Welcome to Carome Learning Community
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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, 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 modelling 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, 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 modelling 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
Term 3 Events |
Brain Food |
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We look forward to many exciting and fun learning events in term 3 including the whole school Book Parade, Book Week, Science Week, multi-aged science activities day, footy colour day and of course our incredible biannual Writer’s Festival! For further information on these events please see Compass updates throughout the term!
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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
Don't forget the Premiers Reading Challenge continues in Term 3.
Log in to https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home and record each book read. Books will be vertified by MPPS staff. The challenge ends on 28th August.
Carome Learning Community students are expected to read 15-30 minutes most evenings. Students need to record the title of their book and the page numbers they have read in their diary. We ask that diaries come back to school every day, signed by a parent or guardian. Teachers encourage students to bring their diaries to school daily by awarding Dojo points. Diaries also contain usernames and passwords for many online programs that Mernda Park PS uses, it is essential they have daily access to these both at school and at home.
You can: read to your child, listen to your child read or have your child read with 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 and Soundwaves at home, to support learning that is happening at school.
Reading Eggs website: https://readingeggs.com.au/ Mathletics website: https://login.mathletics.com/
Reading Eggs and Mathletics usernames and passwords are unique and will be accessible in the front cover of student's diaries.
Log in to https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home and record each book read. Books will be vertified by MPPS staff. The challenge ends on 28th August.
Carome Learning Community students are expected to read 15-30 minutes most evenings. Students need to record the title of their book and the page numbers they have read in their diary. We ask that diaries come back to school every day, signed by a parent or guardian. Teachers encourage students to bring their diaries to school daily by awarding Dojo points. Diaries also contain usernames and passwords for many online programs that Mernda Park PS uses, it is essential they have daily access to these both at school and at home.
You can: read to your child, listen to your child read or have your child read with 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 and Soundwaves at home, to support learning that is happening at school.
Reading Eggs website: https://readingeggs.com.au/ Mathletics website: https://login.mathletics.com/
Reading Eggs and Mathletics usernames and passwords are unique and will be accessible in the front cover of student's diaries.
Library Overview
Weekly Library sessions will commence in Week 1 of Term 3.
Students are required to bring their blue book bag in order borrow texts from the MPPS library. Students can borrow up to two books at a time. Books are due back two weeks after borrowing at the latest.
Books are expected to be returned on time and with no damage. Please inform CLC staff if books are misplaced or damaged.
Students are required to bring their blue book bag in order borrow texts from the MPPS library. Students can borrow up to two books at a time. Books are due back two weeks after borrowing at the latest.
Books are expected to be returned on time and with no damage. Please inform CLC staff if books are misplaced or damaged.
Victorian Curriculum Snapshot
English
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Reading
In term 3 students will be exposed to a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts. These texts will support learning in other areas of the curriculum such as Science and our Mappen unit. Students will begin the term with a wordless picture book ‘The Boy and The Elephant’ by Freya Blackwood, they will then complete an author study on visiting author Brett Cardwell. Students will also read and view a number of Science based texts before reading ‘Searching for Cicadas’ by Lesley Gibbs and Judy Watson, linking Science to fiction texts. Students will complete tasks such as analysing illustrations, making predictions, create character profiles, making inferences and comparing texts published by one author. We also encourage students to make preferences for texts read independently and read these during silent reading sessions as well as at home. |
Writing
The term 3 writing program, titled The Secret Garden, will be immerse students in vocabulary, stimulus and ideas that will lead them to planning, drafting, writing and publishing a narrative for the MPPS Writer's Festival. Students will view a movie trailer, the movie and picture books based on the idea of a secret garden and what lies behind a the gate. Students writing will be supported by art work, created during Visual Arts lessons. This will be on display at our Writer's Festival after school on the 9th September. Handwriting lessons will explicitly teach developing fluency when forming letters leading to joined letters. During term 3, Year 3s will be aiming to gain their cursive writing certificate and Year 4s will aim to receive the pen licence. Explicit grammar lessons will focus on building knowledge and use of tenses, sentence structure, and parts of speech. |
Speaking & Listening
Students will be encouraged to share work in pairs, with a small groups and to their class. They will particpate in discussions and share their opinions with others. Students will partcipate in role plays to practice interacting with others, whilst aiming to extend topic-specific and appropriate vocabulary and use cooperation strategies and interaction skills to contribute to discussions. They will explore the language of evaluation and emotion. 
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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.
The website is: www.fireflystudents.com.au
The student code is: sink422
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.
The website is: www.fireflystudents.com.au
The student code is: sink422
Mathematics
In Algebra will students learn recall and demonstrate proficiency with multiplication facts up to 10 × 10 and related division facts and explain the patterns in these. Students will extend and apply facts to develop efficient mental and written strategies for computation with larger numbers without a calculator.
In the area of Space, students will interpret and create two-dimensional representations of familiar environments, locating key landmarks and objects relative to each other. As well as create and interpret grid reference systems using grid references and directions to locate and describe positions and pathways.
Students will collecct data for categorical and discrete numerical variables to address a question of interest or purpose using digital tools. They will represent data using many-to-one pictographs, column graphs, and other displays. Students will show understanding through interpreting and discussing the information that has will be created.
In the area of Space, students will interpret and create two-dimensional representations of familiar environments, locating key landmarks and objects relative to each other. As well as create and interpret grid reference systems using grid references and directions to locate and describe positions and pathways.
Students will collecct data for categorical and discrete numerical variables to address a question of interest or purpose using digital tools. They will represent data using many-to-one pictographs, column graphs, and other displays. Students will show understanding through interpreting and discussing the information that has will be created.
Personal and Social Capability –
Resilence, Rights and Respectful Relationships
Stand Tall Program- Melbourne United Basketball Club
The STAND TALL wellbeing program supports children to build positive relationships and be the best they can possibly be through classroom-based activities and on-court practical experiences that give structure and meaning to Melbourne United’s values of excellence, selfless and inclusion.
The program will be delivered across 4 one-hour sessions and school students in year 3 & 4 will be supported to reflect and practice the thought habits and behaviours of the Melbourne United players as they develop their knowledge and skills and adapt to life’s challenges both on and off the court.
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The STAND TALL wellbeing program supports children to build positive relationships and be the best they can possibly be through classroom-based activities and on-court practical experiences that give structure and meaning to Melbourne United’s values of excellence, selfless and inclusion.
The program will be delivered across 4 one-hour sessions and school students in year 3 & 4 will be supported to reflect and practice the thought habits and behaviours of the Melbourne United players as they develop their knowledge and skills and adapt to life’s challenges both on and off the court.
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MAPPEN
Students will practise thinking creatively as they explore different ways to tell stories and develop a stop-motion animation. They will create a simple story and learn how to use a storyboard. Students will build a character and a set for their stop-motion animation and practise photographing and editing an animation using the Stop-Motion Studio Application. Developing creativity allows students to solve problems, learn new skills, innovate, and communicate effectively.
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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CLC 2 and 5 Library |
CLC 1 and 4 Library CLC 5 PE CLC 1 Performing Arts Weeks 2-5 Stand Tall Program (all groups) |
CLC 1 PE CLC 2 Performing Arts CLC 4 Visual Arts |
CLC 1 Visual Arts CLC 2 PE CLC 4 PE CLC 5 Performing Arts |
CLC 2 Visual Arts CLC 4 Performing Arts CLC 5 Visual Arts |