Year 4 Term 1 Overview 2024
Term overview
We would like to welcome you and your child to what will be an exciting and successful partnership in Year 4 at Trinity Beach State School. Our Year 4 Teaching Team consist of Mrs Amanda Cecil (4A), Mrs Julie-Anne Kentish/Mrs Ebony Hopkins (4B), Mr Rod O’Neill/Mrs Ebonee Dryden (4C), Ms Ariel Ballou/Mrs Ebonee Dryden (4D) Mr Tim Cherry (4E). We also have Mrs Rossana Rivera (3/4A). The best way to contact us is through email. Our Math, Science, English and HASS programs will continue to follow the Australian Curriculum for Grade 4. Term 1 is a 10-week term, finishing on the 28th of March. Our specialist classes include 3 specialist lessons per week. Classes vary across the year level, but consist of a mixture of Health and Physical Education, Music and Technology. The assessment schedule for Term 1 is included in this outline (see table below), this provides a good insight into what your child is working on in class and their assessment task. If you have any questions regarding this please contact your child’s classroom teacher. |
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QParents
QParents is here
Great news: Trinity Beach SS provides our parent community with the opportunity to register for QParents.
We will be sending out invitations for parents to register for QParents next week.
QParents won’t replace the traditional ways you communicate with our school, but it will provide another way to communicate with us.
More information about QParents can be found at https://qparents.qld.edu.au/#/about
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 schools attendance target is 95%
Reading / Spelling
Our school will be continuing to implement a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has a teaching sequence for reading and spelling which goes across the entire school. Promoting Literacy Development or PLD for short, provides teachers with an innovative, evidence-based approach to literacy and advocates that children’s literacy and learning outcomes are maximized when the areas of literacy, oral language and movement & motor skills are simultaneously targeted. With this change, we will continue to work with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.
English
Students read a narrative (The Twits) and examine and analyse the language features and techniques used by the author. They create an extra chapter based on a trick for the narrative for an audience of their peers.
Maths
This term in Maths, students will
- compare dependent and independent events and explain what makes them dependent or independent.
- list the probabilities of everyday events and order them in chance of occurring.
- describe number patterns resulting from multiplication, make estimates and calculations by using the patterns relationships for multiplication.
solve problems involving time duration using clocks and calendars and convert between units of time.
Science
The Material World provides opportunities for students to develop an understanding of the properties of materials and how they relate to use. Through investigations, students explore how to test the properties of materials fairly and how to use this knowledge to choose materials wisely. |
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HASS
Over Term 1 and the beginning of Term 2 students will explore the diversity of different groups within their local community, consider how personal identity is shaped by aspects of culture, and by the groups to which they belong. We will examine the purpose of laws and distinguish between rules and laws. Students will make connections between world history events between the 1400s and the 1800s, and the history of Australia, including the reasons for the colonisation of Australia by the British, investigate the experiences of British explorers, convicts, settlers and Australia’s first peoples, and the impact colonisation had on the lives of different groups of people. We will analyse the experiences of contact between Australia’s first peoples and others, and the effects these interactions had on people and the environment and draw conclusions about how the identities and sense of belonging for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the past and present were and continue to be affected by British colonisation and the enactment of law of terra nullius. |
IEC
In addition to supporting the children within the classroom in the IEC we are also establishing a positive classroom atmosphere.
Within our small groups (‘Social Skills’) we are revising the particular ‘focus skill’ each week and ensuring we all understand what the expectations are. We also have small groups in the IEC which focus on developing children’s fine and gross motor skills.
Every Friday afternoon we have our cooking group where we encourage the children to make/cook recipes. During our cooking sessions we encourage the children to do as much as they can independently, developing their self-care skills.
In their small groups the children are becoming responsible, resilient students and we all respect and support each other
HPE
In PE, students in year four will practise and refine fundamental movement skills to perform various skipping skills and solve individual skipping challenges. In Health, students will recognise strategies for managing change. They will interpret health messages and discuss the influences on healthy choices.
Music
During Term one, students will extend their knowledge about dynamics, pentatonic scale, metre, rhythmic elements and percussion instruments. They will learn a large number of songs and games. Students will listen to and analyse a range of musical pieces.
Drama
Freeze Frames Students work in small groups of 4–5 to create, present and respond to a freeze frame story around a given theme. |
Technology
Students create a Marble Run to investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system with a digital component, Micro:bit to add lights and sound.
Assessment schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Task 1 - Write a short story based on the Twits | Week 7 |
Task 2 – Present story | Week 10 | |
Maths | Task 1 - Identifying and Explaining chance events | Week 3 |
Task 2 - Multiplication number pattern. | Week 7 | |
Science | Science report | Week 7 |
HASS | Short response test | Week 10 |
HPE | Making healthy choices | Week 7/8 |
Music | During Term one, students will extend their knowledge about dynamics, pentatonic scale, metre, rhythmic elements and percussion instruments. They will learn a large number of songs and games. Students will listen to and analyse a range of musical pieces. | Week 7/8 |
Technology | Students use engineering systems and materials to create a product that allows a marble to move through material runs. Students program a Micro:bit to add lights and sound to the marble run | Week 10 |
Drama | Making – Group performance | Week 8 |
Responding – Written Test | Week 9 |
Contact information
4A- Amanda Cecil alcec0@eq.edu.au 4B Ebony Hopkins ehopk13@eq.edu.au 4C Rod O’Neilll ronei21@eq.edu.au 4D Ariel Ballou nabal2@eq.edu.au 4E Tim Cherry ttche0@eq.edu.au | Julie-Anne Kentish jkent16@eq.edu.au Ebonee Dryden ldryd10@eq.edu.au Ebonee Dryden ldryd10@eq.edu.au | Specialist Teachers HPE Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au HPE Steve Kotzikas sskot0@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 |