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Religion
Religion
Unit Title: 5.5 The Catholic Church has a Special Story
Unit Overview: This unit explores the story of the Catholic Church in Australia. It focuses on key events and people that have shaped the identity and growth of the Catholic Church in Australia. The unit also explores how the Church is organised and what it does in Australia today. It introduces very broadly the key expressions of Catholicism in the Catholic Church in Australia. The unit assists students to recognise their place in the Church as the people of God.
Unit Title: 5:6 Creation: A Change of Heart.
Unit Overview: This unit explores creation as a gift from God, which we are called to care for and protect. Students will identify issues of misuse and mismanagement in the environment and explore how we, as stewards of creation, can respond appropriately and compassionately.
English
English
Unit title: Hear my Voice!
Unit Overview: In this unit, students learn to critically analyse and respond to a range of texts in order to persuade the audience. They will explore the ways in which texts are structured and presented when communicating ideas and influencing viewers. Students will be encouraged to consider the impact of writing from one's own perspective and will have opportunities to plan, compose, edit and publish their persuasive writing. Students will also identify the intended message within texts and represent perspectives beyond personal experience.
Mathematics
Mathematics
Unit Title: Exploring grids, Time and Exploring Relationships of 3D Spatial Structure
Unit Overview: Students will be using a grid references system to locate landmarks and describe routes using directional language. They will use 12 hour and 24 hour time, notations for am and pm and learn how to construct and read timetables. Finally, students will explore 3D shapes and identify with their nets and properties
Science
Science
Unit Title: Save our Species
Unit Overview: Students in this topic explore the concept of ecosystems and the impact that humans are having on them. Students will look at the interactions between abiotic and biotic factors as well as the adaptations of plants and animals in our Australian context. Students will also develop and implement an action to Save our Species of the Cumberland Plain Woodland.
HSIE
HSIE
Unit Title: Factors that Shape Places
Unit Overview: Through the development of their geographic and mapping skills, students will investigate how people change the natural environment in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Here students will investigate how our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have influenced Australia’s environmental characteristics through the use of Fire Stick farming in order to clear, rejuvenate and repopulate an area of land. Further, students will investigate how the natural environment influences people and places. For example, students will investigate the impact climate change has on the vitality of the Murray Darling River Basin, how climate change impacts the basin’s water scarcity, and our farmer’s ability to produce goods.
PDHPE
PDHPE
Unit Title - I Like Me- Personal Identity and Dance (PDHPE)
Unit Overview: Students will focus on personal identity, growth and development. They will describe the factors that influence personal identity and examine the physical, social and emotional changes that occur during development for example during puberty. Students will devise strategies for coping with change and value different roles and responsibilities in relationships. In the practical component of the course students will be given opportunities to explore a range of dance styles and sequences in order to develop confidence when refining and applying rhythmic and expressive movement skills.
Creative Arts: Dance
Creative Arts: Dance
Unit Title: The Elements of Dance - Emotions
Unit Overview: In this unit, students build on their understanding of the Elements of Dance - action, time, space, dynamics, and relationships, while exploring how stimuli can be used to inspire movement. Focusing on emotion as a stimulus, students work in small groups to choreograph a dance that communicates a chosen feeling through expressive movement. They develop both technical and expressive skills, applying safe dance practices and choreographic tools to structure their work. The unit culminates in a class performance, where students present their group dances and reflect on how movement can express meaning and connect with an audience.
Pastoral (Social and Emotional Wellbeing) Learning Time
Pastoral (Social and Emotional Wellbeing) Learning Time
Executive Functioning and Self Management Skills
Executive functioning and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully.
Self-management is our ability to manage our behaviours, thoughts, and emotions in a conscious and productive way. Self-management means you understand your personal responsibility in different aspects of your life, and you do what you need to fulfil that responsibility.
Students will learn how to better organise their daily schedules with the use of diaries, term planners and ongoing management of their emails and Google Drive.
Personal Strengths
These series of lessons have been designed to assist students to identify their strengths and skills and to recognise when it would be appropriate to use each skill or strategy. Students will have the opportunity to assess their personal strengths and identify ways to enhance their ability to apply these skills and strategies. A number of scenarios have been developed to allow students to evaluate the most suitable strengths, skills and strategies to use in different situations.
Better Buddies with Kindergarten
Better Buddies helps students entering their first year of primary school to feel safe, valued and connected to the school community. The school pairs new primary school students with an older buddy.
Better Buddies is designed to help reduce bullying and create friendly and caring school environments. The program builds strong relationships and research shows children benefit immensely from such peer support initiatives- with younger students feeling safe and cared for and older students feeling valued and respected.
This program will see sessions occur throughout the year in Terms 2, 3 and 4.
Inclusive Community Project
As part of their Inclusive Community Project, Service Learning, students will learn about the issues surrounding energy poverty. Students will make a difference to East Timor by working with “Solar Buddies” to create solutions to illuminate the lives of children worldwide.
Skill focus: Creativity and Collaboration
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