Class Newsletters - Term 3 2025

English

In Term 3 English students will continue focussing on: oral language development, phonemic awareness skills, speech sounds, name writing, rhyming words, memory, blending and segmenting words, exposure to familiar words – reading and writing, decodable reading, handwriting through Casey the Caterpillar, involvement with quality literature and learning the concepts of print (left to right, use of pictures, top to bottom). They will explore the structure of a retell through familiar and personal stories.

Students will be assessed on their ability to create a short, spoken text to retell an experience and describe how it made them feel.

Mathematics

Prep students will explore concepts including more, less the same through data collection strategies. They will investigate combining and portioning numbers up to 10 using a variety of different methods and manipulatives including counters, 10 frames and natural resources.

Students will be assessed on their ability to ask questions, collect data and make simple inference as well as their ability to partition and combine numbers up to 10.  

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

In Term 3 HASS students will continue to examine personal growth and development, families, relationships, rules and how we fit into the community. Students will explore familiar events and celebrations throughout the world. They will ask and respond to questions about their own lives.

Students will be assessed on their ability to connect familiar events and celebrations to personal experiences.

Science

In Term 3 Science students will investigate materials and describe the properties and behaviour of familiar objects.

Students will be assessed on identifying materials and use materials to create an object for a familiar Fairy Tale character.

Technologies

Students will explore a variety of design and digital technologies through the term.

Students will be assessed on their ability to design and create a solution to a real-life problem.

The Arts

Students will explore a variety of design and digital technologies through the term.

Students will be assessed on their ability to design and create a solution to a real-life problem.

Music with Mrs Murray: amurr51@eq.edu.au

Prep Music Term 3

Students will move, sing, play games and use tuned and untuned percussion to demonstrate beat, rhythm and pitch. They will compose short rhythm patterns using Ta and Ti Ti.

Assessment:

• Keep the beat in time with a known song (walking the beat, pointing to a beat chart).
• Compose an eight beat “Colour composition” using Ta and Ti Ti

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

Students will identify and describe actions that support their health, safety, and physical activity across a range of settings.

Students will be assessed on their ability to demonstrate safe practices, protective behaviours, and healthy choices through role-plays, class discussions, and practical activities, showing an understanding of how these actions contribute to their overall wellbeing.

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

Practical: Students explore how to move and play safely during physical activity. They develop the fundamental movement skills of:

• Running
• Jumping
• Hopping
• Galloping

Assessment: The assessment will gather evidence of the student’s ability to:

• perform fundamental movement skills
• solve movement challenges
• demonstrate, with guidance, practices to keep themselves safe in different activities

English

Students will be engaging with a range of texts that contain topics or story elements that will be presented as a procedure. The students will create a short, spoken text to recount a simple procedure.

Mathematics

Students will investigate and measure the lengths of shapes and objects. Compare and order objects including length and capacity and mass. They will also be using, mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving addition, subtraction, equal sharing and equal grouping.  

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

Students will identify, describe and sequence personal and family events and describe continuities and changes in aspects of daily life over time.

Students will be assessed on a folio collection of their work.

Science

 In Term 3 students will describe the effects of interacting with materials and objects. They will be investigating light and sound. They respond to questions and make predictions participating in guided investigations.            

Students will plan and create a “sandwich saver” and then evaluate their design.

Students will be assessed on responding to some questions to show their understanding of living things and their relationship to the environment.

The Arts

Students use the elements of drama to represent different Australian animals.

Students will be assessed on a portfolio of their work.

Music with Mrs Murray: amurr51@eq.edu.au

Year 1 and 1/2C Music Term 3

Students will use untuned percussion to perform simple part work and ostinato.
Assessment:
• Perform a 4-beat ostinato on a drum to accompany a sung melody. 
• Compose an 8-beat rhythm using Ta, Ti Ti and Za (stick notation).

Physical Education with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Practical: Students develop the fundamental movement skills of dodging and running and test alternatives to evade others and objects in tagging games. They explore positive ways to interact with others, including strategies to work in groups and play fairly during tagging games.

