Prep Term 3 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome to Term 3 in 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 focused on learning in classes.
We have another busy term ahead of us with lots of exciting things happening. During Week 2 we have our excursion to Trinity Beach, followed by ‘100 Days of Prep’ Celebration in Week 3, later in the term each prep class will be having a Father’s Afternoon to celebrate Father’s Day and at the end of the term we have our Under 8’s day. Information on these events will follow soon.
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.
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)
This semester we are continuing our school wide Social and Emotional Program called You Can Do It! Students will learn about five different social-emotional skills. These skills will be called our five keys to success – persistence, organisation, getting along, resilience and confidence.
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 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
In this unit, students listen to, view and interpret a range of multimodal texts, including poetry and rhymes, to develop an understanding of sound and letter knowledge and a range of language features. They will create a rhyming verse and recite it to a familiar audience. They will listen while others present their rhyme. Students will also respond to a rhyming story by sharing their feelings about characters and events.
Maths
This term in our maths unit we will be covering a range of areas including:
- units of measurement including length, height and mass
- collecting information and interpreting simple data displays
- time, including sequencing events throughout the day and sequencing the days of the week and connecting them to familiar events.
Science
This term our science unit is called ‘Staying Alive’. It provides opportunities for students to investigate the basic needs for survival of animals, including humans, and how their senses help them stay alive.
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
In PE, students in Prep will develop and practise fundamental movement skills through active play and structured moment activities in a hot shot’s tennis unit. In Health, students will identify safe settings where they can move and play safely and identify actions that keep them safe in different settings. Students will also identify different emotions people experience in different situations.
Music
In this unit, students will become aware of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and tempo. They will develop their singing voices, play percussion instruments and learn to listen as performers and as audience. Students will listen and analyse a variety of musical pieces from different cultures and times.
Drama
Stories From The Past
Term 3 & 4 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 audience, ensuring all students have opportunities to develop their higher-order thinking skills.
Assessment schedule
| Learning area | UNIT OUTLINE | TASK | DUE DATE |
MATHS | Task 5 - Answering Questions and Interpreting Data Task 6 – Explaining Duration and Event Sequences Task 7 – Comparing Objects using Mass, Length and Capacity | Practical | Week 3 Week 5 Week 9 |
| SCIENCE | Our Living World – Students represent, share and reflect on observations about the needs of living things and how an environment can affect them. | Responding to question | Week 8 |
HASS | My Special Places – Students identify, represent and describe the features of familiar places, and suggest ways to care for a special familiar place. | Responding to question | Week 4 |
| ENGLISH | Task 1 – Recite a Rhyme - Students present a chosen rhyme to peers using their voice, actions and props. Task 2 – Responding to a Rhyming Story – Students communicate an opinion about a familiar rhyming story and identify the use of rhyme. Task 3 – Reading and Comprehension - Students read aloud and orally respond to comprehension questions. | Written | Week 6-9 Week 9 Week 9-10 |
HPE | Health - Netiquette | Written | Week 9 & 10 |
| DRAMA | Devise and perform a short scene about a memory. | Performing Responding | Ongoing throughout term |
MUSIC | Sing any known song and tap the beats | 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)