Year 3
Yearly Overview

ENGLISH

In Year 3, the students build on knowledge and understandings gained in the Early Years. They participate in a variety of activities designed to enhance their abilities to read and comprehend text in a variety of genres. Explicit teaching provided by teachers scaffolds their learning. Skills covered include reading aloud, summarising and visualising and performing to the class through ‘Readers’ Theatre’.

The students practise writing in a variety of genres including narrative, procedural, persuasive and informative texts, and letter writing. Explicit teaching includes grammar, punctuation, spelling and writing in paragraphs.

There are opportunities for students to research information and report back to the class in the form of individual and group projects and five-minute speeches to the class.

MATHEMATICS

Mathematics is an integral part of the students’ learning and is explicitly taught and integrated throughout the curriculum. In Year 3, our students focus on adding to their knowledge of number counting patterns and the four processes (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). The algorithms for each of these processes are taught and the learning of multiplication tables begins. Students use digital technologies such as ‘Study Ladder’ and ‘Mathletics’ to enhance their learning. The measurement of length, area, capacity, volume, time and temperature using formal units is taught in Year 3 as are the concepts of chance/probability and the use of graphs to represent data.

INQUIRY

The students will experience four different Inquiry units throughout the year. These include the concepts of ‘Change’, ‘Connections‘, “Processes’ and ‘Significance’. Excursions include visits to the Swinburne University Astro Tour, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Rippon Lea Estate. The students also enjoy an incursion during which they build billy carts (a focus on simple machines and the use of basic tools). We incorporate the ‘6Cs’ (critical thinking, collaboration, citizenship, creativity, communication and character) as we work through each concept.