The Federation of Abbey Infant & Junior School Curriculum Map for Year 3. 2020-21 - Spring term For specific class information see https://abbey-federation.secure- primarysite.net/topic/class-pages For dates see https://abbey-federation.secure-primarysite.net/diary
Science In Spring 2, we will be studying different rocks, and investigating their properties by sorting and classifying them. The children will be testing the permeability and hardness of rocks and carry out some soil investigations. The children will also be looking at rocks in their local areas and finding out which are commonly used and for what purposes. The children will be developing their sentence types by including adverbial phrases, adjectives, adverbs, similes and conjunctions. Weekly spelling tests with words, spelling patterns and alternatives spellings taken from the National Curriculum. Please help your child to practise each week. English This term we will be continuing to develop our ‘Talk4Writing’, covering genres such as instructions, non-chronological reports, diary entry and advertisements. We will also be doing Reading Comprehension activities.
Music This is a six-week Unit of Work. All the learning is focused on Rhythm. Throughout the unit the children will learn to understand pulse and rhythm, understand notation, read simple rhythms, develop reading rhythms, compose rhythms and perform rhythms.
Our topic is Stone Age (Spring 2). Through this topic we will be linking our Art, Design Technology and Geography.
French This term the children will be looking at stories and the environment around them (in the classroom). They will also be covering short units based around numbers, colours, animals and instruments. Throughout these units, the children will be given opportunities for speaking, listening and writing short phrases and sentences more independently. They will also begin to use a bilingual dictionary to support them.
During Spring 2, the children will learn about the Stone Age era. We will be finding out how Stone Age people lived, what they ate, what they wore and how they developed tools. We will be looking at how Stone Age dwellings developed through the age, and finding out about the construction of Stonehenge. Unfortunately, due to Covid -19 restrictions we will not be able to go on our educational visit, however we aim to provide the children with as much information and experiences as possible for them to understand what life would have been like for a Stone Age person.
Soft skills: Respecting Everyone, Listening to Others, Problem Solving Life Skills: Survival skills Bucket List:
PE The curricular links of Dance this half term are to the theme of superheroes. The dance will include movement to music of themed words e.g. zoom, swoop, dash, stealth along with body posture related to characteristics e.g. strong, brave along with antonyms for villains. As a final outcome we will be creating a class dance incorporating the movements developed over the half term. In Spring 2, the children will be increasing their activity levels and developing a range of wellbeing skills due to the lack of physical activity within lockdown. The benefits of this for children are healthy growth and development, better self- esteem, stronger heart, reduce stress and uplifting their mood. Mathematics In Spring 2 we move onto Money where the children will learn to convert pounds to pence and add and subtract amounts. We then move onto Statistics and tie this in with our Stone Age topic to create table data which is then converted into a bar chart.
History Our unit of work this half term will be focused around the culture and civilisation of the Stone Age, looking at settlements and housing of the Stone Age people. We will be looking at culture and artwork of the Stone Age, exploring how Stone Age people developed cave drawings. We will be developing their understanding of the key historical events of the Stone Age through to the Iron Age period plus developing their understanding of BC, AD and prehistoric periods.
Computing During computing this term, the children will be becoming Presenters! They will get the opportunity to learn different camera shots and how to record their own video. Children will get the opportunity to use digital devices to record and then edit their videos using a range of programs. They will then add sound to their videos.
Geography
Through their study of the Stone Age era, children will gain an understanding of different types of settlements and the way in which the land is used. Children will continue to develop their map/atlas reading skills and apply their knowledge of co- ordinates.
Art & Design
Religious Education This term we will explore what it means to be a good citizen in our community and find out about the values of different religions. There is a focus on Christianity, Sikhism, and Judaism some of the core morals of these three religions and some simple compare and contrasting. The topic of light allows children to see how light is important to these three religions in different ways. Children also touch upon humanism and how core morals and values may also be similar.
Art and design for this half term will be linked to their Stone Age topic, they will make a cave painting after analysing cave paintings. They study the themes and colour choices. They then move on to producing a watercolour piece to create a background with a torn paper silhouette, looking like Stonehenge. They will then develop their drawing skills using charcoal to create their pictures of Stonehenge, focusing on light and shade, depth and shadow.
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