This half term, our core book is ‘Hidden Figures’ by Margot Shetterly. We will explore the story of four female African American mathematicians at NASA, and how they overcame gender and racial barriers to succeed in a highly challenging STEM-based career. We will also be reading "My Little Book of Big Freedom". The children will explore the different rights people enjoy everyday. They will use this book as a basis to write poems based on different freedoms. Children will continue to develop their reading and comprehension skills by making predictions based on visual images and the text, inferring and clarifying their understanding of words and phrases in order to develop their vocabulary. They will make links with real events happening in the world around us and continue to develop learning behaviours such as supporting and actively listening to each other.  In writing, they will focus on writing a character profile based on the characters from our core text, ensuring that they include all the structural and language features.

In RE we will be learning about religious beliefs about God. Children will identify that central to religious beliefs are beliefs about God. They will learn about the beliefs through the religions, their holy books and the worship of God. 

In maths, children will consolidate their knowledge of place value, addition and subtraction.  They will learn to read and write numbers up to one thousand, in words and digits. Rounding whole numbers and decimals will help the children to estimate answers to check their calculations. Counting forward and backwards in whole numbers will help develop understanding of place value. There will also be a focus on mental calculation strategies. Ensuring you child is fluent with their times tables up to 12 x 12 would be very helpful. The vocabulary associated with place value will be emphasised and there will be opportunities to apply what they have learnt on a daily basis through reasoning and problem-solving activities. 

There will be a focus on multi- skills in outdoor PE every Wednesday afternoon. Indoor PE will focus on fundamental movement skills including coordination and balance each Friday afternoon.

In science this half term, we will be learning about light. We will begin our topic by recognising that light from the sun can be dangerous and identifying the different ways we can protect our eyes. Next, we will be learning about how shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object. Finally, we will be investigating how to find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change by measuring our shadows during different points of a day. 

‘Being me in my world’ is the theme for this half term. This involves respect for rules, rights and responsibilities as well as respecting other people’s differences.

The children will be learning about the achievements of one of the earliest civilizations – Ancient Egypt. They will explore how the Egyptian Queens (Hatshepsut, Nerfertiti and Cleopatra) controlled the totalitarian state as power brokers and rulers and learn that the Great Pyramids of Giza contains burial chambers of pharaohs and queens.

We will be using Project Evolve to explore online safety. The children will look at appropriate ways to behave towards other people online and recognise how bullying behaviour can appear online. They will also discuss the different ways someone can seek support and help when they need it.

The children will investigate artwork created by Corey Barksdale. They will research different abstract expressionists and explore sketching techniques for self-portraits. Using different pastels, children will create different shades and textures. For their outcome children will create a self portrait in the style of the artist.

From Year 3 begin children to learn French. We will be focusing on greetings, numbers and classroom objects this half term.

PE Kit

Children will have PE every Monday and Wednesday afternoon. Please ensure your child wears their kit to school on these days and that all items are clearly labelled with their full name. 

• Thursday 12th September - Year 3 Meet the Teacher Meeting at 3:30

• Tuesday 15th October - Parents evening (3:30 - 7)

• Thursday 17th October - Parents evening (3:30 - 6)

• Friday 18th October - Break up for half term

• Monday 28th October  - Autumn 2 term beings