Term One Curriculum

English

This term students will listen to, read, view and analyse literary texts. Students will complete two assessment tasks this semester: 

• Exploring a text 
  • Students will recall events from a familiar narrative; exploring characters and setting. Students in Year three and above will explain how language features and vocabulary are used to develop characters, setting and events in familiar narratives and engage audience interests. 
• Persuasive letter
  • Students in the early years will focus on expressing likes and dislikes of a story. They will respond to familiar stories and make connections to personal experiences. Students in year three-six will write a persuasive letter agreeing or disagreeing with with a statement.

Kindy- 

Our kindy students this term will be exploring character and settings in texts. They will engage with a key text using accompanying questions to support story comprehension. Respond with suggested strategies for retelling a story. Extend with a range of suggested learning experiences that build on the story content across kindergarten learning and development areas; and use resources that provide links to supplementary materials such as songs, poems, fingerplays that are connected to the central topic in the story. 

Mathematics

This term students will complete three assessment tasks: 

1. Number and place value/ fractions and decimals

Prep- 

• • Students will explore counting and connecting numerals, number names  and quantities. 

Year One-

• • Students will understand numbers to 100. They will investigate: counting to and from 100; teen numbers, partitioning, place value. 

Year Four- 

• • Students will understand numbers beyond 10,000 and locate fractions on number lines. They will investigate: comparing and ordering four and five digit numbers, partitioning, applying place value, partitioning to understand thirds, sixths, and ninths and extending the place value system to decimals. 

Year Five-

• • Students will explore decimal and unit fractions, estimation and rounding. They will investigate: using roudning and estimating of whole numbers, unit fractions in a collection, comparing and ordering unit fractions and exploring decimals to hundreths. 

Year Six- 

1. • Students will explore fractions, decimals and integers. They will investigate: equivalent fractions, ordering and comparing fractions, connecting fractions, decimals and percentages, exploring properties of whole numbers. 
     
2. Location and transformation 

Prep- 

• • Students will use the langauge of loaction. They will investigate: using postional language, representing location, describe movement giving directions, observe changes in location. 

Year One- 

• • Students will use the langauge of location. They will investigate, location and postition, direction of and movement. 

Year Four-

• • Students will identify symmetry and interpret simple maps. They will investigate: location on simple maps, cardinal compass points, scales on maps, directional language to find locations and describe pathways, creating digital symmetrical designs. 

Year Five- 

• • Students will apply transformation and mapping concepts. They will investigate: reflection and translation symmetry, rotation symmetry, enlargement of shapes, using ordered pairs and aplanumeric grids.

Data representation and interpretation

Prep- 

• • Students will investigate asking questions. They will: use questions to collect information, collect information by answering questions, interpret data displays. 

Year One- 

• • Students will investigate making inferences from collected data. They will investigate data representations, ask questions to gather data and collect and represent data. 

Year Four- 

• • Students will analyse data. They will investigate: collecting data through observations and surveys, presenting collected data in picture graphs and column graphs. 

Year Five- 

• • Students will pose questions to collect data, construct and interpret data displays. They will investigate: interpreting and creating column graphs, creating dot plots, using digital technologies, posing questions and presenting, collecting and organising data. 

Year Six- 

• • Students will interpret and compare data displays. They will investigate representing & comparing categorical data, constructing and interpreting dot plots & picture graphs, interpreting pie graphs and interpreting secondary data.   

Kindy- 

Our Kindy students will participate in a variety of Mathematics activities. All activites will be meaningful learning experiences appropriate to children’s developmental strengths, needs and interests. Staff will interact and co-construct play-based experiences with children in ways that support learning, and celebrate and encourage their efforts.

Science

This term students are investigating Earth and Space science. An incursion will occur on the last day of Term One in conjunction with this unit. 

P-2 students will explore sky and land and investige weather and seasons. They will also look at changes in our environment. 

