Year 3 Term 4 2024 Curriculum Overview
Welcome & General Information
Welcome back after what we hope was a great break for all. We would also like to welcome new families into the Trinity Beach community. This overview is to provide details of the topics your student/s will be covering over the duration of this 11 week term across all learning areas and assessment dates 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/ Organisation 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. Hats and Shoes Broad-brimmed or bucket hats and shoes are compulsory at Trinity Beach State School, so please ensure your child always has these and that they are clearly named. This is also a Queensland Education Department requirement for the safety of all students. Personal Items QLD Education Departmental guidelines stipulate that to help maintain hygiene regulations, all students are to avoid bringing personal items to school. These include toys and other items that may result in other students sharing contact with these. It is a stipulation from the Education Department that students are to not wear jewellery as a safety hazard and stud earrings are acceptable. 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
Students will create a multimodal presentation exploring a fascinating country of their choice, which may include an Australian Indigenous Country, where they will research, record and present information to the class.
Maths
Unit 8 - Students will solve problems using efficient strategies for multiplication, and model and represent unit fractions.
Unit – 9 Students will interpret grid maps, and identifying symmetry, three-dimensional objects and angles.
- Students match positions on maps with given information, and identify symmetry in the environment.
- Students make a model of a three-dimensional object and recognise angles in real situations.
Science
Feathers Fur or Leaves
(Biological Sciences)
What is that? Is it alive? How is it like other things I know?
This unit provides opportunities for students to explore features of living things, and ways they can be grouped together. Through hands-on activities, students explore how living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things.
Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)
Geography – throughout this unit students will complete various activities to answer the following inquiry questions.
Geography – throughout this unit students will complete various activities to answer 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?
Health & Physical education (HPE)
Students in year three will develop their fundamental movement skills to play the sport of soccer. They will learn how to dribble, pass, trap a ball and score goals.
Music
In this unit, students will appreciate and analyse the music of Mussorgsky. Through this, they will learn about dynamics, legato and staccato, tied notes and slurs. They will consolidate their knowledge of C-Pentatonic scale. They will learn about string instruments in an orchestra. Students will be introduced to the ABA musical form.
Technology
Students observe and investigate different farming environments and sustainable farming practices. Students plan to modify and adapt a Minecraft: Education Edition farm to include sustainable farming practices. They will also explore data and how it can be represented in different ways.
Visual Arts
This term year 3 students will be experimenting with different visual art processes including mono printing with gel plates, water marbling and using the sun to print in a technique called cyanotype printing. We will be using leaves and different mediums to create our art works this term.
Drama
This term students will develop improvisations based on sport and fitness activities.
They will sustain and build belief in roles and use drama elements to create theatre conventions like freeze frames and slow motion. Students will explore gestures and postures and how they relate to and reveal character.
IEC
Year 3 IEC English In Term 4, we are learning to write an information report about either an international country or traditional Country within Australia. Each student chooses their own country and will be supported to read information books and view websites and videos about the country of their choice. ICP level 1 students will be supported to organise their information and write simple and compounded sentences and images (including a map and flag) to create a poster. Students will present their report to classmates. ICP Prep level students will be supported to organise their information and write simple sentences and images (including a map and flag) to create a poster. Students will talk about their report to classmates. This Poster is a good way to help our class gain information about countries from around the world or traditional Country within Australia. Maths Student who have an ICP level 1 are: · Adding and subtracting using counting strategies · Using the language of direction to follow and give directions. Students will use terms such as left, right, forward and backwards. · Describing 2D shapes and 3D objects · Identifying one half Developing Social/Emotional and Self-care Skills Every Monday, within our small group, (‘Social Skills’) we revise the particular ‘Focus Skill’ each week and we ensure that everyone understands what the expectations are. We also have small groups in the IEC which focus on developing children’s fine gross motor skills. Every Thursday we have our cooking group where we encourage selected students to make/cook recipes. During our cooking sessions we encourage the children to do as much as they can independently, developing their self-care skills. We also meet with students to support their social and emotional skills as needed. We help them to understand problems; thoughts, words and actions that contribute to problems; and alternative thoughts, words and actions to address problems or, if possible, recognise and avoid problems. |
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Report presentation | week 7 |
Maths | Fractions – written task | week 5 |
Interpreting maps and geometry – observed demonstration | week 8 | |
HASS | Exploring Places – Near and Far - Written – short answers | week 3 |
Science | Feathers, fur or leaves – Written investigation | week 8 |
Drama | Sports performance | Week 7 |
Written responding | Week 8 | |
Music | Making — Composing Create a rhythm and write it in canon at 2 beats. Responding Responding through an aural written test that includes recognition, application and analysis of known concepts and Art and World music. | Week 8-9 |
Technology | Students design a farm using Minecraft: Education Edition that includes sustainable farming practices. They will plan and implement an algorithm and implement it using Scratch to show different types of data representations. | Week 8 |
HPE | Soccer – Practical | Week 6-8 |
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
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