Year Group: 3
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Extreme Earth
English links
We will be writing newspaper reports about events linked to natural disasters.
We will be writing an information text about Earth.
We will be writing an explanation text about Earthquakes.
Term: 1
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Spring
Maths links
Place value, ordering, rounding, identifying and estimating related to Extreme Earth (natural
disasters) ways of counting.
Statistics – creating graphs and charts about information related to natural disasters and
analysing them.
Temperature related to extreme weather.
Topic
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SCIENCE
We will be looking at different natural disasters, where they occur, how many there has
been and their location on maps.
We will be looking at volcanoes and how they are made and what goes on under the Earth’s
layer
We will be looking at the similarities and differences between us and another area that has
had a lot of natural disasters over time.
COMPUTING
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RE
Children will be using an animation
program to make a short animation
Children will be using power point to
create a power point linked to our
topic.
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Our school follows the Wakefield
agreed syllabus for Religious
Education.
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Look at the effect of gravity and drag forces, look at transference of forces in gears,
pulleys, levers and springs.
Enriching the curriculum
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Dance
Games such as netball, football,
cricket
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Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo
Children will look at Wakefield in
relation to the different religions that
are celebrated and the ways they are.
Topic Homework grid – related to Extreme Earth/Natural disasters (due every week)
Maths homework – linked to what we have covered that week in our lessons. (fortnightly)
Spellings – given out on a weekly basis (test the following week)
Look at the skeleton system of animals and humans
Look at common and distant forces, attraction and repulsion, comparing and grouping
materials.
Look at poles, attraction and repulsion,
PE
HOMEWORK
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Look at nutrition through healthy eating and how to relates to our bodies
Look at the muscle system of animals and humans
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Class Books
(Visits, Visitors, special days)
Trip to Science museum