What a fantastic start to the term we are having in Year 3. The students have been engaging with the Prayer of the Rosary with such commitment and reverence. We are learning how each of the mysteries are linked to the rosary and why they have been included. Also in Religion we are looking at the many faces and names of Jesus. It feels like the list could go on forever but what a man he was to gain so many titles.

In our writing lessons we are making great gains in improving our language features for our procedural texts. There has been a talented mix of vocabulary that the students didn’t think they could use to make procedural texts interesting.

Our Math lessons have been focused around fractions and some work on chance. Making predictions and then performing a monitored learning event has been insightful. The students are realising that sometimes our predictions are not always correct and there is no certainty in some events. When looking at maps, we are becoming very familiar with our continents and oceans as well as our Australian borders.

Our Science lessons about heat are starting to get ‘deeper surface level knowledge’ with us moving towards understanding the creation process of heat and how it can change.

With Daniel Morcombe Day it is important that our students understand the safe and unsafe actions and feelings that they might experience or be exposed to. The lessons around this has clarified what we need to do when we get in a situation we are not sure of.

With a lot of sickness around and some of us having time out for personal reasons, our attendance has dropped significantly. We only have 55% of our students attending 95% or more of the time this past fortnight. With only 5 weeks to go we need to make every day count.