Learning Logs
When your child is given home learning activities in their
Learning Logs, this work is usually directly related to what
they have done in school, although children can use them to
extend their learning and find out about their own interests. It
will either extend their learning or
consolidate it. It is extremely helpful for
the children if they are supported
either by an adult or an older brother or
sister.
Learning logs in Year 3 are due in on a
Thursday.
Wyvern
Primary
School
CURRICULUM INFORMATION FOR THE
PARENTS OF PUPILS IN Y3
This leaflet will give you information about the
Home Learning Activities
The Home Learning Activities for Y3 are as follows:Reading – your child needs to read for 20 minutes every evening –
please try to encourage your child to tell you about their books and
comment on their reading in their reading diary. When your child has
read to you, try to ask questions to help your child develop their
understanding.
The diaries will be collected in on a Thursday.
Spelling -The children will have spellings to learn every week and will
be tested on these every Monday.
Numeracy - Please practise counting to 1000 together. Remember
you can count in ones, twos, threes, fives and tens. It will help
your child if they can learn the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables.
subjects and themes your child will be studying
in the Autumn Term 2016.
English
The children will be looking at narrative and
non
chronological reports. In narrative
writing they will
explore adventure stories through reading different texts and
then plan and write their own. In non chronological report writing the children will link
their writing to the theme and write about
the Animals of the Amazon Rainforest.
Maths
In the Autumn term, the children will be
concentrating on number, place value and
calculations. They will be counting, comparing and
ordering numbers beyond 100 and become secure
in partitioning 2 and 3 digit numbers. They will
solve problems using reasoning skills including
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
CURRICULUM AREA
YEAR GROUP 3
THEME: Water (Amazon Rainforest)
Personal and Social
Development
The children will be following a new scheme of work called ‘Jigsaw’. This involves the children
thinking about how to be a good citizen, stay healthy and care for others.
Physical
Development
Understanding The
World
PHSCE
PE
Science
Geography/History
RE
ICT
Expressive Art and
Design
Art/DT
Music
French
First half term
3B– Swimming outdoor and adventurous activities
3Y- Outdoor and adventurous activities
Second half term
3B– Swimming/ Net and wall games
3Y- Net and Ball Games/Gymnastics
The children will look at plants, including the different parts and choose Amazonian plants to
focus on.
They will find out about life cycles, animal skeletons and nutrition.
The children will describe and understand climate, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes.
They will locate World’s countries, focusing on Europe & Americas. They will locate Rainforests
around the World and find out about physical and human features.
They will also compare the Amazon with an area of the UK.
The children will follow the Leicester syllabus looking at ‘What do Religions teach us about the
Natural World? Why should we care about it?’
This will also link with letter writing in English where the children will look at the book ‘Dear
Greenpeace’.
The children will begin work on computer coding.
They will also collect and present data appropriately using graphs through their work on plants
and climate.
The children will be creating collages using different media in art linked to the book ’Where the
Forest Meets the Sea’.
In DT the children will make their own 3D models of the rainforest and include some of the
physical features.
The children will look at rainforest and water sounds and create their own music collaboratively.
They will use their voices and instruments with increasing accuracy, control and expression to
create these pieces of music.
This term the children will learn to speak and sing in French! They will be introduced to the
phrases for saying ‘hello’ and ‘good-bye’ and asking how someone is feeling. They will also learn
how to say their name and ask some-one else their name. They will learn to count up to 12. and
will learn the colour words, the days of the week, months of the year and the seasons. They will
learn key facts about France, its traditions and its people.