Welcome to Year 3 at Derwent Road. Please find below information about your child's learning topics this half term, including learning logs and topic leaflets. Please see our specific class pages for photos and information about each classes individual learning journeys.

This term in Year 3 we are leaning about ‘The Tudors’. In English, the children will be learning how to write a set of Instructions and a Play Script. Our focus will be William Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. They will be looking at the key features of these text types and using them within their Tudor topic. In History we will be learning about Tudor monarchs and their reigns. We will gain an in-depth knowledge of Henry VIII and investigate why he had six wives. We will find out what type of Monarch Henry VIII was. In Art, the children will be focusing on Tudor portraits. They will be learning how to draw a face and its features as well as sketching Tudor clothing. The children will be using soft pencil to create line, tone and texture and pastels to blend colour.

Important Dates

22nd January: Shakespeare theatre production - Children come dress in all back (top and trousers/ leggings/ jeans). Parents' welcome at 2.35pm in school hall.

9th February: Tudor Banquet- Children come dressed as Tudor royalty- Children only

19th February: Learning Logs to be returned

28th March: Easter production- Y3 parents' welcome at 9.15am

Helpful Links

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing-numbers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/levels/zbr9wmn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zg87xnb/resources/1