Year 4 Term 1 Overview 2022
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 Mr. Jacob Neill (4A), Mrs Jullie-Ann Kentish/Mr Greg Okulov (4B), Mr Chris Paterson (4C), Mrs Jessica O’Kane (4D). We also have Andrew Lamond (3/4A) and Anna Vintila (4/5). 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 1st of April.
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, LOTE, Music, Drama 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.
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
This term, students read and analyse traditional stories from all round the world including Aboriginal peoples' and Torres Strait Islander Students plan, create and present a traditional story which includes a moral for a younger audience.
Students in the 3/4 composite class will be engaged in the overarching themes of the year 4 English unit however content will be targettted at both a year 3 and 4 level.
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.
Students in the 3/4 composite class will be engaged in the overarching themes of the year 4 Maths unit however content will be targettted at both a year 3 and 4 level.
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.
Students in the 3/4 composite class will be engaged in the overarching themes of the year 4 Science unit however content will be targettted at both a year 3 and 4 level.
HASS
Over the end of 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. Examine the purpose of laws and distinguish between rules and laws. 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. Analyse the experiences of contact between Australia’s first peoples and others, and the effects these interactions had on people and the environment. 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.
Students in the 3/4 composite class will be engaged in the overarching themes of the year 4 HASS unit however content will be targettted at both a year 3 and 4 level.
HPE
In PE, students in year four will practise and refine fundamental movement skills to perform various skipping skills and solve individual skipping challenges. They will also examine the benefits of being fit and physically active and how it relates to skipping. In Health, students will recognise strategies for managing change. They will interpret health messages and discuss the influences on healthy choices.
Students in the 3/4 composite class will be engaged in the overarching themes of the year 4 HPE unit however content will be targettted at both a year 3 and 4 level.
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.
Students in the 3/4 composite class will be engaged in the overarching themes of the year 4 Music unit however content will be targettted at both a year 3 and 4 level.
Drama
Freeze Frames
Students working in groups create, present and respond to a drama story that expresses their ideas and feelings about their special place in the school.
Students in the 3/4 composite class will be engaged in the overarching themes of the year 4 Drama unit however content will be targettted at both a year 3 and 4 level.
Lote
In this unit, students will use the Chinese language to explore the concept of school life in Chinese-speaking cultures and make connections with their own school experiences. They will engage with a range of texts and discuss about school experiences in Chinese. They will also analyse and understand the Chinese pronunciation and sentence structure.
Students in the 3/4 composite class will be engaged in the overarching themes of the year 4 LOTE unit however content will be targettted at both a year 3 and 4 level.
Assessment schedule
| LEARNING AREA | UNIT | TASK | DUE DATE |
| ENGLISH | Examining traditional stories | Written | Week 8 |
| MATHS | Compare dependent and independent events, as well as look at the probability of events occuring | Written | Week 5 |
| Describe number patters resulting from multiplication | Written | Week 7 | |
| Solve problems invovling time, using clock and calendars | Written/ group work | Week 10 | |
| SCIENCE | Material world unit allows students to develop an understanding of the properties of materials and how they relate to their use | Scientific report | Week 8 Term 2 |
| HASS | Early exploration and settlement, inquiry question - 'what were the short and long term effects of European settlement' | Written | Week 10 |
| 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. | Written | Week 7 |
| HPE | Superstar Criss Cross Skipping | Practical | Ongoing through term |
| MUSIC | Students learn about different cultures as they listen and analyse music from different countries. | Responding and performing | Week 8/9 |
| DRAMA | Free Frames Create a character | Performing responding | Week 8/9 Term 1 Week 8/9 Term 2 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
4A Jacob Neill jhnei0@eq.edu.au 4B Greg Okulov gokul0@eq.edu.au & Julie-Anne Kentish kent16@eq.edu.au
4C Chris Paterson cpate100@eq.edu.au 4D Jessica O'Kane jtilt6@eq.edu.au
3/4 Andrew Lamond ajlam0@eq.edu.au 4/5 Anna Vintila akvin0@eq.edu.au