Year 3
Numeracy
Follow the Numeracy Strategy
Using the Ginn Abacus scheme the children will have the opportunity to cover this work:
place value, ordering, estimating, rounding, reading numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, money, shape and space, measure, time, fractions and handling data.
Mental arithmetic activities involved with all these themes will be implemented.
English
Fiction and poetry: stories with familiar settings; plays; poems based on observation and the senses; shape poems.
Non-Fiction: (i) information books on topics of interest, (ii) non-chronological reports; (iii) thesauruses, dictionaries.
Science
Forces and Electricity
This will include work on friction and air and water resistance.
- Gravity
- Magnetism
- Circuits, conductors and insulators
Thematic work
The Tudors History Unit
Place the Tudors in the context of the history of Britain
The succession of Henry VII
Henry VIII and his wives
Elizabeth the first
The Spanish Armada
Differences between the rich and poor in Tudor times
Tudor food
ICT
Learning to manipulate text and to add graphics to their documents.
Learn to use e-mail.
Design Technology
Torches: designing and making a torch using knowledge of electrical circuits.
RE
Making Promises
Festivals of Light
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