The Curriculum for Wales is split into 6 Areas of Learning. Below details what the Year 3 plaza will be doing in each of the Areas of Learning:

Health & Wellbeing

During our physical health and well-being sessions, year 3 will be working on their football skills. We will also be looking at the amount of sugar in each of our favourite snacks. We will be using our Maths skills to weigh the amount of sugar in each snack. Remember that our P.E sessions are every Monday and Tuesday.

Science & Technology

In our Science lessons, we will exploring materials. We will be comparing natural vs. manmade objects. We will be going on a scavenger hunt around the school to identify which objects around our school are natural or manmade. We will even use some of the natural resources to create our own useful products.

Humanities

Year 3 will be exploring their enquiry question “Did God make everything?” by learning all about God’s Creation Story and everything he gave to us. This will lead us to look at different types of materials.

Maths

In Maths, we will be continuing to attempt to beat our own targets on the Times Tables Challenge every Friday. We will be focusing on a wide variety of skills: place value, addition, subtraction, mass and measuring skills.

Literacy

In Literacy, Year 3 will be bringing home 2 reading books each week. We will be focusing our writing on different types of poetry and instructional writing this term.

Expressive Arts

In Expressive Arts, Year 3 will be exploring the use of natural resources, such as wool and natural based clay to create their very own pottery. We will paint the pottery too.

Year 3 are also very excited to be working in the TV Studio this term!  We will be writing poems about our unique and wonderful town Blaenavon, and then heading into the studio in groups to record our work.  This will be an opportunity to work collabotratively and learn a range of new IT skills.