Year 3/4

Welcome back to school! We hope all families enjoyed a restful break and that our students are feeling excited and ready for a new year of learning.

This year the Year 3/4 team is Daniel Mason (3/4M), Asta Purdon (3/4P) and Kaelan Loomes (3/4L).

Our goal is to provide an environment where every student can be successful through setting high expectations, having calm orderly classrooms and clear consistent routines.

This term we will begin with one of our Wellbeing programs, Bright Beginnings. This is aimed at setting up positive classroom environments and creating a friendly culture for the year ahead. We will be discussing and covering topics around expectations, school values, community, teamwork and happy classrooms.

This term we will be covering the following subject areas:

Literacy

This term students will study a variety of high quality mentor texts that will:

• explore themes and messages by analysing setting and literary devices

• reflect on themes, and engage in reflective writing

• build knowledge about cultural context and literal versus implied meaning

• write and edit an introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion with a call to action

• develop phonological awareness, morphology, prefixes/suffixes

• cover narrative and expositions through genre writing

Numeracy

This term, students will focus on counting and place value, addition and subtraction, time, and an introduction to multiplication and division, building strong number understanding and problem-solving skills.

Core Knowledge

This term we are looking into History. More specifically, Growing Colonies, which will be kickstarted through our History Box incursion.

Wellbeing

Our Respectful Relationships and Happy Houses program will assist students with identifying themselves as a learner, exploring emotions, participating in challenging games and scenarios, and recognising what is required to have a value become a virtue.

Specialists

Students will also be participating in weekly Art, Physical Education, S.T.E.M. and Auslan (LOTE) lessons, as well as these being integrated into regular classroom activities. Digital Technologies will see students being safe and responsible online, working collaboratively, utilising resources and developing their technological skills.

Please refer to the school newsletter for any school news and key dates.

As always if you have any further questions please feel free to contact your classroom teacher.

Thank you, Mr Mason, Mrs Purdon & Mr Loomes