Year 3
Welcome to Year 3 2025! Term 1 is going to be filled with plenty of exciting learning experiences. Soon we will begin working hard to become the best independent and organised workers that we can be. In Year 3, there will be new and exciting routines to help us learn. We are looking forward to speaking with many of you at the
Three-Way Sharing Sessions later this term as we appreciate the learning partnership between school and home. If you have questions, concerns or suggestions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Classroom Teachers
2/3D - Madie Daglish mdagl3@eq.edu.au
3A - Sue Anglim sangl1@eq.edu.au
3H - Ken Hoey khoey0@eq.edu.au
Important Dates
Week 1 – Monday: Australia Day Public Holiday; Tuesday: Term 1 begins; Friday: Senior Swimming Carnival
Week 2 – P.E. Swimming begins
Week 3 – Tuesday:'Chin-wag and a snag'- Meet the Teacher Afternoon
Week 7 – NAPLAN
Week 8 – NAPLAN; Three-Way Sharing Sessions
Week 9 – Monday: Cross Country
Week 10 – Friday 4th April: Last day of term
Specialist Lessons
Monday – Religious Instruction, Parade
Tuesday – Junior Choir (All), Motor skills (All), Music (2/3D)
Thursday – Music (3A, 3H), Health (3A, 3H), PE Swimming (2/3D)
Friday - PE Swimming (3A, 3H), Health (2/3D)
Curriculum Focus
Please click here for a very handy overview of what Year 3 students typically learn to understand and do by the end of this year, according to the Australian Curriculum which guides all our learning.
English
Students will engage with a variety of imaginative texts. They will interact with others, and will create multimodal texts and spoken presentations. Students will use language features including topic-specific vocabulary, visual features and features of voice.
Students will create and deliver a multimodal presentation to review an imaginative text.
Mathematics
Students will interpret and create two-dimensional representations of familiar and unfamiliar environments. They conduct guided statistical investigations and record, represent and compare data they have collected.
Students will interpret and create a map. They will collect data to create, interpret and compare data displays including bar graphs and pictographs.
Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)
Students will identify celebrations and commemorations of the past that have significance in the present.
Students will conduct an inquiry into the significance of Harmony Day and how it is commemorated by different groups. They will pose questions, sequence events on a timeline and identify points of view. Students will identify and describe aspects of the Runcorn State School Community that have changed and remained the same over time.
Science
Students will learn how to group living things and identify the differences between living non-living things.
Students will group living things based on observable features and communicate their ideas using scientific language.
The Arts
Students will investigate Media Arts techniques and concepts to create a variety of animations.
Students will collaborate to plan and make artworks that communicate ideas through the creation of digital animations.
Music with Mrs Murray: amurr51@eq.edu.au
Students will sing, read, play and create part work. Students will study music notation (Pentatonic Scale) and learn music in a variety of different time signatures.
Students will perform a Pentatonic melody on melodic percussion (Xylophone and other tuned percussion).
Health with Mrs Stirling: sstir16@eq.edu.au
Students will explore and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies in various online and offline situations, investigate actions that promote health, safety, relationships, and wellbeing, and examine how success, challenges, and setbacks build resilience and identity. They will also analyse how stereotypes influence choices and actions.
Student assessment will focus on their ability to demonstrate protective behaviours, apply help-seeking strategies, assess actions that promote health and wellbeing, reflect on how resilience and identity are shaped by challenges, and critically analyse the impact of stereotypes on choices and actions.
PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au
Students will practise and refine fundamental movement skills to perform various aquatic skills and the recognised strokes of freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke in multiple swimming sequences.
Students perform aquatic skills and recognised swimming strokes to complete swimming stroke sequences.