Year 3 Update

The year is speeding by quick for the Year 3s of 2026! 

As we start the final term of 2026, the students of Year 3 have already launched into some exciting new learning experiences, which included a special incursion on the second day back after the holidays.

The Rethink Recycling crew brought their impressive trailer Rustie to the school and spoke to us about the importance of recycling - especially bottle lids - so they do not end up in landfill or the ocean. The students sorted, shredded and then melted the lids into a mold that ended up being a carabiner for each student. We thank everyone for donating lids so that we could enjoy this special incursion.

This incursion launched our English unit on Geography - Environment and Sustainability in which students have explored The Lorax and the importance of trees in our world. We have also looked into some non-fiction books about waste and recycling and the importance of knowing what our waste is and where it goes. The students are practising creating paragraphs after taking notes from different information sources.

In Core Literacy, the students are steadily making their way to being exposed to all of the rules, joins and letter formations of cursive handwriting. Our learning of morphemes also continues steadily and understanding the origin of words to be able to apply them in sentences.

Our students have continued to strengthen their number skills and explore new mathematical concepts. In our Measurement unit, students explored analogue and digital clocks, learning to read and represent times including quarter past, half past and quarter to the hour. They made their own clocks to help strengthen their understanding of how the hands work together to tell the time. In Number and Algebra, students developed their addition and subtraction skills by exploring strategies such as bridging to 10, split strategy, vertical equations, and compensation to solve calculations more efficiently. They tackled multi-step problems, applying their mathematical thinking to work through different steps and find solutions and created algorithms to investigate numbers and explore simple patterns. It has been wonderful to see students building their confidence and expanding their mathematical thinking and skills.

The Year 3 Team

Damian Hayes, Jess Wallace, Aliyshah Reynolds, Billie Gillespie, Kristy Hilton, Nicole Reydet, Chat Jayakody and Kira Saddington