Year 4 Term 1 Overview 2025
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 Rosanna Rivera (4A), Mrs Julie-Anne Kentish/Mrs Ebony Hopkins (4B), Kristie Pittorino (4C), Kim Fowler/Ariel Ballou(4D) and Mr Tim Cherry (4E). The best way to contact us is through email. (see contact information section) 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 4th of April. Our specialist classes include 4 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 further develop proficiency and positive dispositions towards mathematics and its use as they:
- build understanding of number facts, fractions and decimals to deepen an appreciation of how numbers work together
- Use materials and digital tools to recognise line and rotational symmetry and create symmetrical patterns and pictures
- create and interpret grid reference systems and directions on a map to locate and describe positions and pathways of locations of interest
- develop and use surveys and digital tools to generate data and conduct a statistical investigation.
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. |
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 will create a learning aid as a digital solution, and use provided design criteria to check if solutions meet user needs. They will process and represent data for different purposes. Students will follow and describe simple algorithms involving branching and iteration and implement them as visual programs. They will securely access and use digital systems and their peripherals for a range of purposes, including transmitting data. Students use the core features of common digital tools to plan, create, locate and share content, and to collaborate, following agreed behaviours. They will identify their personal data stored online and recognise the risks.
LOTE (Chinese)
UNIT = “Discover Chinese!”
In this unit students will identify the Chinese language as being linked to Chinese culture. They will identify why we learn other languages such as Chinese. They will engage in different texts to identify how the Chinese script originated from pictures. They will use Chinese vocabulary to construct simple conversational sentences. They will also explore and analyse the formation of Chinese characters and sentence structure. Students will identify cultural characteristics of China.
Visual Arts
Our theme this year in Visual Arts is ‘The Splendiferous World of Roald Dahl’. Each year level will have a different book to use as a creative focus. This term, year 4 students will be creating an art piece based on the book ‘James and the Giant Peach’. Students are going to be creating the peach with paper mâché and crafting each of the characters featured in the book out of air-dried clay. We will then be crafting seagulls which our peach will be razztwizzlerly hung from.
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 | Mapping – Short response test | Week 5 |
Statistics investigation | Week 9 | |
Science | Science report | Week 7 |
HASS | Short response test | Week 10 |
HPE | Making healthy choices | Week 8/9 |
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 |
Visual Arts | Making and responding to Visual art | Throughout |
Technology | Folio of work | Throughout |
LOTE | Students will respond to simple texts by selecting learned words and numbers. They will also need to demonstrate their understanding of the formation and use of Pinyin in spoken Chinese. They will identify cultural characteristics evident in China | Week 9 |
Drama | Making – Group performance | Week 8 |
Responding – Written Test | Week 9 |
Contact information
Classroom teachers 4A - Rosanna Rivera rxriv0@eq.edu.au 4B - Ebony Hopkins ehopk13@eq.edu.au & Julie-Ann Kentish jkent16@eq.edu.au 4C - Kristie Pittorino kpitt32@eq.edu.au 4D - Kim Fowler kahol2@eq.edu.au & Ariel Ballou nabal2@eq.edu.au 4E - Tim Cherry ttche0@eq.edu.au | Specialist Teachers HPE Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au HPE 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 |