Year 3

Year 3 February Newsletter 2025

Welcome to Year 3!

The Year 3 students have had an amazing start to the year. They have settled into their classes, making new friends and memories already. We are very excited for the year ahead! Here is a little bit of what we have been learning about so far.

Literacy

In Writing, we have been reviewing what we know about Narratives. Students have been exploring how we use noun groups, one to two adjectives, to include additional detail about the characters, places and things in the story. They have also been developing their sentences, learning about how to expand a simple sentence by adding who, what, when, where, or why. 

In Knowledge, students have enjoyed learning about Ancient Rome. They have explored how Rome began and became an empire. They have explored the way Ancient Rome ran their government and key historical figures and events. They showed particular interest in Julius Caesar and his accomplishments. 

Numeracy 

We have had a fabulous start to Numeracy this term by learning about place value for 5 digit numbers. We have been recognising, partitioning and renaming 5 digit numbers. We have also practised writing numbers in words and using the place value chart to explain how many numbers there are for each value. For example, how many thousands in the number 12,738. 

We have loved exploring the difference between two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes, and identifying objects in our classroom environment that have a length, width and depth. We are practising how to identify the features of three-dimensional shapes, including the faces, edges and vertices. Our favourite part was when we were able to get hands-on and create some three-dimensional shapes of our own!

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

GPPS is proud to announce that we will be using The Resilience Project (TRP) again this year. TRP is committed to teaching positive mental health strategies to prevent mental ill-health and build young people’s capacity to deal with adversity. Teachers and students will engage in weekly lessons and activities around the key principles of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness (GEM), and Emotional Literacy to build resilience. Students each have a TRP journal that they work out of and track positive habits. We cannot wait to share what we have been practising. 

Auslan

Students have begun their second year of learning Auslan. It has been remarkable to see how much they have enjoyed getting back into these lessons. They have remembered a lot of signs from last year and this year aims to review and build upon last year's content. So far students have revisited greetings and learnt about how to sign breakfast food.