Harvington C of E First and Nursery School
‘Together we love, learn and grow’
Year 3
Welcome to Year 3
Class Teacher: Mrs Elaaoudi-Aitsy
Teaching assistants: Miss Boyle, Mrs Sewell and Mrs Harrison
Class Governor: Mrs Francis
PTFA Class Representatives: Mrs Creeber and Mrs Whitehouse
Important information:
Spellings will be sent home at the beginning of each new term. Spelling tests take place on a Friday.
Please make sure your child has a named PE kit, water bottle, reading book and message book in school every day.
At the moment, homework will not be assigned as a weekly individual task. Instead, this time will provide more opportunities for children to focus on their Spellings, Reading, and Times Tables practice. We hope this approach will allow them to continue making good progress and demonstrate their learning.
Long Term Overview
Welcome Letters
Spellings
Year 3 Calculation Policy
Writing
This half term, our learning will include:
History:
Who were the Celts and how did they live?
In this unit, our learning will focus on how life in Britain changed from pre-historic times through to the Iron Age. We will be learning what BC and AD mean and how to use timelines to place key periods and events in chronological order, including the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages and the time of Boudicca. We will be investigating how historians find out about the past by studying Skara Brae as a case study and using evidence such as artefacts, primary sources and secondary sources. We will be discovering what everyday life was like in the Stone Age, including food, clothing and weapons, and we will be comparing how materials and technology changed over time from stone and wood to bronze and iron. Finally, we will be learning about Boudicca, the Iceni tribe, and the battle between Boudicca and the Romans in Colchester, helping us to understand change over time and how the past is similar to and different from the present.
Key Vocabulary:
timeline, BC-before Christ, AD-Anno Domini, past/present, before/after, century/decade, chronological order, similar, different, compare, contrast, change, cause, explain, question, evidence artefact, information, primary source, secondary source, account, tribe, Boudica, Iceni tribe
Science:
This half term, we will be exploring the physical properties of rocks and soils and fossil formation.
Key vocabulary:
bar chart, conclusion, crystal, diagram, fossil, grain, group, hard, hardness, observe, predict, record, research, rock, sediment, sedimentary rock, sedimentation, soft, soil.
Celebrating our learning!
