Year 3 Term 1 Overview 2022

Term overview

Welcome back to a new school year. We hope you all had a safe and happy Christmas and New Year and that the children had a pleasant holiday. We welcome your children and yourselves to Year 3 and look forward to a very productive and successful year. We would like to take this opportunity to inform you what your children will be learning this term and let you know some of our expectations.

Equipment & Materials

A big thank you to all those families who have sent their child to school with everything on the Year 3 Booklist for the first day of school, including tissues and a ream of paper, with every item clearly named. Being organised and ready to start the day is essential to your child’s education. Students should have all their equipment ready to start the day. Please check with your child regularly throughout the year to ensure they have everything they need for school, particularly consumables and easily misplaced items such as pencils, erasers, glue, rulers etc.

School Parade

Whole School parade will be on a Monday 2:15pm – 2:45pm. Parents and carers are always welcome to attend.

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 schools attendance target is 95% 

English

Analysing and creating persuasive texts

In this unit, students read, view and analyse persuasive texts. Students demonstrate their understanding of persuasive texts by examining ways persuasive language features are used to influence an audience. They use this language to create their own persuasive texts and present their writing in an oral presentation.

Reading / spelling

Our school is implementing a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has a teaching sequence for reading and spelling which goes across the entire school. Promoting Literacy Development or PLD for short, provides teachers with an innovative, evidence-based approach to literacy and advocates that children’s literacy and learning outcomes are maximized when the areas of literacy, oral language and movement & motor skills are simultaneously targeted.  With this change, we will be working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.

Due to this change, home reading will look different as well. Students may come home with games with high frequency words or sounds instead of home readers. This is reading practice. Please be assured that students will be getting a much higher level of reading mileage at school every day.

Maths

In this unit students apply a variety of mathematical concepts in real-life, lifelike and purely mathematical situations. Through the proficiency strands - Understanding, Fluency, Problem-solving and Reasoning - students have opportunities to develop understandings of the following:

• Number and place value - count to 1 000; investigate the 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s number sequences; identify odd and even numbers; represent three-digit numbers; compare and order three-digit numbers; partition numbers (standard and non-standard place value partitioning); recall addition facts and related subtraction facts; represent and solve addition problems; add two-digit, single-digit and three-digit numbers; subtract two-digit and three-digit numbers; represent multiplication; solve simple problems involving multiplication; recall multiplication number facts.
• Using units of measurement - tell time to five-minute intervals; identify one metre as a standard metric unit; represent a metre; measure with metres.
• Chance - conduct chance experiments; describe the outcomes of chance experiments; identify variations in the results of chance experiments.
• Data representation and interpretation - collect simple data; record data in lists and tables; display data in a column graph; interpret and describe outcomes of data investigations.

Science

Night and Day (Earth and Space Sciences)

What causes night and day? The rising of the Sun and the Moon are daily reminders of the awe and wonder, beauty and power of the universe. Studying the relationships between the Sun, Earth and Moon helps us understand how we experience day and night on Earth. It also helps us understand directions in terms of North, South, East and West, how time is based on the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky and how time can be determined using shadows.

HASS

Our unique communities
In this unit students:

• Identify individuals, events and aspects of the past that have significance in the present
• Identify and describe aspects of their community that have changed and remained the same over time
• Explain how and why people participate in and contribute to their communities
• Identify a point of view about the importance of different celebrations and commemorations to different groups
• Pose questions and locate and collect information from sources, including observations to answer questions and draw simple conclusions
• Sequence information about events and the lives of individuals in chronological order
• Communicate their ideas, findings and conclusions in visual and written forms using simple discipline-specific terms.

Homework

At Trinity Beach State School, regular Home Reading is a priority. Your child’s reading folder will be sent home every week. Please read with them during the week and return the folder promptly every Friday. Children will also be encouraged to borrow books from our Library for enjoyment and relaxation.

HPE

In PE, students in year three will develop the fundamental movement skills to play the sport of basketball. They will learn how to dribble with one hand, shoot and pass a ball using a variety of passes. In Health, students identify influences that strengthen identities. They investigate how emotional responses vary and how to interact positively with others.

Music

During Term One, 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. 

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

Contact information

Contact your childs teacher via email: 

3A Kate Archer karch11@eq.edu.au                                       3B Steve Kotzikas sskot0@eq.edu.au

3C Alison Simpson-Taylor asimp26@eq.edu.au            3D Carly Smyth    cxsmy0@eq.edu.au                   

3ETimena Rhodes – trhod8@eq.edu.au & Ariel Ballou – nabal2@eq.edu.au

3/4A Andrew Lamond - ajlam0@eq.edu.au