Autumn: Can Earth survive every disaster?
Our Enquiry
The below enquiry overview shows the week by week learning for your child's class in English, enquiry and maths. You can use the overview to see what your child is learning in school each week.Year 3 Autumn enquiry mat 22-23
Our weekly enquiry questions are:
1. Are we alone in Europe?
2. Mama Mia!
3. Who does it better?
4. Would we ever want extinction?
5. Can we dig to the centre of the Earth?
6. Does the ground move under our feet?
7. Does the Earth have a temper?
8. How do volcanos shape the land?
9. Are dinosaurs still among us?
10. Should we talk about Bruno?
11. Can Earth survive every disaster?
English
A high-quality text drives each of our enquiries and the texts are used to give knowledge and purpose to the enquiry. High quality texts can only be accessed through knowledge of vocabulary in different tiers. Explicit teaching of new vocabulary and using the classroom environment to showcase key vocabulary helps us to infuse rich and sophisticated vocabulary from EYFS to Year 6. The texts are used as a stimulus for both English and cross curricular writing, ensuring high expectations of our children. Reading is interweaved into all aspects of the enquiry to encourage reading and language development and promote reading for pleasure.
Autumn 1 Key English Text
Maths
In maths we follow the Power Maths programme to support children’s learning and to build a deep understanding of maths concepts. Power Maths is a curriculum mastery programme designed to spark curiosity and excitement and nurture confidence in maths. It is built around a child‑centred lesson design that models and embeds a growth mindset approach to maths.
This term we are covering the following:
- place value within 1,000 (3 weeks)
- counting in 100's.
- Representing numbers to 1000
- 100's, 10's and 1's
- Numbers lines to 1000
- Finding 1, 10 and 100 more or less.
- Comparing numbers to 1000
- Ordering numbers to 1000
- Counting in 50's
- addition and subtraction (6 weeks)
- Adding and subtracting hundreds.
- Adding and subtracting a 3-digit number and 1's
- Adding and subtracting a 3-digit numbers and 10's
- Adding and subtracting a 3-digit number and a 2-digit number
- multiplication an division (3 weeks)