Class Newsletters - Term 4, 2024

English

Throughout Term 4, Prep students will continue their learning of phonetic and phonemic awareness, using 'duck hands'to segment and blend words, reading and writing, exposure to familiar words, handwriting through Casey the Caterpillar and involvement with quality literature. Rhyming will be a main focus of Term 4. 

Students will be assessed on their ability to write a letter to a book character. The students will be correctly forming letters and showing writing behaviours throughout the term.  

Mathematics

Throughout Term 4, students will explore counting, sequencing and connecting numerals, number names and collections.  

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

Students will investigate celebrations and special events that are important to them and around the world.

Science

Throughout Term 4, students will investigate movement, describe the behaviour of familar objects and reflect on their observations.

Music with Ms Hopper: mxhop2@eq.edu.au

Students will move, sing, play games and use non-melodic and melodic percussion to develop beat, rhythm and pitch. They will compose rhythm patterns using Ta, Titi (consolidation) and Za. They will explore So and Me in voice and on chime bars. 
Students will develop repertoire for the End of Year Concert.
Students will be assessed on:

a)    Composing a rhythm pattern using Ta Titi and Za. 
b)    Perform their composition in time.

Technology

Students will continue to explore a variety of digital technologies to solve simple problems. 
They will use technology to find solutions, using a sequence of simple steps and decisions. 

PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Students will learn how to safely enter and exit shallow water using methods suitable for the water location, submerge their body completely underwater and breathe out – blow bubbles and finally, be able to propel their body continuously for 5 metres.

Students will be assessed on their ability to demonstrate safe entry and exit skills and be able to swim for 5 continuous metres.  

Health with Mrs Stirling:  sstir16@eq.edu.au

Students will recognise how they are growing and changing.

Students will be assessed on their ability to name parts of the body and describe how their body is changing and growing.

English

In Term 4 the students will be creating a character and writing a narrative story. They will be presenting their stories to the class.

Student will be assessed on their spelling, sentence structure, and formation of capital and lower-case letters.

Mathematics

This Term, students will be using their problem-solving and reasoning to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Year 1 will also be learning about chance and probability using the language of 'will happen', 'won't happen', and 'might happen'.

HASS:

In Term 4, the students will be sharing significant events in their year, describing changes and personal milestones in their lives, as well as learning about differences and similarities between the past and present in school, homes and technology.

Technologies

Students will be using the 'BookCreator' app to create a data display using data collected from students in the class.

Music with Ms Hopper: mxhop2@eq.edu.au

Students will move, sing, play games and use non-melodic and melodic percussion to compose melodies. They will explore So, Mi and La in voice, notation and on chime bars.

Students will develop repertoire for the End of Year Concert.

Students will be assessed on:
a) Students will compose and notate a melody using So and Mi and La.

Health with Mrs Stirling:  sstir16@eq.edu.au

Students will recognise similarities and differences in individuals and groups and explore how different cultures and traditions are celebrated and respected. Students will practice a range of appropriate ways to communicate with others.

Students will be assessed on their ability to describe ways to include others to make them feel like they belong and demonstrate appropriate and various communication skills in activities.

PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Students will demonstrate aquatic skills and strokes in a variety of movement sequences and situations. They will perform the recognised strokes of freestyle and backstroke in continuous movement sequences that incorporate the elements of movement: body awareness, effort (flow) and space awareness.

Students will be assessed on their ability to demonstrate aquatic skills (entries and exits) and recognised strokes in swimming sequences and situations. Students will perform swimming skills sequences that incorporate the elements of movement for the recognised strokes of freestyle or backstroke.

English

Students will identify the elements and structure of a narrative. They will read and write and compare variety of narratives. 

Students will be assessed by: Planning and writing a narrative.

Mathematics

Students will be focusing on the following concepts: Representing multiplication and division in different ways; interpreting simple maps of familiar locations; making sense of collected information;

describing outcomes for everyday events and collecting, organising and representing data to make simple inferences.

