FIRST EUCHARIST - Important Information

Days of Eucharist Celebrations

Sunday, 4 August 2024 at 10.30 am - Our Lady of Good Counsel Church
Sunday, 11 August 2024 at 5.00 pm - Our Lady of Good Counsel Church

We hope you have all had a restful, peaceful holiday break. We are very much looking forward to the exciting experiences Term 3 will bring.

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3/4 Teaching Team 2024

Please see below our overview of Term Three.

TERM THREE IMPORTANT DATES
Friday 19th July	Opening of Term 3 Mass 9:15 am	Friday 30th August	Father’s Day Stall
Monday 29th July	First Eucharist Reflection Day at Templestowe	Tuesday 10th September	District Athletics
Thursday 1st August	Year 3/4 District Basketball	Friday 13th September	Sacrament Year 5/6 Confirmation Mass
Sunday 4th August	First Eucharist Mass	Wednesday 18th September	Madagascar Production at Genazzano End of Term Mass at 9.15am
Friday 9th August	Year 3-4 Girls Siena Aspire Program	Thursday 19th September	Madagascar Production at Genazzano
Monday 19th August	Book Week (Till the 23rd August 2024).	Friday 20th September	Last day of Term 3

Religious Education

In Religious Education this term, both the students, school staff and the parish community are all very excited to support the celebration and sacrament of the FIrst Communion. We will continue to unpack the order of the mass, and the importance of the sacraments as we lead up to the celebration for our Year 4 students. We will also be looking at how we, in a catholic school, interpret the world through a lens of relationship with the sacred. The students will reflect on relationships with God, self, others and creation.

Inquiry

The Term 3 Inquiry Unit is developed around Digital Technology. Our big question is: How can digital technology enrich our lives? Student’s will discover a range of digital systems with peripheral devices for different purposes, and use digital technology to explain how student-developed solutions and existing information systems meet common personal, school or community needs.

Literacy-

In Literacy students will continue to unpack mentor texts as a whole class. Using these texts students will build their understanding of how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose, audience and context, including tense and types of sentences. Using Heggarty, students will be practising how to apply knowledge of letter–sound relationships, and blending and segmenting to read and use more complex words with less common consonant and vowel clusters. Students will continue to plan, draft and publish imaginative and informative texts demonstrating their increasing knowledge of text structures and language features.

Mathematics-

This term, students will begin by completing their unit on statistics and data displays. Using digital technology, students will be exploring data representation and asking questions to analyse their findings. We will then continue developing our knowledge of Number and Algebra through multiplication and division. Students will be unpacking various strategies they can use to assist with solving equations, and ways to record their reasoning and understanding. Students will then begin exploring geometry, creating and measuring both 2D and 3D shapes.

Assemblies

Assemblies will continue to be held at 8:50 am in the morning on Fridays, for the remainder of 2024.

Homework Expectations

This term we will continue implementing homework tasks. Students will be given a literacy and mathematics task to complete. We advise students to complete approximately 20 minutes of homework each night. Student’s will go through their homework and the requirements on Thursday in class. They will take their homework books home with the required instructions on Friday, to be completed over the weekend and the course of the week. Homework is then due back Thursdays. Students will all have access to the instructions via Google Classroom, as well as the printed copy which will be pasted into their homework books.