Grade 3 News
📅 Important Dates & Reminders
Upcoming dates/Important Info
- Tuesday 9th December - Meet the Teacher (2026)
- Wednesday 10th December - Christmas Concert
- Friday 12th December - Meet the Teacher (2026)
- Thursday 18th December - Last day of school for students
Friday 19th December - Curriculum Day
2026 dates/Important Info
- Tuesday 27th January - Curriculum Day
- Wednesday 28th January - Curriculum Day
- Thursday 29th January - Grade 1-6 First Day of School
- Wednesday 4th February - Curriculum Day
- Thursday 5th and Friday 6th February - Preps First Day of School 9am-12.30pm
- Thursday 5th February - LPS Family Fun Night 4-6pm
Learning Reflection
📖 Literacy
Literacy
This year, students relished the opportunity to read class novels and engage in our literature units. Across the year, we read Matilda, Off We Go Around Australia, Finding Our Heart and The One and Only Ivan. Students built their text level writing skills during these units, by planning, drafting and publishing pieces including persuasives, narratives, explanations and book reports. These units also covered sentence level writing and grammar. Students participated in Fluency Partner Reading, with opportunities to reread the class novels and practise reading aloud.
Daily Word Work supported not only students’ spelling skills but also their understanding of morphology (meaning parts in words) and etymology (where words come from).
➗ Maths
This year, students engaged in many maths learning opportunities through our Maths Hooks, Maths Masters, Daily Review, Problem Solving, Number and Applied lessons.
The Number topics we covered this year were:
- Whole Number and Place Value
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Fractions
Money
The Applied units covered were:
- Length
- Data
- Location
- Area
- Mass/Capacity
- Time
- Shape
- Transformations
- Probability
- Angles
🗺️ Knowledge Rich Unit
This year, students have immersed themselves in a range of Knowledge Rich units, where they explored a range of topics and engaged in deep thinking and knowledge building. The units we covered this year were Celebrations of Different Cultures, Australia and Its Neighbours, Birth of Democracy and Movement of People through History.
Students loved learning about the celebrations that exist across different cultures and sharing their own experiences and celebrations with their peers. They enjoyed viewing maps and locating countries nearby to Australia and around the world. Students were fascinated when developing their knowledge about ancient civilisations and the ways in which people lived. They were intrigued when learning about migration paths in history and the push and pull factors that motivated or forced humans to migrate.
Wellbeing
This year, students continued to learn about friendship through Friendology. They revised and learnt new concepts and skills including the Friend-O-Meter, Friendship Facts and Quick Comebacks. Students regularly referred to Friendology language throughout the year to support them in navigating friendship challenges. Some examples of this language included friendship fires and mean-on-purpose.
In Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships, students developed their understanding of emotional literacy, personal strengths, coping strategies and gender and identity.
Events and Experiences in Grade 3
What a year we have had!
The biggest highlight of the year for many of our students was our Big Day Out Excursion, and what a day it was! Students were overjoyed during our time at Werribee Zoo and the safari bus was a definite favourite! Having a delicious lunch at Grill’d refueled everyone for our adventures at Monopoly Dreams. From a money grab game and a mug shot to a 4D cinema - it had it all!
Our School Production of Moana was another amazing event! From frequent rehearsals at school and the dedication of our choir members to the matinee and evening performances, the production was a jam-packed experience and a memory students will cherish.
Students participated in many sporting opportunities including; Cross Country, Athletics, Hoop Time, Swimming, LPS Olympics and the Downball competition.
We definitely had our fair share of dress up and celebration days and events including; Crazy Sock Day, Harmony Day, Friendship Day, Happy Hat Parade, School Disco, Book Week, PJ Dress Up Day, Sports Colours Day, Cultural Day and the Colour Run.
On behalf of the Grade 3 Teaching team, we would like to thank all of the students and families for an amazing year of learning, growth and fun memories!
We hope you all enjoy the summer break and have a Merry Christmas!
Grade 3 Team,
Mrs Rosewarne, Mrs Stokol, Miss Egorov and Miss du Vallon