Welcome to Carome Learning Community
MIRELLA |
DEANNA |
KARINDA |
BRIONY |
CORINNE |
TOM |
Curriculum
The Victorian Curriculum F–10 sets out what every student at MPPS and all Victorian schools should learn during their first eleven years of schooling. The curriculum is the basis of all our MPPS planning documents and guides our teaching at MPPS, as well as forming a common set of knowledge and skills required by students for life-long learning, social development and active and informed citizenship. Further to this the Victorian Curriculum F–10 incorporates the Australian Curriculum and reflects Victorian priorities and standards.
Further information is available http://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) is a comprehensive approach to the primary prevention of violence against women and children. As a school we are dedicated to promoting and modeling respect, positive attitudes and behaviours with the aim of teaching our children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence. The whole school approach to RRRR goes beyond curriculum, recognising that to drive real change, classroom learning needs to be reinforced by what is modelled within the school community.
Further information is available http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/Pages/respectfulrelationships.aspx
Further information is available http://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) is a comprehensive approach to the primary prevention of violence against women and children. As a school we are dedicated to promoting and modeling respect, positive attitudes and behaviours with the aim of teaching our children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence. The whole school approach to RRRR goes beyond curriculum, recognising that to drive real change, classroom learning needs to be reinforced by what is modelled within the school community.
Further information is available http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/Pages/respectfulrelationships.aspx
Labelling your child's belongings |
Brain Food |
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Please label all lunchboxes, containers, drink bottles and school uniform items so they are easily identifiable and able to be returned if misplaced.
Responsibility is one of our school values at Mernda Park Primary School. We encourage students to be responsible for their own belongings. |
Students eat brain food twice a day. Brain food consists of fruit or vegetables, but no processed foods. We encourage students to bring brainfood because the brain requires two times the amount of energy to function efficiently during the day.
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Home Learning
Carome Learning Community is expected to read 15-30 minutes most evenings. You can see what your child is reading as it will be recorded in their diary each day. Diaries need to come back to school every day as students use them during their learning.
You can: read to your child, listen to your child read or have your child read to you. Talk to your child about their reading. It’s fun to discuss storyline, characters, setting and predict what is going to happen next.
All students are encouraged to access Reading Eggs, Mathletics and Soundwaves at home, to support learning that is happening at school.
You can: read to your child, listen to your child read or have your child read to you. Talk to your child about their reading. It’s fun to discuss storyline, characters, setting and predict what is going to happen next.
All students are encouraged to access Reading Eggs, Mathletics and Soundwaves at home, to support learning that is happening at school.
Carome Curriculum Snapshot
Term Three
Remote Learning
During Term 3, all students at MPPS are required to transition to remote learning. Students will primarily use Google Classroom to engage in learning. Students have daily schedules to complete assigned learning tasks, submit assignments and receive feedback from their teachers. This information is based on the curriculum content for Term 3 which students will be learning on-site or remotely.
