Year 3 Autumn Term
As part of our ‘What Makes a Community Thrive?’ learning journey, the Year 3 children experience what it would be like to attend a ‘Gambian market’. They take in the sights, sounds and tastes of the market to help them in their descriptive writing.
We also study our local community to understand how land is used in Fleet. We go on a local walk to record what we see. We then compare what we observed to a town called Soma, in The Gambia, considering the differences and similarities between the two locations.
After half-term, we return to school and focus on the question: 'How can we light up the world?' We quickly realise that the word ‘light’ has many meanings and can be thought of in multiple ways. In Science, we investigate various light sources and think about how light travels through materials. In RE, we think about light from a religious perspective; discussing questions such as: ‘How is Jesus the light of the world?’ and ‘Does good always overcome evil?’
The children bring their own light into the world by creating amazing light boxes in DT, which are then showcased at our Year 3 Christmas Exhibition. To make sure we get into the Christmas spirit, we learn all about the story of advent and create art work to show how the birth of Jesus brought light into the world.
