Teacher – Omar Faruque

HLTA            – Debra Lewins

Year 3: Term 1

Time after time

 

Science: ROCKS (see scheme of work for more detail)

  • Compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple properties.
  • Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within the rock.
  • Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

Science: LIGHT (see scheme of work for more detail)

  • Recognise that children need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.
  • Understand that light is reflected from surfaces.
  • Recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and there are ways to protect their eyes.
  • Recognise that shadows are formed when the light source is blocked by a solid object.
  • Find patterns in the way that the size of the shadows changes.

Digital Data: Collect data on shadow length and make a table and bar chart using Purple Mash 2 Graph

  • Create bar charts, pie charts and tables with software
  • Choose an appropriate way to show data in graphical formSCIENCE VOCABULARY: hard  soft  texture   appearance  particles  erosion  permeability   granite  marble  slate  chalk  limestone  organic  decompose

SCIENCE VOCABULARY: forces  speed up  slow down   change shape   change direction    friction  rub  forcemeter  newtons  attract  repel  poles  contact

History: PREHISTORIC TIMES

  • Understand what prehistory means.
  • Describe what prehistoric Britain was like.
  • Explain how hunter-gatherers lived.
  • Identify animals which lived in prehistoric Britain.
  • Investigate what we can learn about prehistoric life through cave paintings.
  • Describe what the first farms were like in the Neolithic period.
  • Use evidence from Skara Brae to learn about Neolithic life.
  • Recognise monuments built in prehistoric times including Stonehenge.
  • Describe what life was like in the Bronze Age.
  • Know how people travelled in the Bronze Age.
  • Understand why hill forts were built in the Iron Age times.
  • Describe what life was like in an Iron Age hill fort.
  • Know what religion was like in Iron Age times including the four main festivals.
  • Use sources from prehistoric times to deepen our understanding of prehistoric times.

Digital Publication: Complete Purple Mash Stone Age/Bronze Age Writing projects to publish reports etc – read and give feedback on classmates published work

  • Use appropriate templates, layouts, and formatting tools
  • Use tables, text boxes, and borders to layout content
  • Evaluate and annotate their own work, give reasons for choicesGeography: TIME ZONES
  • Know there are different time zones across the world.
  • Locate the different time zones on a map.
  • Understand that when you travel, you travel through different time zones.
  • Know that day and night are different across the world.
  • Know the links between the position of the sun and the earth’s rotation.
  • Identify where it is day or night in different areas.
  • Identify the prime meridian and know that every place on earth is measured from this line in terms of its distance.
  • Know that the prime meridian divides the earth into East and West.
  • Realise the importance of Greenwich and the prime Meridian
  • Recognise that the world is split into two hemispheres and identify countries in each hemisphere.
  • Investigate if countries in different hemispheres have different time zones.

Digital Research: Compare information on selected websites to answer questions about time zones, day length etc

  • Use search tools to find specific information effectively/safely
  • Use selected digital resources to answer questions
  • Compare the same information on different websites and booksHISTORY VOCABULARY: agriculture hunter-gatherer pelt  prehistory  long barrows   stone circles  druid  bronze  clans  warrior lings  hill fort   wattle and daub 

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY:  shadow  nocturnal  diurnal  axis  sphere  face  longitude  hemisphere  time zone  rotation  position  prime meridian

Region  daylight saving time  hemisphere  orbit  gravity  local time

CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR MORE ABLE PUPILS – prehistoric times

  • Can you ask someone from the Stone/Bronze/Iron Age questions about their life?
  • Look at some sources – what do they tell us about each age? What are the similarities and differences between these ages?
  • What information do the sources NOT tell us?
  • Rank the changes in Britain between the Stone and Iron Age in order of importance.
  • Explain why farming was so important and how it changed people’s lives.
  • Would you like to be a hunter-gatherer? Why/why not?
  • Plan your own prehistoric monument – what is it going to be used for? What will it look like? Where will it be?CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR MORE ABLE PUPILS – Time Zones
  • Why is the prime meridian so important?
  • Use technical vocabulary to explain the earth’s rotation.
  • Would you rather live in a country near the equator or far away? Explain your reasoning.
  • Can you predict time zones in some known countries? Explain how you came up with your predictions.
  • Plan a diagram to show different time zones.
  • How does a globe help us better understand time zones than a map?

