Year Four 2025

Term Four 2025 Dates

October

• Mon 6.10 Curriculum Day - Student free day

• Tue 14.10  Division Athletics - selected students Yr 3-6

• Mon 13.10 Kitchen Garden begins

• Thu 30.10 Yr 4 Polly Woodside Excursion

• Fri 31.10 11.40am Yr 6 Sausage Sizzle Fundraiser

• Fri 31.10 8:30 - 10:00am gym - unifrom shop open

November

• Mon 3.11 Curriculum Day - Student free day

• Tue 4.11 Public Holiday - Melbourne Cup

• Thurs 13.11 Shut Up for MND Challenge

• Thurs 13.1 Whole School Photo

• Thurs 20.11 9.15 Assembly - moved from Friday 21st

• Sat 22.11 Twilight Fete

• Fri 28.11 9.15 Assembly

8:30 - 10:00am gym - Uniform Shop

December

• Thurs 4.12 Last Running Club

• Fri 5.12 9.15 Assembly

   12.30-2.00pm Yr 5/6 Festive Market

• Mon 8.12 No Kitchen/Garden

Whole School Swimming Program begins

• Tues 9.12 2.40 - 3.30 Whole School Transition

• Thurs 11.12 No Running Club

• Fri 12.12 Last day of canteen

9.15 Assembly - cancelled

2.00 - 3.15pm Carols in the gym 

• Mon 15.12 No Kitchen/Garden

• Wed 17.12 Whole School Swimming Program ends

• Thu 18.12 No Running Club

No Canteen

1-1.40pm Class Parties

2.35pm     Whole School - Final Assembly

• Fri 19.12 Last Day - Clean Up Day 

No Assembly or canteen

1:30pm finish 

TERM 4 OUTLINE

English

Throughout our Literacy block, incorporating Spelling Mastery, Fluency Partners, Handwriting, Syntax Project, and Read 2 Learn, students have engaged in explicit instruction to strengthen their literacy skills.

Writing: Students will be focussing on writing narratives and persuasives this term. They will look at the structure and language features of these texts. Through the Syntax Project, students will continue to develop their sentence building skills as well as grammar and punctuation. They will continue to practise their handwriting on their way to receiving their pen licenses. Students will also practise their touch typing through 'Typing Club' to improve their efficiency when working on their devices.

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, monitoring, predicting, questioning, visualising, and making connections. 

Spelling: Students will continue with the Spelling Mastery program. At the end of each week, they will participate in a spelling test.

Maths

In Maths, students will be focussing on number sense, statistics, and probability.  They will apply their knowledge of the four operations, measurement, angles and money as they participate in hands-on activities such as the Aussie Bird Count, making scale maps of familiar landmarks and working with money.    

Science - Weather & Water

Students will list sources of water on Earth, identify key processes in the water cycle, and describe how water can cycle through the environment. They will distinguish between weather and climate and explain how human activity can impact climate, and how these impacts may be reduced.

Humanities - 'First Contacts'

Students will study the nature of contact between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the Europeans. They will explore the effects of these interactions, including issues regarding land ownership. Students will find historical information to determine the nature of colonial settlement, the effect of significant events, and the role of individuals in shaping a colony.