Term 3
A warm welcome back to Term 3, we hope you had a lovely time over Christmas and New Year! This term, our main topic is ‘Bristol: Now and Then’. This will commence with a Geography focus, looking at the four areas we learn about at St John’s; location, people, place and the relationship between people and place. The children will begin their learning by thinking about where Bristol is within the UK and what areas surround the city. Later on, the learning will move towards a History focus of exploring how Bristol has changed over time and how the relationship between people and place has adapted.
Elsewhere, in Science, we will be learning about sound. We will observe how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating. We will then take a deeper look at the patterns between pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it and patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.
Elsewhere in the curriculum, we will be exploring collage in art through the artists McCarthy and Matisse, looking at the topic ‘Belonging to a Community’ in PSHE and covering, ‘What kind of world did Jesus want’ in Christianity in RE. The children will also be doing basketball and netball in PE.
In English, we will be using the book, ‘A Lion in Paris’ to eventually write a narrative and a letter of thanks. We will be working on the following grammar objectives to achieve this. Using fronted adverbials for manner with commas, organising writing into paragraphs, using commas to list and using inverted commas for dialogue with additional punctuation.
In Maths, we will begin the term looking at angles and properties of 2d and 3d shapes before moving on to multiplication and division. At the end of the term, we will be looking at fractions. Year 3s will be beginning times tables this term, looking at doubles and Year 4 will be continuing their work on the 4x tables before beginning the 6s.
We hope your children enjoy the new term of learning!