Year 3

Welcome to year 3!

Our topic for the Summer Term is:

Olympic Champions – Ancient Greece

This term, Year 3’s learning will be themed around the fascinating civilization of the Ancient Greeks. We will begin with a modern day study of Greece before travelling back in time to explore the Ancient Greek’s ways of life, their ideas about democracy and philosophy, and the Olympics. We will also delve into the fantastical world of Greek mythology and immerse ourselves into a range of interesting stories, particularly with our new exciting faster reading book, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.

In English this term, Year 3 will dive into exciting children’s mystery/thriller novel, Emil and the Detectives. As a class, we will join forces with the story’s protagonist, Emil, as we try to solve the crime, drawing on a range of our reading skills including retrieval and inference. The novel will also inspire our creative writing from a character description wanted poster, a nightmare narrative, diary entry from the thief’s perspective and much more. We will also explore the Ancient Greek’s love of theatre and write our own playscripts to act out.

For more information about our learning this term, please find our class’s Summer Curriculum outline below.