WELCOME TO Grade 3

Congratulations to Seth, Archie, Yasas, Mac, Kai and Eddie for receiving the Beacy Spirit Award this week. These students made their teachers and peers proud with their actions during the week. Well done!

It was great to see the Grade 3 students try their very best at Senior School Cross Country. On a new course, running 2 kilometres sure was a challenge, but everyone gave it their best and earnt some points for their house. The Grade 3 teachers were also very impressed with how safely students walked from school to Holm Park. What a fantastic day, well done to all!

Beaconsfield Primary School participated in a movement program called Footsteps. It was an engaging dance program that focused on supporting social skills, confidence, creativity, expressive skills and coordination. Students then performed the dance in front of the school community. It was awesome to see everyone have a go! Well done Grade Three!

The Grade Three students explored St. Patrick’s Day through read aloud stories, discussions and craft activities. Below are some photos of 3N and 3K with their St. Patrick’s Day craft! Well done 3N and 3K.

Well done to Lincoln T, Archie LB, Freddy P, Mason G and Bentley M for receiving the Beacy Spirit Award! Your teachers are so proud of how much effort you are putting into your learning! Our Beacy Spirits this week were seen always trying their best, showed respect to their peers and were persistent when learning was tricky! Great work

Students in Grade 3 have been exploring data collection and how to create their own graph in response to data they collected from their peers. The following pictures show an activity where students had to create a question and collect data to learn more about what is popular in 3H and 3A. Their questions weren’t allowed to include the word favourite.

Some questions the students came up with were:

What is the most popular garden animal?

Which dinosaur does 3H like the best?

What sport do students in 3H like to play?

What is 3H’s favourite movie out of Shrek, Toy Story and Inside Out?

What farm animal is most popular in 3H?

Stay tuned for next week’s blog post regarding 3N and 3K!

Congratulations to this week’s Beacy Spirit Award recipients! Well done Olivia, Willow, Lukas, Peggi and Liam (absent for photo), for always trying your personal best and taking pride in the presentation of your learning tasks.

Shout out to our first Beacy Spirit award recipients for 2024. Great work Raf, Brody, Noah and Olivia for showing a positive attitude towards Grade Three and applying a can-do attitude across all activities.

What a big first week of Grade 3! Mrs Humphries, Mrs Becker, Miss Nilsson, Miss K and Miss Abel were all so excited to meet their class and really enjoyed a fun filled week.

For our first blog post we just wanted to highlight some key information to help with a smooth transition to Grade 3.

Parent Helpers

If you are interested in volunteering to attend Grade 3 camp and excursions, you will need to make sure your Working with Children’s Check is in date and is linked it to Beaconsfield Primary School. Every year as a parent helper, you will need to redo the parent helper induction. Please speak to the office if you need any support with your Working with Children’s Check.

Reading

We encourage your child to be reading 5 nights per week. Students record their nightly reading in their black diary. On Fridays your child’s teacher will be checking their diary. Students who do not complete their reading will participate in learning minutes on a Friday prior to engaging in ‘awesome activities’.

Mrs Humphries, Mrs Becker,  Miss Nilsson, Miss K and Miss Abel are super excited about the year ahead!