Teacher: Mrs Glover
Year: 3
Term: SUMMER 2015
Art-Collage/Photography
DT-3D Volcano model
Explore and discuss artwork from a different culture or time and use ideas as a starting
Use simple research methods to inform the design of products
point in my own work. I can annotate my drawings to share my ideas and reasoning logically.
Select from a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks with
Cutting skills are precise in straight, curved and zig-zag lines. I am beginning to experiment increasing accuracy
in limiting my work to one colour and explore the effects created. I am beginning to use
Select from and use a wider range of materials and components according to their
tessellation and other patterns in my collage. I can, with support, use montage to create a
properties
collage. Can confidently comment on differences in others’ work suggest ways of improving
Evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria to make improvements
my own work. I can evaluate my talk partner’s work with tips and guidance they can use.
Assessment
I can, with support, use a digital camera to capture texture, colour, tone, line and
Completed 3D model of a Volcano
inspiration from the natural and manmade world.
Assessment
Children have completed a collage of the bodies from Pompeii
Chn will have complete digital photographs of rock sculptures.
Literacy
ICT
Topic- Tremors
Character and Setting descriptions linked to Pompeii
Research Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius
How to survive a Natural
Narrative stories about Pompeii
Purple mash animations- volcano erupting and mount Vesuvius erupting.
Newspaper reports- Pompeii
Online Maps to locate Volcanoes.
Disaster
Information texts- Why a volcano erupts
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To know that information can be found using the internet
Letters-From Ancient Pompeii
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To click links in a web site
Poetry –Volcano poems
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To print a web page to use as a resource
Display- Volcanoes and
Maths
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To conduct a search on a website
Coordinates
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To refine my search to get more accurate results
Earthquakes
Class Novel
Assessment
Pompeii- Anna Claybourne
Children create a Animations of volcanoes erupting and what happened at
Pompeii
Wow Factor- Class trip to
Saltburn beach
Geography
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Use a world map, atlas and a globe to identify countries and
describe features.
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Identify the position and significance of the Equator.
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To describe and understand key aspects of the physical
geography of an area, including volcanoes and earth quakes.
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Use a map to locate the world’s countries, including those in
Europe, (including location of Russia) and North and South
America.
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Describe the physical geography of an area. Use a world map,
atlas and a globe to identify countries and describe features.
Assessment
Making sketch map identifying some physical and human geography of
Italy and identifying volcanoes.
Outdoor Learning
Opportunities
Den making- making
earthquake proof dens
History
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Use appropriate historical vocabulary to describe key features of the time
period.
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Give reasons why certain events happened and people acted the way they did.
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Use a variety of sources to answer questions and gather information.
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Use labelled diagrams, recounts, stories and diaries and pictures to illustrate
understanding about historical events
Assessment
Letters and Newspaper reports about Pompeii.