Year 3 Term 3 2024 Curriculum Overview
Welcome & General Information
Welcome back after what we hope was a great break for all. We would also like to welcome any new families into the Trinity Beach community. The purpose of this overview is to share what topics our students will be covering over the duration of this term across all of the learning areas as well as share when students will be assessed on their learning. For information about specific events please keep a look out on the Trinity Beach State School Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/trinitybeachss/ This term, all year levels will be participating in swimming lessons. Each class has been allocated a week in which they will participate in 4 lessons. A detailed timetable has been sent to families. To ensure a smooth start to the term, please check to see if your child needs any additional equipment, such as stationary or uniforms and ensure that these are named to reduce the risk of losing them. We hope that this term is a successful term. As always, if you have any questions about your child’s progress or if you have any concerns your first point of contact is your child’s teacher. The contact details for all the teachers are listed in the “Contact Information” section. |
English
Student will write a poem that describes the beach using the 5 senses (taste, touch, hear, smell and see). and then present their poem to the class. Students will engage in discussion about the poem, during this discussion the writer of the poem will be expected to answer questions from the audience.
Maths
Students will learn how to measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity. They will also tell time to the minute and investigate the relationship between units of time |
Science
The Melting moments unit is an ideal way to link science with literacy in the classroom. While exploring how solids or liquids are influenced by temperature, students experience the way items from their everyday lives can change. Through hands-on investigations, students investigate how the size of the pieces affects the melting time of chocolate.
Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)
Geography – throughout this unit students will complete various activities to answer the following inquiry questions.
- What would it be like to live in a different country?
- How and why are places similar and different?
- What are the main natural and human features of Australia?
- How do symbols, events, individuals and places in mu community make it unique?
Health & Physical education (HPE)
In PE, students in year three will perform specialised tennis skills and combine movement concepts and strategies during games. Students will also demonstrate fair play and skills to work collaboratively during tennis activities and games. In Health, students investigate the concepts of physical activity and sedentary behaviours while exploring the recommendations of physical activity. They examine the benefits of physical activity and investigate ways to increase physical activity in their lives. |
Music
Students will reinforce knowledge of known rhythmic elements. They will study pentatonic scale, dynamics and string instruments. Students also will learn a few songs and play games, which will help to develop improvisation and creativity in the students.
Technology
Students observe and investigate the plants and insects in the garden. Students design a plan to modify or adapt the garden to encourage and accommodate for insects that are beneficial for the school garden. Throughout the research and investigation of insects students are introduced to the digital term Peripheral devices and identify the purpose of these digital tools.
Visual Arts
Students will be looking into the popular art movement famous in the late 1950’s and 1960’s- Pop Art! We will be focusing on primarily the artworks of Andy Warhol and use this inspiration to re-create some of his famous art pieces using techniques such as foam printing and screen printing. We will be incorporating this art style with our Visual Arts theme for 2024 ’Bugs, grubs and all things nice’.
Drama
Our Special Place
Students working in groups create, present and respond to a drama story that expresses their ideas and feelings about their special place in the school.
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Written individual task and poetry presentation | week 9 |
Poetry comprehension task | week 9 | |
Maths | Time – written task | week 7 |
Measurement – observed demonstration | week 9 | |
HASS | Exploring Places – Near and Far - Written – short answers | Term 4 week 3 |
Science | Melting Moments – Written investigation | week 9 |
Drama | Our Special Place Making – Our Special Place structured play. Responding – Written Test | week 8-9 |
Music | Singing the core song ‘Who’s that tapping on my window’ with lyrics, solfa and handsigns, and rhythm names and playing an ostinato on glockenspiel. | week 7-8 |
Technology | •Students design a Webpage from their investigation of the school gardens collecting information about plants, insects and waste representing it using the four data types – numbers, letters, images and sound. •Students create a quiz using sequenced visual blocks to show branching and user input. •Students show their knowledge about peripheral devices. | week 8 |
HPE | Health - Feeling Safe PE - Game, Set and Match (Hot Shots Tennis) | Week 5 No assessment |
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Reading & Spelling
Our school continues to embed a whole school approach to reading and spelling across Prep to Year 6. This involves teaching the reading and spelling demands of the Australian Curriculum, providing students with a systematic synthetic phonics approach and unpacking the Big 6/Science of Reading through engaging and meaningful lessons. Students engage with decodable texts when learning to read and rich authentic texts when reading to learn and continue to use the PLD approach for their spelling and sound focus.
Homework
Students will receive homework Monday and to be returned Friday. Books can be borrowed from the library as home readers.
Reading a variety of texts is important for developing an understanding the various texts and their uses. Your child/children can be reading, comics, newspapers, magazines, reports and dictionaries.
Attendance
How to report an absence:
- Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
- Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
- Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return
Our school’s attendance target is 95%
QParents
QP is an online portal helping the school move toward a cashless and paper friendly school.
- The QP portal allows Parents and Carers to grant participation consent online for activities such as swimming and excursions which reduces our need to print out paper consent forms
- Also, the QP portal enables Parents and Carers to make payment online for school activities and viewing unpaid invoices payment history.
Thank you to all those parents who have registered for QParents. This means every registered parent now has the opportunity to access to their children’s student records at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere. Haven’t received an invitation from us yet? There’s still time! Please let us know immediately. Or if you are simply looking for further information, videos and FAQs on QParents, visit https://qparents.qld.edu.au
Contact information
Classroom Teachers 3A Mr Jake Neill jhnei0@eq.edu.au 3B Mrs Alison Simpson-Taylor asimp26@eq.edu.au 3C Ms Christina Stanfield Roche cesta0@eq.edu.au 3D Ms Kate Archer karch11@eq.edu.au 3E Ms Karen Arthur kaart0@eq.edu.au Inclusive Education Centre (IEC) Teacher Christine Holden chold29@eq.edu.au Specialist Teachers HPE Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au HPE Damien Theodore dxthe0@eq.edu.au Visual Arts Vanessa Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au Music Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au Drama David Terry dater1@eq.edu.au Technology Alex Einerman aeine0@eq.edu.au LOTE Stefan Poropat sporo2@eq.edu.au |