Prep Term 2 2025 Curriculum Overview
Welcome & General Information
Welcome back after what we hope was a great break for all. We would also like to welcome any new families into the Trinity Beach community. The purpose of this overview is to share what topics our students will be covering over the duration of this term across all of the learning areas as well as share when students will be assessed on their learning. For information about specific events please keep a look out on the Trinity Beach State School Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/trinitybeachss/ To ensure a smooth start to the term, please check to see if your child needs any additional equipment, such as stationary or uniforms and ensure that these are named to reduce the risk of losing them. We hope that this term is a successful term. As always, if you have any questions about your child’s progress or if you have any concerns your first point of contact is your child’s teacher. The contact details for all the teachers are listed in the “Contact Information” section. |
English
Personal Recount
In this unit, students will orally share their ideas with others beginning with when, who and what and are gradually encouraged to include more detail until their true story includes – when, who, where, what, why and how.
Maths
This term in Maths students will:
- Copy and continue repeating patterns.
- Partition and combine collections up to 10 in different ways, representing these with numbers.
- Represent practical situations that involve quantifying, equal sharing, adding to and taking away from collections to at least
- Use subitising and counting strategies to quantify collections.
Science
Our Material World:
In this unit, students will examine familiar objects using their senses and understand that objects are made of materials that have observable properties. Through exploration, investigation and discussion, students will learn how to describe the properties of the materials from which objects are made and how to pose scientific questions. Students conduct investigations to determine suitability of materials for a particular purpose and share their ideas and observations using scientific language and representations.
Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)
This semester, students will explore families and their relationships with each other. They will identify who is in their family and learn about their family background. They will learn how families can be the same or different. Students will identify important events in their own lives. They will identify how they, their families and friends know about their past and commemorate events that are important to them.
Health & Physical education (HPE)
In PE, students in Prep will continue to be involved in a unit that allows them to demonstrate personal and social skills when working with others across a range of athletic events. They will explore how to perform the basic movements of running, jumping and throwing for distance. In Health, students will recognise how they are growing and changing and will identify actions that help them be healthy.
Music
During this Term, students will developed their understanding of the concepts: staff, treble clef, bar and bar line. They will learn the rhythmic elements – crotchet and quavers. Students will learn a number of songs and musical games. They will express themselves through art for music appreciation.
Technology
Students identify a range of different familiar products, services and environments within our local community. They follow steps and use materials safely to create a designed solution and explore ways to create, communicate and choose design ideas.
Visual Arts
This term’s creative focus book is’ The Fantastic Mr Fox’. Prep students will build on their collage skills as well as learn different painting techniques with an array of materials. These will be assembled to create their artwork for this term which will fit into our Arts theme for this year, which is ‘The Splendiferous World of Roald Dahl’
Drama
Term 2 will see Prep students respond to, devise and perform drama based on the theme of memories. They will create stories of family and friends as a stimulus and explore improvisation, process drama and dramatic play and then present the drama that communicates ideas about stories of family and friends to an informal audience, ensuring all students have opportunities to develop their higher-order thinking skills.
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Personal recount: Oral presentation | Week 7 |
Maths | Patterns | Week 5 |
Partitioning and Combining Collections | Week 7 | |
Subitising | Week 6 | |
Science | Making a Boat: Oral response to questions | Week 6 |
HASS | Oral and pictorial response to questions | Week 6 |
HPE | I am growing and changing | Week 7/8 |
Music | Making — Performing Sing a known song individually Making — Performing Keep the beat to a known song while singing Making — Composing Create a rhythm action for Rain, rain song | Week 7-9 |
Technology | Prep students are not assessed in this learning area. | N/A |
Visual Arts | Prep students are not assessed in this learning area. | N/A |
Drama | Memory play | Week 6-8 |
Homework
Homework will be sent home every Friday afternoon. Please return Homework folders to class every Thursday morning. Homework will consist of reading with your child and practising spelling words.
Attendance
How to report an absence:
- Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
- Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
- Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return
Our school’s attendance target is 95%
QParents
QP is an online portal helping the school move toward a cashless and paper friendly school.
- The QP portal allows Parents and Carers to grant participation consent online for activities such as swimming and excursions which reduces our need to print out paper consent forms
- Also, the QP portal enables Parents and Carers to make payment online for school activities and viewing unpaid invoices payment history.
Thank you to all those parents who have registered for QParents. This means every registered parent now has the opportunity to access to their children’s student records at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere. Haven’t received an invitation from us yet? There’s still time! Please let us know immediately. Or if you are simply looking for further information, videos and FAQs on QParents, visit https://qparents.qld.edu.au
Contact information
Class Teachers Prep A – Kaileh Cavenett kcave12@eq.edu.au Prep B - Darelle Andersen dande135@eq.edu.au Prep C - Angela Buckley ambuc1@eq.edu.au Prep M - Gayle Kyle gkyle4@eq.edu.au Specialist Teachers HPE Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au & Rochelle Powell rapow1@eq.edu.au Visual Arts Vanessa Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au Music Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au Drama David Terry dater1@eq.edu.au Technology Alex Einerman aeine0@eq.edu.au & Jake Neill jhnei0@eq.edu.au LOTE Stefan Poropat sporo2@eq.edu.au |