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MAPLE CLASS – YEAR 3
September 2016
Dear Families,
I hope you have had a relaxing and enjoyable Summer Holiday and your children are excited about
starting Year 3. We will be ensuring that the children settle into the Juniors confidently within the
first half term. Our topic is called ‘Savage Stone Age!’ and is mainly about the historic era in Britain.
Please see the topic web for more details of our curriculum.
As part of our topic, we will be going on a trip to National Trust’s Avebury Henge and Stone
Circles on Tuesday 27th September. The children will have the opportunity to participate in a
Talk and Tour of the Henge and stone circles in the historical Wiltshire countryside. You child will
need to wear their school uniform with full length trousers and appropriate footwear (Wellies and
Raincoats may be required depending on the weather.) The trip will take place within the usual
school day and a separate letter will be sent out with details.
Free school meals are only available to KS1. Therefore, if you require a school dinner you will need
to pay via Scopay and choose your child’s menu options online. Remember they need to be booked
7 days in advance.
The children will have their PE lesson on Wednesday afternoon and should ensure their PE kit is at
school on these days. This term it only needs to include a plain white t-shirt and black shorts for
indoor activities and black tracksuit bottoms, a dark jumper and trainers for outdoor activities.
Please try to ensure all their kit is clearly named. PE kit should be in a clearly labelled kit bag. If
you do not have one already they are available from the school office for £1.50. Your child will also
require a Woodland Workshop Kit including Welly boots/old trainers, long trousers, long sleeved top
and a waterproof coat.
Your child must bring their book bag to school everyday. They are currently being kept in school
and more information about reading will follow.
I am delighted to inform you that Mr. Lockley will be taking the class every Thursday morning. Mrs
Tyrrell will support the teaching and learning daily during the mornings. The children will also have
the opportunity to take a weekly PE lesson with Miss Featonby.
I really encourage the children to reflect on the learning via our class blog, which is accessed
through our class page on the school website.
I do try to be available before and after school for a few minutes each day. If you need a longer
conversation please book an appointment at the school office.
Best wishes,
Miss J. Streeter & Mrs. R. Tyrrell
Inspire Maths
Numbers to 10 000
Counting, Place Value, Comparing and ordering
Addition and Subtraction
Mental and written methods
Solving word problems
Addition and subtraction for solving two-step word
problems
Arithmekit
Daily mental maths sessions
History
The children will generate key questions for the unit.
Some key aspects will include the changes from the
Stone Age to the Iron Age, why Henges were built and
how farming changed people’s lives.
Savage
Stone
Age!
English
Fiction –Talk for Writing
Writing a story about going back in time to the Stone Age.
(Text - Stone Age Boy) How did you get there? What do you
see?
Non-fiction
Creating a journalistic report on 'Cave Life' using features
from the text 'Stone Age News.'
Poetry
Exploring shape poetry about natural elements that describe
the environment the stone age people lived in.
Year 3 Maple Class
Autumn 2016
How long ago was the
Stone Age?
What was it like to live
in the Stone Age?
Music
Science
Learning in Science will revolve around
different types of rocks and their properties.
We will learn about their different names and
carryout some experiments to look at their
properties.
Woodland Workshop.
Art/DT
The children will look at cave paintings and create their own.
Pitch
PE
Invasion Games - Netball
PSHCE
Getting on and falling out.
French
Numbers
Greetings
Classroom Instructions
RE
What do Christians believe God is like and how
does this influence their lives?
We will also look at 3d sculptures and ‘inversion’ art from the
Stone Age to be inspired to create some of our own!
Optional Homework Maple Class – Savage Stone Age Topic – Autumn 1 2016
Any Homework should be sent in on Monday, clearly named. You may also upload photographs and comments to Tapestry.
Please use Tapestry to share news and pictures of topic related work at home and/or any extra-curricular activities.
Stone Age Detective
Story writing
Stone Age TV
Stone Circles are an unsolved mystery. What do
you think they were made for?
It is up to you how you present this!
Write your own story that is set in the Stone Age.
Remember to plan your story using a story map.
Think about all the descriptive words you can use
to describe your setting and characters!
Can you create a short piece of film about one
aspect of Stone Age life? For example, what did
the Stone Age people eat?
(Please bring in on a USB, DVD or upload to
Tapestry)
Create a rock poster!
Timeline
Question Time
Can you write down all the different types of rocks
and make an eye-catching poster.
Can you make a timeline of the 3 different
prehistory periods: Stone Age, Bronze Age and
Iron Age.
Is there a specific question you want answered
about the Stone Age?
Maybe you can do a research project with a
parent? e.g. What did Stone Age people wear?
Number Quiz
Computing
Art/DT
Create your own Stone Age Number Quiz!
Research Stone Age facts and create your own
quiz e.g. Roughly, when did the Stone Age finish?
A) 15 years ago
B) 1,500 years ago
C) 15,000 years ago
Create your own stone age house or cave on
Minecraft.
Design (and possibly make) your own stone age
tools. (You might want to use plasticine or
something instead of stone!)
Try to include some features that you have
researched about where they lived.
(Please take photographs and upload to
Tapestry).