Year 3
Summer 1 2016-17
Topic: From Stone Age to Iron Age
In Literacy, your child will be
learning the following key skills:
 Writing in past tense
 Using adjectives to describe
 Writing in third person.
 Conjunctions of time
 Writing dialogue between characters
 Using similes, metaphors,
onomatopoeia and personification
In Maths, your child will be learning
the following key skills:
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Books we will be reading:
 ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura
 ‘Ug’ by Raymond Briggs
 ‘Cave baby’ by Julia Donaldson
 Romeo and Juliet by William
Shakespeare
Educational Visit:
We will be learning about the Stone Age to
Iron Age learn more about their way of life.
Grammar: definitions to learn
Word families: words related to each
other, often through a root word, eg. Teach,
teacher, taught
Inverted commas: marks used to
indicate speech
Statement: a basic piece of information in
a sentence, eg. The man sat on a chair.
Question: a type of statement that
requires an answer.
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Addition and subtraction methods
and applying these to word
problems.
Multiplication and division
methods and applying these to
word problems.
Measuring capacity and reading
scales
Money and how to give change
Shapes and how they are made up
of lines, angles and turns
Mental arithmetic methods to solve
problems
Key Maths vocabulary to learn and
spell:
Numerator, denominator
fraction,
frequency,
axis, axes,
diagram,
tenths, hundredths, decimal
multiplication, division, inverse, derive
Key subject vocabulary to learn and spell:
Science:
Block, image, light, mirror, opaque, shadow,
source, translucent, transparent.
Topic:
Stone, mammoth, hand axe, Skara Brae, cane
paintings, antler, Neolithic, Stone Henge.
Bronze, roundhouse, pottery.
Iron, celts, swords, roman, shield, settlement,
warriors, hillfort.
Year 3
Summer 1 2016-17
Command: An order, instruction or
demonstration, eg. Sit down on the chair.
Preposition: words to indicate the
relationship between the noun and the
pronoun, often describing, place, direction
or time.
Your child will also be learning:
 About Light and Shadows in
Science, investigating how shadows
are formed, the patterns in the sizes
of shadows, and how to stay safe in
the sun. We will be recording our
results in bar charts.
 About Prehistoric Britain in our
‘Stone Age to Iron Age’ History
topic.
 How to chop and cook vegetables in
Design & Technology, making a
vegetable soup.
 Printmaking and collage in Art
 Music with sharps, flats and dotted
rhythms in Music
 Art and religion in Religious
Education
 Relationships in PSHE
Learn by heart:
4 and 8
Times tables
learn the
multiplication and
division facts for
each times table
4÷4=1 8÷4=2
12÷4=3 16÷4=4
20÷4=5 24÷4=6
28÷4=7 32÷4=8
36÷4=9 40÷4=10
44÷4=11 48÷4=12
1x8=8 2x8=16
3x8=24 4x8=32
5x8=40 6x8=48
Spellings (Spelling Bee): learn to spell
Build, busy/business, calendar, caught, centre,
disappear, early,
earth, eight/eighth, enough,
group,
guard,
guide,
heard,
heart,
library
7x8=56 8x8=64
9x8=27 10x8=80
11x8=88 12x8=96
You can help your child by:
Helping them to learn their spellings and what they mean by looking them up in the dictionary and using them when talking and writing.
Completing the home learning project to develop knowledge about the topic.
Learning key number facts.
Helping them to memorise and recite the ‘Prologue’ from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (see below), asking questions about what
the poem is about.
Year 3
Summer 1 2016-17
Poetry- Year 1, spring 1
As part of the National Curriculum for English, children must be able to learn, by heart,
recite and perform poetry. Every half term, a new poem will be given to each year
group. Time should be spent learning the poem at home, there will be opportunities to
practise and perform in school.
‘Prologue’ from Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Possible home learning activities to extend children’s understanding of the poem:
 Find the meanings of the words in bold
 Draw a picture to illustrate the poem
 What do you notice about the difference in language used by William
Shakespeare?
 List all the Shakespeare language in the poem and the modern day
translation.