YEAR 3

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:

• Participate in the life and mission of the school.
• Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
• Build capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
• Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
• Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.

Religious Education

3.7 Eucharist: Jesus is with us:

This unit develops students’ understanding of the celebration of the Eucharist. The unit focuses on the key parts of the Mass and explores the ways Christ is present. It presents the Mass as central to the life of the community. In sharing the Eucharist, we become one body in Christ.

3.5 Called to be Saints:

In this unit students will explore the Christian call to be saints which we all receive at our Baptism. Students will identify, in their experience, people who demonstrate holiness in love and service of others. They will also learn about the canonised saints – those whom the Church has declared saints and set before us as models of holiness. The process of canonisation will be explored.

English

This term, Year 3 will explore persuasive texts in the form of literature and speeches. These texts include Dear Mrs LaRue by Mark Teague, The Great Kopak Tree by Lynne Cherry as well as multimodal persuasive speeches. Our novel study for Term 3 is Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. The students will develop their skills in persuasive writing through a Stage 2 Public Speaking Competition. Students will follow the ‘Seven Steps of Writing’ program to compose a speech and will be taught public speaking skills. They will also be taught explicit skills in relation to reading, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary. Students will engage in the ’Sound Waves Spelling’ program, which is implemented throughout the whole school.

Mathematics

Flexible learning groups will continue this term. The activities are differentiated and the children are grouped in order to cater to their needs and abilities. The students are explicitly taught concepts from the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus. The topics taught in Term 3 include; Three Dimensional Space, Multiplication and Division, Mass, Volume and Capacity, Whole Number, Addition and Subtraction and Area. The students will continue to engage in a numeracy fluency program to develop counting patterns, as well as facts and strategies for mathematical operations.

Science and Technology

In Science and Technology, Year 3 will be exploring the Material World. Students will focus on how solids and liquids change state and the properties of natural and processed materials. Students investigate how different properties of materials affect their suitability for products.

Mandarin

Students in Kindergarten to Year 6 will continue to participate in a Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers participate in the digital learning platform via weekly Zoom sessions.

History

The unit for this term is ‘Community and Remembrance’. This topic provides a study of identity and diversity in both a local and broader context. Students explore the historical features and diversity of their community. They examine local, state and national symbols and emblems of significance, and celebrations and commemorations, both locally and in other places around the world.

Creative Arts

In Visual Arts this Term, the students will create artworks expressing ideas using the shortlisted text from Book Week, ‘The Blue Flower.’ They will engage with watercolour techniques and Visual Literacy skills to develop an artwork that will be displayed in the Library for Book Week in Week 6. Students will also create artworks around Naidoc Week using dot painting as a focus.

During Drama this Term, students will be responding to and interpreting drama experiences and performances. They will be using a variety of drama forms such as improvisation, monologues and role play to express meaning in a wide range of imagined situations.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

This term in Personal Development and Health (PDH) the children will be participating in a Peer Support program. The program is titled ‘Living Positively’ which focuses on optimism. Students will also be participating in the Healthy Harold program which will be delivered by their classroom teachers. 

In Physical Education, students will learn and develop skills in relation to team sports including Basketball, Netball, Soccer and Oztag. Students will have the opportunity to work within a team environment by encouraging and positively supporting each other throughout the skill development and game sequences and movements. Rules and scoring systems will be respected and strengthen sportsmanship among each individual student and their team.

Homework 

It is recommended that Year 3 students spend a duration of 30 minutes on Homework per day. This includes 20 minutes of reading every night. Students are required to record what was read in their School Diary each night. This Term, students will complete their Homework in a book. Some aspects of their Homework will be required to be completed on their computer. Students are to return their Homework book and diary every fortnight on a Thursday. The due date will be on the Homework sheet in the students' books. 

Miss Taylar Puskaric (3 Blue)

Miss Kathleen Kennedy (3 Gold)

Miss Melissa Flynn and Mrs Erin Wing (3 White)

Important Dates for Year

Sport

Students are required to wear their sports uniform on the following days:

3 White: Tuesday and Thursday

3 Gold:  Tuesday and Thursday

3 Blue: Tuesday and Friday

Library

3 White: Thursday

3 Gold: Friday

3 Blue: Friday

School Term - Monday, 18 July  2022 - Friday, 23 September 2022

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