Brookburn Primary School

Staff

Mrs Connaughton	Teacher – Class 3MC
Mrs Warrington Miss Kingsford	Teacher – Class 3KW (Mon, Tue) Teacher – Class 3KW (Wed, Thu, Fri)
Dr Elderfield	Key Stage 2 Teaching Assistant Lead
Mrs Wainwright	Teaching Assistant
Miss Krell	Teaching Assistant
Ms Bharucha	Teaching Assistant

History – Legacy of Monarchy

This term our whole school topic is ‘Monarchy’. In Year 3 we will be investigating the Tudor Monarchy and particularly looking at Henry VIII. The question we will be investigating will be ‘What type of King was Henry VIII?’ Within this topic, we will discuss what type of man was Henry VIII, the Reformation and the decisions he made to ensure the future of the Tudor Dynasty.

English

In English, we will base our writing on different texts through the year. This half term, we will read the texts ‘The Tin Forest’ by Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson and ‘The Snowman’ by Raymond Briggs. We will be completing short writing activities around both these books to support a longer piece of writing to retell the stories using a ‘plan, write and edit’ sequence of lessons. To finish the half term, we will complete a poetry unit looking at different styles of poems, vocabulary choices and a variety literary devices based on a winter theme.

Maths

This half term we will be extending our learning on the four methods of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Within Addition and Subtraction, we will be looking at using the column method with 2-digit and 3-digit numbers. In Multiplication and Division, we will be looking at using a variety of different methods, such as the Grid and Bus Stop Methods. Within Geometry, we will be exploring 2D and 3D shapes, learning the properties and qualities of a range of shapes. In Statistics, we will be learning how to interpret and write Pictograms, Bar Charts and Tables. We will also be exploring time through 12-hour clocks, 24-hour clocks and clocks with Roman Numerals. Throughout all our Mathematical concepts we will be building our fluency before we explore these through real-life word problems.

We will also be focusing on our 3, 4 and 8 times tables.

Science

In Science, we will be investigating Forces and Magnets. In this unit, we will investigate 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 and 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. We will carry out investigations around how things move on different surfaces and how magnetic objects, how long an item remains magnetised and how different magnets have different strengths.

Other Curriculum Areas

RE – Why is the Bible so important for Christians today?

Art/ DT- Sewing – Creating Egyptian Style Collars

Music – Charanga unit: singing and glockenspiel

PE – Gym and Health Related Fitness

PSHCE – Keeping Safe – Recognising Risk

Computing – Creating Media – Animations

Empowering Learning Skills

This half term in lower key stage 2, we will continue teaching ‘Empowering Learning Skills’. It is important that we explicitly teach children about these behaviours to support their learning in school. Each week in assembly, we will discuss these attributes and celebrate children for their progress within the empowering learning skills. There will also be an opportunity to discuss and answer questions at progress meetings on 12^th and 14^th Nov.

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child

Each week we have a focus ‘Article of the Week’. We focus on this in a weekly assembly and in follow up classroom activities. Some of the themes and related articles for this half term are ‘Remembrance’,’ Anti-bullying’ and ‘World Children’s Day’.

We are taking part in Outright 24-25. The focus of this will be learning about democracy and global citizenship. We will also be thinking about how we can speak out and take action and we will be learning about children and young people who are doing the same.

Important Dates

SEND progress meetings: Week beginning 4^th November- please book a meeting time with the teacher if you have not already

Y3 belonging art project Begins 4^th November with artist Kate Freeborough

Progress Evenings: 3:45- 7pm Tuesday 12th November (face to face meetings)/3:45- 6pm Thursday 14th November (virtual meetings) This will be to discuss the progress your child is making. Please book a meeting time if you have not already.

End of term: 2pm, 20th December.

Spring term starts 6th Jan 2024

Brookburn
Primary
School

Year 3