Monday 29 April 2019

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


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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


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