Year 3 Curriculum Overview - Summer Term

Here is what Year 3 are going to be busy with this term.  You can download a copy here

Guidance about Year 3 Reading

Curriculum Overview           Year Group:  Year 3                   Term: Summer

Teachers: Mrs Lynne Crown & Miss Becky Holmes

Our cross-curricular theme(s) for this term are:

1.  Teeth and Healthy Eating               2. AncientGreece

Topic 1 – Teeth and Healthy Eating

Literacy           Play scripts and Persuasion

Geography      Local area study

DT                   Design and make packaging for a healthy sandwich

Science           Teeth and healthy eating

ICT                  Combining text and graphics

Topic 2 – Ancient and Modern Greece

Literacy           Reading and writing Greek myths

History             Study life in Ancient Greece   

Geography     ModernGreece

DT                   Mythical creature model using pneumatic system

Other subjects to be covered this term are: 

PSHE             Relationships and Good to be Me themes

RE                   Buddhism

PE                   Athletics

                        Striking and Fielding

French             Family

ICT                  Using and creating databases / Simulations

Science           Magnets and Spring

Visits and visitors / Dates for your diaries

Theatre show on healthy eating – Monday 22^nd April

School nurse visit to discuss Healthy Lifestyles & Teeth – Thursday 2^nd & 9^th May

Trip to Jesmond Dene – Numeracy workshop to be arranged

Sports Day         Week beginning 1^st July

PE Kit

Our normal PE days are Tuesday and Thursday. Children should always have their PE kit in for those two days. During the summer term it is important that they have an outdoor kit, including trainers that fit, and tracksuit bottoms if they wish – as we will get on the field as much as possible. Leading up to sports day we may have extra practises so it is best if they have their kit in every day.

Homework

Homework will continue to be sent home on a Friday and is due back on Wednesday at the latest. If the children are set a creative project to complete over a number of weeks they will not receive their weekly Literacy and Numeracy tasks. Spellings will also be sent home with the weekly homework to be tested on the following Friday.

Maths target booklets

Just a reminder that we are continuing to give high priority to improving the mental recall of number facts and extra input from home is invaluable in this area. Please keep practising the targets from your Maths booklet.

It is essential that all children know the following number facts by the end of Year 3  -

• Addition and subtraction facts for all numbers to 20 e.g. 9 + 8, 17 – 9 , using knowledge of inverse operations – if you know 7 + 5 = 12 , then 12 – 7 must be …?
• Pairs of digits that total 100 e.g. 32 + 68, or 32 + ? = 100
• Multiplication facts for 2,3,4,5,6, and 10 x tables + corresponding division facts