Year 3 students continue to learn through differentiated learning activities, across all areas of the curriculum. These lessons are designed to engage, challenge and motivate them. These include hands-on activities and open-ended tasks that cater to their specific needs and ongoing projects. All students are encouraged to become more responsible for their learning and set themselves realistic yet challenging goals. They are supported to identify strategies that can help them achieve success and monitor their progress each term.
Students read a range of fictional stories and compare character feelings and settings. Students apply comprehension strategies to build skill in locating literal (stated) and inferential (implied) meaning.They write persuasive texts and present their arguments orally to the class. They compose their own narratives using punctuation, grammar and creative vocabulary. They further their skill in writing information reports, explanations and procedural texts through reading non-fiction books and researching on the internet. Students focus on their public speaking skills as well as active listening during presentations.
This is the first year that students are part of the senior school. This means that they can now participate in their first athletics carnival and cross country championships.
The Year 3 camp is for one night, in Term 3. This is their first camp and we encourage all students to attend,to give them opportunities to learn many important life skills.
Our school student well being program is based on the Resilience, Rights & Respectful relationships program and we continue to develop mindfulness strategies for personal wellbeing.
We offer many exciting incursions and excursions that link to our main area of investigation for the term.
The coding program teaches EV3, making simple machines with lego, Scratch and LightBot, a puzzle game based on coding that teaches programming logic.
Our 'Swim and Survive' program is a water safety incursion, conducted by trained lifesavers.
Other activities will be placed on the Year 3 blog, as they occur.
Parent helpers
Parents are most welcome to help in our classrooms, in the library, on excursions and camps and on our parent group committee and School Council committees.
All parents who assist in any way must have a Working With Children Check. This card must be presented at the office when parents sign in
