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