Darwin (Year 3)
Mrs Clair Chatwin
Class Teacher (Monday - Thursday)
Mrs Alison Kjaer
Class Teacher (Fridays)
Mrs Cary
Teaching Partner
Darwin Class Term 2 Timetable
Suggestions for helping at home.docx
OUR CURRICULUM FOR THIS TERM:
Welcome to Darwin class! We hope the information on our class page will help you support your child at home. We encourage regular practise of reading, spelling and times tables outside school as homework. Please see below for the objectives we will be learning in each lesson this term.
English
During this term, Darwin class will learn the following:
- Reading Comprehension: we will be focusing on finding literal information and deducing and inferring information from a text, developing independent skills
- Poetry: we will be reading the poem ‘Silver’ by Walter de la Mere and investigating the vocabulary and its meaning. We will learn and perform the poem using actions, then write our own versions and performing them to the class.
- Adventure Stories: we will explore the adventure story genre using the text: Stone Age Boy looking at what makes a good adventure story that encourages you to read on. We will be writing our own adventure stories based on Stone Age Boy.
- Instruction Texts: we will look at various instruction texts to understand the key features involved in writing instructions. Our own instruction texts will be inspired by Roald Dahl’s BFG: how to catch a dream.
- Story Writing: we will plan and write our own story, using our imagination.
Please listen to your child read aloud daily and sign their link book.
The children should try to read a variety of genres, little and often; to keep up their key skills and develop a love of reading. Warminster library will order books for free if your child is a member; a great way to keep up with the latest authors. They could also listen to audio books, read to younger members of the family, or be read to; in order to immerse themselves in literacy as much as possible. They could read to a Teddy or a pet!
Any type of writing they do will be beneficial. Writing their own weekly comments in their link book is a necessary part of their homework. Try to encourage them to read back over what they have written to encourage accurate spelling and punctuation, especially when writing their own comments in their link book.
Maths
Darwin class will practise their maths skills, by the following units this term:
- Addition and Subtraction: adding and subtraction 1, 10, 100 and going across 10s, and 100s, adding and subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers.
- Multiplication & Division: understanding that times tables can be shown as arrays of repeated addition. We will be specifically exploring the 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
The children will continue to practise key maths skills through their early morning work- a 10 or 15 minute session each morning to practise speedy recall of number facts and maths skills learnt in previous terms. They will continue to follow the Number Sense scheme of work which embeds these key number facts to form a secure foundation from which to further build on their maths knowledge. The children will continue do a weekly times tables test; moving through the times tables at their own individual pace; supported by work in school.
Science
Our Science topic for term 2 is Forces and Magnets
We will be working scientifically to:
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History
In terms 1 and 2, the children will explore ‘The Stomping Stone Age’:
- How long ago was the stone age?
- The three eras of the stone age were the mesolithic, paleolithic and neolithic periods
- How do we know about the Stone age? Cave paintings and archaeology
- What are reliable sources of evidence?
- How did lifestyle change during the time? People moved from hunting and gathering to farming
- What changed as the Bronze Age began?
PE
Darwin Class will have two hours of taught PE lessons each week. This term, the children will participate in dodgeball on Monday afternoons. Dodgeball is a target game played between two teams where they will develop their movement skills: throwing, catching, dodging and jumping. The children will have Football as their enrichment on a Wednesday afternoon. Football is an invasion game. They will develop different movement skills: running, dribbling, passing, receiving and tracking. PE is a particularly important part of the curriculum since it encourages the children to develop life skills such as communication and teamwork, resilience, perseverance, confidence, honesty in addition to supporting a healthy, active lifestyle.
DT
This term, the children will be designing and building a Bronze Age roundhouse. Their house must be able to withstand British weather: wind and rain! They will be working in teams developing their listening, respect and communication skills. They will need to select from a range of materials and tools. They will be required to evaluate their designs.
Computing
In computing this term, the children will be programming and developing the following skills using Textese turtle, Lego Wedo and Scratch:
- design a sequence of instructions, including directional instructions
- write programs that accomplish specific goals
- work with various forms of input and output
- understand that different sequences of actions can achieve the same outcome. recognise and use repeat instructions
RE
RE is taught weekly and worship is held daily. This term the children will be exploring the question “What was it like to follow God?”. The children will wonder at nature, become familiar with events in the Christian Incarnation Story. The children will be able to:
- Identify the difference between a ‘Gospel’, which tells the story of the life and teaching of Jesus, and a letter.
- Offer suggestions about what texts about baptism and Trinity might mean.
- Give examples of what these texts mean to some Christians today.
- Describe how Christians show their beliefs about God, the Trinity in worship (in baptism and prayer, for example) and in the way they live.
- Make links between some Bible texts studied and the idea of God in Christianity, expressing clearly some ideas of their own about what the God of Christianity is like.
PSHE (Personal, Social, and Health Education)
During terms 1 and 2, the children will be learning about healthy relationships during our weekly PSHE lessons. They will be developing class rules and class climate following our school rules of safe, respect and learn. They will explore how to be a good friend and good role model and how to be kind to each other. They will develop the skills to form a good working relationship with anyone and understand the process of decision making.
Music
The children participate in singing during our daily worship where they will explore the meanings of lyrics of hymns during our weekly hymn practise.