Assessment: Performances are observed on a number of occasions throughout a unit of work, and judgments relating to the quality of performance are made and recorded on observation records.

The assessment will gather evidence of the student’s ability to:

• demonstrate fundamental movement skills in a variety of situations
• test alternatives to solve movement challenges
• demonstrate positive ways to interact with others

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

Students will identify and demonstrate protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies to stay safe. They will explore personal qualities and those of others, understanding how these contribute to developing identities.

Students will be assessed on their ability to identify and describe emotions by interpreting facial expressions and body language. They will also explain the connections between feelings, body reactions, and non-verbal cues.

English

Year 2 and Year 2/3D:  Students will create written and/or multimodal texts to inform. 

Assessment:  Students will use text structures to organise and link ideas for a purpose. They will punctuate simple and compound sentences. Students will use topic-specific vocabulary.  They will write words using consistently legible unjoined letters. Students will spell words with regular spelling patterns, and use phonic and morphemic knowledge to attempt to spell words with less common patterns.

Year 1/2C: 
Students will deliver a presentation to express a preference for a game or playtime activity and persuade their peers to vote for their chosen activity. They will learn to read, compare and create persuasive texts. Students will develop their presentation skills in small groups and in front of the class.

Mathematics

Year 2 and Year 2/3D:  We will be focusing on the following concepts: Money, Data, Addition & Subtraction.

Students will be assessed by: Using mathematical modelling to solve practical additive problems involving money, conducting an observation to answer the question: ‘Which drink bottle colour is most common?’, and by describing & continuing additive patterns, and by identifying missing elements in additive patterns.

Year 1/2C : 
Students will continue to develop their numeracy skills by working on learning; addition, subtraction and multiplication skills. They will also use uniform units to measure, compare and discuss the attributes of shapes and objects based on length, capacity and mass.

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

Year 2, Year 1/2 C and Year 2/3D:  Students will be: Examining technologies and how they have changed over time. They will have the opportunity to experience hands on learning by using and playing with toys and household items from the past. 

Students will be assessed by: Describing and comparing past and present technologies, and describing the impact of the changes over time.

Science 

Year 2 and Year 2/3D:  Students will investigate the life cycles of plants and animals.
Students will be assessed by: sequencing and comparing life cycles of different animals.

Year 1/2C: 
In this unit, students investigate combinations of different materials and give reasons for the selection of materials according to their properties and purpose. Students will pose questions, make predictions and follow instructions to record observations in a guided investigation. They will represent and communicate their observations using scientific language.

Technologies

Year 2 and Year 2/3D:  Students will investigate Design techniques and concepts that help living things grow and survive.

Students will be assessed by: Planning and designing a trellis to help their plant to grow and survive.

Year 1/2C : Students will investigate Design techniques and concepts related to their science material unit.
Students will analyse their "lunch box" design.

Music with Mrs Murray: amurr51@eq.edu.au

1/2C Music Term 3

Students will use untuned percussion to perform simple part work and ostinato.
Assessment:
• Perform a 4-beat ostinato on a drum to accompany a sung melody. 
• Compose an 8-beat rhythm using Ta, Ti Ti and Za (stick notation).

Year 2 Music Term 3
Students compose rhythms and melodies in 2 metre, using the rhythms Ta Ti Ti Za and the melody notes Mi So and La. Students will learn how to read and write music using barlines.
Assessment:
• Compose an 8-beat rhythm in 2 metre (stick notation including bar lines)
• Compose a melody to a given rhythm using Mi So and La and notate this on staff.

2/3D and Year 3 Music Term 3
Students will develop skills in reading notation and ensemble playing, using voice and melodic percussion to explore part-work, dynamics and the rhythm element Tika Tika. Students will respond to music they listen to using the elements of music. 
Assessment:
• Individual performance of a Pentatonic melody on melodic percussion.
• Respond to music (similarities and differences) using the Musical elements.

