Staff
- Alison Brien Assistant Head Years 1, 2 and 3
- Asha Matthews – Class Teacher
- Higher Level Teaching Assistant (TA) – Joanne Leah
- SEN TA – Suzie Dowd
Curriculum overview – Spring 1
| Topic |
| Our whole school topic this half term is, ‘Britain Through the Ages’. We will go way back to prehistoric times and travel through the Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze Age. We will be analysing sources and artefacts to understand the advances in civilisation and technology that were made during these times. We will compare life in the Stone Age to our own lives and we will explore the ways that historians actually know about these significant events. |
| English |
| Our text for this half term is called, ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. Using this story, we will complete short writing activities, and complete longer pieces of writing using a plan, write, edit sequence of lessons. Guided Reading will continue every day for all the children. Grammar, handwriting and spelling sessions will continue. Spelling tests will be moved to Monday to give the weekend as additional time to practice. |
| Maths |
| We will start the new year by developing our column methods for addition and subtraction, perfecting exchange in the tens and hundreds columns now. We will be covering more of a range of reasoning skills to apply our number work to promote problem solving and real life application of maths. We will continue to practise our times tables rapid recall and formal methods as well as linking them to division facts. We will continue with our work on fractions of numbers as well as basic addition and subtraction within fractions. We will explore money and solve lots of problems. |
| Science |
| Year 3 will be starting the Science unit, Forces. Your child will explore magnets and talk about the ‘pull’ and ‘push’ of a range of forces. Your child will test if some magnets are more magnetic through a range of practical investigations. Your child will investigate friction and make simple comments about the patterns they notice when using a car and ramp on different surfaces or heights. |
| Other Curriculum Areas |
RE – How do family life and festivals show what matters to Jewish people? Art – Working with shape and colour Music – Charanga unit: Three Little Birds PE – Games (Wednesday) (Friday) PSHCE – See School Website for More Information Computing – Stop Frame Animation *Handwriting lessons and spellings lessons will continue throughout. |
| Important Dates |
| Monday 6th January : Return to school Wk beg 3rd Feb: Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week Friday 14th February: Break Up |
Empowering learning skills
Self manager
- Organise themselves and work out goals and priorities
- Show personal responsibility, initiative, creativity and enterprise
- Anticipate, take and manage risks
- Commit themselves to learning and self-improvement
- Respond positively to change
Effective participator
- Engage actively with issues that affect them and those around them.
- Play a full part in the life of the school
- Take responsible action to bring improvement for others as well as themselves
- Discuss issues of concern, seeking resolution
- Present a persuasive case for action
- Propose practical ways forward
- Try to influence others, negotiating and balancing diverse views
Resourceful thinker
- Think creatively by generating and exploring relevant ideas, and making original connections
- Find links and see relationships
- Explore & experiment with resources and materials
- Ask ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what if’ questions
- Apply imaginative thinking to solve a problem
- Try different ways to tackle a problem
- Work with others to find imaginative solutions and outcomes that are of value
Reflective learner
- Evaluate their strengths and limitations as learners
- Review their work and act on outcomes
- Set themselves realistic goals and criteria for success
- Monitor their own performance and progress
- Invite feedback and deal positively with praise, setbacks & criticism.
- Make changes to improve their learning
- Communicate their learning in relevant ways to different audiences
Independent enquirer
- Gather, process and evaluate information in their investigations
- Plan what to do and how to go about it
- Draw conclusions and evaluate outcomes
- Take informed and well-reasoned decisions, recognising that other have different beliefs and attitudes
- Use range of techniques to collect and organise information
Team worker
- Work confidently with others, adapting to different contexts and taking responsibility for their own role
- Listen and take account of others’ views
- Form collaborative relationships, resolving issues and reaching agreed outcomes
- Adapt behaviours to suit different roles and situations
- Show fairness and consideration towards others
