1. Year 3 Term 3 & 4 Themes SCIENCE AND ICT HUMANITIES PE AND PSHE
(History, Geography, RE)
PE AND PSHE
Forces and Magnets
We are going to work scientifically through:
Notiing that some forces need contact between 2 objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance
Observing how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others
Comparing and grouping together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identifying some magnetic materials
Describing magnets as having 2 poles and  predicting whether 2 magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing
Computing
We are going to keep practising our keyboard skills and:
Write a simple program
Understand run/stop
Understand what a Sprite is
Use loops
Use if statements
History
We are going to: understand when in world and British History the Ancient Egyptian periods were; understand how our knowledge about the past comes from different sources and; research and organise information
R.E.
Our key question is: Why do some people think that life is a journey and what significant experiences mark this?
P.E
Swimming
Dance – Egyptian themed composition – We wukk be exploring and improvising ideas based on different styles, working on our own, with a partner and in a group; creating and linking dance phrases
P.S.H.E - Jigsaw Unit 3 Dreams and Goals
We will be working together on: staying motivated when facing challenges; working well in a group; having a positive attitude; working hard to achieve our goals and dreams and: helping others to achieve their goals and dreams
You could:
Find out about the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb
Talk about how you mark or celebrate special moments in your/your family’s life
You could:
Make a magnetic maze (
Investigate Scratch online (
You could:
Watch and practise this dance with friends (search traditional Egyptian dance by children on Youtube-
Ask other people in your family what their dreams and goals are. Are you surprised by any of their answers?
Year 3 Term 3 & 4 Themes
Awesome Egyptians
LITERACY
MATHS
Our main key texts will be: Leon and the Place Between (Graham Baker-Smith) and The Firework Maker’s Daughter (Philip Pullman).
We will be writing:
A play
A quest story
A persuasive piece
Our new learning will be:
Recognising and using prepositions and the present perfect tense
Beginning to place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals [for example, girls', boys'] and in words with irregular plurals [for example, children's]
We will continue building on what we have learnt so far by planning, writing (using wonderful language choices and compound and complex sentences), proof-reading and editing
We will continue to focus on working out the meaning of new words, inference and prediction in reading.
We are going to:
Count up and down in tenths
Find a fraction of a set of objects and a fraction of a shape or number
Find equivalent fractions
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
Compare and order fractions
Solve problems that involve finding, ordering or comparing fractions
Measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml)
Measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes
Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks
Estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o’clock, am/pm, morning, afternoon, noon and midnight
Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year
Compare durations of events [for example, to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks]
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT
(Art, Music, Design technology)
Art
We will be writing in hieroglyphics and making canopic jars in clay
Music
We will be exploring pentatonic scales
Design technology
We will be researching, designing and making different types of pyramids
You could:
Draw the death mask of Tutankhamun or make a scarab beetle
Make a pyramid out of Lego
You could:
Read a book by Philip Pullman; I was a Rat is appropriate for most Year 3 readers.
Find out what a quest then research some famous quest stories; lots of our favourite books are quests.
Via a search engine (type in Topmarks fractions games) play Fraction Matcher: .