Year 3 Term 2 2025 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/ 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
In this unit students will create and edit a multimodal narrative about friendship for their peers.
Students will listen to, read, and view the text Matty Forever and this will be used by students as a model for constructing their own work.
Matty Forever uses language features including varied sentence structures, some unfamiliar vocabulary, a significant number of high-frequency words that can be decoded using phonic and morphemic knowledge, a variety of punctuation conventions, and illustrations and diagrams that support and extend the printed text.
Maths
Students will: · Partition, rearrange and regroup two- and three-digit numbers in different ways to assist in calculations · Extend and use single-digit addition and related subtraction facts and apply additive strategies to model and solve problems involving two- and three-digit numbers · Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving single-digit multiplication and division, recalling multiplication facts for twos, threes, fours, fives and tens, and using a range of strategies · Make estimates and determine the reasonableness of financial and other calculations · Use familiar metric units when estimating, comparing and measuring the attributes of objects and events · Estimate and compare measures of duration using formal units of time |
Science
Heating Up (Physical Sciences)
Students will investigate different heat sources and how heat moves from one object to another. Through hands-on activities, students investigate the difference in conductivity of materials.
Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)
Civics and Citizenship – Rules
Throughout this unit students will complete various activities that will answer the questions:
How are decisions made democratically?
Why do we make rules?
Health & Physical education (HPE)
In PE, students in year three will continue to develop the fundamental movement skills of dribbling, passing and shooting in the sport of basketball. They will also develop their technical understanding of athletic activities. They will learn how to set targets and improve their performance in a range of running, jumping and throwing activities.
Music
During this Term, students will reinforce knowledge from Term 1. They will play games to develop improvisation and creativity. They also will learn a number of songs and C-major scale. Students will listen to and analyse music created by Mussorgsky.
Technology
Students explore food and fibre production techniques and develop sustainable solutions to improve plant and animal production. They select design ideas against a design criteria. Students communicate their ideas using models and drawings, including annotations and symbols. They plan and sequence and use technologies and techniques to safely produce designed solutions.
Visual Arts
Year 3 students will be using the book the ‘BFG’ as a creative focus to inspire out art this term. We will produce several art pieces and end by making a dream jar where the children can collect and store their precious dreams.
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.
LOTE (Chinese)
‘Discover Chinese – vocabulary’ – Students will identify animals, foods, colours and games to expand their vocabulary.
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Writing a short story | Week 8 |
Maths | Number | Week 5 |
Measurement | Week 8 | |
Science | Written investigation | Week 8 |
HASS | Short answer | Week 7 |
HPE | Practical: Dribble and Shoot (Basketball) | Week 1 and 2 |
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 7-9 |
Technology | Portfolio of work | Throughout |
Visual Arts | Portfolio of work | Throughout |
Drama | Performance Responding | Week 6 and 7 |
LOTE | Portfolio of work | Throughout |
Homework
Each class will have set homework based on current Spelling and Times Tables relevant for the term.
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
Class Teachers 3A Carla Antonino cxant3@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 Miss Tanara Jackson tljac0@eq.edu.au Specialist Teachers HPE Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au & Rochelle Powell rapow1@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 & Jake Neill jhnei0@eq.edu.au LOTE Stefan Poropat sporo2@eq.edu.au |