Prep Term 2 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome back to all our existing and new parents and carers in Prep. We have a busy Term 2 ahead of us with lots of exciting things happening.
It is very important for students to attend school every day so they do not miss out on any of the curriculum. It is also important for every student to have a healthy breakfast before coming to school to help their concentration and ability to learn. Thank you for the healthy lunches, remember to gauge how much food your child requires and try and limit too many packaged foods if possible. Please put water in the water bottles and try to avoid juice if possible. If names come off lunchboxes and water bottles, make sure you rename them throughout the year to avoid confusion.
Just a reminder… No hat, no play! Ensure you have spare clothes in your child’s bag every day.
To build a sense of belonging, pride and respect, students are expected to wear their full school uniform:
- No jumpers with hoods or jumpers that are not a dark blue
- No jewellery with exception to watches, medical alert bracelets or religious/ memorial references.
- No knee-high colourful socks (Black, blue, white)
- School Hats to be worn (due to an awaiting back order, expectation here will be eased until order is received)
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 is implementing 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 be working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.
Due to this change, home reading will look different as well. Students may come home with games with high frequency words or sounds instead of home readers. This is reading practice. Please be assured that students will be getting a much higher level of reading mileage at school every day.
English
Enjoying and Retelling Stories:
Students will listen to and engage in a range of texts and sequence events from various texts. They will then prepare for their assessment task by retelling a story through drawings and written sentences.
Maths
This term we will be covering a range of mathematical concepts:
- giving and following movement instructions using mathematical language
- number and place value including counting forwards and backwards, identifying how many in a group and comparing quantities using more or less
- patterns such as copying, describing and continuing simple repeating patterns
- 3D shapes and 2D shapes
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.
HASS
My Family History:
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 and relationships within their family. 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.
HPE
In year Prep during Term 2 students will explore how to perform the basic movements to run, jump for distance and throw using basic equipment in relation to athletic events. In Health, students will continue to recognise how they are growing and changing and will identify actions that help them be healthy.
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.
Drama
Stories Come to Life; ‘Journey’:
Students continue to make and respond to drama by using the picture book ‘Journey’ as a stimulus as they bring the characters to life with voice, movement, soundscapes and improvisations for performance.
Assessment schedule
| Learning area | UNIT OUTLINE | TASK | DUE DATE |
MATHS | Sorting Shapes - Task is administered as an interview. Students identify 2D shapes and sort into categories. Using Language to Describe Location – Task administered as an interview. Students describe location of objects and directions on a map. | Practical | Week 3 Week 7 |
| SCIENCE | Our Material World – students use a variety of materials to build a boat and describe properties of materials used and the reasoning behind using them. | Responding to question | Week 6 |
HASS | My Family History - Students will explore celebrated events in their lives and identify how people and objects help them to remember. | Responding to question | Week 5 |
| ENGLISH | Enjoying and Retelling Stories – Students use words, phrases and images to retell a familiar story. | Written | Week 7 |
HPE | Althletics | Practical | Not assessed |
| Health | Written | Week 3 | |
| DRAMA | Stories Come to Life; ‘Journey’ - performance | Performing Responding | Ongoing throughout term |
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 | Performing Composing | Weeks 7-8 Week 9 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
Prep A – Vanessa Graham (vgrah5@eq.edu.au);
Prep B – Darelle Andersen (dande135@eq.edu.au)
Prep C - Kaileh Cavenett (kcave12@eq.edu.au)
Prep D - Angela Buckley (ambuc1@eq.edu.au)