Prep - Term 4 Curriculum Overview 2023
Term 4
Welcome to Term 4 of Prep at Trinity Beach State School. It is lovely to see the smiles from students after the holidays. Students were eager to share their holiday stories and were ready to focus on learning. All prep classes have begun transitioning to the Year One playground. This will encourage familiarisation and confidence for next year. Each class will play in the Year 1 play one day a week. It is very important for students to attend school every day. If your child is absent, please contact the office to let them know. Students must not attend school if they are unwell. Just a reminder…No hat, no play! Ensure you have spare clothes in your child’s bag every day. Please ensure your child has a drink bottle each day. To build a sense of belonging, pride and respect, students are expected to wear their full school uniform -
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English
In this unit, students will write a report on an Australian animal. Their report will include name, classification, appearance, habitat and an interesting fact.
Maths
In this unit, we will cover number and place value, counting forwards and backwards, counting from different starting points, comparing, identifying and representing quantities, simple addition and connecting number names, numerals and quantities to 10.
Science
This term, our Science unit is Our Living World – Students represent, share and reflect on observations about the needs of living things and how an environment can affect them.
HASS
This semester our Geography unit provides opportunities for students to:
- understand that a ‘place’ has features and a boundary that can be represented on maps or globes
- observe and record the visible elements or features of the ‘place’ they live in and belong to
- represent the location and direction of visible elements or features of their place on a pictorial map and model
HPE
Students in Prep will demonstrate personal and social skills for working with others in a range of activities. They will develop the fundamental movement skills of two-handed catching and underarm throwing and explore dynamic balances with beanbags. They will apply these skills to solve movement challenges.
Music
In this unit, students will learn about ballet music as they listen to a variety of musical pieces from the Nutcracker. They will become aware of timbre and texture of music and that a story can be told through the medium of music and dance.
Technology
In Technology, Preps continue the unit on Fairy Tales , with their learning based around the traditional stories of The Gingerbread Man, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Australian Dreamtime story The Quinkins.
- The Gingerbread Man and The Three Billy Goats Gruff:Students use technological ideas to design a solution to get the Gingerbread Man as well as the Billy Goats across the river safely. Assessment: Students use their design ideas from their Billy Goats Gruff work to construct their solution using simple recycled boxes, plastics and a range of craft materials. They evaluate their construction and consider whether it could be improved and how.
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Quinkins: Studentsconsider ownership of property and relate that to data - how data (words, pictures, etc.) online can be viewed publicly but still are the property of the author and cannot be reproduced without permission.
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, Prep students will explore the wonderful things to see ‘Up in the Sky’. We will discuss images found in books and look at various famous artworks. Students will build on their collage skills as well as learn different techniques with an array of materials. These will be assembled to create their artwork for this term.
Drama
Stories Come to Life; ‘Journey’
Students make and respond to drama by using the picture book ‘Journey’ as a stimulus as they bring the characters to life with voice, movement and improvisations for performance.
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
| ENGLISH | Australian Animal Report - Write a report on an Australian Animal | Week 7 |
| MATHS | Number – Connect number names, numerals and quantities up to 10 and count to and from 20. | Week 6 |
| SCIENCE | Our Living World – Students represent, share and reflect on observations about the needs of living things and how an environment can affect them. | Week 6 |
| HASS | My Special Places – Students identify, represent and describe the features of familiar places, and suggest ways to care for a special familiar place. | Week 6 |
| HPE | Catch that bean | Weeks 5-8 |
| TECHNOLOGY | Written test | Weeks 7-8 |
Reading & Spelling
Our school continues to embed a whole school approach to reading and spelling across Prep to Year 6. This involves teaching the reading and spelling demands of the Australian Curriculum, providing students with a systematic synthetic phonics approach and unpacking the Big 6/Science of Reading through engaging and meaningful lessons. Students engage with decodable texts when learning to read and rich authentic texts when reading to learn and continue to use the PLD approach for their spelling and sound focus
Attendance
How to report an absence:
Either:
- Text (SMS)* 0428 621 921 (preferred method) *SMS line does not take calls & no emoji’s please SMS any time, with student name, reason for absence and duration.
- Call the absence Line: 4057 1444 (press #1) only available after 8:30 am Leave student name and reason for absence.
- Email: attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au before 9:30am.
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
Tuckshop
Tuckshop operates daily during the two breaks. Orders can be placed online via FlexiSchools or at the tuckshop on a paper bag. Tuckshop orders are placed in class tuckshop basket before 9am. Miscellaneous items can be purchased over the counter. Please talk to your child about not giving money away or sharing food.
Contact Information
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