Welcome to Year 3! To start the first term, we will be focusing on the whole school learning skills and learning a bit about our class countries – Class Italy and Class Canada. 

Bailey’s Court Learning skills include: 

• Show resilience
• Can work in teams
• Communicate effectively
• Always show curiosity
• Are ready to learn
• Make connections
• Show creativity
• Take responsibility
• Can be independent learners

Our History is all about: Would you prefer to live in the Stone Age, Bronze Age or Iron Age? 

The key questions we will be investigating are: 

• How long ago did Prehistoric man live? 
• What does Skara Brae tell us about life in the Stone Age? 
• Who was this Bronze Age man? 
• What was the impact of bronze in Prehistoric Britain? 
• How did trade change lives in the Iron Age? 
• What changed between the Stone Age and the Iron Age? 

Our Science is all about: Movement and nutrition. This will include learning about skeletons, muscles and balanced diets alongside developing scientific skills such as sorting, comparing and questioning data. 

Also in Art this term we will be looking at water colour painting and looking at the artist Paul Klee. 

We will start our first unit, J’Appends le Francais (I’m learning French) in French. 

In PE, we will be learning some disco dance moves and playing some invasion games. 

In RSE and PSHE we will be discussing family and relationships by exploring the following areas:

• Healthy families
• Friendship conflict versus bullying
• Effective communication
• Learning who to trust
• Respecting differences in others
• Stereotyping: Gender and age

This term we will be exploring the question ‘What makes us human?’ in Religion & Worldviews. This will include interpreting and using art to express beliefs about spirituality, inner self and the soul.

Term 1 will have our first visit to Hortham Farm for some exciting forest school sessions.