Welcome to the Hummingbirds (Year 3)

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Miss Wilson is the Class Teacher for the Hummingbirds on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and is the school SENCO.

Miss Lee teaches the Class on a Monday and Tuesday

Class: Hummingbirds

Year: 3

English:

Summer 1- Information Text-  Completing non-fiction leaflets about the Blue Whale.

Adventure- Key Text - ‘The Journey’ by Aaron Becker

We will write an adventure story applying the following mastery leys- present perfect form of verbs, use of prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs to express time, place and cause and grouping related ideas into paragraphs.

Summer 2- Persuasion- Key Text- ‘Zeraffa Giraffa’ by Diana Hoffmeyer. 

We will write a persuasive guide for visiting Zeraffa at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, applying the following mastery keys-  Build an increasing range of sentence structures, use simple organisational devices including headings and sub-headings to aid presentation, Use present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive and present perfect forms

Geography link-‘Different Places, Similar Lives’.

Maths:

Summer 1- Place value- We will revise place value, exploring different representations of number and practising identifying and estimating numbers. 

Measure- Reading time accurately. We will identify and represent time both digitally and on analogue clocks and explore the 24 hour clock. 

Calculation- We will revise mental and written methods for all four operations and apply these to solve problems. 

Summer 2- Measure- We will solve problems including practical exploration of measurement units for length, mass and capacity. We will also solve problems including money.

Fractions- We will revise our fractions knowledge so far, including finding fractions of amounts, adding and subtracting fractions and identifying simple equivalence. 

Science: Forces- Friction- We will investigate and make observations about how objects move on a range of surfaces.

‘Let’s Plant It’- We will explore what plants need to grow and set up fair investigations and make observations over time. We will explore the process of pollination and identify the functions of basic plant parts. 

Design and Technology:  Textiles- As part of our Geography unit learning about school life around the world, we will be designing and making a pencil cases. 

Geography: ‘Different Places, Similar Lives’- We will explore school life in different locations around the world. We will compare our local area to a non- European location – ‘Magurameno Village’ in Zambia. We will create sketch maps of simple routes and interpret aerial views, climate graphs, ordnance survey maps and photographs to identify similarities and differences between these locations. 

Art: Observational paintings of flowers using watercolour- Linked to our ‘Let’s Plant It’ science unit.

Music: Charanga Unit – ‘Bringing Us Together’- Musical Style- Disco. 

Physical Education: We will be completing a 10 week swimming course.

Racket skills focus and Athletics.

Computing: Summer 1: Programming a sequence in music

Summer 2: Programming – Events and actions

Religious Education (RE):  Summer 1: Christianity- What kind of world did Jesus want?

Summer 2: Thematic- How and why do people try to make the world a better place?

Modern Foreign Languages: French – ‘La Famille’ – We will practise learning the vocabulary and phrases to be able to name and describe family members.

Citizenship/British Values- We will celebrate the King’s coronation- We will discuss the British Monarchy. We will also discuss values of leadership and democracy in our country. 

You can contact Miss Wilson and Miss Lee at:

hummingbirds@martinwilson.shropshire.sch.uk