Year 3 Update

Welcome back to Term 3!

We hope all of our families had a relaxing and enjoyable break. We are looking forward to another exciting term filled with engaging learning experiences, including our upcoming excursion to Healesville Sanctuary. Thank you for your continued support, we can't wait to see all the wonderful learning and growth this term will bring!

Kindness Campaign

This term, Hillsmeade has launched a school-wide Kindness Campaign, encouraging students to be kind to others and themselves while living our school value of Kindness. Throughout the term, students will have opportunities to reflect on the kind words and actions they have shown each day and learn how even small acts of kindness can make a positive difference to those around them.

To celebrate these positive behaviours, teachers will award raffle tickets to students who are "caught" showing kindness in the playground. These tickets will be entered into the Kindness Campaign draw, with students having the chance to win a canteen voucher.

We are excited to celebrate the many acts of kindness we know our Year 3 students will show this term. We encourage you to continue these conversations at home by asking your child how they demonstrated kindness each day and how their actions made a positive difference to someone else.

Our Learning 

English

• Students are exploring Strangers on Country to build their understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and Australia's history. 
• Students are recalling key information, identifying important facts, writing from a character's perspective through a diary entry, and creating an informative texts using evidence from the story.
• Students learnt the meaning of the prefix trans- and suffix -ish, and how they change the meaning of a base word.

Maths

• Students explored a range of subtraction strategies by identifying place value patterns, estimating answers and explaining their mathematical thinking.
• Students developed confidence using subtraction strategies, including jumping back and finding the difference on open number lines.

SEL

• This term, students are focusing on Topic 8- Positive Gender Relationships of the Respectful Relationships lessons. 

• Students will explore:

  -Developing respectful relationships with others.

  -Understanding empathy and perspective-taking.

  -Recognising respectful communication.

  -Working collaboratively and resolving conflict fairly.

  -Appreciating diversity and inclusion within their community.

Inquiry

• Students learned how environments provide the resources people need and explored the different types of vegetation found across Australia. They then applied their learning during a fieldwork investigation, observing, recording and describing vegetation and natural features in our local area.

Events and Reminders

Home work - A friendly reminder that students have a reading log and their multiplication charts in their homework books. It is an expectation that they read their fluency passages and practise their timestables at home, bringing their book in to be checked by their teacher on the designated day.

Swimming - Year 3 students will be doing swimming on Wednesdays in Weeks 2, 3, 4 and 5 this term. A reminder that students need to come dressed in their bathers under their school clothes, and to bring their towels, spare underwear and goggles (optional) in a separate bag with a bag for their wet clothes to go into.

Healesville Sanctuary Excursion - Our excursion to Healesville is coming up soon! Friday the 7th of August.Please make sure to check compass for details as students are required to be at school earlier than usual to be on the bus on time. 

Hillsmeade Heroes

3A: Narjis & Zoran

3C: Brittany-Ann & Renee

3D: Brody & Spencer

Celebration of our learning