Literacy

Reading:

Through reading daily, students will continue to develop their reading fluency and word recognition. Students will also strengthen and extend their comprehension skills focussing on summarising, predicting, questioning and making connections. 

Writing:

Students will be explicitly taught and have the opportunity to practise the purpose, structure and features of writing narratives, persuasive and procedural texts. Touch typing through ‘Typing Club’ will also form part of students’ experience. Students will practise their editing skills and check for correct grammar, punctuation and spelling in their writing. Next term, our students will learn and follow the structures of a variety of Poetry types. They will then create a range of poems on familiar topics. In Handwriting students will be learning cursive joins and continue their focus on accurate letter formation. 

Spelling:

Students will continue with the Spelling Mastery Program, aimed at improving and enhancing their spelling skills. This program utilises different methods such as phonemic, whole-word, and morphemic strategies to reinforce spelling abilities. 

Mathematics:

Our focus in Mathematics continues to be one that targets ‘real life’ skills. One of the aims of the program will be for students to understand the purpose and importance of Mathematics in their lives and be able to apply a range of concepts to understand what they encounter on a daily basis. Topics to be covered include Fractions, Decimals, Data Representation and Money and Financial Matters. 

Humanities:  'First Australians' 

Students will study the importance of Country and Place to the Aboriginal people of the local area. Students will investigate such topics as the cultures, beliefs, languages and social organisation of Aboriginal people before the arrival of Europeans, looking closely at communities, clans and the significance of the environment. They will also study Dreaming stories and their meaning. Students will learn about important First Nations' people and the significant contributions they have made to society.

Science: 'Heating Up' 

Students will learn how heat energy is generated from different sources and how heat transfers from one object to another.  They also explore the properties of solids, liquids and gases and how temperature changes leads to changes of state.  Students will build their science inquiry skills through predicting, planning, and conducting science investigations.