WHO WE ARE

Students will explore how their choices impact health and well-being. They will investigate what it means to be healthy and identify habits that support a balanced lifestyle. Through inquiry and reflection, students will understand their responsibility in making positive changes. They will build research, self-management, and social skills as they engage and collaborate with others. This unit encourages students to take ownership of their well-being and make informed, responsible decisions.

INFORMATION EXPLORERS

Students will explore how writers share information clearly and effectively. They will read, visualize, and ask questions to deepen understanding. They will learn to use text features and visual elements to locate and communicate key facts. They will write with a clear purpose, plan and revise their work, and begin to apply a wider range of vowel digraphs and trigraphs. Through reading and writing, students will build skills to create engaging and organized informational texts.

DATA HANDLING

In this integrated maths unit, students will learn how to collect, organize, and display data in clear and meaningful ways. They will sort objects into sets using different attributes and show their thinking with diagrams. Students will explore chance in everyday life, using words like "likely" and "impossible" to describe events. They will collect, organize and analyse data from a range of sources. By comparing graphs and tables, students will build skills to understand and explain information from the world around them.

NUMBER & NUMBER SENSE

In this unit, students will explore three-digit numbers using the base-10 system. They will count to 1,000, skip count, and understand place value. Students will read, write, and compare numbers, round them to the nearest 10 or 100, and identify odd and even numbers. They will build skills to count forward and backward by ones, tens, and hundreds. Through hands-on practice, students will deepen their understanding of how numbers work and relate to each other.

NUMBER OPERATIONS

In this unit, students will build fluency with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They will explore how operations connect and can be shown in different ways. Students will use mental strategies to solve problems when working with facts to 20, use a range of strategies to add and subtract bigger numbers, and conceptually explore multiplication and division. They will double, halve and skip count to solve problems and model equations. Through word problems and hands-on practice, students will develop confidence and flexibility with number operations.

READING, RESEARCHING AND COMMUNICATING

Students will strengthen their Portuguese literacy skills through meaningful connections with the Year 3 Who We Are Unit of Inquiry. Using health and well-being as a context, students will read, discuss, interpret, and write informational texts, using literacy skills to access and communicate their UOI learning. They will identify main ideas and supporting details, locate and organise information, ask questions, summarise what they have learned, and use evidence from texts to explain their understanding. Students will also explore how headings, diagrams, labels, captions, graphs, and other visual features help readers understand information. As part of their stand-alone Portuguese learning, they will continue developing vocabulary, reading fluency and comprehension, paragraph organisation, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and the writing process through planning, drafting, revising, and improving their own informational texts.

HEALTHY CHOICES, ACTIVE LIVES

Students will explore how physical activity and everyday choices contribute to health, fitness, and overall well-being. Integrated with the Year 3 Who We Are Unit of Inquiry, students will use Athletics and Swimming to investigate how exercise, hydration, rest, and responsible choices can influence their energy, endurance, performance, and well-being. They will reflect on their own habits and recognise how making balanced choices can support an active and healthy lifestyle. As part of their stand-alone PE learning, students will develop running, jumping, throwing, and swimming skills with increasing control and confidence. They will practise adapting their pace to different distances, refining techniques to improve performance, developing endurance and water confidence, and making connections between food, rest, energy, and physical activity.

PATTERNS (Continuation)

In this Unit of Inquiry, students will explore the concept of patterns. They will have the opportunity to create several different artworks using their knowledge and understanding of patterns. They will first create a pattern quilt using a variety of mediums. After considering balance and composition and reviwiing what it means to have a "finished" artwork, they will prepare for a gallery exhibition to showcase their work. 

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify, plan, and make specific choices of materials, tools, and processes

• Use appropriate terminology to discuss artwork 

• Engage with a variety of art experiences 

• Describe similarities and differences between artworks 

DIGITAL COMPOSITION

In the integrated Year 3 digital composition unit, students use GarageBand to independently construct and layer multi-track (timbre) compositions with loops (pattern), contrasting sections (form), and varied textures. They follow the design cycle to personalize their tracks and reflect on how digital tools let them communicate their individual musical voice. This is an integrated unit through the concept of innovation. 

Learning Outcomes:

• Read and write music using non-traditional notation. 

• Reflect upon how their music expresses their personal voice and the impact it has on others

• Express themselves as individuals through musical composition.

• Reflect on and communicate their reactions to music using musical vocabulary.

• Create and record a composition focusing on form, structure and style to give more meaning to their message

• Describe the process used to create their own music and compare it with others, in order to improve their compositions.