Year 3

Our Year 3 Team

Miss Wise Year 3 Teacher, 3CW Form Tutor and the Learning Development and Pastoral Senior Teacher	Miss Catton  Year 3 Teacher and 3CW Form Tutor	Dr Walker 3RW Form Tutor	Mrs Kilkenny Head of Chapter House
Mrs Young Deputy Head of Chapter House

Year 3 Curriculum

Summer Term 2019

Numeracy
To start the new term, the focus for numeracy will be geometry and statistics. Having covered all the necessary Year 3 units, the rest of this term will be spent revising mental and written methods for answering calculations involving the four operations as well as applying their knowledge to solve word problems.

Literacy
‘Flood’ by Alvaro L. Villa, will be the stimulus for writing an adventure story, providing children with the opportunity to further their skills in planning the structure of a story through paragraphs, using dialogue in their writing, selecting effective vocabulary and experimenting with varied sentence structures. Linked to their topic-based learning, the children will also explore explanation texts and poetry.

Science
During science lessons, the children will continue to develop their investigative knowledge and skills while exploring the subject of ‘light’.

Topic
Our summer term’s topic is titled ‘Extreme Earth’ and the activities will focus on developing the children’s geography, art and design skills. We will be learning about the extremes of this Earth and how and where natural disasters occur through practical investigations and tasks. Having read ‘A Great Wave’, inspired by artwork by Hokusai, the children will work towards their own version while exploring perspective and colour mixing. A visit to Whitby will provide the children with the opportunity to identify the human and physical features as well as topographical features while using fieldwork skills to collect information. Their final project of the year will be to design, make and evaluate a cam toy linked to their topic title.

Computing
Our computing objective will be composing and recording simple melodies using Garage Band.

Personal Development
This term we will be continuing to work on taking responsibility for ourselves, including being responsible for our own actions as well as our own learning. We will be learning about equality and considering the lives of other people who have different values and customs. Finally, we will be taking part in the whole school Cancer Awareness week.

Trips/Visitors
Thursday 23rd May – Visit from Amy Husband, children’s illustrator
Wednesday 12th June – Visit to Whitby

Spring Term 2019

Topic
Our new topic, for this term, is titled ‘Tudor York’ and this will involve investigating the links between the Tudors and the city of York as well as learning about the key events in this period of history and completing a case study of York using maps as a key source. Alongside this, the children will develop skills in creating portraits using a variety of media and evaluating, designing and making their own bread.

Literacy
To progress further with their writing, Year 3 will concentrate on how to use paragraphs to structure their ideas, write effective sentences and present dialogue. To support their learning, they will be exploring newspaper reports, re-writing a fairy tale, performing playscripts and using persuasion to write an information page. As part of literacy the children will continue to have lessons on grammar, spelling and punctuation. As part of these lessons the children will have their weekly spelling tests before completing handwriting tasks linked to phonics. We will be developing our grammatical knowledge and will be looking at inverted commas. Homophones, a and an, paragraphs and prepositions.

Numeracy
In numeracy, the children will continue to consolidate their learning of the four operations using both mental and written methods, involving measure and money. They will use their understanding of division to move forward with using fractions and continue to practise their 3, 4 and 8 times tables.

Science
Science lessons will firstly concentrate on forces and magnets; investigating friction, the strength of magnets and discovering the meaning of magnetic poles along with designing and making a magnetic game. After half term, the children will revise their knowledge of plants and further their investigative skills around this subject.

Computing
During the spring term the children will be building upon the coding skills previously taught in Year 2. They will be using Kodu, a program developed for children to learn key coding skills. The class will be taught key skills including planning and executing a series of commands, or algorithms. They will use logical reasoning to explain how some of these simple algorithms work in Kodu and detect and correct errors in their programming.

Educational visits
During the term, we will be visiting Barley Hall in York to see how people lived and prospered in Tudor times.

Autumn Term 2018

Topic
Our topic this term is ‘Stone Age to Iron Age‘. During the term, we will be learning about what life was like during this period using a range of sources and creating a timeline of main events. The children will be learning about the role of an archaeologist and will experience this role first hand through a visit to The Dig in York. Their art lessons will include exploring cave paintings and designing and making a Stone Age necklace.

Literacy
Literacy will link, where possible, with our topic. We will be looking at:

• Recount – including a diary entry from someone living in the Stone Age
• Narrative – based on Stone Age Boy
• Persuasive Writing – including posters advertising a round house and selling stone age tools
• Instructions – linked to Stone Age recipes

Grammar and spelling will be on-going with a weekly set of spellings to learn and a weekly test. We will also concentrate on our phonics knowledge. Literature Circles will be taught weekly which will focus on comprehension skills.

Numeracy
This year will begin with revising number and place value knowledge. We will recap the four operations in more detail this term as well developing their approach to mental strategies. We will also further our understanding of the properties of shape and measure.

Science
The topics that will be covered this term are ‘Rocks and Soils’ and ‘Animals including Humans’. The children will learn how to identify different types of rocks and how soil is formed, carrying out investigations linked with this. Their work on animals will be linked with their topic focusing on how animals have evolved.

Computing
The children will begin the year by revisiting the basics of logging on and accessing the school files. We will then look into researching Stone age animals using the internet. The children will then use word processing skills to present their findings on a PowerPoint presentation.

