Year 3SW
Welcome to Year 3SW Class Page, the place for you to find out all the amazing things that have and will be happening in your class this year.
So click on each of the headings to find out more information about the given topics.
Your Class Teachers
This year your class teacher is Mr Walker.
We have three teaching assistants in our class:
Mrs Powell (Tuesdays)
Mrs Hughes (Tuesdays)
Mrs Harrison (Thursdays)
PE
PE will take place every Monday and Thursday, when you will complete street dance and hockey lessons.
For PE sessions please bring the following:
- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms
- White t-shirt or polo shirt
- Black pumps or trainers
It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit at school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.
Reading
It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day as the days on which they will be able to read with an adult may change from time to time. It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed.
Within this class children are given time every day where they can complete a quiz on accelerated reader and change their book.
Homework
Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:
All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. In addition, the school also run a homework club which can really help support those children that struggle completing their tasks independently.
Curriculum
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
As writers, we will:
- Write Mary Anning’s fossil journal to describe the events of her finding the first Ichthyosaur
- Listen and respond
- Ask relevant questions
- Build vocabulary
- Articulate and justify answers
- Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives
- Speak audibly and fluently
- Listen to and discuss a wide range of texts
- Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
- Explain meaning of words in context
- Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from
their actions - Predict from details stated and implied
- Retrieve and record information from non-fiction
- Plan writing by discussing the structure, vocabulary and grammar of similar writing
- Discuss and record ideas
- Compose and rehearse sentences orally
- Propose changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency
- Proofread for spelling and punctuation errors
- Read aloud own writing using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and
volume so that the meaning is clear
As mathematicians, we will:
- Explore multiples of 10.
- Investigate related calculations.
- Develop reasoning about multiplication.
- Multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number with 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 with no exchange.
- Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number using flexible partitioning.
- Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number with remainders.
- Investigate scaling.
- Explore how many ways a problem can be solved.
As geographers, we will be:
- Investigating what a volcano is.
- Exploring where some famous volcanoes are in the world.
- Discovering what happens when a volcano erupts.
- Learning how the environment is affected when a volcano erupts.
- Identifying the features of a volcano.
- Understanding the differences between extinct, active, and dormant volcanoes.
- Exploring what tectonic plates are.
- Investigating what and where the Ring of Fire is.
- Examining what life is like in a volcanic area.
- Discovering which other natural disasters are caused by the movement of tectonic plates.
- Understanding if earthquakes and tsunamis occur in the same locations as volcanic activity, and why.
- Investigating why some places or countries are affected more than others.
As historians, we are:
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Understand what happened to Pompeii in 79AD and to explain why Pompeii is so useful for information about everyday life in Roman times.
As scientists we will:
- Explore the appearance of rocks.
- Investigate how rocks can be grouped by their physical properties.
- Discover how fossils are formed.
- Investigate how fossils are discovered.
- Examine how the fossil record helps us understand the past.
- Explore how soil can be described by drawing and labelling a diagram.
As artists, we will:
- Explore the art of JMW Turner
- Explore techniques using paint inspired by JMW Turner
- Create a painting inspired by Turner’s Mount Vesuvius using a range of techniques
As computer technicians we will:
- Recognise that a network is two or more devices connected and its purpose.
- Identify key components that make up the school’s network.
- Explain the difference between wired and wireless connections.
- Recognise that files are saved on a server.
- Understand the role of the server in a network when requesting a website.
- Identify parts of a website’s journey to reach your computer.
- Recognise that routers connect to send information.
- Understand that data is broken into packets.
As musicians we will:
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Tell a story from a piece of music
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Create a soundscape using percussion instruments.
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Create a range of sounds to compliment a story.
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Compose and perform a rhythm to accompany a story.
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Compose and notate a short melody to a story.
As linguists we will:
- Point to a colour that matches a spoken word.
- Say the names of some colours in Spanish.
- Read and recognise descriptive phrases and match them to an image.
- Identify shapes with their name and colour in Spanish, placing the colour adjective after the noun.
- Write or copy shape and colour names with accuracy.
- Recall and produce some key vocabulary from memory.
As learners of RE we will be exploring the Big Question:
- How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim?
We will:
- Identify some beliefs about God in Islam.
- Make clear links between beliefs about God and ibadah (worship) and how this links to prayer, fasting, celebrating and the intention to live out the five pillars of Islam.
- Have opportunities to ask questions and suggest answers about the value of submission and self-control to Muslims, and whether there are benefits of these for all people.
As learners of PSHE we will be learning about:
- Rights and Responsibilities, focusing on needs, challenges and success
- Environment, focusing on duties and how the actions of others influence me
- Money, focusing on where money comes from and what an enterprise is