Year 3/4

Welcome back families to what will be a fantastic, fun filled Term 4. Students have arrived in class super charged and ready to take on the last term of 2025.

Literacy

This term, students have been using their holiday bags as inspiration to write recounts about their holidays. On our first day back, students eagerly shared the contents of their holiday bags with friends. The contents of these holiday bags has greatly supported students in generating ideas and writing interesting  recounts. Students have started reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as their Novel Study. Over the next few weeks, they will be revisiting and practising the comprehension strategies of clarifying, summarising, visualising and inferring through a variety of engaging activities to enhance their overall understanding of the text. These activities will support students in becoming more thoughtful and 

 independent readers. Students have been diving deep into the characters, using the text as evidence to identify character traits and create some of the characters that Roald Dahl himself would be proud of.

In writing this term, students have been learning about the structure and features of recounts and will be following the writing process of drafting, editing and publishing their recounts. We have also started exploring different forms of poetry. Students will be reading and  writing a variety of poems such as haiku, acrostic, free verse, cinquain and diamante poems, experimenting with rhythm, repetition, poetic and figurative language and the different poem structures.

Maths

This term, students have been engaging in place value revision through a range of hands-on games designed to make learning fun and interactive. These activities encourage students to manipulate numbers, strengthen their understanding of how digits change value depending on their position, and apply this knowledge to problem-solving tasks. Alongside this, students have been exploring a variety of rules, involving the 4 operations, to create and continue number patterns. They are learning to recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction as inverse operations and find unknown values in number sentences. Next week, students will begin to explore chance and probability, where they will investigate likelihood, make predictions, and conduct simple experiments to analyse outcomes.

Humanities

During Humanities this term, students will learn about Personal, Social and Community Health. They will engage in topics such as strengthening resilience, identity,  how we can interact respectfully with others, inclusion, diversity, stereotypes and health information in the community. Through a range of collaborative activities, students will learn the importance of communication and teamwork and will understand that valuing diversity and being inclusive, influences our wellbeing.

Reading Cinemas Experience

During our first week back, students were excited to visit the Reading Cinemas and share their film project that they created in Media Arts in term 3 with Mr Smith. The popcorn was warm and buttery and enjoyed, whilst we watched some future superstars, editors and directors in the making.

Dates to remember

Curriculum Day - 3rd November

Melbourne Cup Day -  4th November

Assembly - 7th November

Dental Van - 17th - 21st November