Year 3

It has been a wild ride this term! 

The students have been working in overdrive completing all their set tasks and displaying their learned skills in final assessments. We have had a huge range of extracurricular activities including the Phillip Island Adventure Camp, Science Day rotating between the Year 3 classrooms, Bike Ed., Food Science, the Year 3 assembly item and finally our Christmas concert performance. It’s been great to break up such a hard-working term with some memorable moments. The students have loved being a part of all these activities and shown tremendous enthusiasm, resilience, teamwork and just pure joy!

In Maths this term we have focused on two major areas, A. Fractions, and B. Refining our use of the four operations. The children really enjoyed the hands on approach to fractions and exploring the topic using manipulatives, whereas, the maths drills have produced some of the quietest, most hard working classes of the year. Students work against a timer to set out their workbooks correctly before solving a range of addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems. It’s great to see how much they enjoy this and their internal reward for completing the sums is obvious!

In English, it’s been all about creativity. We worked so hard to improve the quality of our narratives and didn’t that show in our final Cold Write! Mr. Embling absolutely loved reading the students final pieces which included adjectives, great humour, some whacky storylines and even some clear cursive handwriting. We’ve also explored poetry in a number of forms and as the year has come to a close, we have been reading scripts aloud, performing and even created a puppet show!

I’d just like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to you the parents. Your children have really tried hard this year and I cannot fault their efforts! We have all laughed, cried, smiled and supported each other the whole way through. It has been a memorable year and I know the students will continue to have success in their future’s.