing number
Common 3D shapes and right angles
Mental addition and subtraction
Measurement- length –perimeter
Formal methods
Interpret bar charts
Recall multiplication and division facts
Missing number problems
Fractions- visuals
Multiplication and division/ arrays
Counting in tenths
Addition and subtraction problems
Light - exploring light sources and how we use light to see. Understanding how light reflects and travels and what materials
block light to create shadows?
Longitudinal school grounds study: How do plants grow? What do they need? What are optimum conditions for growth?
Printing portraits influenced by Quentin Blake.
Making and using contrasting colours.
Colour mixing and matching.
Paper Mache.
The Romans: How significant was the Roman invasion of Britain?
Scratch programming.
Finding and correcting bugs in programmes.
Designing and making, using textiles, elements for our stage set and evaluate their effectiveness and to apply our
understanding of how to strengthen and reinforce these as necessary.
Food technology- designing and making a Roman salad.
Celebrations. What are we good at? Je nage, Je dance, Je lis?
Colours. Parts of the body. Designing and describing our own monsters in French.
Learning songs for our year three performance at the start of the term, thinking about how to produce a good sound quality
with our voices, about breathing and singing with expression.
Roman Fanfares.
Indoor: Gym – developing flexibility, strength and technique through gymnastics.
Dance – to perform a dance using a range of movements
Outdoor: Tennis – comparing our performances and demonstrating improvement to achieve our personal best.
Field Hockey – learning the skills required of attacking and defending and putting them into practice in 3 v 3 games.
A focus on feelings – developing the language of our feelings, learn how to express them & recognise the impact of feelings
on others
Keeping safe in school – considering how to make school a safe place and considering our impact upon others
We follow the “Living Difference” syllabus devised by Hampshire Inspection and Advisory service (more details).
Our two concepts or BIG ideas for the term are “Rituals – Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath” and “Emotions – the Easter story”.