Year 3 Summer Term 1

We will be starting the topic ‘Rivers’ this half term. This looks at and compares rivers around the world. This will involve geographical skills, using maps and identifying differences and similarities between the countries, weather, plants and animals found there.

We will be reading to book ‘The Rhythm of the Rain’, this links in brilliantly with our topic about Rivers. The book looks at the water cycle and how it is vital to animals and humans across the world. This is a picture book with beautiful illustrations and interesting vocabulary.

We will begin Maths this term looking at Money and then move onto time. Working on this at home would be great. These are real life skills which children often find a bit tricky. As always, number facts including timetables are important and the children should be encouraged to get to know their tables and corresponding division facts.  

In Science, we will be looking at ‘Light and Shadows’, this will help to further develop skills to carry out investigations. We will be looking at light sources and the absence of light. We will investigate shadows, observing and recording findings as well as drawing conclusions.  

In French, the children will be working on different types of transport. They will be singing songs, writing words and sentences as well as working on their pronunciation.

The Music unit will be about Rivers too which fits in well with our topic. The children will be thinking about musical language such as tempo, dynamics and pitch. The children will find ways to represent the journey of a river in musical form.

Our Jigsaw theme for the half term is ‘Relationships’. In this unit we will be looking at different relationships within families and how to negotiate and solve problems. The children will look at relationships online and ways in which they can stay safe. As they move through the unit, they will think about different places around the world and their role as a global citizen. They will think about how their lives and relationships are very different to those of other children around the world.  

This term the children will be learning about the sport of Handball in their PE lessons. They will develop their passing, improve their shooting and learn about movement in the game when they take part in a variety of activities. The children will also learn how to implement basic attacking and defending tactics.

Then they will begin to learn about Rounders. They will be learning how to bowl, bat and field as they take part in a variety of activities to develop their throwing and catching abilities. The children will also be introduced to the rules and scoring of the game over the term.