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

Students will investigate a range of health messages and practices in their community and discuss their purposes. Students identify how health information can be used in their lives.
Students will be assessed on their ability to identify and explain the purpose of various health messages and practices found in their community. They will demonstrate understanding by discussing how this information can influence personal decisions and support their own health and wellbeing.

Physical Education with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Year 2: Catch me if you can!
Practical: Students develop the fundamental movement skills of dodging and running and test alternatives to evade others and objects in tagging games. They explore positive ways to interact with others, including strategies to work in groups and play fairly during tagging games.

Assessment: Performances are observed on a number of occasions throughout a unit of work, and judgments relating to the quality of performance are made and recorded on observation records.
The assessment will gather evidence of the student’s ability to:
• demonstrate fundamental movement skills in a variety of situations
• test alternatives to solve movement challenges
• demonstrate positive ways to interact with others

English

Students will read, view and comprehend an imaginative text. They will use ideas from that text to create a written narrative.

Mathematics

Students will represent fractions and use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems. They will measure length, mass and capacity and make and classify objects.

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) 

Students will learn about Australia’s states and territories; the continents of the world; Australia’s neighbours; climate; and the human and natural features of Australia and its neighbouring countries.

Students will be assessed by describing and interpreting data about Australia’s seasonal rainfall and identifying similarities and differences between the characteristics of places.

Science 

Students will investigate the behaviour of heat to explain everyday observations. They will describe how safety and fairness are considered in a scientific investigation and use diagrams and other representations to communicate their ideas.

Technology

Students will design and safely produce a Solar Oven incorporating technical and sustainability factors.

Music with Mrs Murray: amurr51@eq.edu.au

Students will develop skills in reading notation and ensemble playing, using voice and melodic percussion to explore part-work, dynamics and the rhythm element Tika Tika. They will respond to music they listen to using the elements of music.

Students will be assessed on their individual performance of a Pentatonic melody on melodic percussion. They will respond to music (similarities and differences) using the Musical elements.

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

Students will explore how health information influences behaviours and investigate strategies to manage changes and transitions. They will also reflect on how experiences like success, challenges, and setbacks build resilience and shape identity. 

Students will be assessed on their ability to apply health strategies; reflect on coping with change; and explain how resilience and identity are shaped by life experiences.

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

Students will refine the fundamental movement skills of throwing and catching and transfer them to a range of movement situations. They will develop their understanding of ‘Ultimate Frisbee’ game movement concepts and strategies and apply these to solve the offence and defence challenges faced during games.

Students’ performances will be observed several times during the unit. They will be assessed on their ability to refine fundamental movement skills; apply movement concepts and strategies; solve movement challenges; work cooperatively; and apply rules fairly.

English

How do stories send messages?

Students will delve deep into narratives, including a brand-new novel, to explore authors' strategies.

They will have two assessments for this Learning Area. In the first they will read and comprehend a text and describe: how ideas are developed including through characters and events; the characteristic features of the text's structure; and how language features shape meaning.

In the second assessment, they will create a written story using ideas or details from the text. They will use paragraphs to organise and link ideas, and language features including complex sentences, topic-specific vocabulary, and literary devices.

Mathematics

How do we make numbers work for us?

This term in Mathematics we will dive into topics based on number, mathematical modelling and measurement.

Students will complete a series of written assessments to:

• represent fractions; recognise equivalent fractions to hundredths; multiply natural numbers by multiples of 10; and use mathematical modelling to formulate and solve a practical problem.
• Use scaled instruments and appropriate units to measure length, mass, capacity and temperature;
• approximate perimeter and areas; and
• compare angles relative to right angles.

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) with Miss Krause 

How has life on this land changed and stayed the same?

Considering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, students will explore 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 recognize the significance of events in bringing about change.

Science with Ms Ryan: How do forces make games fun?

Students will be assessed on their ability to investigate and describe how contact forces (eg push, pull, air resistance and friction) and non-contact forces (eg gravity) affect interactions between objects.

Science with Ms Ryan

How do forces make games fun?

Students will be assessed on their ability to investigate and describe how contact forces (eg push, pull, air resistance and friction) and non-contact forces (eg gravity) affect interactions between objects.

