Welcome to Year 3
Beech Class
If you need any further information about what is going on in your child’s class, or you would like to discuss anything in more detail, please contact the class teacher directly via email or call the school office for a telephone appointment.
beech@st-bernadettes.lancs.sch.uk
Long Term Curriculum Plan
Yearly Curriculum Plan
Science
Animals including humans
Religious Education
The Christian Family Mary, Mother of God
PE
Games and fitness
Art / Design Technology
Make own sketch books Self portraits
History
Ancient Britain Stone age to iron age Hunter gathering
Music
Let You Spirit Fly Rounds
ICT
Year 3 Coding starter unit
French
J’Apprends Le Francais
PHSE
New beginings
Numeracy
Reasoning within 100 Multiplication and division, Time, 3 digit numbers,
4 digit numbers Addition and subtraction
Literacy
Fiction – The Iron Man Non-fiction – Recounts – Diaries Poetry – Shape poems, calligrams,
Science
Light and shadows. Planting and growing
Religious Education
Lent and giving. The celebration of Easter
The Sacrament of reconciliation.
PE
Gymnastics – Dance – including national dances
Geography / History
History Clothing 1066 – present day
Geography – UK
Music
Songs local and national (UK theme)
ICT
Text and images, wp skills
French
Je peux… Les Instruments
Maths
Division, Fractions, Measurement and Money
English
Stories with imaginary settings Non-chronological reports Shakespeare
Science
Our science topics are ‘Rocks and Soils’ and ‘Plants and Growth’. The children will be expected to use practical skills of observation and measuring. We will have opportunities to use the school garden as part of these topics. The subject will be enhanced by a day trip to the nature centre at RSPB Leighton Moss.
Religious Education
Our topic of Life in the Risen Christ will begin with a look at the importance of Easter and Pentecost. Then we will focus on the challenges and rewards of being a Christian.
PE
Summer PE will be athletics and ball games, cricket, rounders and lacrosse.
Art / Design Technology
We will be investigating children’s illustrators with a special study of Quentin Blake. We will practise line drawing for characters.
The children will investigate levers and linkages and use this knowledge to design and make a greetings card with moving parts
Geography / History
The children will look at the rainforests; where they are in the world, the life that is found there and the threats to the ecology of the rainforest.
We will look at local history, focussing on Lancaster’s relationship with the sea.
Music
We will begin to learn the recorder and then review our music knowledge from the past year.
ICT
The children will be learning to use the ipads and computers for graphing, simulations and branching databases.
French
The topics in French are ‘Les Animaux’ and ‘Petite Chaperon Rouge’. We will continue to share with penpals in our sister school in France.
Maths
We will continue working on standard methods of calculation and times tables. The new topics for summer will be Data Handling, Fractions and Shape and Space.
English
This term we will be looking at Roald Dahl, at his life and his work. We will study ‘James and the Giant Peach’ in depth as well as looking at his biography and his other works of poetry and prose. We will continue to revise study elements of grammar and composition.
Virtual Tour
Beech News
Help India
You have no doubt seen the devastating impact of Covid 19 on India recently. As a Catholic caring community, we feel moved to respond and time is of the essence. For this reason, this Friday 7th May, we are having a Mufti Day (£1 donations via Parent Pay or cash). The...
SPAR Lancashire School Games
Please see the attached message from Active Lancashire regarding some activities relating to World Health Day! There are activities for all ages and the chance to win a camera in a photography competition. It has been led by West Lancashire this time, on behalf of all...
No Screen Day – Week 4
Screen Break Day Welcome to week 4 of Screen Break Day. This is the last week of remote learning and we are looking forward to the children being back in school. We hope the children have found some respite from screens with these activities. We believe you are the...