Beaumont Class - Year 3
What is Greece like?
What Pupils will be Learning About
Mathematics: Fractions and Mass Capacity.
Geography – What is Greece like?
-Locate Greece on a Map of Europe
-Name at least five other European Countries and their Capital cities
-Explore the physical and human features of Greece
-Identify differences between living in the UK and Greece
DT - Food, Healthy and varied diet. To create Hummus and Greek themed frittatas.
PSHE - Relationships
Music - Mr Miles – Ganelan
RE – What does it mean to be a Christian in Britain today?
Modern Foreign Languages – Explore flavours of Ice-cream and desserts.
PE - Tennis & Kwik Cricket
Key Vocabulary Geography
France
Spain
Poland
Greece
Sweden
North
South
East West
City
Country
Capital city – Athens
Mythology
Islands
Computing: Branching databases
Branching Databases. Create a branching database. Explain why it is helpful for a database to be well structured.
Reading
Book: The Boy who Grew Dragons and
•Discuss and clarify the meanings of words
•Listen to and discuss a wide range of fiction & plays
•Identify how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning
•Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions
•Justify inferences with evidence
•Predict what might happen from details stated
•Increase their familiarity with a wide range of books including myths and legends, and retell some of these orally
•Retrieve and record information from a fiction text.
Writing
Diary, Play scripts: Myths and Legends.
Things you could do at home
•Reading with your child everyday; this could be comics, sports pages, magazines, it doesn’t have to be just books.
•Ensure children practice their times tables. This could be using Times table Rockstars.
•Pupils will be bringing spellings home this term; practicing these with your children it could really benefit your child in improving their spelling.
•Use the discussion point images to create a conversation about the topic.
Discussion points
There are The Greek islands are the main characteristic of Greece's morphology and an integral part of the country's culture across the ages. The country includes 6,000 islands and islets scattered in the Greek Seas, of which only 227 islands are inhabited
Term 4 - Why do tourists visit the UK?
What Pupils will be Learning About
Geography – Know the names of at least five European countries and their capital cities including the vast ways of living.
Science - Plants
DT - Textiles - 2-D shape to 3-D product
PSHE –'Healthy Me'
Music - Recorders.
RE – Why are festivals important to religious communities?
Computing – Creating media - animation
Modern Foreign Languages – French – Comptines et Chansons (Nursery Rhymes).
PE, for Reeve – Swimming and Multi-skills
for Bell – Multi-skills and Tag rugby.
Mathematics
Length and perimeter
Fractions
Reading
•Listen to and discuss their class text.
•Discuss, explore and clarify the meanings of words
•Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
•Develop comprehension of a range of text including: poetry, fiction and non –fiction
Writing
A walk in London – 'Faction' text
Writing a diary entry.
Key Vocabulary
world map
Atlas
Globe
Mapping
locate
Place
Continent
climate
Tourism
Politics
Things you could do at home
•Reading with your child everyday; this could be comics, sports pages, magazines, it doesn’t have to be just books.
•Ensure children practice their times tables. This could be using Times table Rockstars.
•Pupils will be bringing spellings home this term; practicing these with your children it could really benefit your child in improving their spelling.
•Use the discussion point images to create a conversation about the topic.
Year 3 Term 3, Why do tourists visit the UK?
What Pupils will be Learning About
Discussion Points
Geography – Why do tourists visit the U.K?
Science - Plants
Art - Telling stories through drawing and marking
Drawing, sculpture, sketchbooks
PSHE - Dreams and Goals
Music -
RE – Why do people pray?
Christianity and Islam
Computing – Branching Databases.
Create a branching database.
Explain why it is helpful for a database to be well structured.
Modern Foreign Languages – Les Couleurs et le numbres.
This term PE, for Bell class – They will need their swimming kits for Monday afternoon.
Reeve - Monday and Thursdays - Dance (Unit 1) & Tag Rugby.
Key Vocabulary
Human Geography
Physical Geography
Rivers
Mountains
Counties
Cities
North
South
East
West
Reading
Leon and the place between by Angela McAllister
The Boy who grew dragons by Andy Shepherd
•Listen to and discuss their class text.
•Discuss, explore and clarify the meanings of words
•Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
•Develop comprehension of a range of text including: poetry, fiction and non –fiction
Writing
Poetry – haiku/cinquain/shape
Write a narrative based on George and the Dragon
Things you could do at home
•Reading with your child everyday; this could be comics, sports pages, magazines, it doesn’t have to be just books.
•Ensure children practice their times tables. This could be using Times table Rockstars.
•Pupils will be bringing spellings home this term; practicing these with your children it could really benefit your child in improving their spelling.
•Access Times Tables Rockstars!
•Use the discussion point images to create a conversation about the topic.