Our Religious Education lessons will continue to be based upon our “Love to Celebrate” projects. Basing the “Love to Celebrate” projects around festivals, gives a real-life context to the children’s learning and a structure to the projects. However, the celebration itself is only a small part of each “Love to Celebrate” project. Each set of […]
Following the Purple Mash scheme of learning, our two main computing topics, this term, will be email and branching data bases. Simulations In term 5, we will be focusing upon Simulations. We will learn about: To find out what a simulation is and understand the purpose of simulations. To explore a simulation, making choices and
Art: Mosaic Masters Linked to our main topic, “Emperors and Empires”, our art topic for this term is “Mosaic Masters”. Throughout this topic, we will learn about the history of mosaics, before focusing on the colours, patterns and themes found in Roman mosaic. The children will learn techniques to help them design and make a
This first focus of learning in Science this term is ‘Plant nutrition and reproduction’. This project teaches children about the requirements of plants for growth and survival. We will describe the parts of flowering plants and relate structure to function, including the roots and stem for transporting water, leaves for making food and the flower for
Following the White Rose Maths scheme, year 3 will cover six main blocks of learning over the course of the spring term: ratio; algebra; decimals; fractions; decimals and percentages; perimeter, area and volume; and statistics. The blocks of learning for ratio and algebra have been moved to earlier in the year to give more time
Reading Our Class Text and Comprehension In term 5 and 6 our reading comprehension lessons will be based upon our class text, “The Goose Guards – Roman Tales”, which is a novel written by Terry Deary. In the story we will hear about when Fabia embarrasses Brutus in a lesson, he’s determined to have revenge
From a historical perspective, we will learn about chronology; Everyday life in ancient Rome, the founding of Rome, power and rule, the Roman Empire. We will study significant emperors and their social hierarchy. Following on from this we will learn about the Roman army, the Roman invasion of Britain. We will also be learning about
From a geographical perspective, we will use maps to investigate the locations of the first invasions in Britain, the Roman conquest, Boudicca’s rebellion, Hadrian’s wall and Roman forts.
This term our topic is “Emperors and Empires”. Throughout this topic, we will learn about the history and structure of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire, including a detailed exploration of the Romanisation of Britain. To find out more, view our Emperors and Empires Knowledge Organiser. Other helpful documents Emperors and Empires Optional Home Learning