Welcome to Carome Learning Community
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 One
English
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Reading
We are currently reading Esio Trot by Roald Dahl as our class novel. This is the story of a very shy man and a very kind woman, and a small tortoise called Alfie who brings them together. Esio Trot is a story about shy Mr Hoppy and his love for his neighbour, Mrs Silver. It was one of Roald Dahl's last stories and is dedicated to two of his grandchildren, Clover and Luke. It’s great to see the students choosing to read ahead during silent reading sessions each day. 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. You should come and have a look at our ‘WOW WORK’ board and see what we are producing. Our writing focus for term 1 is about 'Healthy Living'. Our students made funky, fresh fruit kebabs and described what they saw, smelt and felt, using vivid vocabulary. Now we are writing an adventure story about an amzing outdoor holiday we are experiencing. This will be followed by procedural writing a recipe about 'How to make a Healthy Sandwich'. Our final writing topic for this term will be a persuasive piece around the topic of healthy food choices. 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 a range of strategies to hel[ them write number sequences going forwards and backwards by 2, 3, 5 and 10. They are identifying the factors that make a number odd or even and they are reading, writing, making and ordering 4 and 5 digit numbers.
Students will explore how to use their maths’ knowledge to solve problems.
Measurement and Geometry
Carome Learning Community will name and order months and seasons and practise telling time to the quarter-hour, using the language of 'past' and 'to'.
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 a range of strategies to hel[ them write number sequences going forwards and backwards by 2, 3, 5 and 10. They are identifying the factors that make a number odd or even and they are reading, writing, making and ordering 4 and 5 digit numbers.
Students will explore how to use their maths’ knowledge to solve problems.
Measurement and Geometry
Carome Learning Community will name and order months and seasons and practise telling time to the quarter-hour, using the language of 'past' and 'to'.
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 1 : Growing Older and Wiser
Overview: Students will learn about staying safe and taking responsible risks, healthy food, expressing their emotions clearly, and dealing with conflict. They will consider how they have changed in their life and reflect on the things that they will be able to do in the future.
Students will investigate:
Students will be able to identify safe and unsafe situations. Students will practise listening carefully and expressing themselves clearly to deal with conflict. They will consider healthy food choices at home and school. As they continue to develop physically, socially, and emotionally they will be open to new experiences.
Grade 3 Term 1 : The Game of Life
Overview: Thestudents will consider ethics, customs, hobbies and sports, and people who are important in their lives. They will learn which health messages in the media are safe to trust and how to say no when someone is pressuring them.
Students will investigate:
Students will use strategies to manage changes in their identity. They will consider when they should trust health messages in the media. Students will participate in regular exercise as they lead an active life. Students will say no when someone is pressuring them to do something they don't want to do. They will understand that their identity is unique and is formed by many things including their family and their culture and they will respect other people's identities.
Overview: Students will learn about staying safe and taking responsible risks, healthy food, expressing their emotions clearly, and dealing with conflict. They will consider how they have changed in their life and reflect on the things that they will be able to do in the future.
Students will investigate:
- Staying safe and taking responsible risks
- Healthy food
- Expressing emotions and dealing with conflict Getting older
- How can I make sure I'm always safe?
- What foods are healthy to eat?
- How have I changed and how will I change?
- How can I express my emotions clearly and deal with conflict?
Students will be able to identify safe and unsafe situations. Students will practise listening carefully and expressing themselves clearly to deal with conflict. They will consider healthy food choices at home and school. As they continue to develop physically, socially, and emotionally they will be open to new experiences.
Grade 3 Term 1 : The Game of Life
Overview: Thestudents will consider ethics, customs, hobbies and sports, and people who are important in their lives. They will learn which health messages in the media are safe to trust and how to say no when someone is pressuring them.
Students will investigate:
- Managing challenging situations
- Cultural and personal identities
- Health messages in the media
- What are some strategies to manage challenging situations?
- How do I ask questions about different cultural and personal identities?
- How do I know which health messages in the media to trust?
Students will use strategies to manage changes in their identity. They will consider when they should trust health messages in the media. Students will participate in regular exercise as they lead an active life. Students will say no when someone is pressuring them to do something they don't want to do. They will understand that their identity is unique and is formed by many things including their family and their culture and they will respect other people's identities.
Specialist Programs
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Assembly Library Gp 1, 2 & 3 Visual Arts Gp 4 |
Performing Arts Gp 2 PE Gp 1 & 4 Visual Arts Gp 3 & 5 |
Visual Arts Gp 2 Performing Arts Gp 1 & 5 PE Gp 3 Library Gp 4 & 5 |
Visual Arts Gp 1 Performing Arts Gp 3 & 4 PE Gp 2 & 5 |
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