Autumn 1 Year 3

To kick off the new term, Year Three, will be starting an exciting art enquiry. We will be creating a still life painting! We will first look at how artists over the years have expressed themselves through their art to produce their still life paintings and we will look at which colours depict mood and sentiment. The children will show drive by being self-motivated to improve on their attempts.

We will have a narrative enquiry afterwards, which looks at traditional tales. We will learn and recite a traditional tale and then create a story based on a traditional tale, which has a twist on the original story. We will finish the first busy half-term by doing a history enquiry about the three eras of the Stone Age. The children will be writing paragraphs about these eras and life in the Stone Age, to create their historian report.

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Autumn 2

We will begin Autumn 2 by starting our first science enquiry of Year 3. We will be learning about the rock cycle. This will involve a trip to Shaldon Beach to look at local rock formation and gather rocks for our investigation. The children will be scientists by carrying out a fair test investigating the permeability of rocks. Geography will be the subject of our enquiry for the final part of Autumn 2. We will be learning about what life looks like for people who live in La Palma, in the Canary Islands. We will look at the work of volcanologists and how life is affected by the continual threat and eruption of volcanoes. We will be reading class novels such as, The Wild Way Home, Stone Age Boy and Tyger.