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Text genres Fiction work will focus on settings of stories Poems based on the senses Report writing linked to our topic subject The Tudors Word work Dialogue and speech punctuation Sentence structure Using powerful verbs to improve their writing You can help your child by: Regularly reading Learning weekly spellings
Science
Light and Shadows Understand light and the formation of shadows Observe the apparent movement of the Sun and the associated changes in shadows Characteristics of materials Look at range of materials and properties Uses of materials
TopicHistory / Geography
History/Geography: History:
Mathematics
Place value, calculation strategies for addition and subtraction Read time to 5 minutes Recognise all coins and notes in English currency Doubling and halving, to estimate and check calculations Multiplication as an array Simple fractions of shapes and numbers
In this topic the children will find out about the Tudors through: the story of Henry VIII's marriages the lives of different types of people living in Tudor times developing their ability to use written and pictorial sources to discover facts about the Tudors looking at evidence and asking and answering questions Useful Websites: http://resources.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/homework/Tudors.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhisto ry/famouspeople/henry_viii/
You can help your child by: Supporting them with their homework Practising their multiplication and division tables regularly
Emmer Green Primary School Termly Curriculum Overview Year 3 Autumn 2013
ICT
Internet safety - using email, chat areas, mobiles and other new technologies Using Publisher to create a class book about the Tudors
Religious Education
Judaism Significance of the Torah Ways in which Jewish people should live The celebration of Bar Mitzvah Christianity The Creation Story Rules and codes for day to day life The work of Christian charities.
Art
Investigate how paintings, prints, photographs and other images that include figures communicate ideas about relationships Use composition skills to make a double portrait that conveys ideas about themselves and their relationship with another person in their lives
Physical Education
Gymnastics Sequences and balances Travelling using apparatus Games Invasion games Attacking tactics during football and hockey
Design Technology
Learn about stiffening materials and making stable structures through the context of free-standing photograph frames Design their frames for the portraits they created in art sessions