Year 3 – Autumn 2

Animals Including Humans: Children will…

• Identify that humans have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movements
• Explain the importance of a balanced and nutritious diet in humans and animals
• Understand that animals cannot make their own nutrients and get it from what they eat
• Use a classification key to group a variety of living things (plants, vertebrate, invertebrate)
• Group a variety of living things according to their diet (omnivore, carnivore, herbivore)
• Compare the teeth of herbivores and carnivores

The Stone Age:
Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, including:

• Hunter-gatherers and early farmers
• Bronze-age religion, technology & travel 
• Iron age hill forts
• Chronological Understanding 
• Describe events from the past using dates when things happened
• Knowledge and Interpretation 
• Suggest why certain events happened as they did in history and why certain people acted the way they did

Historical Enquiry

• Use various sources to piece together information

Let’s Communicate – Google Apps and Blogging

• Understand the opportunities [networks] offer for communication and collaboration
• To think about different methods of communication.
• Give examples of risks posed by online communication.
• To learn how to use email safely.
• To open and respond to an email
• Children to understand what a blog is and contribute to a class blog.
• Children to make comments on other children’s blog entries

Les Coleurs: Children will…

• Make links between sounds and spellings and read aloud familiar words
• Write simple words from memory/model
• Understand and follow instructions
• Ask and answer questions

Becoming an Active Citizen: Children will…

• Participate in making and changing rules
• Know why different rules are needed in different situations
• Know that choices you make can impact on the local, national and global communities
• Learn where to find impartial advice to inform making my decisions
• Empathise with other people and situations through topical issues, problems and events

• Pneumatics-Stone Age Animals: Children will…

  • With growing confidence generate ideas for an item, considering its purpose and the user/s
  • Identify a purpose and establish criteria for a successful product
  • Understand how well products have been designed, made, what materials have been used and the construction technique
  • Know to make drawings with labels when designing
  • When planning explain their choice of materials and components including function and aesthetics
  • Start to understand that mechanical systems such as levers and linkages or pneumatic systems create movement
  • Start to think about their ideas as they make progress and be willing to change things if this helps them to improve their work
  • Start to evaluate their product against original design criteria e.g. how well it meets its intended purpose

Advent and Christmas around the World: Children will…

• Learn the significance of Advent, the feelings associated with the Advent Season and how these are expressed through action and symbol
• Talk about Christmas as a world-wide Christian festival and demonstrate knowledge of at least one other European and one non-European tradition of celebrating Christmas, relating them to the Christmas Story

Glockenspiel Stage 1

• The children will learn a series of notes on the glockenspiel and where they sit on the music stave
• They will learn about the types of notes and other musical terms around using music notation
• They will practise improvising with pieces of music
• They will compose a short piece
• They will perform their pieces of music