Geography
Complete study of earthquakes, volcanoes and
mountains.
Locate countries using maps, atlases and
globes to focus on Europe, examine key
physical and human characteristics of places
including major cities and contrasting
environments.
Look at biomes (types of climate) in Europe
and other places in the world, study and
compare world and European climates.
Use compass, grid references and OS symbols
and maps relating to areas in Southern
England.
Complete fieldwork on ideal sites for new
settlers, navigate their way around and make
their own trails and maps.
PSHCE
Differences. Growing up. Democracy.
PE/Games
Circuit Training
Athletics
Rounders
Dance – creative work linked in with Plants
topic to selected music.
Sports Day Practice.
How can we locate places
around the world? What
would it be like to live in
different climates?
Year 3
Writing skills linked around the
theme of the book ‘Escape from
Pompeii’
Including:
Descriptive writing
Biography/autobiography
Explanation text all about volcanoes
Making speeches
Persuasive writing
Develop a persuasive vocabulary and
apply this to advertising a holiday
resort in a particular climate,
complaining and presenting views
for/against an environmental issue.
Computing
Complete work on Scratch
projects.
Manipulate digital images i.e.
photographs combine text and
graphics, use data bases
demonstrate how a data base
sorts information.
Core Values
Working together to solve
problems, Elephant class core values
and celebrating diversity.
Science
Continue light topic. Notice that light is
reflected from surfaces, how shadows
are formed, and find patterns in the
way that the size of shadows change.
Plant topic – identify and describe
functions of different parts of
flowering plants, explore requirements
of plants for life and growth, which
climates they grow best in, where our
fruit and vegetables come from,
investigate ways in which water is
transported within a plant, explore the
life cycle of plants.
French
Ice Creams (likes, dislikes and
ordering) The Enormous Turnip story.
Art
Study of Paul Geraghty. Recreate work in
style of Paul and develop colour mixing skills.
Newspaper reporting
DT
Make a volcano that will ‘erupt’.
Understand concept of architecture –
by making bridges. Design and grow a
Roman herb garden and link to English
work on our class book about Roman
Herbs. Produce simple dishes for a
Roman banquet with herbs.
Select real life adventures retold as stories
based on true events, experiment with
recounting the same events in a variety of
ways news report, diary entry, letter etc.
RE
Faith – the story of Abraham, to
reflect on present day ‘idols’ explore
characteristics of faithfulness.
Look at Islam and what we can learn
from other religions.
Maths
Writing Myths and legends (unit
carried over from last term).
Recounts – Linked to a particular
school event from the year e.g. Bring
your wheels to school, International
Week, Sports week, etc.
Problem solving and revision
of methods for the 4
operations, Roman numerals,
horizontal, vertical and
perpendicular lines, angles,
statistics, use of inverse
operation and rounding to
check answers, fraction
revision, revise 3D shape
properties and different
types of triangles.