English

This half term we will continue to use the story of 'Flat Stanley' as our stimulus.

Throughout the term we will be learning to accurately use a growing range of grammar and punctuation, including:

• Inverted commas for speech.
• Prepositions
• Adverbs of time
• Using 'a' or 'an'
• Commands and statements
• subordinating conjunctions
• Synonyms

The skills taught will be used by the children in a range of writing texts. We will be using Stanley's adventures to write newspaper reports about this amazing boy. We will be providing clear and accurate instructions using commands to write a guide on how to re-inflate Stanley back to normal size. Finally the children will be making a narrative recount from the story, writing in the same style as the author Jeff Brown. 

Throughout the term we will be supplementing our English with regular reading lessons, which will continue to expose the children to reading skills including retrieval, inference and sequencing. 

Maths

This half term we will be continuing to build the children's understanding and confidence when using the formal written column method for both addition and subtraction. We will be applying these skills into a wide range of scenarios. 

We will also be working on multiplication and division, starting by recapping multiples of 2 and 5, before moving onto multiples of 3 and 4. 

We will end the term introducing statistics and geometry for the first time in year 3. 

Some useful websites are:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zdtwnk7 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=3 

History

Our topic this half term is based on the Stone Age through to the Iron Age. 

We will learn about what it was like to live during this period, the technology of the time and the changes that occurred as the period progressed. Our focus will be on the settlements people lived in, weapons and tools they used and food they ate.

Science

Our topic is Rocks.

Over the half term we will:

• compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
• describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock
• recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter

We will be doing this through a mix of experiments, investigations and research.

Religious Education

The children will continue to be taught by Mrs. Barker.

This half term our topics are- 

How and why do Hindus celebrate Diwali? 

We will be able to describe the festival, when and how it is celebrated. 

Retell the Diwali story

Understand the the lessons learnt from the Diwali story

Understand why the Goddess Lakshmi is important to Hindus. 

What is the meaning of light for Christians? (Incarnation)

Know how light makes them feel. 

Describe who and how someone can guide you in life.

Know where and why  light is used in the nativity story 

Understand the meaning behind the painting 'Light of the World' by William Holman Hunt. 

Understand why Jesus is called the 'Light of the World' 

Physical Education

We will working on our football skills with Mr Evans. We will develop ball control, passing skills and simple tactics. 

With Mrs. Barker, we will develop our netball skills. 

We will explore different ways to pass and receive the ball and play small group games. 

PSHE

This half term our topic is 'Think Positive' 

This unit is designed to build on what the children have already learnt about feelings, both comfortable and uncomfortable and how our attitude towards life can affect our mental health. The lessons centre around themes such as thinking positively and calmly, managing difficult emotions, taking responsibility for decisions and developing a growth mindset approach to learning.

By the end of the unit the children should be able to -

• understand that it is important to look after our mental health.

• recognise and describe a range of positive and negative emotions.

• discuss changes people may experience in their lives and how they might make them feel.

• talk about things that make us happy and help us to stay calm.

• identify uncomfortable emotions and what can cause them.

• discuss the characteristics of a good learner.

Music

This half term our topic is Recorders – Stage 1

This is a six-week Unit of Work where we will learn to hold the recorder correctly, play the notes A, B & G and hopefully put the notes together to play a tune. 

Computing

We will start on the topic of 'Touch Typing', which we have already begun in Autumn 1.

The children will learn:- 

• typing terminology.
• To understand the correct way to sit at the keyboard.
• To learn how to use the home, top and bottom row keys.
• To type with both left and right hands.

We will then introduce the skill of using spreadsheets accurately.

Art 

Our unit for this half term is 'cave art', we will be linking this to our history work.