Year 3

Year 3 Curriculum Projects

Emperors and Empires

Emperors and Empires

Year 3 Project - Emperors and Empires

In the Emperors and Empires project, your child will learn about the growth and decline of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. They will discover the absolute power of the Roman emperors and study the hierarchies of Roman society and the Roman army. They will study the first invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BC and the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43. They will learn about Boudicca’s rebellion, Hadrian’s Wall and the Romanisation of Britain, including how Christianity came to Britain and investigate the legacy of Roman Britain in their local area.

Memorable Experience - Living Museum

Innovate Challenge - Historical reports

History - Chronology; Everyday life in ancient Rome; Founding of Rome; Power and rule; Roman Empire; Significant emperors; Social hierarchy; Roman army; Roman invasion of Britain; Significant people - Boudicca; Everyday life in Roman Britain; Romanisation of Britain; Roman withdrawal; Roman Legacy

GeographyMaps

Computing - Databases

Science Investigations - Did the Romans use toilet roll?

This project is also supported by mini projects in:

Science: Plant Nutrition and Reproduction; Light and Shadows

Art and Design: Beautiful Botanicals; Mosaic Masters

Design and Technology: Greenhouse

Music: derived from Charanga Unit 

PE: derived from Greenacres Resources

PSHE: derived from Jigsaw

RE: derived from Kent SACRE Curriculum

 

Year 3 Key Information

In Year 3, PE lessons are timetabled for Tuesday and Thursday

 

 

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English 

The class are studying how to compose and write a letter. They will be studying how to answer question from one letter to another. They will understand the features of a letter and the layout. 

We shall be using two fictional Romans to stimulate their understanding, a brother and sister called Felix and Valaria. 

 

Maths

Our current unit is Time. The children will be learning to tell the time to the minute, will use analogue and digital clocks and will begin to calculate durations of time. 

 

 

 

Additional Information

Spellings: homophones (words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings)

know

no

one

won

sail

sale

scene

seen

see

sea

soul

sole

stair

stare

weak

week

weather

whether

 

PE days: 

Tuesday; Tri-golf with Coach Sammy

Thursday: Tag Rugby with Coach Dan

 

 

 

 

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We encourage the children to:

  • Read every day for at least 15 minutes.
  • Practise their spellings on Spelling Shed.
  • Spend 15 minutes on TTRS or Numbots.