Spring 2

We have lots of exciting things to explore in Year 3 during the second half of the Spring term!

English

✨ Writing Kennings Poems

This term, children are learning how to write kennings poems. Kennings are fun, descriptive phrases made by joining two words together to create vivid imagery.
For example, instead of saying “the sea”, children might write “wave-dancer” or “ship-cradler”.

Through this unit, pupils will:

• Explore descriptive language and figurative writing

• Build imaginative vocabulary

• Perform and share their poems with confidence

🧭 Ernest Shackleton

Year 3 are also learning about the famous Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Children will discover his incredible journey, the challenges he faced in the frozen wilderness, and the leadership skills that helped his crew survive.

We will:

• Learn key facts from non-fiction texts

• Develop understanding of non- chronological reports

• Make links between events and feelings to help letter writing

Maths

In maths we will be focusing on fractions. We will recap previous work on numerators and denominators, compare and order unit and non-unit fractions , count in fractions on a number line and represent equivalent fractions on number lines and using bar models. 

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We will move on to learn about mass and capacity including measuring in grams and kilograms, millilitres and litres. We will compare measures and add and subtract mass, capacity and volume. 

RE

Our key question this half term is: 

How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim?

We will remind ourselves about what we have already learnt about Islam in year 2 before moving on to learn about what the Qur'an can teach Muslims about God. We will learn more about Muslim prayer and why it matters as well as why the mosque is a special place. We will finish our unit by learning about the festival of Ramadan. 

Science

Our science unit this half term is all about forces and magnets. The children will be investigating with pushes, pulls and twists, friction, and magnets.

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Geography

Our unit this half term is: Who lives in Antarctica? We will be learning about climate, where Antarctica is and who lives there. We will also learn about the explorer Ernest Shackleton and his expedition to Antarctica. 

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DT

This half term our unit is all about pneumatic toys. We will explore with how pneumatic systems work before designing and making our own pneumatic toys. 

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Music

This half term our music unit is called The Dragon Song which is a song about kindness, respect, friendship, acceptance and happiness. We will learn the song, play parts of the song on the glockenspiel, improvise our own parts of the song and compose some of our own music. 

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Spring 1 

English

In English we will focus on 'Escape from Pompeii' by Christina Balit. The children will focus on using coordinating conjunctions, writing in paragraphs and will be introduced to speech marks. They will be writing stories and instructions for how to play Roman games. 

Maths

In maths we will be focusing on multiplication and division. We will be practising facts from last year including the 2, 5 and 10 times tables and their related division facts. We will also move on to learn about the 4 and 8 times table and their related facts. 

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RE

Our key question this half term is: 

What is it like for someone to follow God?

We will think about familiar stories such as the story of Noah and link the promises and covenants that God made in the story to our own lives. We will think about important promises that are made during Christian weddings and promises we can make to create a better world. We will make simple links between People of God and how some Christians choose to live in their whole lives and in their church communities. 

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Science

Our science unit this half term is: Animals: Movement and Nutrition. The children will be learning about skeletons and their role in the body, recognising the main bones in the body, how muscles are used for movement and identifying the main nutrient groups including their roles in the body. 

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History

Our question this half term in history is 'Why did the Romans invade and settle in Britain?' The children will explore with what it was like to live in Ancient Rome, learn about why the Roman army were so successful and think about what they can learn about Roman soldiers from artefacts. 

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Art

​In art we will be focusing on 3D sculptures and structures and creating our own abstract sculptures based on the playground. 

French

This half term we will be focusing on Les Animaux where we will learn 10 familiar animals and be introduced to the 1^st person singular high frequency verb ‘I am’ in the foreign language. By the end of the unit the children will be able to recognise, recall, remember and spell up to 10 animals with their indefinite article.

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