The Year 3 Curriculum at Glen Hills!

Welcome to our Year 3 curriculum! This introduction will outline the main topics for the year and our home/school expectations. Our main Year Plan is on this website

We teach a variety of topics to ensure the pupils acquire both knowledge and skills.

ICT/Computing

Topic based presentations using publisher and PowerPoint.

Internet researching.

Composing and editing music.

Email and E-safety.

Programming using ipads.

 ‘Scratch’ animation.

Creating and editing computer games.

Science

Teeth and Healthy Eating

Materials

Life Processes

Living things

Geography

Local environment, ‘Why live in Leicester?’

Where does my food come from?

P.E.

Gymnastics

Dance

Large Ball Skills

Athletics

Small ball skills

Rounders/kwik cricket

Swimming

Art

Natural art sketching

Montage

Paining Techniques

Printing

‘Turner’ study

Silhouettes

D&T

Designing and Making healthy sandwiches

Create sandwich packaging

3D stable structures including photo frames.

Pneumatics and hydraulic systems - moving parts

Ceramics

History

The Ancient Britons

The Romans

R.E

People who inspire us/Faith Stories

Sikhism

Christianity

Harvest

The Easter story

The Christmas story

Mothering Sunday

Music

Reading and composing music.

Violin – Wider opportunities music scheme

Our expectations of parental / school links…

We fully appreciate the vitality of building home/school links at Glen Hills. Homework and tasks will be given out at regular opportunities for your child in year 3. Please go to our Learning Environment and onto the year 3 page for many super links to sites which will assist both you and your child.

Reading with your child! Probably the most vital aspect of ensuring children get a love of books! Ideally, a little bit of reading together should be done every day with specific questioning of the text they have read to assist with comprehension and secured understanding.

Spellings – these will be given out by your child’s teacher to learn and will follow specific spelling rules for year 3.

Maths – times tables (as detailed by your child’s teacher) and number facts will be given out for homework, as well as reinforcement of techniques learnt in school.