Technologies with Mrs Cunningham: What can we learn AND teach with digital technologies?

Students will be assessed on their ability to plan a sequence of steps (algorithms) to create designed solutions including using using Scratch, a visual programming language.

Technologies with Mrs Cunningham

What can we learn AND teach with digital technologies?

Students will be assessed on their ability to plan a sequence of steps (algorithms) to create designed solutions including using Scratch, a visual programming language.

Music with Mrs Murray amurr51@eq.edu.au

Students will compose melodies using the notes B A G and E and notate these on the staff. They will respond to music they listen to and play.

Assessment:

• Compose a melody for recorder using a given rhythm and notes B A G and E and notate it on the staff.
• Respond to music using the Musical elements (Written Task).

Physical Education with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Practical: Students refine the fundamental movement skills of throwing and catching and transfer them to a range of movement situations. They develop understanding of Ultimate Frisbee game movement concepts and strategies and apply these to solve the offence and defence challenges faced during games.

Assessment: Performances are observed on a number of occasions throughout a unit and the assessment will gather evidence of the student’s ability to:

• refine fundamental movement skills
• apply movement concepts and strategies and to solve movement challenges while in gameplay
• apply strategies for working cooperatively and apply rules fairly

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

Students will explore how health information influences behaviours and investigate strategies to manage changes and transitions. They will also reflect on how experiences like success, challenges, and setbacks build resilience and shape identity.

Students will be assessed on their ability to apply health strategies, reflect on coping with change, and explain how resilience and identity are shaped by life experiences.

Japanese with Nagashima Sensei

Students will use language to introduce a family member in Japanese.

• Counting people
• Family member vocabulary
• Where you live
• Like/dislike
• Phone number
• A traditional event

Students will be assessed on:

Listening – Listen to the audio about an introduction of a family member and answer the questions.

English

English with Classroom Teacher

Students engage with a variety of texts that provide a stimulus for persuasive responses, such as film and digital texts, novels, non-fiction or dramatic performances, and persuasive texts, such as speeches and arguments, as models for creating their own work.

Assessment:

Students deliver a persuasive speech to convince an audience that the school community would benefit from having Gold Rush Incursions in the future.

Mathematics 

Students will apply a variety of mathematical concepts to solve a range of inquiry- based questions. They will add and subtract fractions with the same and related denominators and represent and connect percentages with fraction and decimal equivalents. Students will use mathematical modelling to formulate and solve a practical problem using chosen arithmetic operations. They will connect objects to their nets. To choose and use appropriate metric units to measure length, mass and capacity. Students will solve problems involving perimeter and area. They will measure and construct angles

Assessment:

Choosing appropriate units of measurement to calculate: length, perimeter, area, volume, capacity and mass.  They will also calculate with money and investigate continuing number patterns, including fractions and decimals. Students measure and construct angles.

Science with Miss Smith

Students will investigate the properties of light and the formation of shadows.

Assessment:

Students plan, predict and conduct a fair investigation to explain everyday phenomena associated with the transfer of light.

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) with Mrs Cramb

Students will examine key events related to the development of British colonies in Australia after 1800, including the significance of the Gold Rush.

Assessment:

Students will conduct an inquiry to answer the question, 'How and why did the lives of the people in the Australian colonies change or stay the same as a result of the Gold Rush?'

Music with Mrs Murray amurr51@eq.edu.au

Students will continue to develop ukulele skills. They will compose, arrange and perform music.

Assessment:

• Perform the C major scale on the Ukulele.
• Compose a melody in C major to be performed on ukulele and notate it on the staff.

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

Students will explore health information to understand its impact on choices, examine how people and places shape identity, and investigate the influence of gender stereotypes on roles and responsibilities.

Students will be assessed on their ability to evaluate health information, explain how people and places shape identity, and reflect on the influence of gender stereotypes on roles and responsibilities.

Physical Education with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Practical: Students combine movement concepts and strategies during mini-tennis gameplay to open up space on the court to win points or gain control in rallies. They demonstrate fair play and skills to work collaboratively during tennis activities and games.

