Welcome to Year 3

ART

Portraits - influenced by the artist Edvard Munch, pupils focus on colour mixing and the use of different backgrounds to reflect the mood of the portrait.
Weather and Art - pupils create landscape collages of weather scenes. 
Cityscapes - pupils learn about the work of Stephen Wiltshire and use this as inspiration for their own pieces.  

COMPUTING 

Pupils use the Purple Mash scheme of work and cover topics such as coding, online safety, spreadsheets, databases and word publishing skills. 

DT 

Shell Structures - pupils design and create their own gift boxes.
Mechanical Systems - levers and linkages.  Pupils design and create their own pop-up poster or leaflet.
Food Technology - a healthy and varied diet.  Pupils design and make a healthy snack which would be suitable to take on a school trip.

ENGLISH

Every classroom strives to create and uphold a strong writing culture. In Y3, children continue to develop their familiarity with a range of genres and styles by exploring features commonly found in different writing types. Our writing sessions help children to fluently compose sentences following a variety of different structures, and begin to organise these into paragraphs by theme. Children explore a range of organisational devices in non-fiction genres. By the end of Y3, we expect our writers to be developing their editorial skills, keeping their eyes peeled for errors of spelling or punctuation and even beginning to comment on the effectiveness of their chosen vocabulary. 

Genres covered in Y3 writing may include: non-chronological reports, poetry, diary entries, explanation and instruction texts, character and setting descriptions, balanced arguments and stories.

Click here for the programmes of study for English

GEOGRAPHY

Why are rainforests important to all of Earth’ people? Children learn about the rainforests of Brazil and how people depend on them.
How and why is my local environment changing? Children learn about their local area and investigate some of the changes that have happened over time.
How have megacities evolved over time? Pupils learn about the increasing population of Milton Keynes and what makes a megacity.  

HISTORY 

We learn about the earliest people known to have lived in our country and how people survived. We investigate what the world was like during the Stone Age and the  Bronze age. We also learn about the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain.