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 are taught computing using the NCCE Teach Computing scheme.  This covers: how technology communicates with each other; using images and text to create media for a purpose; creating sequences in block-based programming language; building databases to group objects.

 Autumn 1 - Connecting computers
Autumn 2 - Stop-frame animation
Spring 1 - Sequencing sounds
Spring 2 - Branching Databases
Summer 1 - Desktop publishing
Summer 2 - Events and actions in programs

DT 

Shell Structures - pupils design and create their own gift boxes. They also use a CAD (computer aided design) program to design the box. 
Mechanical Systems - levers and linkages.  Pupils design and create their own moving picture, toy, 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 an increasing range of genres and styles. 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, news articles, poetry, recounts and diary entries, explanation and instruction texts, persuasive letters, character and setting descriptions, and narratives in a range of genres.

Click here for the programmes of study for English

GEOGRAPHY

What can we learn from a map of Handsworth? Pupils learn that maps are a way of communicating information. They will study a range of maps, including OS maps, before creating their own.
Wild weather: why is the UK's weather so unpredictable? Pupils will develop their understanding of weather and be introduced to the world’s climate zones.  They will explore the UK’s climate before exploring the distribution of climate zones across the world.  They will then investigate how climate affects the lives of people in the Mediterranean by comparing the lives of people in Bologna with their own.
What is life like in Brazil?  Pupils will begin by studying the human and physical features of Brazil before placing Brazil in the wider context of the world and South America. They will investigate the many differences between urban and rural Brazil, studying the lives of people living within Rio de Janeiro and the Caboclo river people. Pupils will begin to recognise the issues and challenges facing future generations concerning the loss of the rainforest, but will also see the need to feed the world’s people.

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, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, including learning about Cheddar Man. We also learn about the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain.