Welcome to Year 3 Beavers 2023-24

Autumn 2

Things to  look forward to this half term.

English

This half term we are looking at ‘The Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura.  We are focusing on diary writing and creating their own story.  We will learn the features of a diary, recording, retrieving information from the text and writing from a different viewpoint. We will be using expanded noun phrases and subordinating clauses in our description writing We will be using drama and role play to help with our understanding of how each of the crayons were feeling.

History

This half term we are learning about the Stone Age and this will culminate with a visit to Murton Park on 11.12.23.

In our Stone Age / Bronze Age village children spend the day learning about the lives of our distant ancestors.  After an introductory talk setting the scene and introducing the key concepts of the prehistoric era, the children will spend the day living and working on our prehistoric village. They will get involved in making early types of clay pottery and find out which crops and how grain was ground to make flour. They will try their hand at prehistoric art, handle objects and artefacts and learn the essential skills of hunting.

Religious Education

We are learning about Advent .   We will:

explore Advent as a time of preparation and hope.

hear stories from the Bible about the preparation for Jesus’ birth, especially the Annunciation to Mary.

discover customs and rituals associated with Advent e.g. Advent Calendar, purple altar cloth, etc.

think about people in need and preparing to help them at Christmas

We will make Christingles and celebrate with our Christingle service at St John’s Church, Ingrow on Thursday 14.12.23 and donate our food collection.

Autumn 1

Maths

Place value and Addition & Subtraction

We follow the Whiterose maths scheme and have been using manipulatives to help our understanding of numbers to 1000.

Geography

Malham visit – 20.09.23

We had a great but very wet day learning about  Malham village and cove.

PSHE

12.10.23 – PC Danny visited school today in his police  van.  We enjoyed a question and answer session and then exploring his van.

Art

Drawing – This terms focus for Art was drawing.  We learnt how to shade and the skill of frottage.

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