Class Teacher: Mr Purchase

Supportive Teaching Team: Ms Pavlou

Term Two 

Our value this term: Respect

This term our enquiry will be "How has electricity improved life?'

English

In English this term, we will be reading our anchor text ‘The invisible' by Tom Percavil. We will continue to develop our reading skills by retrieving information, inferring the text and exploring new vocabulary. In writing, we will be working towards writing our ending to the story with some changes and also a persuasive advert asking people to help fix up our characters city. 

Maths

 In Maths, in term two, children will develop their understanding and confidence with numbers up to 1000. Throughout the term, children will be practising their timetables focusing on 2's, 5's and 10’s to ensure confidence and fluency as well as starting to look as 4’s. 

Science

As scientists this term, we will be looking at Electricity. We will build up our learning to answer our question: ‘How has electricity improved our lives?’. This involves learning Light and dark and explaining what these are. We will also be discussing magnets and their relationship to forces.

Art 

As artists this term, we will be exploring pop art. We will also compare and analyse pop art by influential artists such as Andy Warhol and try to create our own pop art in his style. 

PSHE

 In term two, our topic is 'Celebrating Difference'. This focuses on acceptance of others, problem-solving, bullying and how every person is different. We will also be looking into our 'No outsiders' area in class worships and how this links to our PSHE topic of differences.

PE 

This term in PE, year 3 will be looking to develop their skills in jumping and landing and exploring a wide range of these and also static balances. In year 3, we will also have swimming lessons. Swimming is a fun activity, but it is also very important for safety and our health.