Students will be assessed by: Representing multiplication and division in a variety of ways, and solving simple problems using these representations; describing outcomes for everyday events, conducting a class survey and collecting, organising, representing and 
making sense of collected data and making simple inferences; interpreting simple maps of familiar locations and identifying the relative positions of key features and constructing arrangements of objects from a set of directions. 

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

Students will be focussing on: Exploring significant places, local communities and connection to places.

Students will be assessed by: Explaining why places are important to people, describing locations and elements in communities.

Science 

Students will investigate the question: Is it important to conserve Earth’s resources? What part do we play? They will investigate Earth's resources.  They will describe how Earth's resources are used and the importance of conserving resources for the future of all living things. 

Students will be assessed by: Identifying different uses of one of Earth’s resources (water) and describe ways to conserve it. They will use informal measurements to make observations.

Design and Digital Technology

Students will recognise and explore digital systems and their purpose and will explore and work with algorithms to write a sequence of instructions to navigate virtual robots. 

Music with Ms Hopper: mxhop2@eq.edu.au

Students will move to and sing 2 and 3-part canons, play music games and develop analysis skills. 

Students will develop repertoire for the End of Year Concert.
Students will be assessed on: Students will perform in 2-part canon.

Health with Mrs Stirling:  sstir16@eq.edu.au

Students demonstrate positive ways to interact with others. Students will select and apply strategies to keep themselves safe. Students will practise asking for help with tasks or problems.

Students will be assessed on their ability to identify and demonstrate strategies to keep themselves safe in a variety of situations.

PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Students will demonstrate aquatic skills and strokes in a variety of movement sequences and situations. They will perform the recognised strokes of freestyle and backstroke in continuous movement sequences that incorporate the elements of movement: body awareness, effort (flow) and space awareness.

Assessment: Demonstrates aquatic skills (entries and exits) and recognised strokes in swimming sequences and situations.  Perform swimming skills sequences that incorporate the elements of movement for the recognised strokes of freestyle or backstroke.

English

Students will listen to, read, view and adapt a variety of poems. They will analyse poetry texts in relation to the context, purpose and audience, and explore how language features and devices can be adapted to create new meaning.

Students will be assessed on comprehending, writing and presenting a poem. They will use appropriate speaking skills and explore ways in which language features and devices can be highlighted in a performance, through the use of pace, pitch, tone, volume and gesture.

Mathematics

Students will study number and place value up to 10 000, including word problems and number patterns, and will add and subtract 2-digit and 3-digit numbers. They will investigate time to one-minute intervals and duration of time using a timetable. Students will explore multiplication and division including word problems, fact families and representations of these.

Students will be assessed on their recall of multiplication facts and will solve and represent multiplication problems. They will tell the time to the nearest minute and solve problems involving time duration. Students will partition numbers up to 10 000 and solve related word problems.

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) with Mr Hoey

Students will explore similarities and differences in places near and far. They will look at Australia’s states and territories, the continents of the world, Australia’s neighbours, climate and human and natural features of Australia and its neighbouring countries. Students will learn about the role of rules within communities and making decisions democratically. This will form part of our inquiry, “How are places similar and different?” 

Students will be assessed by describing and interpreting data about Australian places and identifying similarities and differences between the characteristics of places. They will identify the steps and importance of the Democratic Decision-making Process.

Science with Mrs Anglim

Students will investigate the effect of the Earth’s rotation on its axis in relation to the position of the sun; and identify the observable and non-observable features of Earth, comparing its size with the sun and moon. They will make observations of day and night, sunrise and sunset, and shadows as they investigate how Earth’s movement causes these changes.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of day and night, sunrise, sunset, and shadows.

Design and Technology with Mrs Cunningham

Students will outline and define needs, opportunities or problems using their Science knowledge of Heat from Semester 1. They will plan and safely produce designed solutions, and generate and record design ideas using technical terms and graphical and non-graphical representation techniques.

