1. AUTUMN TERM Y3 FESTIVALS
ESDGC
Importance of festivals / cultures of different countries
MUSIC
Singing – learning songs for assembly, harvest and Christmas
R.E.
Fast and Festivals
Why are festivals important to Muslims? – Ramadan / Id-ul-Fitr
Why are festivals important to Christians? – Christmas
Why are festivals important to Jewish people? – Hanukkah, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kipur
Secular and Religious festivals including Caerphilly Cheese festival and Bonfire Night PE
Gymnastics incorporating balancing, jumping, travelling and rolls
Dance – movements from a different cultures around Europe i.e. Wales, Austria, Greece, Spain, Germany and Italy
Tips: Please ensure your child’s PE kit is brought into school each week
ICT
To use the internet to research Welsh festivals
Make a slide show (how to make a Sukkah) using PowerPoint
Make a calendar using key skills taught this term i.e. changing font, colour, size, cutting and pasting
AUTUMN TERM Y3 FESTIVALS
GEOGRAPHY
Festivals around the World
Identify where Wales is in relation to the world
Research festivals linked with RE and English
HISTORY
To identify and understand the significance of the lives of the UK patron saints
To understand the history of the Welsh National Eisteddfod
ENGLISH
Assessing children in reading and putting them into appropriate groups
Festivals to be covered:
Chinese Kite Festival - Independent storytelling
Chinese Moon Festival - Retelling of the story and Moon Shape poems
Poems linked with Rosh Hashanah
Planning a Sukkah information sheet and play script
Bonfire Night – story with familiar setting
Rama and Sita – retelling story using a storyboard
The Christmas story - organisation of text into relevant chapters
Storm Boy
Tips: Learn weekly spellings.
Listen to your child read regularly. We would like to see them changing their home reading books twice a week.
MATHS
Read and write whole numbers
Estimating
Add/subtract mentally
Problem solving
Classifying shapes
Graphs
Tips: Rehearse times tables and number bonds to 20
PSE
Friendships / working together
Differences – likes and dislikes and cultures
WELSH
Food related to parties and celebrations
Describing themselves and others
Expressing likes and dislikes
ART & DESIGN
How to draw a portrait and people using observation drawings
What ‘Celebration’ means with regards to clothes, food, decorations and family gatherings
Looking at ‘The Banquet’ by Jose Pinto and Renoir’s ‘The Luncheon of the Boating Party’ produce their own drawings of a banquet
SEAL
New beginnings
Getting on and falling out
Saying no to bullying
SCIENCE
Identifying living and non living things by using Mrs GREEN criteria
Organising materials into groups considering their properties
Classifying rocks DT
Design and make a festival cake and evaluate the finished product
Tips: Look at food packaging. Discuss which countries foods come from