Year 3 Curriculum letter Summer Term

Year 3 - Curriculum Newsletter

Welcome back and we trust you all had a restful Easter break. We hope you find this letter informative, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher if you have any questions relating to the curriculum.

Homework:

Our expectation at Broadford is that every child should do the following every night:

                            15 minutes reading to themselves or an adult and note in the reading record

                                                             15 minutes practising spellings

                             15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts (including multiplication and division)

If children would like to attempt an additional challenge, we have a new Learning Challenge for children to attempt this half of the Autumn Term. All of the activities are based around a significant person, poem or painting relating to our topics. Children do not have to attempt every activity but instead select the activities that they are most interested in and compile a project that reflects the extra time and effort that they have put into their challenge. We hope that children will take their time with the challenge and be proud of the work they produce they should hand this into their teacher at the end of the half term.

Spellings:

Spellings will be given out on Mondays. The children should practise their words every evening. We encourage the children to write their words in sentences on the back of their homework sheet. Their spelling test will take place on Fridays. Children in Read, Write, Inc groups could have their spellings given out and tested on different days.

Rockstar Times tables:

Children will be completing their timestables daily in school at the start of each maths lesson. Please practise timestables with your children at home, they will be able to tell you which tables they are currently working on.

Curriculum Information

We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this half term. If you have any questions about the topics being covered, please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor        Mr Nicol

Sequoia Class Teacher   Hazel Class Teacher

Summer Term
	1st Half Term	2nd Half Term
Literacy	Guided Reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation Explanation texts Biographies	Guided reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation Folktales Persuasive Writing
	Please fill in the reading journal after hearing your child read. For a good selection of children books visit the local library. Also Mybookblog can be accessed from home with your children's individual usernames and passwords.
Numeracy	Rockstars timetables Fractions Time	Rockstars times tables Properties of shape Mass and capacity
	Rockstars and Mymaths can be accessed from home with the children’s individual usernames/passwords.
ICT	Coding ‘if statement’, selecting pieces of code to execute depending on outcomes	Coding ‘if statement’, selecting pieces of code to execute depending on outcomes
Science	Particle Theory	N/A
History/ Geography	Childhood - Mayans Local Study Second World War	Childhood - Continued Local Study Second World War
P.E	Athletics/Volleyball	Athletics/Volleyball/ Sports day preparation
	PE will usually be on Thursdays. Please ensure your child brings in their kit and leaves it at school.
Art	Related to topic	Related to topic
P.H.S.E	Living in the wider world Rights and Responsibilities	Taking care of the environment Money
Financial Curriculum	To help pupils understand the reasons for the development of money using a role-play activity based on bartering. To improve coin recognition skills by introducing the reasons for having different coin denominations.	Using a planning exercise based around a trip, develop pupils’ budgeting and mental maths skills. Using a shop role play, demonstrate the importance of being able to check whether you’ve received the right change, and let pupils practise this skill.
Trips	Hornchurch Country Park - Date to be confirmed Reading Stay & Learn - Thursday 9th May -  9-9.30 am	The Orbit - Date to be confirmed Topic Stay & Learn - Thursday 13th June - 9-9.30 am

Year 3 - Learning Challenge Summer 1

Year 3 Learning Challenge

Summer 1

Dear Parents and Carers,

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

It is entirely up to your child whether they select the poem or music or a combination of both. 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.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor and Mr Nicol

Poem - ‘War Child’ by Tim Kitchen

War Child.

Little girl, trying to sleep in your bed

don’t listen to the sound of the bombs nearby

just close your eyes and try not to cry

and let your brother sing you a lullaby.

And don’t listen to the noise of the guns

as the bullets flash by your door, don’t cry

just think of the peace found in sleep

while your brother sings you a lullaby.

Little girl, as you sleep in your bed

when you dream, try not to dream of the day

when soldiers came with their guns

and took your father away.

And when you wake up to a new day

looking for the sun, through the dust and smoke

try to find some hope in that terrible place

as you and your brother strive to cope.

Little girl, war is the world of grown ups

and there is nothing you can do

even if you tell them of your fear and sorrow

no one will listen to you.

But when the war is over and done

and you no longer hear an exploding shell

maybe your young life will be a better place

more like Heaven and less like Hell.

Piece of music - ‘Radetzky March, Op. 228’ by Johann Strauss Sr

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Y3/4 Tasks

	Poem	Painting	Person	Composer
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 piece of music
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.

Year 3 Spellings 29.04.19

	A	B
1	financial	financial
2	woman	wore
3	women	tore
4	accident	sore
5	actual	more
6	address	snore
7	answer	score
8	after	so
9	again	make
10	although	asked
11	answer	here
12	explanation	explanation
13	chronological	chronological
14	conjunction	conjunction
15	technical	technical
16	vocabulary	vocabulary
17	conclusion	conclusion
18	sequence	sequence
19	continuous	continuous
20	symbols	symbols
21	diagrams	diagrams