Year 3/4 Term 2, 2023 Curriculum Overview

Term overview

Welcome to Term 2 in 3/4A!

This term is another busy Term with many events such as swimming and sporting events. Being organised and ready to start the day is essential to your child’s education. Students should have all their equipment ready to start each day. Please check with your child regularly that they have everything they need for school, particularly consumables and easily misplaced items such as pencils, erasers, glue, rulers etc. These often need replacing each term.

Our class has 3 specialist lessons this Term including: HPE, Drama and LOTE (Chinese)

The assessment schedule for Term 2 is included in this outline (see table below), this provides a good insight into what your child is working on in class and their assessment tasks. If you have any questions regarding this please contact your child’s classroom teacher.

Attendance

Before School

We encourage parents to drop students off to school after 8:30am. If students arrive before this time, they are to sit in the COLA until the 8:30am bell.

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% 

Reading / Spelling

We are continuing our work with our Structured Synthetic Phonics approach implemented last year. This programs includes:

Reading: Students work in guided reading groups 4 days per week, at similar levels to develop skills of comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. Students are tested at the beginning of each term/end of the term to determine their progress and new guided reading groups.

Spelling: Students work in ability groups with different goals, 4 days per week, developing their spelling skills.  Students are tested at the end of each term to determine their progress and new spelling words/groups.

English

Students write a persuasive letter to their teacher agreeing or disagreeing with the statement:

Life in the city is better than life on a farm.

Use examples from texts and their own research to support their point of view.

Collect ideas for a persuasive letter.

• Plan a persuasive letter.
• Draft a persuasive letter.

• Publish a persuasive letter

Maths

This term has 2 units of work.  A number and algebra unit that will focus on efficient methods for calculating all 4 opperations and odd and even numbers.

Science

This Term, students will look at how differnet contact and non contact forces effect objects. 

HASS

First fleet and Rules and Laws

Year 3 Inquiry questions:

• How do symbols, events, individuals and places in my community make it unique?
• How do people contribute to their communities, past and present?
• What events do different people and groups celebrate and commemorate and what does this tell us about our communities?

Year 4 Inquiry questions:

• What were the short- and long-term effects of European settlement?

How have laws affected the lives of people, past and present

HPE

In PE, students in year four will continue to practise and refine fundamental movement skills to perform various skipping skills and solve individual skipping challenges. 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.

Drama

‘Create a Character’

Students will develop a character through individual and group exploration, dramatic improvisation and response. They plan a character backstory and change the way they walk, talk and move. At the end of the term students participate in an improvised interview, in character, in front of their class.

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LOTE - Chinese

In this unit, students will engage with a range of texts about personal identity. They will learn to introduce personal and family names, and to identify the meaning in names. They will also learn to summarise key points and produce short informative texts that include names and details of themselves. Moreover, they will demonstrate fundamental Chinese reading and writing skills throughout the term.

IEC

Our students in year 3 are off to a great start this Term!

To improve literacy skills, we've been spending time aligning our decodable readers with targeted spelling words each week and working on reading comprehension.

Our bi-weekly social skills lessons for both year levels align with our school behaviour focus. Students are role playing school-wide expectations and engaging in conversation about how to be safe, be respectful, and be a learner here at TBSS.

Our Year 3s are receiving support on narratives this term for English and are working on money, shapes and direction in Math.

Ariel Ballou (nabal2@eq.edu.au) and Jude Doherty (jmdoh0@eq.edu.au) can be contacted by email or in the Inclusive Education Centre (IEC) should you have any further questions or concerns.

Assessment schedule

Contact information

Contact your childs teacher via email: 

3/4A - Rossana Rivera  rxriv0@eq.edu.au