Y3 Summer Term

Welcome to Year 3’s curriculum page. We hope you find the information below useful. This page gives you an overview of your child’s learning journey through year 3.

Maths

Moving into the Summer Term, Year 3 will start off by learning some more about fractions building on what they learned in the Spring Term. We then move onto measurement, learning about money and reading time, learn about shape both 2D and 3D then end the year with statistics.

English

Writing – Throughout the Summer term, Year 3 children continue to develop and apply their writing skills. Their learning is focused on the books, ‘The Dancing Bear’, by Michael Morpurgo and ‘Revolting Rhymes and the Twits’ by Roald Dahl. They learn to write an explanation, a newspaper and a Haiku poem!

Reading – We finish the year reading ‘The Dancing Bear’, by Michael Morpurgo and ‘Revolting Rhymes and the Twits’ by Roald Dahl focusing on all the reading VIPERS.

Science

During the Summer Term, Year 3 children learn about the light and shadows and flowering plants. The children plan experiments about the movement of shadows and what that tells us and how water travels through a plant.

Art

Our final Art unit of Year 3 Is focused on making our own Islamic patterns using tessellation, linked to our spring religious education unit. The children explore different tessellating patterns before creating their own Islamic pattern.

Design Technology

In D.T, in the summer term, Year 3 children create and evaluate their own healthy salad. The learning is linked to the autumn science learning about balanced diets.

Geography

Our final Geography unit of the Year 3 is based on geography skills. The children learn how to conduct a traffic survey outside the school. They then analyse what that means for the school and the local environment.

History

Our final History unit of the Year 3 is all on the Greeks. Year 3 children learn about the Greek hierarchy, the battle of Athens and Sparta and about the first Olympics.

Music

In the Summer, the children learn about traditional Indian music and create a piece through tunned and percussion instruments. Their final unit is singing, writing then performing their own ballad based on an animation.

French

Our last French unit of Year 3 is about how to say your birthday. Children learn how to say numbers up to 31, days of the week and months of the year. They then learn how to say and write any date of the year including their birthday.

Personal Social and Health Education

The last two PSHE units of the year are Relationships and Changing Me. During these units, the children learn about relationships that are important to them and how their body changes as they grow up.

Religious Education

In R.E, Year 3 children learn about what ‘Growing up in a different religion’ involves and about different religious spaces.

Computing

Year 3 continue their understanding of online safety throughout the summer term by learning about Privacy and Security, and Copyright and Ownership. Finally, they create a collaborative ‘Wiki’ page about a topic they have learnt about during the year.

Physical Education

Our final indoor PE unit of Year 3 is dance based on the music of ‘The Greatest Showman’. They then have three outdoor units. The first two units are to learn the different skills needed to play rounders and tag rugby. Our final outdoor PE unit focuses on different sporting events involved in athletics, such as sprinting and the javelin.