CROESO i BLWYDDYN TRI!                      

                                                                                 Teachers:

MISS LAWTON - MULBERRY CLASS

MR FRYER - MAGNOLIA CLASS
                                                                              

A very warm welcome to Year Three's class page. As a team, we are very excited to share the learning experiences of the pupils, important information and overviews of the contexts for learning.                                                      

 

‘The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people’–Unknown

Our new context for learning this term is 'Pwy ydyn Ni?' Pupils will be learning about Welsh identity, culture, language and heritage and what it is like living in a modern, inclusive Wales. The themes of identity, belonging and diversity will run throughout the context. To support this, there will be lots of exciting learning opportunities on offer. For example, to bring the curriculum to life, pupils will experience cooking with foods from their own culture and visit a local market to experience the world of work, life in business and the foods on offer.                                                                                                                                                                     

In the following weeks, the pupils will be provided with opportunities to experience:      

• Creating artwork in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo and comparing with a Welsh artist  
• Producing musical market rhythms for performance                        
• Carrying out investigative tasks using numeracy skills on states of matter, reversible and irreversible changes
• Using literacy skills to report on live school events e.g. the Eisteddfod, Food Festival
• Asking good questions and using their knowledge of what they know to support their research skills using a range of sources 
• Using knowledge of statistics to collect information on the food that they eat 
• Applying what they know about measuring and weighing whilst following recipes from around the world
• Contributing to deep and meaningful questions based on a variety of stimuli using visible thinking routines and Philosophy for Children (P4C) sessions, e.g. who are we? 
• Understanding the themes of diversity, identity and belonging and how they relate to people that live in Wales today
• Exploring and investigating the importance of food in a variety of religions 
• Immersing themselves in real-life experiences; to include what healthy eating looks like across cultures
• Comparing food vocabulary in multiple languages using their knowledge of their own language to decode meaning
• Looking at local, national and international contexts (sustainability, fairness and the rights of the child) through a humanities lens, e.g. looking at food miles and food poverty
• Understanding how food connects to memory, comfort, celebration and belonging
• Comparing what people ate in the past to a modern day diet in Wales
• Producing recipes in their own language to share 
• Researching using DCF skills to create a digital recipe book
• Creating food celebration dances using thinking together

 

 

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 Our class read this term is:

'This is a great tale of how an asylum-seeking family move next door to an American family, and the boys of both families make friends even though they don’t share the same language. The book raises lots of questions about the world, and is great for exploring ‘kindness’ as a virtue.'