Year 3 - Archive
Year 3 - Archive
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THURSDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2025
Although it has been a short week, Year 3 has been a hive of activity.
Thank you to all parents for joining us for PTCs this week. It was great to be able to meet you all in person and share how well your children have settled into the start of the Year.
In English, we were lucky to experience Mr Matt's retelling of The Stone Trolls. Please ask your child to retell this to you. It is such a fabulous story, with ambitious vocabulary that the children will be learning and using in their own writing soon! We have a wonderful year group of aspiring actors (including some of our teachers!), and it has been great to see this story come to life.
In Maths, we have continued with our understanding of place value and discovered the possibilities when changing these values. What numbers can be created if we move our Hundreds? Tens? or Ones?
In Science, our Rocks topic is in full swing. We are becoming excellent observers of materials (rocks) and can use our scientific vocabulary to describe them.
In Humanities, our 'Quest' unit continues with exploring how goods were transported from Asia to Europe. Our students are excellent investigators and have been using Google Earth to discover different terrains and answer questions such as: What transport would you use to get there? Would this transport change? What is the weather like in the countries you are going to? Would this impact your choices?
In Art & Design, we began learning the techniques of watercolour painting and their different effects. We learnt about the techniques 'wet on wet' and 'wet on dry'. The children then chose which technique they liked the most and were able to explain why using their artistic vocabulary.
As always, it has been a joy watching our Year 3 students soak up the many learning and social opportunities they have here at ISP.
Ms Sarah and the Year 3 Teachers
CCAs
All CCAs begin next week.
As shared by Ms Sharon in her Newsletter, dismissal after CCAs is by collection from the Ground Floor Playground by the Primary office. This is for all children unless they have an exit pass or they are on a JPR bus.
CLASS PARENTS
Thank you to all of the fabulous parents of Year 3 who came together to represent their child's class as the Parent rep. We can't wait to work with you all this year!
LEGENDARY LEARNERS
Congratulations to our wonderful Legendary Learners for the first week of term:
3CW - Joon - for being extra helpful and attentive.
3SB - Rayyan - for your wonderful self-portrait.
3LC - Zoe - for being kind and creative, showing lots of enthusiasm for learning.
3MD - Maya - for contributing to class discussions sharing your fantasic ambitious vocabulary.
3SH - George - for thinking critically and refelcting on your work.
3MM- Joel - for his confidence in learning and always trying his best (especially in his frame freeze frame!)
ARRIVAL AND DISMISSAL REMINDERS
Arrival
Doors open at 7:30 a.m. Children are welcome to enjoy supervised play in the ground-floor playground before 7:55am. All children must be in classrooms by 7:55am.
Dismissal
Year 1: 2:45 p.m.
Years 2 & 3: 2:50 p.m.
Years 4–6: 2:55 p.m.
The pick-up lane in the new car park is open, with children brought down by 3:00 p.m. Any children not collected by 3:15 p.m. will be taken to the Primary Office.
Siblings
Older siblings will always dismiss from the area of their youngest sibling.
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
Due to Public Holidays, school will be closed on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th September.
STUDENT LEADERSHIP
A reminder that Year 3 teachers and their classes will be listening to the children's leadership speeches for Sustainability and Student Council roles on Tuesday 9th September. Here is the summary of our student leadership opportunities to view.
FRIDAY 29TH AUGUST 2025
Our Year 3 students have continued their enthusiasm from week 1 into week 2 with a strong start to all of our units.
In English, we took inspiration from a stormy sea picture to generate exciting vocabulary to use in our own setting descriptions. Thank you to Ms Laetitia for planning a well-received and extremely fun drama lesson. Our Year 3's really know how to express their emotions and show what it was like to be on the stormy seas!
In Maths, we have begun our place value unit. What is the value of our ones, tens and hundreds and how can we use this knowledge and understanding to help us with addition? The students were very excited to point out Mr Scotty's 'mistakes' in his 'How to present our work in books' lesson and were great at offering solutions to make it more presentable. We hope this carries through in our students' own workbooks!
In Science, our classes have started our Rocks unit. Learning about the properties of materials and having this language developed has helped them in their own rock investigations. Describing the properties of rocks and where they might find the different types.
In Humanities, our Quest unit has explored where we come from in the world and the journeys it our families took to get here. We ended the week with a great 'trading' lesson where they discovered the very beginnings of trading and how it was one of the first ways of connecting global communities. We have some very strong and convincing 'traders' in Year 3.
In Art & Design we learnt all about colour theory, how and why artists chose the colours they did and how it makes us, as the viewers, feel about them. There were some very interesting student responses to the artwork. Please ask your child about this, as they were fantastic 'gallery walkers' and we enjoyed their expressive discussions.