English
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Reading
We are currently reading Marge in Charge by Isla Fisher as our class novel. This is the story of a mischievous babysitter with rainbow hair who loves to make a mess and bend the rules. At dinnertime Chef Marge cooks up chocolate soup. This novel contains three stories, Jake and Jemima have brilliant fun with their new babysitter, but will they manage to tick off all the jobs on Mummy’s list? Marge is in charge... hold onto your rollerskates. It’s great to see the students enjoying Marge in Charge, and some students are even bringing their own copy of the book to school to read. Our students have reading sessions throughout the week where they read and explore set novels and texts and respond to their reading in a variety of ways such as - group discussion, comprehensions questions, art/craft activities, maths tasks, mapping etc. Reading Eggs is an online programs that focuses on a core curriculum of phonics and phonemic awareness, sight words, vocabulary comprehension and reading for meaning. We allocate the students with set tasks that they work on at school but are also encouraged to work on at home. |
Writing
This semester our students are focussing on a writing program based on developing writers into storytellers. We are working on practising powerful writing strategies such as personification, points of ellipsis, creating rhythm as well as many more. Our students are continuing to practice the use of a ‘Mountain Planner’ to carefully map out each paragraph of their writing in order to create a powerful and cohesive piece of text. In our community we are writing everyday and publishing our work on a regular basis. Our writing focus for term 3 is about ‘Winter Wonderland’. Our students will be making a Winter Wonderland diorama and describing these using vivid vocabulary. Followed by writing a narrative story about a wild weather experience. The next writing text type will be procedural writing where the children will be making their own marshmallow snow person. Our final writing topic for this term will be an informative piece around the topic of the water cycle. The writers in CLC are working extremely hard to develop strong vocabulary that enhances their text and creates colourful imagery. We are extremely proud of the commitment and persistence displayed by all members of our Learning Community to produce writing of such a high standard. |
Sound Waves
This year at MPPS we are continuing with the Sound Waves as part of our curriculum. This is a word study program designed to develop reading, spelling and writing skills through phonemic awareness. This is essentially a knowledge and understanding of sounds and sound patterns of our language. Our students will be working through their student activity books each week to study a different sound and the different letter patterns used to represent that sound. Students also have an online login code that provides access to games and activities that helps students consolidate the spelling words that are being studied in the classroom. Students are encouraged and expected to access Sound Waves at home to reinforce their understanding of the sound we are studying that week. You can help your child by accessing Sound Waves at home and playing the games and completing the activities found there. |
Mathematics
You can support your child’s maths learning by playing maths games with them such as: memory, times tables races, talking about time and clocks, encouraging them to explore counting money and giving change.
Mathletics is a fun online way for your child to practise their maths skills. There will be set tasks for your child to complete that will give them extra practice with the concepts they are currently focusing on at school.
Mathletics is a fun online way for your child to practise their maths skills. There will be set tasks for your child to complete that will give them extra practice with the concepts they are currently focusing on at school.
Number & Algebra
This term students will explore multiplication and division. They will practise recall of multiplication facts of 2, 3, 5, 10s as well as using arrays and repeated addition
Students will explore how to use their maths’ knowledge to solve problems. They will also explore money, calculating change and the amount needed.
Measurement and Geometry
Throughout the term, students will explore symmetry, transformations such as flips, slides, rotations and turns, perimeter and area of objects and 2D and 3D shapes and their features.
Statistics and Probability
Students will collect, check and classify data such as, 'What are your two favourite fruits?' They will organise data into categories and create displays using lists, tables, picture graphs and simple column graphs, with and without the use of digital technologies. Students will analyse the data and write sentences about what it is telling them
This term students will explore multiplication and division. They will practise recall of multiplication facts of 2, 3, 5, 10s as well as using arrays and repeated addition
Students will explore how to use their maths’ knowledge to solve problems. They will also explore money, calculating change and the amount needed.
Measurement and Geometry
Throughout the term, students will explore symmetry, transformations such as flips, slides, rotations and turns, perimeter and area of objects and 2D and 3D shapes and their features.
Statistics and Probability
Students will collect, check and classify data such as, 'What are your two favourite fruits?' They will organise data into categories and create displays using lists, tables, picture graphs and simple column graphs, with and without the use of digital technologies. Students will analyse the data and write sentences about what it is telling them
Integrated
Grade 2 Term 3: Light and Sound
Overview: Students will learn about sources of light and how to create shadows. They will build instruments and use their bodies and computers as they experiment with making sounds. Students will work towards presenting a production of a story using puppets and sounds.
Students will investigate:
Future Action:
Students will develop a curiosity about the science in their world. They will use knowledge about light and sound as they play with design and technology at home and at school. Students will consider how their favourite movies and performances use sound effects to enhance the story, and how music in their world can communicate emotion.
