Year 4 - Term 3 Curriculum Overview
Term 3
It is wonderful to see so many keen, refreshed returning and new students to Term 3. It is going to be a busy term and we appreciate your support and ensuring that your child continues to be well equipped and prepared each day.
We welcome Mr Tim Cherry (4E) to our team which also consists of Ms Petai Wilson (4A), Ms Julie-Anne Kentish / Ms Ebony Hopkins (4B), Ms Caitlin MacDonald (4C) and Mr Steven Kotzikas (4D)). The best way to contact us is through email.
We have exciting excursion this term which supports our HASS and Science units. Classes will be visiting Cairns’ Waste Management Education Program for half a day in Week 8 either Tuesday 29th August, Wednesday 30th August or Thursday 31st August. There is also a pre incursion to this excursion on Wednesday 23rd August. The day each class will attend will confirmed and communicated closer to the event. In past years this has been a popular activity.
English
Students recognise and analyse characteristic ideas and persuasive techniques including language features and devices, audio effects and visual composition in advertisements and their impact on the target audience. Students use appropriate metalanguage to describe the effects of persuasive techniques used on a breakfast cereal package. Based on these techniques, students create a cereal package. They present their package to their peers justifying their persuasive choices.
Maths
This term, students will:
- Describe different methods for data collection and representation and evaluate the effectiveness of these methods to choose the most effective way to collect and present the data
- Construct data suitable displays from given or collected data with and without the use of digital technology.
- Recall multiplication facts to 10 x 10 and related division facts, connecting division to multiplication by using efficient and mental and written strategies
- Classify angles in relation to right angles using greater than or less then language and create angles
- Interpret information in maps using scale, legends and direction to find features on a map.
Science
The Beneath our Feet unit provides opportunities for students to explore how natural processes and human activity shape their surroundings. Students’ understanding of soils, rocks and landscapes and how they change over time is developed through hands-on activities and student-planned investigations. Students also investigate factors that affect the erosion of soils.
HASS
This semester students will work to answer the following Inquiry question:
How can people use environments more sustainably?
Students will used cartography and investigation skills to recognise the importance of the environment, including natural vegetation and identify the interconnections between the environment, animals and people. They will also identify the roles of local government and our community in environmental sustainability and propose an action plan for an identified sustainable practice for waste management.
HPE
4A, 4B and 4E students will be involved in a unit on Netball. Students will learn the skills, strategies and rules of the sport and practice these through modified netball games and activities. This unit provides activities for students to practice and develop fundamental skills such as passing, shooting, defending, player positioning and footwork required for successful game play. In Health, students will examine and interpret health information about cyber safety and online protocols. They will reflect on young people's use of digital technologies and online communities, and identify resources to support their safety.
4C and 4D students will be involved in a unit on T Ball. Students will learn striking and fielding skills and concepts in active play and games. They will apply strategies for working cooperatively and apply rules fairly. These students will be doing Health and Netball next term.
Music
During Term 3, 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.
Drama
Students will develop a character through individual and group exploration, dramatic improvisation and response. They plan a character backstory and change the way they walk, talk and move. At the end of the term students participate in an improvised interview, in character, in front of their class.
Technology
In Technologies, students in Year 4 will create a Marble Run to investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system. Students collect data throughout the investigation, presenting results as a multimodal presentation.
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 | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Analysis of product packaging Creating product packaging and speech to explain design choices | Week 6 Week 10 |
Maths | Analysing data Interpreting maps | Week 4 Week 9 |
Science | Experimental investigation | Week 8 |
HASS | Cartography skills test | Week 9 |
HPE | HEALTH - Netiquette PE – Fielding and striking | Weeks 7-8 Weeks 9-10 |
Music | Singing the nursery song with lyrics and clap the rhythm. Perform it as a two-part canon | Weeks 7-8 |
Drama | Create a Character Written Responding | Week 8 Week 9 |
LOTE | Written Assessment | Week 9 |
Social Emotional Learning/Self-Regulation
The Pause Program will commence in week 6 of this term. Why the Pause approach?
- Pause teaches students the importance of recognising the signals in their body that their brain sends them.
- Pause teaches students the three key parts of the brain that are responsible for thinking, emotions and long term memory.
- Pause empowers students to self-regulate their own behaviour by taking notice and acting on the signals they receive from their brain in a positive way.
- Wellbeiing underpins the way children feel about themselves and how they relate to others.
- Pause improves children’s wellbeing by teaching them about Neuroscience and Mindfulness.
Reading & Spelling
Our school continues to embed a whole school approach to reading and spelling across Prep to Year 6. This involves teaching the reading and spelling demands of the Australian Curriculum, providing students with a systematic synthetic phonics approach and unpacking the Big 6/Science of Reading through engaging and meaningful lessons. Students engage with decodable texts when learning to read and rich authentic texts when reading to learn and continue to use the PLD approach for their spelling and sound focus.
Homework
Homework will continue as usual, please check with your child’s teacher if your child has not arrived home with any homework.
Attendance
How to report an absence:
Either:
- Text (SMS)* 0428 621 921 (preferred method) *SMS line does not take calls & no emoji’s please SMS any time, with student name, reason for absence and duration.
- Call the absence Line: 4057 1444 (press #1) only available after 8:30 am Leave student name and reason for absence.
- Email: attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au before 9:30am.
QParents
QP is an online portal helping the school move toward a cashless and paper friendly school.
- The QP portal allows Parents and Carers to grant participation consent online for activities such as swimming and excursions which reduces our need to print out paper consent forms
- Also, the QP portal enables Parents and Carers to make payment online for school activities and viewing unpaid invoices payment history.
Thank you to all those parents who have registered for QParents. This means every registered parent now has the opportunity to access to their children’s student records at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere. Haven’t received an invitation from us yet? There’s still time! Please let us know immediately. Or if you are simply looking for further information, videos and FAQs on QParents, visit https://qparents.qld.edu.au
Tuckshop
Tuckshop operates daily during the two breaks. Orders can be placed online via FlexiSchools or at the tuckshop on a paper bag. Tuckshop orders are placed in class tuckshop basket before 9am. Miscellaneous items can be purchased over the counter. Please talk to your child about not giving money away or sharing food.
Contact Information
Contact your child's teacher:
4A - Petai Wilson - pwils96@eq.edu.au
4B - Ebony Hopkins - ehopk13@eq.edu.au Julie-Anne Kentish - jkent16@eq.edu.au
4C - Caitlyn MacDonald - cmacd154@eq.edu.au
4D - Steve Kotzikas - sskot0@eq.edu.au
4E - Tim Cherry - ttche0@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