English: Our quality text for this half term will be the marvellous book by Philip Pullman, 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'. We will be having a weekly reading comprehension session, followed by a range of different drama, speaking and listening and writing opportunities. These will include instructional writing and narrative writing. We will be focussing on using technical vocabulary, consider our verb choices and use of verbs as well as recapping the grammar features we have learnt so far. Science: We will be learning about plants and identifying and describing the functions of the different parts of a plant. We will then explore the requirements for plant life and growth, learn about the life cycle of a plant and investigate the way water is transported within plants.
Year 3 Half-term: Spring 2
Whole class reading: In our reading lessons, we will be continuing to read a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts linked to our theme work. We will be focusing on retrieval and inference skills and building our knowledge of vocabulary. We will also be focusing on making accurate predictions and explaining our ideas about a text.
Maths: We start this half term by learning all about length and perimeter. We will be measuring in metres, centimetres and millimetres and looking at equivalent lengths. We will then compare, add and subtract length. We will then learn about perimeter using our understanding to measure and calculate perimeter. We will continue the term by looking at Fractions, learning about numerators and denominators in both unit and non-unit fractions. We will then compare fractions and learn about equivalent fractions. PE: Working each week with WLSP, the children will take part in dance. The children will be taking part in tennis lessons with the teacher.