Year 3 denotes the start of your child’s journey into Key Stage 2. We aim to provide an exciting and memorable curriculum, which gives each child a range of experiences. Drama and practical activities are embedded throughout the year to provide the children with real life and first-hand experiences. During the year we aim to continue your child’s progress as a lifelong learner by providing opportunities for them to apply and extend their learning from previous years and develop new skills.
Please view the Year 3 Meet and Greet presentation for this academic year. The presentation provides you with key information regarding your child’s curriculum for the academic year.
If you have any questions regarding the presentation, please contact your child’s class teacher.
Autumn Term
During the Autumn Term, pupils will learn about the changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age including key information about Neolithic hunter gatherers and early farmers. In learning about their BIG Questions, ‘How has life changed since the Stone Age?’
Throughout the term, pupils will study the texts, ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth,’ Stone Age Boy’ and extracts of the class text ‘Stig of the Dump.’
In art, pupils will use a range of natural materials, pupils will explore the different colours they can make to create their own piece of Stone Age artwork and in DT, pupils will harvest vegetables from the school’s allotment and use them to create their own vegetable soup.
During the second half of the Autumn Term, pupils will deepen their understanding of Neolithic settlements and monuments.
Spring Term
During the Spring Term, pupils will learn about the Victorian period through learning about the BIG question, ‘How was the life of a Victorian child different to ours?’
Through drama and the use of texts, pupils will learn about the life of a Victorian child and the many jobs that they may have had to undertake including working in the coal mines. Through re-enacting a Victorian school day, pupils will learn how children were educated at South Bersted’s first school, the Old School.
Pupils will also deepen their understanding of Bognor Regis as a Victorian seaside resort and how the town has changed over the past 150 years.
When learning about famous people of the past, pupils will learn about Mary Seacole in the Crimean War and local lifesaver and bathing-machine owner, Mary Weatland.
Summer Term
Our Year 3 summer term journey begins with the BIG Question, ‘Why are rainforests important?’. Pupils will look at rainforests and what they provide to the plants and animals that live there. Pupils will use atlases to discover where rainforests are located. They will also consider: How does the temperature and climate affect where rainforests are positioned? Pupils will use the book: ‘Eyewitness – Amazon’ to gather facts and write an information page about a rainforest animal
Pupils will use the text the ‘Great Kapok Tree’ to support them in writing their own narratives. In art, pupils will study the artist Henry Rousseau. Pupils will create their own interpretation of a rainforest scene in the style of Henry Rousseau’s Tropical Storm.
Summer 2
The Summer term ends with the BIG Question ‘Where do people live and why?’ During the half term pupils will explore the reasons why settlements locally have evolved where they are. To support this they will use maps and aerial photographs while identifying both the human and physical features of these places. Pupils will explore how these places have changed over time and consider what may be needed in a settlement of the future. As many of our local settlements are on the coast children will also learn about the sea, including the beauty that lives within it, our duty to care for the marine environment, as well as being respectful of its dangers and know how to keep themselves safe.
Pupils will visit the RNLI Station in Littlehampton and the life guards at the beach. They will learn about saving lives at sea; the risks in our local area and the precautions that are now in place to improve water safety measures.
100 Books to Read in Year 4
As a school, we are often asked for book recommendations. By clicking on this link, you will find 100 book reviews for Year 3, from classic books like Iron Man, to more recent books like Sam Wu, there are suggestions for all interests.
Online Safety
For updated information on how to keep your child safe on line, you can visit the school’s Online Safety Page.