English

In Term 2, 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 create short written texts, to state key facts and information.

Students will be assessed on their ability to read, view and comprehend simple informative texts.  Preps will also create a short, written information text, using words and images, about a topic.

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)

Prep students will continue to examine personal growth and development, families, relationships, rules and how we fit into the community. Students will explore familiar places and how to care for them.

Students will be assessed on their ability to relate stories about their past. Students will share and compare observations about familiar places.

Science

Prep students will investigate what makes a living thing and explore what is needed to care for living things.

Students will be assessed on identifying and caring for living things.

The Arts:

Students will participate in visual art and will explore colours, lines, shapes and textures through different mediums.

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

Students explore rhymes and songs as stimulus for music making with a focus on rhythmic elements and matching pitch.

Will be assessed on:

1. a) Pitch matching- Sing a known 2 note song using So Mi
2. b) Identify and clap a 4 Beat Ta Ti Ti rhythm

NB: Some Music assessment tasks from Term 1 were postponed due to the disruption surrounding TC Alfred – these will be completed in Term 2 Week 2.

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

Students will learn to identify and describe different emotions by recognising facial expressions and body language. They will explore the connections between feelings, body reactions, and non-verbal cues.

Assessment will focus on students' ability to interpret facial expressions and body language, and explain how feelings, body reactions, and non-verbal cues are connected.

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

Prep students will spend the term focusing on each of the field events they will be undertaking as part of the Junior School Athletics Carnival.  These include, long jump, shot put, javelin and high jump.  There will also be a focus on sprinting technique as part of their running lessons.  Prep classes, during the gross and fine motor lessons, will also be learning Captain Ball, Tunnel Ball and Over/Under Ball, Egg and Spoon races plus Sack Races.

Prep students will be assessed on how each student applies the correct technique for each of the above disciplines.