Year 3/4
Overview of Learning
Year 3
Welcome to all students, parents, and families in the 2025 Grade 3 Community!
It has been wonderful to see our Year 3 students settling into their new classrooms with enthusiasm and excitement. Over the past week, they have been reconnecting with friends, getting to know their teachers, and diving into new learning experiences. We are so proud of the way they have embraced the start of the year with curiosity and positivity.
Our Teaching Team This Year:
3A – Leah Telford (Classroom Teacher), Sharon Armstrong (Teacher of the Deaf Mon-Tues), & Dan Anderson (Teacher of the Deaf Wed-Fri, Grade 3 Team Leader)
3B – Nadine Park (Classroom Teacher Mon, Wed-Fri) & Marian de Ville (Tues)
3C – Gareth Harrison (Classroom Teacher)
We are excited to work alongside families to support each child in their learning journey. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us with any questions, updates, or just to say hello!
English
In Reading and Viewing, students will engage in a variety of reading activities, including modelled and independent reading, reciprocal teaching, and book clubs. They will develop comprehension strategies such as questioning, visualising, summarising, and making inferences. Students will read a range of texts, including literary works from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors, and make connections between characters’ experiences and their own. They will also learn to identify literary devices, explore text structures, and understand how different texts serve different purposes.
In Writing,students will create narrative, informative, and persuasive texts, using paragraphs to organise their ideas. They will apply phonics, spelling strategies and grammar rules, including verb tense and sentence structure. Writing activities will focus on developing ideas from literary texts, expanding vocabulary, and incorporating multimodal elements. Students will re-read and edit their work to ensure clarity, appropriate structure, and correct punctuation. They will also learn how to use topic-specific and technical vocabulary to enhance their writing.
In Speaking and Listening, students will participate in discussions, practising turn-taking and cooperative communication. They will use interaction skills to contribute to conversations, share ideas, and respond to different topics. Students will explore how language can express emotion and evaluation. When delivering spoken texts, they will focus on voice features to engage an audience. Activities will include oral presentations and opportunities to share their learning using digital or multimodal elements.
Maths
In Number and Algebra, students will explore number properties, including odd and even numbers, and develop their understanding of place value by recognising, representing, and ordering numbers beyond 10,000. They will learn to add and subtract using partitioning and regrouping strategies and explore multiplication and division through arrays and number sentences. Fractions will be introduced, with students recognising unit fractions, combining fractions with the same denominator, and representing fractions in different ways. Algebra skills will be developed by identifying patterns and using number sentences to solve for unknown values.
In Applied Mathematics (Measurement, Space, Statistics, Probability), students will work with time, estimating durations and reading analogue and digital clocks to the nearest minute. They will measure objects using familiar metric units and compare different attributes such as length, mass, and capacity. In Space, they will classify and compare objects based on key features. Statistical investigations will involve collecting and interpreting data, creating graphs, and analysing trends. Probability lessons will focus on identifying likely and unlikely events, conducting chance experiments, and discussing variations in outcomes.
Inquiry
In our Term One unit, “Who Makes the Rules?”, students will identify the different types of cultural, social, and/or religious groups they belong to, as well as how and why they participate in them. By listening to the experiences of others, they will compare their own beliefs, values, and practices with those of the classmates.
This unit provides opportunities for students to practise skills that encourage acceptance and understanding of other cultural, social, and religious groups, such as showing mutual and self-respect, engaging in respectful disagreement, avoiding jumping to conclusions, and considering situations from others’ perspectives.
Year 4
Welcome to the 2025 school year! Year 4 students are settling nicely into classes and we are looking forward to a great year of learning.
Our Year 4 teaching team in 2025 is comprised of:
4A - Natalia Robinson (Class Teacher Tuesday - Friday) and Marian de Ville (Class Teacher (Mondays) (Room 2)
4B - Georgia Biggs (Class Teacher) and Ben Godfrey (Teacher of the Deaf and Year 4 Team Leader) (Room 6)
4C - Alice Page (Class Teacher Monday - Wednesday) and Kerron Worsdell (Literacy Learning Specialist and Class Teacher - Thursday and Friday) (Room 7)
4D - Bianca Wielgosz (Room 1)
Please feel free to contact any of your children't teachers by Compass email, in person or by phone if you have any matters you need to discuss. We look forward to working with you throughout the year
Year 4 Curriculum Foci
English
In Reading and Viewing, students will differentiate between fact and opinion and the role of feelings. They will look at the language is used in formal and informal situations. Students will describe how different types of texts across the curriculum have different language features. They will use comprehension strategies, such as connecting and questioning to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and begin to evaluate texts to build literal and inferred meanings.
In Writing, students will learn to recognise similar storylines, ideas and relationships in different contexts in literary texts. They will describe the effects of text structures and language features in a range of literary texts. Students will create informative and persuasive texts using relevant, linked ideas for a range of audiences. They will re-read, revise and edit texts for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words to improve content and structure.
Through our spelling program (Spelling Mastery), students will continue to build on their knowledge of spelling patterns and generalisations, as well as strategies to make plausible attempts to spell words using syllables and morphemic knowledge.
With excitement building around 'pen licences,' students will have an ongoing focus to develop their handwriting skills. There will be a focus on using clearly formed joined letters and developing writing fluency and automaticity.
In Speaking and Listening, students will deliver structured spoken texts to an audience of their peers using features of voice. They will discuss literary texts when responding to and sharing opinions. Students will understand how social interactions influence the way people engage with ideas and respond to others.
Maths
In Number and Algebra, students will recognise and extend the application of place value to tenths and hundredths and use the conventions of decimal notation to name and represent decimals. They will investigate number sequences involving multiples of 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 (times tables). Students will find unknown values in numerical equations involving addition and subtraction, using the properties of numbers and operations.
In Applied Mathematics (Measurement, Space, Statistics, Probability) students will collect data to address a question of interest or purpose using digital tools. They will represent data using many-to-one pictographs, column graphs and other displays or visualisations. They will analyse and interpret the information that has been created. Students will create grid reference systems and directions to locate and describe positions and pathways. Students will estimate and compare angles including acute, obtuse, straight and reflex angles and explore the revolution of shapes.
Inquiry
In our Term One unit, “Who Makes the Rules?”, students will identify the different types of cultural, social, and/or religious groups they belong to, as well as how and why they participate in them. By listening to the experiences of others, they will compare their own beliefs, values, and practices with those of the classmates.
This unit provides opportunities for students to practise skills that encourage acceptance and understanding of other cultural, social, and religious groups, such as showing mutual and self-respect, engaging in respectful disagreement, avoiding jumping to conclusions, and considering situations from others’ perspectives.