Students will be assessed on designing and making a Solar Oven, incorporating technical and sustainability factors. 
 

Music with Ms Hopper: mxhop2@eq.edu.au

Students will use voice and melodic percussion to explore part-work, canon, dynamics and the rhythm element Tikkatikka. 

Students will be assessed individually performing a Pentatonic melody on melodic percussion.

Health with Mrs Stirling:  sstir16@eq.edu.au

Students identify influences that strengthen identities. They will describe how valuing diversity influences wellbeing, and identify actions that promote inclusion in their communities.

Students will be assessed on their ability to apply skills and strategies to interact respectfully with others.

PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Students will practise and refine fundamental movement skills to perform various aquatic skills and the recognised strokes of freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke in multiple swimming sequences.  A shifting of focus away from freestyle and more towards backstroke and breaststroke, will occur for those more capable students.  

Students will be assessed on performing aquatic skills and recognising swimming strokes to complete swimming stroke sequences.

English

What makes poems entertaining? 

Students will be assessed on their ability to explain how a poet’s choice of text structures and poetic devices affect the reader.
They will also be assessed on their spoken delivery of a narrative written in Term 3.

Mathematics

What types of numbers affect our lives?

Students will be assessed on their ability to connect fractions to decimals with two decimal places; display and interpret data; and convert between time measurements and solve elapsed time problems.

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) with Miss Krause 

How has life on this land changed? Why do we have rules and laws? 

Considering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, students will be assessed on their ability to use sources to explore the reasons for the journey of the First Fleet and the nature of contact between First Nations peoples and others. Students will be assessed on their ability to locate information from sources, describe the experiences of individuals or groups from the past, and recognise the significance of events in bringing about change. 
Students will also be assessed on their understanding of the difference between rules and laws including how they are made and by whom.

Science with Ms Ryan

Is it fair? Students will investigate fair testing to assess the properties and usefulness of various materials.

Students will be assessed on their ability to plan, safely conduct, and reflect on an experiment using materials.

Japanese with Nagashima Sensei:

Students will use language to communicate about time and a clock.
•    Telling time in Japanese
•    Asking and answering about time using manners and non-verbal communication.

Students will be assessed on 
a)    Notebook work
b)    Speaking test(roleplay)- greeting/time/body language

Digital Technology

How can digital technologies help us? 

Students will be assessed on their ability to describe features of digital systems, collect and interpret data, and collaborate and communicate ideas using agreed protocols.

Music with Ms Hopper: mxhop2@eq.edu.au

Students will develop repertoire for the End of Year Concert.

Students will be assessed on their ability to contribute to, rehearse and perform as part of the Year level Cohort for the End of Year Concert will be observed.

Health with Mrs Stirling:  sstir16@eq.edu.au

Students identify influences that strengthen identities. Students will describe how valuing diversity influences wellbeing and identify actions that promote inclusion in their communities.

Students will be assessed on their ability to apply skills and strategies to interact respectfully with others. 

PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Students will practise and refine fundamental movement skills to perform various aquatic skills and the recognised strokes of freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke in multiple swimming sequences.  A shift of focus away from freestyle and more towards backstroke and breaststroke, will occur for those more capable students.  

Students will be assessed on performing aquatic skills and recognised swimming strokes to complete swimming stroke sequences.

English

Students will study Poetry: Structures, language features, vocabulary and how events, characters and settings are depicted.

Students will explore choice of language in poetry and narrative genres. The focus will be on poetic devices and use of language features .

Students write a short narrative based on a known Australian poem and analyse a given poem.

Mathematics with Mrs McNamara

Students will add and subtract fractions; analyse and create number patterns with fractions and decimals; learn about 24 hour time and conduct chance experiments and create data displays.

Students will be assessed on:

1. 12- and 24- Hour Time

2. Guided Inquiry- Measurement

3. Chance

Science with Miss Smith

Students will investigate the observable properties and behaviours of solids, liquids and gases.

