Brookburn Primary School

Staff

Mrs Deer	Assistant Head – Lower Key Stage 2
	Teacher – Class 3ED
Mrs Connaughton	Teacher – Class 3MC
Dr Elderfield	Key Stage 2 Teaching Assistant Lead
Mrs Wainwright	Teaching Assistant
Miss Krell	Teaching Assistant
Ms Bharucha	Teaching Assistant

Our Values

Respect yourself
Respect others
Respect property and your community

Geography – Our World

We will focus on Regions of the UK with a focus on the North West, identifying human and physical characteristics, different topographical features (hills, mountains, coasts and rivers) and looking at how land use in Manchester has changed over the years.

English

George’s Marvellous Medicine –

· writing instructions for our own Marvellous Medicines

· creating an advert for our own version of George’s medicine.

· descriptive writing following George on his journey through Grandma’s house to gather his ingredients for his marvellous medicine.

Within both units, we will be focussing on using different sentence types within our writing and using descriptive devices to make our writing interesting for the audience. Within our non-fiction writing, we will focus on including the different features used in instructions and adverts.

Maths

Length and Perimeter: measuring using millimetres, centimetres and metres and using this knowledge to calculate perimeter.

Multiplication and division: multiplying and dividing 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers and linking multiplication and division.

Science

Forces and Magnets

We will:

Compare how things move on different surfaces.
Notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance.
Observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others.

Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials.

Other Curriculum Areas

RE – Why do people pray? (Faiths: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism)

Design Technology- Designing and building a toy that uses a pneumatic system

Music – Recorders with One Education and playing glockenspiels to the music of Three Little Birds

PE – Bollywood Dancing and Tag Rugby

PSHE – Healthy Lifestyles

Computing – Sequencing sounds

French – Les Instruments

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child

In the Summer term 2025, we achieved the UNICEF UK Gold Rights Respecting Schools award. This term the Rights Respecting council will be planning a ‘Gold Day’ to celebrate this. We will be organising lots of fun activities linked to the Rights of the child. The council will write to you in the next few weeks to share more information.

Our school charter:

Article 2- The convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family background.

Article 12- Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views considered and taken seriously.

Article 28- Every child has the right to an education.

Article 31- Every child has the right to relax and play.

Empowering Learning and Personal Development

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Healthy Diet
Sun Safety
Personal Hygiene

Empowering Learning
We will be focussing on being Team Workers. We will be focussing on working well with others in joint activities, taking turns and giving feedback.

Important Dates

5^th January: Start of term

22^nd January: Inclusion coffee morning (9am in the training room- all are welcome)

WC 9^th February: Place2be mental health week

10^th February: Safer Internet day

Half-term: Monday 16^th– Friday 20^th February

23^rd February: Spring 2 starts

4^th March: SEND review progress evenings

5^th March: World Book Day

8^th March: International Women’s Day

12^th March: Inclusion coffee morning

WC 16^th March: Progress evenings

Brookburn
Primary
School

Year 3