 

Art: CAVE AND ROCK  PAINTINGS

    • Study ancient arts – cave paintings of Lascaux, Huashan cliffs in China, Anhem Land (Australia); North American scenes and hunting scenes from Tanzania.
    • Look at how different animals are represented in cave paintings and how they were created.
    • Develop drawing skills of animals using charcoal.
    • Mark make using different objects.
    • Develop knowledge of colour mixing to create different tones of browns using yellow, blue and red paint.
    • Experiment with different effects, including colour wash, colours, tools, sponging.
    • Create cave paintings using hands and fingers.
    • Produce a booklet about cave painting.
    • Work collaboratively.T:

FOSSILS AND ROCKS (1st HALF TERM)

    • Create observational drawings of fossils and rocks (using pencil and/ or biro)
    • Develop design skills through continuous line making and thoughtful mark making.
    • Sketch fossils and rocks using a wide range of media ( pencil, oil pastel, soft pastel, charcoal, pen etc.)
    • Make a printing plate using a polystyrene block.
    • Print fossil designs using a printing plate and inks.
    • Use clay to design a fossil for the future ( make a small pebble shape, and using a small stone, shells or twigs, make an impression)
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DT: CREATING AN IRON AGE ROUNDHOUSE

  • Understand how iron age roundhouses were created.
  • Design and build an Iron Age roundhouse.
  • Use a range of materials such as clay, willow, straw and cardboard.
  • Use a range of joining techniques.
  • Work collaboratively.
  • Use tools correctly.

Music: FOCUS STUDY – WORLD MUSIC.

  • Play in ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing instruments with increasing accuracy.
  • Improvise music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music.
  • Listen with attention to detail of sounds.
  • Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music.
  • Develop an understanding of the history of music.P.E:

(follow Val Sabin’s scheme of work –located in the PPA room)

  • Games, gymnastics and danceR.E: Signs, symbols and sayings
  • What do these everyday signs and symbols mean?
  • What symbolism can we see in Muslim artefacts?
  • How do Muslims use art and symbols in their place of worship?
  • What symbols can be found in a Christian story?
  • Why is the cross important to Christians?
  • How can we create a piece of Christian art?

Jesus and Buddha

  • What stories, sayings and events have really made us stop and think?
  • What is the challenge in the story of the Pharisee and the tax collector?
  • Why do some of Jesus’s stories make us think?
  • Who is the Buddha?
  • What stories did the Buddha tell?
  • What stories, sayings and events can we use to make other people think? Computing

Using Technology Safely

    • Communicating Online
    • Personal Information
    • Staying Safe/Getting Help

Computing

Coding and Programming

  • Algorithms and Decomposition
  • Programming on screen
  • Sequence, Repetition, Selection
  • De-bugging Entitlement and enrichment: Greenwich observatory and maritime museum. British museum.  Natural history museum. 

Topic writing links: (please teach during Friday’s literacy lesson and work in topic/Science books:

  • Write a description of people from the different eras.
  • Write a fact file about someone from Bronze age/stone age/Iron age – what they wore/where they lived/ what they ate/who they worshipped.
  • Write a diary from a hunter-gatherer’s and early farmer’s point of view.
  • Write a brochure about Stonehenge
  • Write a guide to Skara Brae.
  • Write about a typical day living in an Iron Age hill Fort.
  • Write a report on a prehistoric animal.
  • Write a diary from someone travelling in the Bronze Age about their journey.Write a letter about one of the Iron Age festivals.
  • Write a simple report about cave paintings.
  • Choose a country from a different time zone and write a postcard.
  • Retell ‘At the same moment around the world’ (Clotilde Penn)
  • Write an explanation about the sun’s position and the earth’s rotation (make a book for a younger child)
  • Write a contrast between what happens at daytime and what happens at night times.
  • Write an explanation of how an animal becomes fossilised.
  • Write a poem about the dark.

Literacy books which link to the topic:

  • At the same moment around the world.
  • Stone Age Boy
  • Ug
  • Cavemen Dave
  • Minnow and the Bear