Grade 3 Term 3: The Game of Life
Overview: Students will learn how forces can be exerted on one object by another as they design and build a balloon powered car. They will learn how to create simple programs using Scratch. Students will create their own computer game and provide feedback to their classmates about their creations.
Students will investigate:
Future Action:
Students will consider physics in their world; as they travel to and from school and as they play with their friends. They will appreciate the complexity and creativity of computer programs that they use every day. Students will be able to discuss new scientific findings by referring to their knowledge of the scientific method. They will continue to develop their science, engineering and programming skills.
Overview: Students will learn about sources of light and how to create shadows. They will build instruments and use their bodies and computers as they experiment with making sounds. Students will work towards presenting a production of a story using puppets and sounds.
Students will investigate:
- The sources of light and the causes of shadows.
- How we use sound to represent objects and characters in stories.
- How we use design and technology to tell stories.
- How can we make puppets and instruments?
- How can we use instruments, computers and our bodies to make sounds?
- How can we use sounds and shadows to tell a story?
Future Action:
Students will develop a curiosity about the science in their world. They will use knowledge about light and sound as they play with design and technology at home and at school. Students will consider how their favourite movies and performances use sound effects to enhance the story, and how music in their world can communicate emotion.
Grade 3 Term 3: The Game of Life
Overview: Students will learn how forces can be exerted on one object by another as they design and build a balloon powered car. They will learn how to create simple programs using Scratch. Students will create their own computer game and provide feedback to their classmates about their creations.
Students will investigate:
- How forces can be exerted by one object.
- Designing and conducting experiments.
- Basic computer programming using Scratch.
- What are 'contact forces' and what are 'action-at-a-distance' forces?
- How do you design and conduct an experiment?
- How do you make computer programs using Scratch?
Future Action:
Students will consider physics in their world; as they travel to and from school and as they play with their friends. They will appreciate the complexity and creativity of computer programs that they use every day. Students will be able to discuss new scientific findings by referring to their knowledge of the scientific method. They will continue to develop their science, engineering and programming skills.
Personal and Social Capability –
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships
In CLC, this curriculum focuses on supporting students to interact and play constructively with others and to establish friendships with peers.
Students will be supported to
Students will be supported to
- use a range of coping skills that will enable them to cope with future changes and challenges
- use positive talk as a key strategy for coping with negative thoughts emotions and events
- identify and describe personal interests, skills and achievements
- have an awareness of the feelings and needs of others
- recognise the importance of persisting when faced with new and challenging tasks
- reflect on their emotional responses
- practise techniques to deal with feelings of fear, frustration and anger
- develop skills to cope with the challenges they may face
- understand the consequences for their actions in a range of different social situations
- recognise and develop personal strengths and identify personal challenges
- identify a range of conflict resolution strategies
- engage in regular yoga and meditation sessions
Japanese
During term 3, CLC students will explore their Winter Wonderland theme in Japanese classes, learning to say some winter words. They will learn about the Japanese Winter Festival, read a Japanese story in a winter setting, make snow origami and more.
冬Fuyu (winter in Japanese).
冬Fuyu (winter in Japanese).
Class Dojo
To help us create a positive culture in our Learning Community, we use Class Dojo to acknowledge positive behaviours that display our CARE values. Teachers can encourage students to display skills or values using Class-Dojo as an incentive — whether it's working hard, being kind, helping others. This is done by awarding points that are displayed electronically in the Learning Community or Specialist class. Using Class Dojo can help student’s emotional literacy grow as they have the opportunity to receive immediate, regular and positive feedback in a fun visual way.
Specialist Programs
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Assembly |
Performing Arts Gp 2 PE Gp 1 & 4 Visual Arts Gp 3 & 5 |
Visual Arts Gp 1 & 2 Performing Arts Gp 4 & 5 PE Gp 3 |
Visual Arts Gp 4 Performing Arts Gp 1 & 3 PE Gp 2 & 5 |
RRRR |