Year 3 Term 2

January to April

Last updated

3 January 2025 at 12:27:46

Landscapes 🌋

Maths 🧮

Multiplication & Division

Multiples of 10
Related calculations
Reasoning about multiplication
Multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number - no exchange
Multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number - with exchange
Link multiplication and division
Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number - no exchange
Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number - flexible partitioning
Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number - with remainders
Scaling
How many ways?

Length & Perimeter

Measure in metres and centimetres
Measure in millimetres
Measure in centimetres and millimetres
Metres, centimetres and millimetres
Equivalent lengths (metres and centimetres)
Equivalent lengths (centimetres and millimetres)
Compare lengths
Add lengths
Subtract lengths
What is perimeter?
Measure perimeter
Calculate perimeter

Fractions

Understand the denominators of unit fractions
Compare and order unit fractions
Understand the numerators of non-unit fractions
Understand the whole
Compare and order non-unit fractions
Fractions and scales
Fractions on a number line
Count in fractions on a number line
Equivalent fractions on a number line
Equivalent fractions as bar models

Mass & Capacity

Use scales
Measure mass in grams
Measure mass in kilograms and grams
Equivalent masses (kilograms and grams)
Compare mass
Add and subtract mass
Measure capacity and volume in millilitres
Measure capacity and volume in litres and millilitres
Equivalent capacities and volumes (litres and millilitres)
Compare capacity and volume
Add and subtract capacity and volume

Science 🧬

Skeletons (Biology)

Identify and name bones in the human body
Functions of a skeleton
Identify and name bones in a range of animals
Animals with and without a spine
Are all skeletons the same?

Rocks (Chemistry) ♻️

Identify rocks
Rock groups
Test rocks
Local rock survey

Fossils (Chemistry) ♻️

Explore fossils
Fossil formation

Soils (Chemistry) ♻️

Explore soil
The importance of soil
Plan, investigate & evaluate: soil experiment

Reading 📖

The Boy Who Grew Dragons

Author: Andy Shepherd

When Tomas discovers a strange old tree at the bottom of his grandad's garden, he doesn't think much of it. But he takes the funny fruit from the tree back into the house - and gets the shock and delight of his life when a tiny dragon hatches! The tree is a dragonfruit tree, and Tomas has got his very own dragon, Flicker ...

Tomas soon finds out that life with Flicker is great fun, but also very ... unpredictable. Yes, dragons are wonderful, but they also set fire to your toothbruth and leave your pants hanging from the TV aerial. Tomas has to learn how to look after Flicker - and quickly. And then something extraordinary happens - more dragonfruits appear on the tree. Tomas is officially growing dragons ...

Reading age: 7+

A very brief introduction to Shakespeare:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a funny story about magic, love, and mix-ups. In a forest near Athens, two couples—Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius—get caught up in a series of magical tricks by a mischievous fairy named Puck. Puck accidentally makes people fall in love with the wrong person, leading to lots of funny confusion!

Meanwhile, the fairy king and queen, Oberon and Titania, are arguing, and Puck’s magic causes even more chaos by making Titania fall in love with a man who has a donkey’s head!

In the end, Puck fixes his mistakes, and everyone ends up with the right person. The couples return to Athens, and the story ends happily with weddings and laughter.

The play shows the silliness of love and the fun of magic and imagination.

Who was William Shakespeare?
The Globe Theatre
Play script

Writing ✍️

Persuasive Writing

Construct a balanced argument
Consistent use of present tense
Use of present perfect form of verbs
Effective use of noun phrases
Organise ideas into sections
Use of adverbials (therefore, however...)
Use of headings and subheadings to aid presentation
Use of bullet points to list information
Use of commas in a list
Coordinating conjunctions: with, and, or, but, so
Subordinate conjunctions: when, if that, because, although
Use of past, present and future tense
Form comparatives and superlatives
Use of persuasive sentence starters
Use adjectives to describe a noun
Use of second person
Construct an opening statement (beginning with a question)
Planned repetition to reinforce a point / idea
Use facts and statistics in writing
Use positive language and powerful verbs for description to create persuasion
Use of colour and images for advertising
Use imperative verbs to convey urgency
Write in a formal tone and use technical vocabulary
Form open and closed questions

Information Writing

Sectioned non-chronological report
Use headings and sub headings
Use conjunctions (coordinating and subordinating) to join information and give reasons
Use present perfect tense
Create a clear introduction
Organise writing into paragraphs
Use of simple adverbs
Use of adverbials such as: first, next, later, after, finally
Conclude using exclamatory sentence

Across the curriculum 🌏

Overview: Landscapes (Geography) ♻️

Techtonic plates
Pacific ring of fire
Impact of earthquakes and volcanoes
Weathering
Rivers
Mountains
Erosion management

Curriculum Objectives & Expectations ♻️

Describe the key aspects of physical geography including volcanoes and earthquakes, human geography including settlements
Describe some characteristics of these geographical locations
Name and locate the equator, northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere, The tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, Arctic and Antarctic Circle
Ask and Answer questions about the physical and human characteristics of a location
Begin to use maps, atlases, and globes to locate countries
Mapping
Physical geography
Human geography: settlements and reasons for living in these areas
Impact of human lives
Case studies: how we adapt to locations

Key Vocabulary ♻️

Dormant, collision, magnitude, intensity, plates when describing volcanoes. earthquakes, tsunamis, river bed, source, mouth, channel, summit, mountain range, settlements, disaster, adaptations.

Art, Design & Technology 🎨 👷

Dinosaur sewing project

Create 3D object
Sewing: Draw around template then cut fabric on line
Pin and sew fabric

Volcano Model with mod rock

Explore ways of manipulating clay
Clay dragon eye (paint with acrylic paint)
Fossil with clay

Demonstrate different grades of pencils to draw shapes

Awareness of dimension and perspective
Create textures and patterns

PSHE 😀 🫶

Personal, Social, Health and Economic education

Belonging to a community

The reason for rules and laws in wider society
The importance of abiding by the law and what might happen if rules and laws are broken
What human rights are and how they protect people. Identify basic human rights including the rights of the child
Our rights and responsibilities
With every right there is a responsibility eg the right to an education and the responsibility to learn

Media Literacy and Digital Resilience

How the internet can be used positively for leisure, for school and work
Recognise that images and information online can be altered or adapted and reasons for why this happens
Strategies to recognise whether something they see online is true or accurate and evaluate whether a game is suitable to play for their age group
How to report something seen online that concerns them

Money and Work

Different jobs that people may have from different sectors and that people can have more than one job at once or over their lifetime
Gender stereotypes related to work
Some of the skills needed to do a job such as team work, decision making. Link to their skills and interests – future jobs