Term 2!

Welcome back everyone to Term 2.  We hope you have had a lovely holiday and beautiful time with your family. In Term 1 students met their new classmates and settled into the routines of Year 3.  We are looking forward to a wonderful term of learning, collaboration and citizenship.

Homework

Weekly homework sheets are given out on Monday and are due on Friday. Worksheets are to consolidate learned concepts and should be able to be completed independently and Year 3 students are expected to prepare their fortnightly talking topics to be delivered to the class. Topics are set and students are encouraged to develop their writing skills and practise their speaking skills such as intonation and voice projection. Reading a variety of texts must be occurring regularly and be recorded in their student diaries at least 4 nights a week by the student. Weekly spelling words should also to be practised in preparation for tests, which occur on Friday. 

NAPLAN

In May, Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students will participate in NAPLAN (National Assessment Program- Literacy and Numeracy. NAPLAN is a nationwide measure through which parents, teachers, schools, education authorities, governments and the broader community can determine whether or not young Australians are developing the literacy and numeracy skills that provide the critical foundation for other learning.

NAPLAN is made up of tests in the four areas (or ‘domains’) of:

• Reading
• Writing
• Language Conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation)
• Numeracy

Students will use their computer to complete the Reading, Language Conventions and Numeracy domains and the writing test will be hand written. 

Primary Assembly Dates

Week 2 - 28 April

Week 5 - 19 May

Week 8 - 9 June commencing at 11:55am in the Hall

Warm Regards,

Year 3 Teachers - Mrs Tracee Zweck and Miss Stacey Briggs 

Mrs Tracee Zweck tzweck@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au

Miss Stacey Briggs sbriggs@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au