Year 3 - Middle Unit

It has been a busy fortnight in Year 3, with students taking part in a wide range of classroom and extra-curricular activities.

In both Reading and Writing, students have been focusing on information reports. They have been exploring key features such as labelled diagrams, timelines and glossaries, as well as discussing how these elements help to educate the reader. Students are now learning about famous scientists throughout history and will use this knowledge to complete a biography. These biographies will be presented as informative posters, completed at school. Later in the term, we will invite parents and carers into the classroom to view the projects and discuss each student’s chosen scientist and the impact of their discoveries on the world we live in.

In Maths, students have begun a unit on adding and subtracting large numbers. This builds on their learning from last term, with a greater emphasis on written rather than mental strategies. Students will be introduced to a range of methods for solving problems, enabling them to choose approaches that suit them best and improve the efficiency and accuracy of their calculations.

Our Inquiry topic this term is science-based, focusing on the forces that act on us in everyday life. This unit includes a variety of hands-on experiments exploring concepts such as gravity, friction, and push and pull forces. It will culminate in students working collaboratively to design and build a marble run, with the challenge of making their marble travel as slowly as possible by increasing friction to slow momentum.

Last Thursday, the whole school participated in the WPS Cross Country. Well done to Ivy, Avianna, Violet, Sonny, Billy and Otto on qualifying for the CDSSA Cross Country Championships at Hanging Rock next Tuesday, the 5th of May.

Year 3 Teachers

Mark Condon (3MC), Nathan Spilsted (3NS), Louise Safstrom/Emma Beaumont (3SB)