3-4 students will create a presentation to explain the cause of everyday observations on Earth, including night and day, sunrise and sunset, and shadows.

5-6 students will describe key features of the solar system. They will describe how science knowledge develops from many people’s contributions and explain how scientific developments have affected people's lives and solved problems. 

Kindy- Students will participate in a range of play-based activites alligned to the QKLG and Science curriclum. 

HASS

Hass is taught over the Semester. Students will complete the assessment task throughout the two terms. This semester students are investigating changing life and communities.

Prep-2 students will investigate their personal history and identify & describe important dates and changes in their own lives. 

Year 3- 6 students will investigate commemorations and celebrations that take place in their community and explore what aspects have changed and remained the same over time. 

Kindy- Students will participate in a range of activites alligned to the QKLG and HASS curriclum. 

HPE

HPE has two components (Health and Physical Education) a summary of each unit for the appropriate year levels is below. Swimming will also be taught throughout Semester One, however, will not be assessed. 

Prep-

• In this health unit students will explore information about what makes them unique, identifying their strengths and achievements. Students will identify safe settings where they can move and play safely and identify actions that keep them safe in different settings. Students identify different emotions people experience in different situations.
• In this physical activity unit, students explore how to move and play safely during physical activity. They develop the fundamental movement skills of running, jumping, hopping and galloping. They apply fundamental movement skills and solve movement challenges.

Year 1- 

• In this health unit students describe physical and social changes that occur as they grow. They describe their personal strengths and achievements and discuss how these are acknowledged and celebrated. Students identify similarities and differences, and recognise how diversity contributes to identities.
• In this physical education unit, students will develop the object-control skills of rolling, catching, pat bouncing and throwing through active participation in activities, games and movement challenges. They will also apply rules and fair play practices.

Year 4- 

• In this health unit students will identify strategies to keep healthy and improve fitness. They will explore the Australian guide to healthy eating and the five food groups. Students will understand the importance of a balanced diet and how health messages influence food choices. They will create meal plans that reflect health messages.
• In this physical education context, students will practise and refine fundamental movement skills to perform long-rope, partner and individual skipping sequences. They will examine the benefits of being healthy and physically active, and how they relate to skipping.

Year 5- 

• In this health unit, students recognise that emotions and behaviours influence how people interact. They understand that relationships are established and maintained by applying skills. Students will identify practices that keep themselves and others safe and well.
• In this physical education unit students will develop specialised football skills and create and perform a sequence of these skills to music.

Year 6- 

• In this health unit students explain the influence of people and places on identities. They explore how important people in their lives and the media can influence health behaviour. Students examine influences on health behaviour and construct a health message for their peers.
• In this physical education context, students perform free running skills including running, jumping, landing, balancing and safety rolls. They combine free running skills, movement concepts and strategies to complete obstacle courses.

Kindy- Students will participate in a range of play-based activites alligned to the QKLG and HPE curriclum. 

The Arts

The Arts unit is taught over the semester and is delivered as a Learning Area. This Semester students will particiapte in various art activities that are co-designed with Queensland Art Gallery. This year the "Kids on Tour" unit is called Super Powered; the unit is designed collaboratively with artists. 

P-2 students will describe artworks they make and those to which they respond; and consider where and why people make artworks. They will  use the elements and processes of arts subjects to make and share artworks that represent ideas.

3-4 students will describe and discuss similarities and differences between artworks they make and those to which they respond. They will discuss how they and others organise the elements and processes in artworks. Students will  collaborate to plan and make artworks that communicate ideas.

5-6 students will explain how ideas are communicated in artworks they make and to which they respond. They will describe characteristics of artworks from different social, historical and cultural contexts that influence their art making. Students will structure elements and processes of arts subjects to make artworks that communicate meaning; and work collaboratively to share artworks for audiences, demonstrating skills and techniques.

Kindy- Students will participate in a range of play-based activites alligned to the QKLG and Arts curriclum.