Year 4 Term 1 Overview 2023
Term overview
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 Mrs Petai Wilson (4A), Mrs Jullie-Anne Kentish/Mrs Ebony Hopkins (4B), Mrs Ebonee Dryden (4C), Mr Steve Kotzikas (4D) Mrs Christine Holden (4E). We also have Mrs Rossana Rivera (3/4A). 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 31st of March.
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.
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
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 targeted 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 targeted 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 targeted at both a year 3 and 4 level.
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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 targeted at both a year 3 and 4 level.
IEC
In addition to supporting the children within the classroom in the IEC we are also establishing a positive classroom atmosphere.
Within our small groups (‘Social Skills’) we are revising the particular ‘focus skill’ each week and ensuring we all understand what the expectations are.
In their small groups the children are becoming responsible, resilient students and we all respect and support each other.
HPE
Students in year four will focus on applying strategies for working cooperatively and apply rules fairly in the game of T-Ball. They will refine their striking and fielding skills and concepts in active play and games.
Music
During this Term, students will learn the differences between: tied notes and slurs, legato and staccato, strong and weak beats, and simple and compound time. They also will practice writing simple rhythmical patterns and melodies.
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.
Technology
In Technologies, students in year four will create a Marble Run to investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system with a digital component, Micro:bit (small computer board) to add lights and sound. Students will then code a Micro:bit to create a tilting game.
LOTE
In this unit students will use the Chinese language to explore the school experience in Chinese-speaking cultures and make connections with their own school experiences. They will engage in different texts and discuss about school experiences in Chinese. They will also explore and analyse the formation of Chinese characters and sentence structure.
Assessment schedule
LEARNING AREA | UNIT/TASK | DUE DATE |
| English | Examining traditional stories | Week 8 |
| MATHS | Compare dependent and independent events, as well as look at the probability of events occurring | Week 5 |
| Describe number patters resulting from multiplication | Week 7 | |
| Solve problems involving time, using clock and calendars | Week 10 | |
| Science | Material world unit allows students to develop an understanding of the properties of materials and how they relate to their use | Throughout |
| HASS | Early exploration and settlement, inquiry question - 'what were the short- and long-term effects of European settlement' | Week 10 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
4A Mrs Petai Wilson pwils96@eq.edu.au
4B Ebony Hopkins ehopk13@eq.edu.au Julie-Anne Kentish kent16@eq.edu.au
4C Ms Ebonee Dyden ldryd10@eq.edu.au
4D Mr Steve Kotzikas sskot0@eq.edu.au
4E Mrs Richelle Mailman rmail4@eq.edu.au
3/4A Mrs Rossana Rivera rxriv0@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
HPE/Technology/drama Karen Arthur kaart0@eq.edu.au
Technology Jacqui Kidney jkidn6@eq.edu.au
LOTE Isabel Ip ilip0@eq.edu.au