Prep Term 4 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome to Term 4 of 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 ready to focus on learning.
All prep classes have begun transitioning to the Year One playground. This will encourage familiarisation and confidence for next year. Each class will play in the Year 1 play one day a week.
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. Please ensure your child has a drink bottle each 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 only)
- School Hats to be worn.
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 will write a letter to a main character from a familiar story. There will be a focus on beginning writing behaviours, punctuation and letter formation.
Maths
In this unit, we will cover number and place value, counting forwards and backwards, counting from different starting points, comparing, identifying and representing quantities, simple addition and connecting number names, numerals and quantities to 10.
Science
This term our Science unit is “Weather in my world”. Weather will be observed and represented using symbols. Students will note changes and how weather impacts on everyday life.
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
Students in Prep will demonstrate personal and social skills for working with others in a range of activities. They will develop the fundamental movement skills of two-handed catching and underarm throwing and explore dynamic balances with beanbags. They will apply these skills to solve movement challenges. Students will also be involved in an intensive swimming program from weeks 6-9.
Music
During this Term, students will developed their understanding of the concepts: staff, treble clef, bar and bar line. They will learn the rhythmic elements – crotchet and quavers. Students will learn a number of songs and musical games. They will express themselves through art for music appreciation.
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/TASK | DUE DATE |
ENGLISH | Task 1 – Responding to a Story – Write a letter to a familiar character. | Weeks 6/7 |
MATHS | Task 1 – Number – Connect number names, numerals and quantities up to 10 and count to and from 20. | Week 6 |
SCIENCE | Weather in our World – Weather will be observed and represented using symbols. Students will note changes and how weather impacts on everyday life and demonstrate their understanding through answering questions. | Week 6 |
HASS | My Special Places – Students identify, represent and describe the features of familiar places, and suggest ways to care for a special familiar place. | Week 6 |
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 | Weeks 7-8 Week 9 |
Drama | Create stories of family and friends | Week 9-10 |
HPE | Practical | Weeks 6-8 |
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)