Students will be assessed on:
Students will conduct investigations following the scientific method, and demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of their topics using multimodal texts. 

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) with Mrs Cramb

Students will explore the importance of values and processes to Australia’s democracy and the roles of different people in Australia’s legal system.

Students will be assessed on:
Students will conduct written assessment pieces demonstrating their research skills as well as their own understanding.

The Arts 

Students will engage in various visual art activities. 

Music with Ms Hopper: mxhop2@eq.edu.au

Students will develop repertoire for the End of Year Concert.

Students will be assessed on:
Students ability to contribute to, rehearse and perform as part of the Year level Cohort for the End of Year Concert will be observed.

Health with Mrs Stirling:  sstir16@eq.edu.au

Students propose strategies to demonstrate respect, empathy and inclusion. Students explain how communication skills, protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies keep themselves and others safe. 

Students will be assessed on their ability to refine strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. 

Japanese with Sensai Nagashima

Students will use language to explore the concept of sustainability.
•    Learning about furoshiki and how to use in our daily life
•    Researching and presenting about a chosen sustainable invention in Japan

Students will be assessed on:
a)    Notebook work
b)    Speaking/research/presentation-a sustainable invention in Japan

PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Students will develop swimming strokes and lifesaving skills.  A shift of focus away from freestyle and more towards backstroke and breaststroke, will occur for those more capable students.  

Assessment: Students will perform freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and survival backstroke. They will combine lifesaving skills, movement concepts and strategies to complete lifesaving scenarios.  

English

This term Year 6 will compare literary and information texts around a common theme, which may include animal welfare, pollution, deforestation or extinction of plants and animal species. Students will independently research an issue and then adapt an information text into a narrative to highlight the issue. They will then create a book for their Prep Buddies from this narrative and share the book with them during Buddy Time.    
 
Students will be assessed on a Literary Comparison of the book "Moon Bear Rescue" and a brochure on moon bears. They will also create a narrative from an environmental issue and create a book suitable for Prep children. 

Mathematics with Mr France

This term we will be focusing on identifying number properties and calculating percentage discounts; describing and comparing probabilities and recording and comparing observed, relative and expected frequency.  

Students will be assessed on "Is it Fair" and a Mathematical Guided Inquiry.

HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) with Miss Duffy

This term we continue investigating our connections with the rest of the world through trade, immigration, aid and tourism.

Students will be assessed on a collection of work.

Science with Miss Duffy

This term we are focusing on living things and how they thrive in their environment. We will ask the questions: What conditions lead to improved growth? How can knowledge of this growth help our farmers, the health of our people or the economy? 

Students will be assessed on an investigation of growing mould on bread.

Technology

Students will be assessed on their individual yearbook page and Excel Spreadsheet Project.

Health with Mrs Stirling:  sstir16@eq.edu.au

Students propose strategies to demonstrate respect, empathy and inclusion. Students explain how communication skills, protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies keep themselves and others be safe. 
Students will be assessed on their ability to refine strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. 

Japanese with Sensai Nagashima

Students use language to explore restaurant and the food industry.
Students will also have Teams call with a Japanese school, participate in a Bento incursion (Parent consent and payment required) and provide a food review after the incursion.

Students will be assessed on:
a)    Notebook work
b)    Writing/speaking (food review) 

Music with Ms Hopper: mxhop2@eq.edu.au

Students will develop repertoire for the End of Year Concert and Graduation.
Students will be assessed on:Students ability to contribute to, rehearse and perform as part of the Year level Cohort for the End of Year Concert and Graduation will be observed.

PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Students will develop swimming strokes and lifesaving skills.  A shift of focus away from freestyle and more towards backstroke and breaststroke, will occur for those more capable students.  

Students will perform freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and survival backstroke. They will combine lifesaving skills, movement concepts and strategies to complete lifesaving scenarios.