Each topic that children study is supported by a number of resources. In addition to the resources that children will use in class, the resources below are also relevant to the topics being studied by children in Year 3 during the course of the school year.
Making use of these resources as a home learning activity helps children to achieve their curriculum objectives for the year.
Resources for the current topic are already displayed. Press a term button to view other resources.
Autumn Term: Powerful Settlers
Norsemen are seen here aboard their small ship in a historical painting by Oscar Wergeland.
Topic Glosary
- Civilization: a human society with its well-developed organisations.
- Chronology: the order in which a series of events happened.
- Furthark: the Viking alphabet.
- Invaders: people who enter a country with the intention of ruling it.
- Settler: a person who arrives from another country in a new place in order to live there and use its land.
- Whetstone: a stone which is moistened with water and used to sharpen metal blades.
- Insulator: Prevents or reduces the transfer of heat.
Resources
BBC Schools History
This archived collection from the BBC contains Viking and Saxon resources.
BBC Bite Size KS2 History: The Vikings
Learn who the Vikings were and what life was like in Viking Britain.
Woodlands Junior History of Britain Resources
A history of Britain told through a timeline and collection facts.
Beowulf, Robert Nye
A new telling of the oldest surviving poem, originally written in Old English.
King Arthur and the knights of the round table, Benedict Flynn
Stories of King Arthur and how he set out to save his country.
Anglo-Saxon Invaders and Settlers, Peter Riley
A factual book that explains about the Anglo Saxons and their way of life.
Viking Raiders, A. Civardi
An introduction to the Vikings and their way of life.
The Vikings, Anne Pearson
An illustrated introductio to the Vikings.
Horrible Histories - Smashing Saxons, Terry Deary
All about the Saxons, told through a collection of foul facts, in true Horrible Histories style.
Horrible Histories - Vicious Vikings, Terry Deary
All about the Vikings, told through a collection of foul facts, in true Horrible Histories style.
Spring Term: Explosive Journeys
Topic Glosary
- Tectonic plate: Earth's outer layer is made up of large, moving pieces called plates. All of Earth's land and water sit on these plates. The plates are made of solid rock. Under the plates is a weaker layer of partially melted rock. The plates are constantly moving over this weaker layer.
- Dormant: This volcano has not erupted recently, it could still erupt in the future. This volcano will not have erupted in the past 10,000 years but it is expected to erupt again.
- Extinct: This volcano hasn't erupted in a very long, long time and is not expected to erupt ever again.
- Active: Eruptions can be anytime and often. It has erupted within the last 1000 years.
- Conductor: A material that allows electricity to pass through it.
- Insulator: A material that does not allow electricity to pass through it.
- Lava: Lava is liquid rock (magma) that flows out of a volcano. Fresh lava ranges from 1,300° to 2,200° F (700° to 1,200° C) in temperature and glows red hot to white hot as it flows.
- Crater: Mouth of a volcano - surrounds a volcanic vent.
- Mountain Range: These are long chains or groups of mountains. Ranges are usually 1,000 or more miles long. The Rocky Mountains and the Himalayan Mountains are examples of mountain ranges.
- Summit: Top of a mountain
Resources
Topic resources for the Summer term will appear here in April.
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One or more copies of each book shown on this page is available for children to refer to in the school library.