A huge thank you to parents for your continued support for your child's first few weeks back at school. Year 3 is an exciting year, and the teachers have been buzzing at the end of each day when sharing their students' successes.
Ms Sarah and the Year 3 Teachers
CCA START DATES
On Tuesday 2nd September all paid CCAs start.
Monday 8th September - Teacher led CCAs start.
SETTLING IN CONFERENCES
We look forward to seeing you next week for the Settling In Conferences. Please note that these are an opportunity for you to share information with the class teacher about your child, and for them to let you know how they are settling into the new class. As it is so early in the term, the teachers will not be discussing academic attainment. If you have missed the sign up for these, please email your teacher directly to request an appointment.
CLASS PARENTS
Thank you so much to those of you who have already volunteered to be class reps this year.
We still have 2 classes that need a parent rep. If you would like to become a rep please let these teachers know.
LEGENDARY LEARNERS
Congratulations to our wonderful Legendary Learners for the first week of term:
3CW - Mia - Hardworking giving her best in writing activities this week.
3SB - Cary - for making sure that our new students feel welcome at ISP.
3LC - Dani - for being super kind and responsible, and showing great listening skills.
3MD - Aco - for bravely trying her best to communicate with peers and adults.
3SH - Kara- For showing great responsibility.
3MM- Kiki - For confidently sharing ideas and being engaged and enthusiastic in class.
ARRIVAL AND DISMISSAL REMINDERS
Arrival
Doors open at 7:30 a.m. Children are welcome to enjoy supervised play in the ground-floor playground before 7:55am. All children must be in classrooms by 7:55am.
Dismissal
Year 1: 2:45 p.m.
Years 2 & 3: 2:50 p.m.
Years 4–6: 2:55 p.m.
The pick-up lane in the new car park is open, with children brought down by 3:00 p.m. Any children not collected by 3:15 p.m. will be taken to the Primary Office.
Siblings
Older siblings will always dismiss from the area of their youngest sibling.
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
A reminder that Monday 1st September and Friday 5th September are public holidays, and the school is closed.
STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Please see this summary of our student leadership opportunities as an overview of all the wonderful ways our students help lead parts of our school.
FRIDAY 22nd August 2025
It has been a pleasure to welcome back our Year 3 students this week. The atmosphere in school has been incredibly positive, with students settling in quickly and engaging enthusiastically with their lessons and new routines. It’s been lovely to see friendships rekindled, new connections forming, and a strong sense of community already developing.
A huge welcome to our new students: Hanzhe, Hyunjoon, Kiki, Lyana, Lynn, Mert, Miori, Mya, Sebastian, Tariq, Yu-Ching and Benny. The whole of Year 3 have welcomed them and made sure they are part of the wonderful ISP community.
This week, our focus has been on helping students transition smoothly back into school life. Alongside academic learning, we’ve spent time revisiting expectations, setting goals, and encouraging a confident and calm start to the year. We’ve also had sessions on wellbeing and time to reconnect with teachers and classmates.
Our Year 3's have been enjoying our new shared areas, with lots of choices to make their break times and lunchtimes even better!
Thank you to everyone who attended today's Parent Information Briefing. You can view the session slides here.
Ms Sarah and the Year 3 Teachers
CCAs
Sign-up for CCAs is on SchoolsBuddy and closes at 4pm today.
CCAs START DATES
On Tuesday 2nd September all paid CCAs start.
Monday 8th September - Teacher led CCAs start.
WHATSAPP GROUPS
Groups have been set up for each class. Teachers have the QR codes displayed on their class windows.
Class teachers will email them to you via Schools Buddy.
Please note that these WhatsApp groups are created by parents for parents, and are not affiliated with the International School @ Parkcity.
CLASS PARENTS
Thank you so much to those of you who have already volunteered to be class reps this year. Should you feel you would like to join this group, please let your child's class teacher know.
IMPORTANT DATES
Monday 1st September - Public Holiday - School Closed
2nd & 3rd September - Settling In Conferences
5th September - Public Holiday - School Closed
Tuesday 2nd September - Paid CCAs start
Monday 8th September - Teacher-led CCAs start
START OF THE YEAR COFFEE MORNING
All parents are warmly invited to Mr Nicholas's Start of Year Coffee Morning. This will be held in the Secondary MPH on Thursday 28th August at 8.15am.
GOOGLE PHOTO ALBUMS
Alll parents have been added to their child's class Google Album. Please let your child's teacher know if you have not recieved this invite to your school email.
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