Do you want to come on an adventure?

This term we will be reading and watching adventure stories including ‘The Hodgeheg’ and an incredible picture story book called ‘Journey’. We will be looking at the features of these types of stories and after a few weeks, we will write an ad- venture story of our very own!

Of course we will need to plan each paragraph first so that we include adverbs, complex sentences and conjunctions to signal time, sequence or place. Children will be using their Kung-Fu punctuation in order to punctuate speech accurately.

This half term, it’s time to work up a mental sweat as we continue our deep discovery into the world of multiplication and division in many different contexts. We will have many effective strategies to use along the way including the bar model, place value equipment, the part whole model, number lines and more! We will show our working out so that we can explain and be reasoning robins.

What do you know about magnets and forces?

This term we will compare how things move on different surfaces and observe how magnets attract or repel each other. We will investigate how different materials are attracted and repelled by a magnet. We will discuss our predictions and ask relevant questions using different types of enquiry.

We are presenters!

Our next focus area for computing is movie making and editing. Watch as we tackle the program Windows Movie Maker to design a short sketch and edit it effectively. We will be sure to consider framing the shot for our target audience and adding narration.

We will investigate the life on the Anglo Saxons. We will be discovering how the Saxons made their way into Britain, the religions they belonged to and how they established themselves as one of the most powerful communities in the world.

There will be songs, chants and percussion a – plenty this term as we dive into a new topic for music. Our focus areas will be exploring new sounds such as chords, body percussion and scales. We will have the opportunity to help our classmates as we perform in a ‘call and response’ format.

Our focus for this subject will be designing our very own board games. Year Three students will need to muster all of their creativity, determination and attention to detail to create the most interesting game to look at and play!

We cannot wait to sink our teeth into the interesting topic of Hinduism this term! What will we learn? What do you already know?

We will be using maps to locate and describe the geographical features of the Ealing Borough. We will be using map symbols to identify different types of buildings in Ealing and then researching their history.

Year three students will be alternating between two very different sets of skills. In some lessons, children will be flexing and stretching in gymnastics style P.E.

Our new topic is ‘On fait la fete’. Children will be exploring different celebrations, such as birthdays. Children will be learning the names of the months of the year and creating a class survey about different celebrations around the world.