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.