Year 3

Spellings Summer Term 2

Week 7: primary, secondary, salary, summary, February, library, necessary, dictionary, boundary,

ordinary

Week 8: rough, tough, double, trouble, touch, enough, country, courage, cousin, young

Week 9: instruct, structure, construction, instruction, instructor, unit, union, universe, university,

united

Week 10: scope, telescope, microscope, horoscope, periscope, inspect, spectator, respect,

perspective, spectacles.

Week 11: treasure, measure, creature, nature, picture, structure, temperature, furniture, moisture,

pleasure

Week 12: write, knife, guide, guard, build, island, answer, thumb, wheat, whale

Spellings Summer Term 2 Intervention Group

Week 7: car, bar, star, park, start

Week 8: sort, fork, sport, short, worn

Week 9: fair, hair, chair, stair, lair

Week 10: girl, bird, dirt, whirl, twirl

Week 11: out, shout, loud, mouth, round

Week 12: toy, boy, joy, enjoy, ahoy

History

This half term we are looking at the topic of Megacities.

Complete the following tasks.

1 Identify what makes a city a megacity?

Locate these megacities (below) on a world map. Do you notice a pattern relating to where they are

located?

Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Mexico City, New York, Mumbai, Beijing, Dhaka, Karachi, Sau Paulo

2. Look at the skyline image from a mega city and try to draw the image. You can use the one below

or another of your own choice. Identify some of the buildings e.g. sky scrapers, cathedrals…

3. Choose a mega city of your choice and make comparisons to Canvey Island. What similarities and

differences can you see?

4. Choose a megacity and find out what it would be like to live there. Write 5 advantages and 5

disadvantages.

5. Baghdad was the first city to reach a population of 1 million people over 1100 years ago (AD 900).

What features would have made it a good place to live? Why do you think they built it near the

water? How did they defend themselves?

6. Draw a picture of your own megacity. Include features that would make people want to live and

stay there. Think about the things like: living spaces, entertainment, places to socialise, transport,

places for exercise etc.

Art

This term in Art we learning about Georges Seurat and his style of art called Pointillism.

Complete the following tasks:

1. Look at the following picture ‘A Sunday on the Grande Jatte’ by Georges Seurat, 1884. (See below)

Next locate these things on the picture.

a) A man playing a trumpet.

b) A man in a top hat leaning against a tree.

c) Two soldiers standing to attention.

d) A pink butterfly.

e) A white dog with a brown head.

f) A monkey on a lead.

g) How many men can you spot? Women? Children?

2. Create a fact file of Georges Seurat.

Using the information sheet at the end, answer these questions to create a fact file.

a) Who was Seurat?

b) When and where did he live?

c) What was his style of painting like?

d) How was his art different to the art of other artists at his time?

e) What is he most famous for?

3. Practice using the pointillism technique.

Write your name in big bubble writing and then colour each letter using dots. To create a dot, you

can use cotton bubs, the tip of a thin paintbrush, the end of a paintbrush or felt-tip pens. The dots

shouldn’t be touching so take your time with each dot.

4. Create a complimentary colour wheel.

Using the three primary colours (red, blue and yellow) you can mix them to create the secondary

colours (green, orange and purple). Complete the colour wheel using pointillism dots.

The colours opposite each other on the wheel are called complimentary colours. Seurat used

complimentary colours next to each other to make them look more vivid and stand out more.

Can you identify the three complimentary colour pairs? e.g. green and red.

5. Practice the blending and shading techniques.

Use more dots far apart to create a light shade and add more dots closer together to make the

shading darker.

You can use a similar technique for blending and mixing colours. Gradually mixing the yellow and red

dots means you can blend the colours seamlessly. When the yellow and red dots are placed next to

each other, they create orange as you step away from the picture. This is called optical mixing

because it is your eyes that mix the colours together. If your shape is yellow and you want the

colours to mix so that another side of the shape gradually becomes red, add a few red dots to the

yellow dots. As you add more and more red dots and fewer yellow dots, the colour of the shape will

get redder and redder and the middle of the shape will look orange.

Draw 3 circles and practice shading and blending the complimentary colour pairs.

(orange and blue, yellow and purple, green and red)

6. Create a pointillism picture of your own.

Choose a theme for your picture. Sketch out your picture first lightly with a pencil, then add colour

using the pointillism technique. Remember you can use cotton bubs, the tip of a thin paintbrush, the

end of a paintbrush or felt-tip pens.

Science

This half term if about scientific enquiry so there are lots of fun investigations to try.

