Year Three Newsletter

Dear Parents,

It was lovely to see so many parents in person visiting Kennedy School. We hope you enjoyed visiting your child's class as well as all the other learning areas at Kennedy School!

Central Idea: Location can influence how individuals interact with each other and their environment.

The students will inquire through a variety of learning engagements based on the following Lines of Inquiry:

• Form: The geography of a place.
• Causation: The relationships of our location to other parts of the world.
• Change: How features of a place influence our interactions.

Central Idea: Developing our skills and techniques in the arts can allow us to share our creativity, feelings and ideas.

The Lines of Inquiry are:

Function: How different forms of art communicate ideas, feelings and creativity.

Perspective: How people interpret and respond to the Arts differently.

Reflection: How we can use the Arts to express our feelings, creativity and ideas.

Alongside our Where We Are in Place and Time unit, we have also looked at How We Express Ourselves through different types of art. Students have created landscape paintings based on the geography surrounding Kennedy School.

Thank you to all the adults and children who took part in the amazing Diwali Assembly last Wednesday 26th October. All the colourful and traditional clothing across the school was a spectacular sight!

In class, students continue to develop their vocabulary and grammar through the writing of complex sentences. The children are learning about the features of non-chronological reports Students will soon be researching and writing a non-chronological report about a country of their choice.

The children are learning a variety of strategies in addition and subtraction. They are encouraged to use more than one mental and written method to consolidate their learning. Students are learning through partner and group games, using online games as well as using pencil and paper methods.

Year 3 Weekly Learning Notice

Please ensure your child brings a hat and 2 water bottles.

Year 3 Games Day - Tuesday

Year 3 and 6 classes will have one set lunchtime a week when they will be expected to go to HKU from 24th October 2022 to 16th December 2022. 1 class from Year 3 and Year 6 will go per day of the week from 10:40am to 11:20am.

Only exception will be if the children don’t have a vaccination.

They can do sports/games at HKU or bring games, cards, to play with, books to read with their buddy or a towel to sit on if they would like to. We’d like them to connect with their buddies and/or other other friends across Year 3 and Year 6.

Below outlines when each class will go to HKU:

3F with 6RI - Monday

3S with 6RO - Tuesday

3R with 6N - Wednesday

3C with 3C - Thursday

3H with 6W- Friday

Happy Buddy times!

We are still looking for parent volunteers who are willing to come across with us one or more days a week. The time commitment is 10.40 am to 11.20 am each day.

For the safety of the children, we will request that parent helpers must be fully vaccinated and complete a Rapid Antigent Test with a negative test result on the morning before coming to school.

All parent volunteers would need to complete the Child Protection declaration in the Gateway in advance.

Please fill in the Google Form here if you are able to help and your help is much appreciated. Thank you!

Please remember to replenish your children's stationery stock. Ask your child to bring home their pencil case over the weekend (s) for a refill of pencils, erasers, highlighters, red pens etc.