We are delighted to continue our French lessons with Mrs Cackett, our resident native French speaker. Over the course of the summer term, we will be consolidating vocabulary and sentence structure linked to ourselves. Term 3: All about me During this unit we will take part in a story in French; recognise masculine and feminine […]
We will be learning the song ‘Just Like a Roman’ by Susie Davis from the Sing Up resource online alongside: Sing Up Music: Monsters, monsters! About the unit: Monsters, monsters! tells the story of a child who suspects there are monsters living under their bed. When they fall asleep, they meet the monsters and head
Striking and Fielding Rounders: Pupils will learn how to score points by striking a ball into space and running around cones or bases. When fielding, they learn how to play in different fielding roles. They focus on developing their throwing, catching and batting skills. In all games activities, pupils have to think about how they
Over the course of term 5 and 6, we will continue to follow our Jigsaw PSHE scheme of learning. Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE is a progressive and spiral scheme of learning. In planning the lessons, Jigsaw PSHE ensures that learning from previous years is revisited and extended, adding new concepts, knowledge and skills,
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