1. Bubbles

In the garden, sink or bath get some water and liquid soap. You can use bubble mixture if you have

some. Can you blow bubbles? How large can you blow the bubble? Can you put your finger through

the bubble without it popping? Can you make your own bubble wand?

Does the amount of soap you add change how long or large your bubbles are?

2. Bug Hunt (1)

When outside lay a white piece of paper or material under a tree or bush. Give the bush or tree a

very gentle shake and see what falls onto the paper. You can also turn over logs or large stone but

remember to put them back as it is someone’s home. Make a list of all the creatures you find.

3.Bug Hunt (2)

After your bug hunt can you find out some more information about one of the creatures you found.

Remember what it looked like and draw or sketch it in as much detail as you can remember and

label it. If you need help see if you can find a picture of it on the internet.

4. Floating Eggs (1)

Use the link to find out more about this investigation.

http://www.sciencefun.org/kidszone/experiments/floating-egg/

1. Pour water into the glass until it is about half full.

2. Place an egg in the glass of water and see if it sinks or floats (it should sink).

2. Stir in lots of salt. Start with 1 tablespoon and stir it until the salt dissolves. Keep adding more salt

until the egg floats.

3. Next, carefully pour more fresh water until the glass is nearly full (be careful to not disturb or mix

the salty water with the plain water). If you’re very careful, you can get the egg to float between the

fresh and saltwater!

Find out why this happens

5. Floating Eggs (2)

Are there other liquids you can add to make the egg sink or float?

What else can you dissolve in the water to make the egg float?

6. Heart Rate

Record your resting heart rate by checking your pulse at either your neck or wrist position. You need

to count the number of beats in one minute. Next you will need to predict what will happen to your

heart rate as a result of completing the following activities – Walking, Star jumps and planking (2

minutes for each activity). Which activity do you think will make your heart rate increase the most?

Least?

Walk around for 2 minutes and then immediately record your heart rate by counting the number of

beats in one minute. Wait for you heart rate to lower before completing the same process for the

star jumps and plank.

As an extension – find 2 different exercises that will increase the heart rate quickly.

RE

This term we have been looking at different books used in the 6 main religions (Christianity, Islam,

Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism and Sikhism). We will also learn about some religious stories from

some of the different religions.

Complete the following tasks:

1. Guru Nanak

Who is Guru Nanak? Watch the video and read information on the page to learn about Guru Nanak.

Write down some of the key facts from his life.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjpyrd/articles/zr86cqt

2. Guru Granth Sahib

Explain the importance of the Guru Granth Sahib to the Sikhs. Explain how the Sikhs treat the Guru

Granth Sahib and how that shows that it is sacred/ holy.

3. The story of Diwali

Watch the video and read the information on the page to learn about Diwali. Storyboard the key

events about the story of why Diwali is celebrated.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zh86n39/articles/zjpp92p

4. Diwali Rangoli Patterns

Rangoli patterns are colourful patterns often drawn on the floor or near the entrance to a house to

welcome guests as they encourage the goddess of health to enter their homes. Rangoli patterns can

be made up from lots of different shapes. They can be square, rectangular or circular – or a mix of all

three. They are often symmetrical. Research some examples to give yourselves some ideas.

Create your own Rangoli pattern or use the template and add lots of colour.

5. The Good Samaritan

Watch the video and take some notes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z4vcd2p. Then re-tell

the story of the Good Samaritan.

Extension – What makes you a good friend?

6. Create your own religion.

What would you like your religious book to be called? What would it look like? Where would you

worship? What would it look like? Who would the followers pray to? Etc.

Draw pictures and write information to describe what you have created.

PE

You should be aiming to do 1 hour of exercise a day but it doesn’t have to be all at one time so here

are some ideas:

1. Joe Wicks workouts on YouTube – The Body Coach TV are live every weekday at 9 AM but you can

access them at any time or day that suits you.

2. The Deanes School have also provided some different PE videos (not just fitness) which you can

watch and copy on this website. New ones are added regularly -

www.deanessportscentre.com/SSP

3. Try these fitness challenges. They’ll involve some Maths work as well. Start at level 1 and then

move on from there.

The aim of the game is to score as many points as you can at each level. To get points, you’ll need to

calculate the correct score using the key and both multiplication and addition.

4. Orienteering.

Draw your own map of your garden or local park. Then try to find different objects, things, words,

signs etc that begin with every letter of the alphabet by walking around that area. Next you’ll need

to mark on your map, with the letter, at the point where you found them.

5. Complete the circuit of activities and record the number of each activity. Then repeat the circuit

to beat your own scores.

6. Complete each activity in the circuit and record the amount of time you can do each activity.

Add together all of the times. How long were you working for in total?

Repeat the circuit again and try to extend your times.