Year 3 Learning Challenge

Year 3 Learning Challenge for Autumn 1

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are delighted to provide you with the Year 3 Learning Challenge for this half of the Autumn Term.

This learning challenge gives the children the opportunity to look at their local area from a number of perspectives. These include those of a contemporary musician, a modern-day athlete and a 19th century artist and poet. It is entirely up to your child whether they select the poem, significant person, music or painting, or a combination of all 4. They can also select the activities that they want to attempt, though we would encourage them to be ambitious and to deepen their learning as much as possible.

Although the Learning Challenge is entirely optional, and is in addition to the daily expectation of 15 minutes’ reading, 15 minutes’ times tables rehearsal and 15 minutes’ spellings practice, we have found that a large proportion of children have voluntarily taken up the challenge and have gained a great deal from it. We would therefore greatly appreciate your encouragement to participate. The children will receive a special Learning Challenge certificate at the end of the half term on completion of a project that shows a significant level of effort and challenge undertaken.

Should you have any problems regarding this, or any other issue, please do not hesitate to contact us. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support, and look forward to working with you this academic year.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor and Mr Nicol

	Poem	Painting	Person	Music
Basic	Learn it off by heart	Find out 10 facts about the painting/artist	Draw a portrait of the person	Listen to a piece of music
	Find another poem by the poet	Produce a collage of other paintings by the artist	Produce a timeline of their life	Identify the instruments.
Advanced	Create a performance as part of a pair/group	Draw a picture in similar style	Produce a poster to advertise their achievements	Research the life of the composer.
	Write a short biography about the poet	Transform the medium of the painting: use collage instead of painting	Write a letter asking them about their life	Attempt to recreate the lyrics but for places along the A12.
Deep	Write your own poem inspired by the topic	Use the image as a stimulus for 100WC	Explain how the world would be without this person	A mind map of different emotions you feel at various points in the piece
	Compare and contrast two poems by the poet	Describe what the painting: what it represents, how it makes you feel, what it is based on	Give five reasons for and against why they should be in ‘The Hall of Fame’	Produce a piece of art/collage based on how the music makes you feel.

Person Painting

Frank Lampard ‘Wivenhoe Park’
by John Constable

Music

‘A13, Trunk Road to the Sea’ – Billy Bragg

Poem

Edward Thomas – If I Were to Own (Abridged)

If I were to own this countryside

As far as a man in a day could ride,

And the Tyes were mine for giving or letting,--

Wingle Tye and Margaretting

Skreens, Gooshays, and Cockerells,

Shellow, Rochetts, Bandish, and Pickerells,

Fields where plough-horses steam and plovers

Fling and whimper, hedges that lovers

Love, and orchards, shrubberies, walls

Where the sun untroubled by north wind falls,

For a song, a blackbird's song, at dawn.

He should have no more, till on my lawn

Never a one was left, because I

Had shot them to put them into a pie,--

His Essex blackbirds, every one,

And I was left old and alone.