Prep Term 2, 2023 Curriculum Overview
Term Overview
Welcome back to all our existing and new parents and carers in Prep. We have a busy Term 2 ahead of us with lots of exciting things happening.
It is very important for students to attend school every day so they do not miss out on any of the curriculum. It is also important for every student to have a healthy breakfast before coming to school to help their concentration and ability to learn. Thank you for the healthy lunches, remember to gauge how much food your child requires and try and limit too many packaged foods if possible. Please put water in the water bottles and try to avoid juice if possible. If names come off lunchboxes and water bottles, make sure you rename them throughout the year to avoid confusion.
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 (Prep orange hats)
Before School
We encourage parents to drop students off to school after 8:30am. If students arrive before this time, they are to sit in the COLA until the 8:30am bell.
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%
English
Enjoying and Retelling Stories:
Students will listen to and engage in a range of texts and sequence events from various texts. They will then prepare for their assessment task by retelling a story through drawings, written sentences and oral retell.
Maths
This term we will be covering a range of mathematical concepts:
- number and place value including counting forwards and backwards, identifying how many in a group and comparing quantities using more or less
- patterns such as copying, describing and continuing simple repeating patterns
Science
Our Material World:
In this unit, students will examine familiar objects using their senses and understand that objects are made of materials that have observable properties. Through exploration, investigation and discussion, students will learn how to describe the properties of the materials from which objects are made and how to pose scientific questions. Students conduct investigations to determine suitability of materials for a particular purpose and share their ideas and observations using scientific language and representations.
HASS
My Family History:
This semester, students will explore families and their relationships with each other. They will identify who is in their family and learn about their family background and relationships within their family. They will learn how families can be the same or different. Students will identify important events in their own lives. They will identify how they, their families and friends know about their past and commemorate events that are important to them.
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HPE
In PE, students in Prep will continue to be involved in a unit that allows them to demonstrate personal and social skills when working with others across a range of athletic events. They will explore how to perform the basic movements of running, jumping and throwing for distance.
Music
In this unit, students will learn about ballet music as they listen to a variety of musical pieces from the Nutcracker. They will become aware of timbre and texture of music and that a story can be told through the medium of music and dance.
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, Prep students will explore the wonderful things to see ‘Up in the Sky’. We will discuss images found in books and look at various famous artworks. Students will build on their collage skills as well as learn different techniques with an array of materials. These will be assembled to create their artwork for this term. This will conclude our studies of Visual Arts for the students that have been participating this semester.
Drama
‘Memories’
Term 2 will see students continuing to 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.
Technology
Students learning in Technology continues with Fairytales as they discover design and digital solutions for the follow characters.
- 3 Billy Goats Gruff: How can the billy goats get to the new paddock? Students design a solution to get the billy goats gruff to the new paddock and be safe from the Troll.
- The Gingerbread Man: Students follow steps to make a gingerbread man using a picture sequence.
- Goldilocks and the 3 bears: Students identify some data that is personal and owned by them.
Assessment Schedule
LEARNING AREA | UNIT/TASK | DUE DATE |
MATHS | Making connections between 0 and 10 | Week 6 |
SCIENCE | Our Material World -students use a variety of materials to build a boat and describe properties of materials used and the reasoning behind using them. | Week 6 |
HASS | My Family History - Students will explore celebrated events in their lives and identify how people and objects help them to remember. | Week 5 |
ENGLISH | Enjoying and Retelling Stories – Students use words, phrases and images to retell a familiar story. | Week 8 |
HPE - Health | Who wants to play? Practical assessment | On-going throughout the term |
Drama | Memory Performance Consolidation Test - Oral response | Weeks 6&7 Week 8 |
Contact Information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
Prep A – Kaileh Cavenett kcave12@eq.edu.au
Prep B – Lauren Shouldice lrsho0@eq.edu.au
Prep C - Darelle Andersen dande135@eq.edu.au
Prep D - Angela Buckley ambuc1@eq.edu.au
Prep M - Gayle Kyle gkyle4@eq.edu.au
Specialist Teachers
HPE - Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE - Rochelle Powell rapow1@eq.edu.au
Visual Arts - Vaness 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