Darwin (Year 3)
Mrs Clair Chatwin
Class Teacher (Monday - Thursday)
Mrs Alison Kjaer
Class Teacher (Fridays)
Miss Griffin
Teaching Partner
Darwin Class Timetable for Term 5
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.
English
This term, we will continue to read The Iron Man as our class story. We will be exploring play scripts and will also be focusing on story writing and storytelling.
- Play scripts: we will be reading a variety of short play scripts and looking at their structure. We will explore how to portray what the characters are feeling through intonation, expression and action.
- Story continuation: using The Were Puppy story as a starter.
- Story writing and telling: we will be writing our own stories and sharing them.
Reading
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 accurate spelling and punctuation whenever they write, especially when writing their own comments in their link book.
Maths
We are using the White Rose maths scheme to inspire our teaching and learning in maths. This scheme encourages creative thinking and problem solving, developing reason skills. This term, we will study:
Mass and Capacity
- explore scales
- measure in grams and kilograms
- compare mass
- add and subtract mass
- measure capacity and volume in litres and millilitres
- add and subtract capacity and volume.
Fractions
- revise our previous learning about fractions
- add and subtract fractions
- find fractions of a set of objects
- find fractions of amounts
Money
- explore pounds and pence
- convert between pounds and pence
- add and subtract money
- work out change
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. 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 5 is ‘Light’. We will be working scientifically to:
- recognise that light is required in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light
- exploring what happens when light is reflected off surfaces including mirrors
- recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and there are ways to protect our eyes
- recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object
- find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.
History and Geography
In terms 5 and 6, the children will explore ‘Wiltshire at War’ and investigating the question: ’How did WW1 change Wiltshire?’:
- What was World War 1 – understanding where and basic reasons why it happened
- Role Sutton Veny had in World War 1
- Training on Salisbury Plain
- Farming at that time and the changing role of women
- Spanish flu
- Before and after World War 1
Art
This term, Darwin Class will be taught art with Mrs Blair as their enrichment topic.
PE
The children will participate in rounders on Monday afternoons where they will work together to develop teamwork and good sportsmanship skills. They will focus on throwing and catching and hitting a ball with a rounders bat. They will participate in gymnastics in the hall on Thursday afternoons developing different rolling styles, jumps and postures.
RE
RE is taught weekly and worship is held daily. This term the children will be exploring Hinduism and investigating the question: ‘Would visiting the River Ganges be special to non-Hindus?’
PSHE (Personal, Social, and Health Education)
During terms 5 and 6, the children will be learning about physical health and emotional well-being during our weekly PSHE lessons. These sessions promote lots of discussion and will help the children to understand there is a normal range of emotions (e.g. happy/sad/anger/fear/surprise/nervous), that all humans experience in relation to different experiences and situations. They will be taught how to find help and understand decision making. They will also discuss concerns or worries both within and out of school, key learning behaviours enabling children to follow our school rules of safe, respect and learn. They will continue to explore how to be a good friend and good role model and how to be kind to each other.
Music
The children will explore the lyrics of hymns during our weekly hymn practise and daily worship. The children will have voice tuition with Caroline on Friday mornings.