Assessment: Performances are observed on a number of occasions throughout a unit and the assessment will gather evidence of the student’s ability to:

• perform specialised movement skills
• combine movement concepts and strategies to achieve movement outcomes and to solve movement challenges
• demonstrate fair play and skills to work collaboratively

Japanese with Sensai Nagashima

Students use language to explore the concept of a good team.

They will learn about school sports event in Japanese schools, reflect how they treat their friends, and compare how they build team work in Japan and Australia.

Students will be assessed on:

1. a) Notebook work
2. b) Reading Japanese phrases regarding building a good team.
3. c) Reflecting how to build a good team in Japan and Australia.

The Arts

Media, Visual and Performance Arts, students will experiment with stop motion shadow animation and shadow dance. 

English with classroom teacher

Students create a vlog to present an argument on a significant issue in their community to convince their local government councillor that action needs to be taken.

Assessment:

Students create a vlog to present an argument to a person of importance.

Mathematics with classroom teacher

• solve practical problems using addition and subtraction of fractions with related denominators
• solve arithmetic problems involving all four operations with decimals
• use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems, choose models, representations and calculation strategies, and justify solutions
• use physical materials to compare the parallel cross-sections of familiar objects including right prisms *
• apply an understanding of area and use multiplicative thinking to establish the formula for the area of a rectangle
• convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity (for example: metres and centimetres)
• begin to formally use deductive reasoning in spatial contexts involving lines and angles.

Assessment:

Students order common fractions and add and subtract fractions with related denominators.

Students convert between common units of length, mass and capacity and use all 4 operations with decimals. To solve problems involving area of a rectangle and angle properties.

HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) with Mirs Jarvis and Mrs McNamara

Students will investigate the following key inquiry question:                                                                            How do places, people and cultures differ across the world?

Assessment:

Students demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of places by representing, interpreting and describing data and information about the characteristics of places.

Science with Mrs Jarvis and Mrs McNamara

Students explore how sudden geological changes and extreme weather events can affect Earth's surface. They consider the effects of earthquakes and volcanoes on Earth's surface and how communities are affected by these events. They gather, record and interpret data relating to weather and weather events. Students explore the ways in which scientists are assisted by the observations of people from other cultures, including those throughout Asia. Students construct representations of cyclones and evaluate community and personal decisions related to preparation for natural disasters. They investigate how predictions regarding the course of tropical cyclones can be improved by gathering data.

Japanese with Sensai Nagashima

Students use language to explore the concept of a good team.

They will learn about school sports event in Japanese schools, reflect how they treat their friends, and compare how they build team work in Japan and Australia.

Students will be assessed on:

1. a) Notebook work
2. b) Reading Japanese phrases regarding building a good team.
3. c) Reflecting how to build a good team in Japan and Australia.

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

Students will explore and practice protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies for online and offline situations. They will also analyse how behaviours affect health, safety, relationships, and community wellbeing, and investigate resources to manage changes, transitions and puberty.

Students will be assessed on their ability to explore, practice, and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies in various situations, analyse the impact of behaviours on health, safety, relationships, and community wellbeing, and demonstrate understanding of resources to manage changes and transitions.

Physical Education with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Practical: Students combine movement concepts and strategies during mini-tennis gameplay to open up space on the court to win points or gain control in rallies. They demonstrate fair play and skills to work collaboratively during tennis activities and games.

Assessment: Performances are observed on a number of occasions throughout a unit and the assessment will gather evidence of the student’s ability to:

• perform specialised movement skills
• combine movement concepts and strategies to achieve movement outcomes and to solve movement challenges
• demonstrate fair play and skills to work collaboratively

Music Year 5/6 and 6 Term 3 with Mrs Murray amurr51@eq.edu.au

Students will use GarageBand for iPad to compose music that represents ideas. They will respond to music that they have composed. 

Assessment:

• Compose music to express ideas using GarageBand for iPad or Chrome Music Lab Song Maker.
• Write composers notes explaining how the musical elements in their composition have been used to express ideas.