Year 3 - Curriculum Outline   

 Term 3, 2025

ENGLISH

MATHEMATICS

INQUIRY

Reading

Term 3 focused on building students’ reading fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary skills through a range of engaging texts.

We read Matilda together as a class novel, using it to develop prediction, inferencing, and discussion skills. Students completed weekly comprehension activities based on their fluency readings, strengthening their ability to locate and interpret key information.

We also practised and reinforced specific phonics patterns, including the sounds /or/, /h/, and /m/, applying them in both reading and writing contexts.

This term provided opportunities for students to enjoy literature, refine their reading accuracy, and deepen their understanding of text structures and language features.

Writing

This term we have begun practicing sentence structure and learning different types of sentences. We are currently learning how to construct a sequenced narrative by following the mountain structure. The order of this is an introduction, action, problem, resolution and conclusion. Then, we will construct our narratives and write them as a good copy on lined paper.  

Number

In Number, students will learn that fractions are equal parts of a whole through comparing different fractions and placing them on a number line.  We will review our understanding about multiplication before exploring division and how to solve problems using different strategies. We will finish the term learning about money and how it can be represented in different ways.

Non-Number

Students will learn about the geometric properties of three-dimensional objects. We will also be constructing three-dimensional shapes using nets.

Then students will examine measurement. They will compare objects using  metric units of  mass and capacity. The last topic will be chance. Students will be gathering and recording data in a variety of ways.

In third term students will be exploring what makes Australia special through our history and geographical features.  We will use different tools to locate special places located in Australia and how Australia has changed over time.  Students will learn about Australia’s history and the impact it has had on different people including indigenous people.

WELLBEING

During Wellbeing this term, we will be focusing on Resilience, they will look at scaling stressful events and strategies to use when we are stressed. Students will look at what strategies work for themselves in different situations.

DIGITECH

For Term 3, our Year 3 students will be diving into the world of Digital Technologies through a series of exciting lessons focused on how we represent information. We'll start by becoming secret agents, exploring cryptography through simple codes and ciphers. Students will learn to encode and decode messages, understanding that data can be represented in many different ways. This will lead us into a fascinating look at how symbols represent information, specifically by exploring Braille and creating our own Braille-inspired messages. Later in the term, we'll discover how technology uses unique patterns by creating and using QR codes to link to information. We'll conclude the term with a hands-on data collection project, where students will work in groups to collect and analyse data on school rubbish, learning to use tools like Excel to represent our findings digitally with graphs and charts.