Class Teacher: Mr Purchase

Supportive Teaching Team: Isabelle Belton

Term 1

This term our enquiry will be "How has electricity improved life?'

English

In English this term, we will be reading our anchor text ‘On the beam of light’. We will continue to develop our reading skills by retrieving information, inferring the text and exploring new vocabulary. In writing, we will be working towards writing short bursts leading to our final pieces of writing, which will be an adaptation of the story and a report as well as a focus on creating our own poems.

Maths

In Maths this term, children will be adding and subtracting across 10s, to secure the number sense taught in Year 2 and understanding how to bridge across and through the tens. In the term, two children will develop their understanding and confidence with numbers of up to 1000. Throughout the term, children will be practising their timetables to ensure confidence and fluency in the afternoons, along with continued learning of our mastery approach and other general arithmetic skills. 

Science

As scientists this term, we will be looking at electricity. We will build up our learning to answer our question: ‘How has electricity improved our lives?’. This involves learning about what our life looks like with electricity and what it looked like without. We will be able to identify and construct a simple series electrical circuit.

DT 

In our design and technology lessons we will be learning about how to construct a simple hand-held electrical game. We will be following the steps of a designer to research and test and apply these skills to the development of our own games.

PSHE

Our topic for Term one PSHE is 'Being me in my world'. This dives into how to make our community and school a better place, children's right to learn and how to care for other people's feelings. In term two, our topic is 'Celebrating Difference'. This focusses on acceptance of others, problem-solving, bullying and how every person is different. 

PE 

This term in PE, our unit of work is Personal Skills, with a physical focus on Coordination: Floor Movement Patterns, for the first 3 lessons and on Static Balance: 1 Leg Standing, coordination for the remaining 3 lessons. In year 3, we will also have swimming lessons. Swimming is a fun activity, but it is also very important for safety and our health.