Year 4

Welcome to Term 2! This term is chock-full of so many fun events. The Book Fair, School Photos and the Senior School Athletics Carnival are just three of the highlights that we look forward to. 
Of course, our students are working as hard as ever on the valuable Learning Assets of Inquiry that will help them through a lifetime of learning: Researching, Communicating, Collaborating, Self-Managing and of course Thinking.
Please feel warmly welcome to email your child's teacher with any questions, concerns or information you'd like to share about your child's learning journey. We value your input, ideas and support!


Classroom Teachers

4K - Miss Beth Krause (she/her) - bckra0@eq.edu.au 
4R - Ms Amber Ryan (she/her) - axrya6@eq.edu.au  
4C - Mrs Regan Cunningham (she/her) - rcunn44@eq.edu.au  

Important Dates

Week   2 – District Cross Country
Week   3 –

  • Labour Day Holiday Monday 5 May
  • Mother's Day Stall Thursday 8 and Friday 9 May

Week   5 – Karawatha (select students only) Monday 19 - Thursday 22 May  

Week   6 – Jersey Day Wednesday 28 May
Week   7 –

  • School Photos
  • Book Fair  

Week   9 – Senior Athletic Carnival Thursday 19 and Friday 20 June

Specialists Lessons

Monday - Japanese with Nagashima Sensei; Religious Instruction 2.00pm; Parade 2.30pm
Tuesday - Japanese with Nagashima Sensei; Music with Mrs Murray
Wednesday - Library Borrowing (4C, 4K)
Thursday - Physical Education with Mr Brady
Friday - Health with Mrs Stirling; Library Borrowing (4R)

Curriculum Focus

Please click here for a very handy overview of what Year 4 students typically learn to understand and do by the end of this year, according to the Australian Curriculum which guides all our learning.

        English

        What can we learn from stories? Students will explore a range of traditional and folk tales from around the world.
        They will be assessed on their ability to share an extend ideas using relevant details from a text; using text structures to organise and link ideas; using language features including subjective and objective language; topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices; and using features of voice.

        Mathematics

        How can we break numbers down?
        Students will be assessed on a range of mathematical achievement standards, namely:
        - representing tenths in decimal form using understanding of place value;
        -counting and representing tenths as fractions on a number line; and
        -converting between units of time when solving problems involving duration.

        Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) with Miss Krause 

        How are people and the environment interconnected in diverse places? 
        Students will be assessed on their interpretation and presentation of geographic information and data in a range of different formats.

        Science with Ms Ryan

        How does Earth’s surface change?
        Students will be assessed on their discussion of how natural processes and human activity cause changes to Earth’s surface, and their identification of when science is used to understand the effect of their actions.

        The Arts (Visual Arts) with Mrs Cunningham

        What makes a performance unique? 
        Students will be assessed on their ability to compare and discuss elements such as role, relationships, voice and movement in dramas they perform and view.

        Music with Mrs Murray amurr51@eq.edu.au

        Students develop skills in reading notation, recorder technique and ensemble playing. 
        Students will sing, read and play a variety of repertoire on the recorder in different forms. 

        Students will be assessed on:
        (a) playing a recorder piece based on the Pentatonic Scale
        (b) written test

        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.

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

        Students will spend the term focusing on each of the field events they will be undertaking as part of the Senior School Athletics Carnival.  These include; long jump, shot put, javelin, discus and high jump.  There will also be a focus on sprinting technique as part of their running lessons.  
        Assessment: will determine how each student applies the correct technique application of the field event disciplines.

        Japanese with Nagashima Sensei

        Students will use language to explore the concept of introducing oneself in Japanese. 
        * Greetings
        * Year level
        * Age
        * Likes
        * Numbers in Kanji writing
        * A Traditional event

        Students will be assessed on:
        a) Notebook work (being assessed during Term 2)
        b) Speaking test – greeting/name/year level/age/likes/body language