Year 3/4

Welcome back to Term 3! We hope all of our families had a relaxing and enjoyable break, and that our students are feeling refreshed, excited, and ready for another fantastic term of learning.

We are incredibly proud of all that our students achieved last term and look forward to building on the strong routines, positive learning habits, and successes we established together. Throughout Term 3, we will continue to set high expectations, encourage every student to do their best, and support them in making strong progress across all curriculum areas while working towards their individual learning goals.

This term we will be covering the following subject areas:

Literacy

Our literacy focus this term invites students to think more deeply about the texts they encounter and to grow as confident, expressive writers. A strong focus will be placed on crafting effective sentences, as students expand their ideas, explore different sentence types, learn to distinguish complete sentences from fragments and use subordinating conjunctions and connectives such as because, but and so to add detail and link their thinking. We will also continue developing spelling and word knowledge through explicit teaching of spelling rules and patterns and morphology, helping students understand how words are built and broadening their vocabulary by reaching for more precise, tier two verbs that lift the quality of their writing.

Across the term students will apply these skills to plan and write a factual recount, structuring their ideas through an introduction, three body paragraphs and a conclusion, and using topic and concluding statements, time connectives and past tense to organise their writing clearly. They will then innovate on a narrative, shaping a story through an orientation, complication and resolution while experimenting with figurative language such as similes and adverbials to create effect and bring their writing to life.

Numeracy

Our maths learning this term moves across both number and measurement, giving students plenty of variety. We will be working through multiplication and division, angles, telling time, decimals, and mass and capacity. Alongside these topics, students will keep developing their number sense and growing in confidence as flexible, capable problem-solvers.

Core Knowledge

This term we turn our attention to Managing Earth's Resources. Students will explore how we use, value and care for the resources around us, sparking some rich discussion and plenty of curiosity along the way.

Wellbeing

Through our Respectful Relationships and Happy Houses program, students will continue getting to know themselves as learners, exploring their emotions and stepping into games and scenarios that challenge them to think and respond. We will look closely at gender norms and stereotypes, and the impacts these have on young people.

Specialists

Each week students will enjoy Art, Physical Education, S.T.E.M. and Auslan (LOTE), with these areas also woven into our everyday classroom learning. Keep an eye out for the weekly MVP awards shared on Seesaw! In Digital Technologies, students will dig into the world of user interfaces, collaborating with one another as they design, build and evaluate their own interface creations and grow their technology skills along the way.

Students will not receive weekly Homework but will be expected to read for 60 minutes a week, having written this in their diary, signed by a parent and brought in by Friday. We strongly encourage all students to keep their diary in their bag and brought to school every day.

For school news and key dates please refer to the school newsletter. As always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch with your classroom teacher.

Thank you, Mr Mason, Mrs Purdon, Mr Loomes & Mrs Hughes.