Welcome to Carome Learning Community
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TOM |
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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 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 Two
English
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Reading
This term we will be reading the series Young Hank Zipzer- Bookmarks Are People Too! by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver as our class novel. This new story is the tale of a young boy named Henry 'Hank' Zipzer who doesn't try to be funny, but he somehow always makes the kids in his class laugh. Hank's class is putting on a play, he believes he doesn't have it in him to be a star but will it be up to Hank to save the day- let's wait and see!? This story is from our Respectful Relationship range that has a font specifically developed for students with dyslexic. 
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. 
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Writing
This semester our students are focusing on a writing program based on developing writers into storytellers. We are working on practising powerful writing strategies such onomatopoeia, alliteration and similes as well as many more to create complex sentences as part of our writing. CLC students are continuing to practise the using of planning models 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 every day and publishing our work on a regular basis. Our writing focus for term 1 is ‘Sustainability’. This concept reflects student learning with Mappen as part of our Integrated Studies this term. CLC students will be exploring our real and imaginary worlds through different writing genres. Our first writing task for this term is to produce a narrative piece titled – ‘Found’. CLC students will be writing a story that might be about finding a lost pet, hidden treasures or new friends. It could be about finding the solution to a problem or finding an opportunity to do something different and exciting. The story could be about how people in difficult situations find courage, help or understanding. 
The writers in CLC will be working extremely hard to develop strong vocabulary that enhances their texts and creates colourful imagery. Our goal is to always produce writing of a high standard that we can be proud of.
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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. 
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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 the relationship between addition and subtraction. The students will investigate a variety of strategies like counting on and will use hands on material to solve addition, subtraction and missing number problems. Students will continue to practice recall of multiplication facts of 2, 3, 5 and 10s.
Money
Students this term will be counting and ordering small collections of Australian coins and notes according to their value. The mathematicians in CLC will also be required to count change for simple transactions to the nearest five cents.
This term students will explore the relationship between addition and subtraction. The students will investigate a variety of strategies like counting on and will use hands on material to solve addition, subtraction and missing number problems. Students will continue to practice recall of multiplication facts of 2, 3, 5 and 10s.
Money
Students this term will be counting and ordering small collections of Australian coins and notes according to their value. The mathematicians in CLC will also be required to count change for simple transactions to the nearest five cents.
Integrated
Grade 2 Term 2: Tip Toe Through Our World
Overview:
Grade 2 students will learn how to reduce, reuse and recycle as they consider the importance of sustainability. They will conduct an experiment to see how long things take to decompose. Your students will develop personal sustainability goals as they consider the ethics of sustainability.
Students will investigate:
Future Action:
Grade 2 students will appreciate the importance of looking after the environment. They will be discerning as they dispose of rubbish; understanding the distinction between materials that can be recycled, reused and reduced. Your students will consider the ethics of sustainability as they share our environment.
Grade 3 Term 2: The Blue Marble
Overview:
Grade 3 students will be immersed in the idea that the Earth is the only place that we know of which can sustain life. They will learn about living things and how they rely on the environment to survive. Students will learn about the life cycles of different animals and will research an endangered animal.
Students will investigate:
Essential Questions:
Future Action:
Grade 3 students will appreciate the idea that Earth is one environment and the only place that we now of which can sustain life. they will be able to participate in discussions about whose responsibility it is to sustain the environment. Students will be able to list strategies for helping endangered animals. They will be curious to learn more about environmental sustainability and motivated to contribute to conservation campaigns.
Overview:
Grade 2 students will learn how to reduce, reuse and recycle as they consider the importance of sustainability. They will conduct an experiment to see how long things take to decompose. Your students will develop personal sustainability goals as they consider the ethics of sustainability.
Students will investigate:
- How to sustain our environment by reducing, reusing and recycling.
- How long things take to decompose.
- The ethics of sustainability.
- How can we leave a tiny footprint on the environment?
- Do we know what we can reuse, reduce and recycle?
- How can we set goals and influence others to look after our environment
Future Action:
Grade 2 students will appreciate the importance of looking after the environment. They will be discerning as they dispose of rubbish; understanding the distinction between materials that can be recycled, reused and reduced. Your students will consider the ethics of sustainability as they share our environment.
Grade 3 Term 2: The Blue Marble
Overview:
Grade 3 students will be immersed in the idea that the Earth is the only place that we know of which can sustain life. They will learn about living things and how they rely on the environment to survive. Students will learn about the life cycles of different animals and will research an endangered animal.
Students will investigate:
- Life cycles and ecosystems.
- The human impact on the environment.
- Endangered animals and threats that they face.
- Ways which people can help endangered animals.
Essential Questions:
- How do living things depend on each other and the environment to survive?
- What impact do we have on the environment?
- Who is responsible for caring for the environment?
- How can we reduce our environment footprint?
Future Action:
Grade 3 students will appreciate the idea that Earth is one environment and the only place that we now of which can sustain life. they will be able to participate in discussions about whose responsibility it is to sustain the environment. Students will be able to list strategies for helping endangered animals. They will be curious to learn more about environmental sustainability and motivated to contribute to conservation campaigns.
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:
- describe personal strengths and how they can be utilised
- identify skills and strengths they wish to develop
- describe how to use strengths to be a good friend and team member
- describe factors that contribute to positive relationships with people at school, home and in the community
- investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength
- reflect on emotional responses and describe ways to express emotions which show awareness of feelings and needs of others
- identify a range of productive coping strategies for use in different situations and practise techniques to deal with different feelings
- learn and practise self-calming techniques
- engage in regular mindfulness sessions
Japanese
During term 4, CLC students will explore Japanese cultural learning. They will learn different varieties of Japanese cultures such as Japanese indigenous culture, Japanese traditional culture and modern culture.
楽しもうTanoshimou means Let’s have fun.
楽しもうTanoshimou means Let’s have fun.
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 RRRR |
PE Group 1 & Group 5 Visual Arts Group 2 & 3 Performing Arts Group 4 |
Visual Arts Group 4 Performing Arts Group 1 & 5 PE Group 2 & 3 |
Visual Arts Group 1 & 5 Performing Arts Group 4 PE Group 2 & 3 |
Value |