YEAR THREE

Religious Education

Jesus the Teacher and Healer.

This unit explores the importance of Jesus’ ministry of teaching and healing. Through Scripture, students explore stories where Jesus taught people how to live their lives modelled on his example. Students will learn how Jesus taught us how to pray and give thanks to God. Students will develop an understanding of how Jesus showed his love for us by reflecting on his life, death and Resurrection.

Holy Week

The Liturgical Year units enable students to explore the traditions, beliefs, Scripture and events celebrated by the Catholic community throughout the Liturgical Year and especially during the time of Advent to Christmas, Lent to Holy Week and Easter to Pentecost.

English

This Term, the students will gain a greater understanding of the textual concepts of narrative and characterisation. Through the study of the text Fantastic Mr Fox, students will explore how narratives set up expectations for the reader using predictable structure and familiar characters and situations. Students will analyse excerpts of the text and use these as the basis for their innovation. Students will also plan, draft and revise a narrative sequel to Fantastic Mr Fox using an orientation, complication and resolution structure.

Mathematics

The students are explicitly taught concepts from the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus. Students will participate in differentiated activities tailored to their individual learning needs. The topics taught in Term 1: 

The students will also take part in daily review activities to help consolidate their knowledge and understanding. 

Science and Technology

In the unit Grow and Survive, students explore how living things grow, change, and survive. They identify and classify living and non‑living things, and group living things based on their characteristics and external features. Students investigate the life cycle of plants through a hands‑on scientific investigation and study the life cycle of chickens using video footage.

Students learn how life cycles support the survival of species and examine how living things depend on each other and their environment, including pollination and food chains. They explore how agricultural processes help produce food and fibre, comparing traditional and modern technologies using accessible digital tools.

The unit concludes with a STEM Design Challenge, where students design and create a product, system, or environment that supports the growth or survival of a chosen living thing, applying the design process to plan, build, test, and evaluate their solution.

Geography

The Geography unit for this Semester is ‘Places are Similar and Different’. Students examine the natural and human features of Australia and the diverse characteristics of neighbouring countries. They will explore different climates, settlement patterns and demographic characteristics and use this information to imagine what it would be like to live in different places. Students consider how people’s perceptions of places are the basis for action to protect places and environments. 

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

During sport this term, students will participate in a range of games and sports with a primary focus on developing their skills and building self-confidence. Throughout the unit, students will have many opportunities to refine their Fundamental Movement Skills and apply them through a variety of activities and rotations. Students will also practise these skills in real game scenarios. The focus of these games is to develop teamwork, communication, strategic thinking, and resilience.

Important Sports dates:

Cross Country - 20th March, Friday - Week 8 

Open Parachute will continue to be implemented K-6. Open Parachute aims to provide practical support for mental health to students. The program aims to reduce stigma and generate authentic dialogue in classrooms about the real issues students face. The psychological skills-building exercises aim to increase empathy, self-compassion, self-awareness, mental health literacy, and self-efficacy in students.

Amadeus Music Program

Students will participate in the Amadeus Music Education Program and participate in activities in listening, performing and organising sound within their regular Classroom Music lessons. 

• It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that they:

  • Arrive on time for each lesson

  • Bring their instrument and required accessories to every lesson

  • Bring their Essential Elements* music book

  • Bring a lead pencil and eraser

Creative Arts

This Term, in Visual Art, we will use drawing materials and techniques to create effects with texture and tone and investigate printmaking processes to create rubbings and repeated prints. Year Three will explore artmaking practices and protocols of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander artists to understand how Cultural ideas are expressed.

In Art Appreciation, students will describe how signs and symbols such as objects, words and colours are used to influence meaning in artworks. We will focus on Aboriginal Dreamtime stories and the work of Henri Rousseau. 

In Creative Arts with Mr Parlato, Stories, Myths and Legends uses folk tales, fables and other stories as inspiration for learning. Students create, explore and appreciate a range of art forms while continuing to develop their skills in Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts. This term also marks the introduction of the Amadeus program, where every student begins learning to play a musical instrument with a tutor and performs as part of an ensemble.

Homework 

It is recommended that Year 3 students spend up to 30 minutes on homework per day, including at least 15 minutes of reading on four nights each week. Students are required to record their daily reading in their School Diary, which should be brought to school each day as an important communication tool between home and school.

Homework will be sent home each Tuesday and is due every Monday. A Homework Book will be used to complete set tasks across Reading, Spelling, Mathematics and Religion throughout the year. Please ensure your child has completed their homework and that reading has been recorded and checked at home.

Topic Talks will be presented every three weeks. Students will prepare a 1–2 minute speech at home on a given topic. Speeches should be written by the student, with support and guidance encouraged. Please help your child remember their palm cards on their allocated day.

Mrs Jolene Cullen (M,T,W) and Mrs Tayla Waters (Th,F)  (3Blue)

Mrs Alison Bofinger (M,T,W,Th) and Mrs Carly Beaven (F) (3Gold)

Mr Michael Faber (M,T,W,F) and Mrs Rebecca Kokineli (Th) (3White)

Important Dates for Year Three

Music & Library

Music class lessons and Library Day for Year 3 are on Wednesdays every odd week. Students will have the opportunity to borrow books from our school library. Please ensure your child brings their Library Bag to school on this day.

Sport 

Sport day will be on Wednesdays. 

Students are to wear their sports uniform on this day.

Thursdays - Amadeus Lessons. Students must bring their instruments and music book to and from school on this day only.

NAPLAN : Week 7 - 11th March - 23rd March.

2026 - School Term 1

 Please refer to the Parent Calendar at this link to confirm dates

Dates may have changed after publishing this bulletin.