Personal Development
The children will start the year talking about new beginnings and will be finding out about key religious leaders. In the run up to Christmas, the children will revisit the Christmas story and look at traditions and beliefs linked to this.

Educational Visits
During the term, we will visit The Dig and York Minster, where we will spend time learning about the job of an archaeologist and exploring how York has changed over the ages.

Year 3 Homework

Each night homework will consist of 20 minutes of homework and 15 minutes reading:

• Mondays: Spelling sentences
• Tuesdays: Times tables and reading for Literature Circles
• Wednesdays: Learning logs
• Thursdays: Mathematics

Regular spelling and tables practice is also required.

Lunchtime

Accelerated Science Club
A sequence of science enrichment activities that augment science curriculum objectives from Years 3-5 and encourage discussion, research, collaboration, use of scientific vocabulary, record, presenting and the skills of working scientifically.

Board Games 
Strategy games providing an opportunity to develop friendships whilst having fun.

Chapter House Music Ensemble 
The Chapter House Instrumental Ensemble helps develop skills in ensemble performance, using simple arrangements in a variety of musical styles.

Coding (Summer Term)
Using a variety of online platforms to learn and develop the mysterious, challenging and rewarding art of programming.

First Aid for Beginners (Summer Term)
In this club the children will have fun working towards the level 1 St John’s Ambulance First Aid for School Pupils certificate, or level 2 if they have already completed level 1. The course will enable the children to be confident in the following aspects of first aid: asthma, choking, communication and casualty care, coping in an emergency, fainting, primary survey and the recovery position. Those who completed Level 1 last term will move on to Level 2 discussing more advance first aid aspects including bleeding, scalds and diabetes.

Football 
An enjoyable club for those who enjoy playing football and want to learn and develop their skills.

French (Summer Term)
Students will have the opportunity to practice their French by playing different games using different ICT software.

Fun Fitness
The children are invited to join a fun fast paced fitness club. The children will be doing short bursts of activity to get their heart rates increasing, therefore increasing fitness and stamina.

Gymnastics
An enjoyable club for those who love gymnastics.

KS2 Choir
A fun singing ensemble that learns a variety of songs, rehearsing towards a number of exciting performances during the term and year.

KS2 Choral Speaking
A fun group for performing dramatic poetry and excerpts from scripts.

KS2 Performance Club
A great club for those students who like to perform. This club provides the opportunity to have fun whilst practicing and learning key performance skills.

Nature Club 
Year 2 and 3 children are invited to join Nature Club. The children will explore the different areas around school and learn about the different plants and animals that live there while using their knowledge and skills in Art and Science.

Photography Club
A fun and creative class for those wishing to improve their photography skills.

Poetry Club
Poetry club is for those who enjoy ‘playing with words’. Through fun writing games and exercises, students will develop their ability to control language.

Puzzle Club
This club is ideal for those who enjoy logic problem solving, word and number puzzles.

Recorder
This club is to enable those children that enjoy learning to play the recorder some dedicated fun time to explore different pieces of music.

Squad Swimming (invitation only)
A development club for good-level swimmers.

Trampolining Club (limited to 10 students with priority given to Year 5)
A small-group class for those wishing to have fun and develop their trampolining skills.

Violin (for improvers)
Continuing on from beginner and improver courses, this group is for developing violin playing skills.

After School

Basketball
An energetic club for basketball enthusiasts.

Booster Session - Literacy (Invite-only)
Extra tutoring and time for those who need it in literacy.

Booster Session - Mathematics (Invite-only)
Extra tutoring and time for those who need it in mathematics.

Boy's Cricket (Summer Term)
A fun cricket club for all abilities within Years 3 - 5 to learn new skills and play matches. 

Brownies
The popular girl guiding group for 7 - 10 year olds.

Girl's Rounders (Summer Term)
An enjoyable rounders club for all abilities within Years 3 - 5 to learn new skills and to enjoy playing as a team.

Homework Club
An opportunity to complete homework with the help of onsite tutors.

Mini Enterprise Club
Key Stage 2 children are invited to join our Mini enterprise club. The children will research, investigate, design and evaluate their very own business considering elements such as finances, advertising and premises.

Photography club
Key Stage 2 children are invited to join photography club. We will be looking at photographs taken by professional photographs and using the ipads to take pictures and explore different aspects of the site. We will be focusing a different aspect each week including looking at objects from unusual angles, candid shots, architectural, seeking out lines, the most interesting framing within the shot, emotions, texture

P4C - Philosophy for Children
Key stage 2 children will follow a structured session of enquiry-based approach to open up children’s learning through the exploration of ideas. The session Starts with a stimulus and children are encouraged to draw on their imagination to ask a question based on wonderment (I wonder why…?). Children make a collective decision on the question they are most interested in and the discussion starts but is then not contained. It follows its own path guided by the children’s thoughts and ideas, agreeing and disagreeing, but always giving a reason for their point of view.

Rugby and Hockey
A fun, sporty club for those wishing to develop and play more rugby and hockey.

All of the other sporting clubs are run by QE staff and coaches, unless otherwise stated.

Head of Chapter House and Queen's Kindergarten, Karen Kilkenny and the rest of the Key Stage 2 staff can be contacted by phone on 01423 333310 or via email at: chapterhouse@qe.org.