WELCOME

Year 3 Parent Partnership

Afternoon

PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIORITIES

P-3 2018

• Reading

• Numeracy- Messy Space

• Critical Thinking

• Student Engagement

• Differentiation

Key strategies include:

•Teacher directed guided reading lessons – Explicit teaching

•Modelled, Shared, Independent, Collaborative, Reciprocal Reading

•Reading Detective and Comprehension Strategies

•Flexible grouping

•Reading to children for enjoyment

•Reading Stamina

•Small groups formed for a specific purpose

•Use of ICT devices to support literacy

•Student/Teacher conferences

•Setting goals and success criteria

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CLASSROOM INSTRUCTIONREADING

CLASSROOM INSTRUCTIONREADING

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Home reading is meant to be EASY and ENJOYABLE.

Home reading books go home with homework and are be changed weekly

The Reading Log on the Homework sheet needs to be filled in regularly and SIGNED.

Children will be encouraged to become more independent as the year progresses with changing their books and monitoring what books they are reading.

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HOME READING

Maths Warm up

Explicit teaching Focus

Small group teaching/practising

Reflection

WHAT DOES A NUMERACY BLOCK LOOK LIKE IN OUR CLASS?

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CLASSROOM INSTRUCTIONNUMERACY

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LEARNING GOALS Feed UP

Use learning goals to let students

know where they are going.

Feed BACK Give students

specific information about how they are

going Feed FORWARDGive or show

students specific information on what to do next

to improve

LEARNING GOALS WRITING, READING, NUMERACY

Differentiation –Planning for Differentiation

Feedback – To support learning

Critical Thinking – Explicitly taught in all KLAs

Critical Thinking Frameworks are used across curriculum areas to frame thinking.

Critical thinking is at the core of most intellectual activity that involves students learning to recognise or develop an argument, use evidence in support of that argument, draw reasoned conclusions, and use information to solve problems.

Creative thinking involves students learning to generate and apply new ideas in specific contexts, seeing existing situations in a new way, identifying alternative explanations, and seeing or making new links that generate a positive outcome.

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CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM

3. Student Engagement

Student Behaviour – Explicit Behaviour

Lessons and Circle Time

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

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Circle Time Lessons

Weekly Behaviour Lessons

School wide behaviour rewards

Recognising positive studentachievements on assembly

End of semester behaviour awards

Postcards to parents

SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD’S LEARNING

Any questions- see your child’s teacher

Keep an eye out on school website for parent workshop times

Working with students on homework- discuss new concepts, model and work together on both literacy and numeracy

EXCURSIONS AND EVENTS

Term 1• Parent Interviews

Term 2

• NAPLAN Year 3- 14th , 15th , 16th May

• Written reports

• Learning Celebration – Profits For Peace/Market Day

Term 3• Parent Interviews• Learning Celebration- Multiplication

Game Fair • Incursion- Starlab

Term 4• Written reports• Excursion – Queensland Art Gallery in

Brisbane• Swimming program

• Year 3 Art Celebration

NAPLAN

NAPLAN Testing occurs for Year 3 on 14th- 16th May

• Reading

• Writing

• Language Conventions

• Numeracy

If you have any concerns about your child’s participation in

NAPLAN testing please discuss with the class teacher.

COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION

• Teacher EmailJo – jbroo265@eq.edu.au Lisa- lhard100@eq.edu.auErin – etone3@eq.edu.au Chris- cvidl3@eq.edu.auHayley – hlude3@eq.edu.au

• Newsletter of curriculum overview for each term• Parent Interviews Term 1 and 3• Report Cards Term 2 and 4• P and C volunteer

Thank-you and welcome to your class community