English: During this half term, our quality text will be 'Escape from Pompeii' by Christina Balit. Using this text, we will be writing setting descriptions focusing on using descriptive language. We will also be writing our own version of the story from another viewpoint. To support our learning and develop our skills, throughout this unit we will be looking at features of language such as adjectives, powerful verbs, adverbs, prepositional phrases and similes and incorporating these into our independent writing. Science: In our Science lessons, we will complete our unit of work on Rocks. We will compare and group different rocks according to their appearance and properties. We will also be looking about how fossils are formed.
Year 3 Half-term: Autumn 1 The Romans
Whole class reading: In our reading lessons, we will be reading a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts linked to our history and science topics. We will be focusing on retrieval and inference skills and building our knowledge of vocabulary.
Maths: In maths this half term, we will be working on Place Value and Addition & Subtraction. The children will be working on identifying, representing and estimating numbers using different manipulatives. They will learn about each place and its value (H,T,O) and count in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100. They will find 1, 10 or 100 more than numbers also. In Addition & Subtraction we will work up from adding and subtracting 1, 10 and 100 up to 3-digit addition and subtraction questions.
PE: Working each week with WLSP, the children will be taking part in athletics lessons or invasion games. These will be on the field.