Year 3 Autumn Term 2007

In Literacy the focus will be on both fiction and non-fiction. The children will be comparing story settings, writing settings, generating ideas, expressing views about a story, exploring presentation of dialogue, using prefixes, distinguishing between rhyming and non-rhyming poetry, writing poems, preparing and presenting playscripts, recognizing differences between prose and playscript, presenting dialogue, writing own dialogue and calligrams and shape poems. In handwriting they will be practising the first joins. The non-fiction work will emphasis reports, reading for information, the writing process and recounts.

In Maths the focus will be on Numeracy. The children will be practising and developing oral and mental skills, they will be taught about place value, ordering, estimating, rounding, reading numbers from scales, understanding + and -, strategies, money and ‘ real life ‘ problems, making decisions, checking results, measures, inc. problems and shape and space. In the second half of the term the concentration will be on counting, properties of numbers and number sequences, reasoning about numbers, multiplication and division, fractions, time including problems, handling data.

In History the work will be based on studying ‘Invaders’ with particular reference to The Romans.

In Geography we will be looking at our local area and basing our work on settlement, transport (road and rail links), and the industrial and commercial aspects of the community.

In Science the children will be looking at teeth and healthy eating and it would be particularly helpful if the topic could be discussed at home so the children are aware of healthy options and choices.

The topic of rocks and soil will also be studied by the children

In MFL the children will be learning conversational Spanish.

In Art the children will be looking at portraits and observing details about others to enhance their own observational sketches.

In ICT the children will be using the program Word to word process.

In Music the children will be listening to and exploring descriptive sounds using the BBC Time and Tune programmes.

In PE the focus will be on learning and practising hockey skills and dance.

The Design and Technology unit will be linked to the Science topic and will be looking at sandwiches.

In PHSE the children will be discussing healthy lifestyles and how they can begin to take responsibility for their own.

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The three topics for study this term will be Homes and Families, Signs and Symbols and Visitors.

In Homes and Families the children will think about and discuss each family’s rules, routines, traditions and values. They will look at the ways the Bible says what is important for living together and some of the letters of St. Paul. Learning intention: Children know and understand the Church’s teaching about God’s vision for every family.

In the topic of Signs and Symbols the class will be finding out about the different signs and symbols that belong to different communities and those used by the Church .Learning intention: children know and understand the Church’s teaching about symbols belonging to the Christian community used in Baptism and Confirmation.

The topic of Visitors will include thinking about the demands and joys of having a visitor and preparing for the celebration of Christmas. Learning intention: children know and understand the Church’s teaching about Advent and Christmas: the Church’s seasons of preparing for and celebrating the coming of Jesus.