Third Year

Programme of enquiry

Our units of enquiry are developed through vertical collaboration throughout First-Sixth years, based on our school's mission, values, and guiding principles. Our pupils will explore units on where we are in place & time, how the world works, how we organize ourselves, sharing the planet, who we are, and how we express ourselves.

English as our main teaching language

Our Third Year English as first language programme develops skills, as outlined by the Common Core State Standards, in reading, writing, listening & speaking, and language. In primary school, our reading & writing workshops are deliberately designed to enable teachers to closely monitor progress, set meaningful learning goals, and meet the needs of every child. Resources from Oxford International English are to be used to support literacy teaching.

Mathematics

In Third Year, pupils will focus intensively on these critical areas: (1) extending their understanding of numbers & calculation, including understanding the meaning of division, decimals, and fractions, and computing the addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominators smaller than 10, as well as one-digit decimals; (2) extending their understanding of space & shapes, including isosceles & equilateral triangles; right, acute, and obtuse angles; circles & spheres, while getting to know their measurements, transformations, and positions; (3) developing an understanding of statistics & probability by means of statistical data activities for beginners and becoming able to describe phenomena of uncertainty; and (4) incorporating practical activities for learning the above content into our units of enquiry. Resources from My Pals are Here! and Shanghai Maths: One Lesson, One Exercise are to be used to support numeracy teaching.

Additional languages

To support pupils in streams learning either Chinese or Arabic, One World will apply an external set of curriculum standards aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Our primary school language programme will offer two options based on the pupil's language profile (English dominant, or other mother tongue [for example, Swahili] dominant). Pupils whose placement test enrols them at a mother tongue level may study their social humanities units of enquiry in their mother tongue, when necessary in an independent manner.

Social humanities

Social studies of the living environment have their content and standards embedded in our humanities units of enquiry throughout the year, as pupils learn, during how the world works, about "global connections"; during sharing the planet, about "indigenous cultures and societies"; and during how we express ourselves, about "oral history and storytelling", in keeping with the British Columbia social studies curriculum.

Specialists 

In all grades, pupils will attend specialist lessons for science, design engineering, primary school library, visual arts, music, theatre, and physical education, as appropriate throughout the year.