FPS Newsletter

Year 3 Spotlight

Team Building Incursion

As part of our ongoing inquiry into making a positive contribution to our community, students took part in an exciting incursion focused on developing essential teamwork and personal skills. 

 

Through a rotation of engaging challenges, students explored communication, problem-solving, resilience, and leadership in action. Importantly, students were guided to reflect on their individual strengths and how these helped their teams succeed—deepening their understanding of what it means to make a positive impact within a community.

  • We did a challenge called the Octopus and we had to work together to get the ball in the bucket. ~ Zoe R, 3A
  • I really liked the floor is lava challenge. It was fun making the bridges and moving them from one spot to the other. ~  - Max M, 3A
  • I liked how we got to do really fun games and work together and help each other a lot. It was loads of fun! ~ Beau H, 3B
  • We got to work together as a team. It was very exciting, and I think the moral of the incursion was that working together makes everything easier. ~ Luke S, 3B
  • It was fun doing things in teams. The challenges were easier when we were giving each other nice words. ~ Sia K, 3B
  • I really enjoyed the blaze pod challenge. ~ Maggie M, 3C
  • I really enjoyed how much you have to really work as a team to complete the challenges. ~ Lawson M, 3C
  • There were lots of surprises and challenges, I had so much fun! ~ Stella FW, 3C

 

Writing

Students have begun exploring the unique features and genres of graphic novels.

 

Through reading and discussion, they are discovering how authors and illustrators use a combination of images, layout, and selective word choice to tell engaging and meaningful stories. As part of this unit, students will plan and create their own graphic novels, with a strong focus on developing narrative through carefully chosen dialogue and text. To support this creative process, they will also take part in a special incursion led by a professional cartoonist (Brett Cardwell from Cardytoons) who will guide them in bringing their main characters to life through expressive illustration and design.

  • I’m feeling excited to create my own graphic novel with different characters. ~ Ava R, 3A
  • I like drawing the characters and being able to make them talk using speech bubbles and thought bubbles. ~ Hazel K, 3A
  • I’ve loved writing random comic strips. ~ Milo G, 3B
  • I liked how we only had three panels to write in, which made it hard but also fun.  - Maddie U, 3B
  • I learnt that you can use sound effects to make it interesting. ~ Elke G, 3B
  • I love writing, it is my favourite subject, we do lots of great activities. ~  Evie C, 3C
  • I have enjoyed learning about graphic novels, and I can’t wait to make my own. ~ Audrey A,3C
  • I enjoy doing cold writes to see how I am going with my writing. ~ Sam D, 3C
Graphic novel features
Graphic novel features

 

Numeracy – Statistics

For the first two weeks of term, Year 3 students were learning all about gathering, displaying and interpreting data. We explored the different types of graphs we can use to display data, practised reading and interpreting different graphs, all before embarking on our own data journey. 

 

We designed and refined a data collection question related to science, sustainability, or the environment and then surveyed our classmates, recording our findings in a tally. We then learnt to hand draw a bar graph before exploring using ICT to create a digital bar graph. We then used our graphs to write ‘true statements’ about our findings and displayed all of this work on our Data Project Posters. Have a look at some of them below.

  • It was fun making the graph on the computer and I liked choosing the colours of the columns. ~ Billie C, 3A
  • I liked asking people what their favourite animal was, then making the graph on the computer. It was loads of fun. ~ Millie G, 3A
  • It was very fun getting to know other people’s opinions. poppy – Poppy P, 3B
  • It was fun to think about your survey topic and options. ~ Charlotte M, 3B
  • I liked when I got to see what my graph looked like on the computer. ~ Lenny B, 3B
  • It was really fun surveying everyone in our grade and then making the graph on the computer. ~ Luna L, 3C
  • I really liked collecting data and learning how to make graphs on the laptops. ~ Edie W, 3C

 

~ Year 3 Teachers (Sophie, Emilia, Millie & Monique) and Students