Welcome to Carome Learning Community
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Kerri |
Verona |
Rhece |
Kristen |
Karinda |
Kosta |
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 2 Swimming Lessons |
Brain Food |
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CLC students will attend swimming lessons from Week 2 until Week 7 of Term 2. These lessons will be every Friday afternoon at Mill Park Leisure Centre. Students will be required to bring a swimming bag/backpack with their towel, underwear, hairbrush and googles. Students must wear their bathers to school under their uniform. Please label ALL items clearly with your child’s name. For more information, please see Compass.
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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
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
Library sessions will commence in Week 2 of Term 2.
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
Reading in Term 2 will be based on the theme of sustainability. Students will engaged with the text Wongutha Tales and will write a reflection on the portrayal of characters, the choice of setting and the key messages in one of the Wongutha tales. Students will also complete a novel study on the text Brindabella, the will explore images of the Australian landscape, helping students understand the setting and themes. Through discussions and activities, students will make connections between the story and the natural world. This encourages deeper thinking about the novel’s messages and images. The third text CLC students will read is The Mess that We Made explaining how illustrations show the problem, action and solution in the text, demonstrate understand, the impact of pollution on marine life and mapping cause-and-effect relationships. |
Writing
The Term 2 writing program, titled A Journey Below the Surface, will be based on the theme of sustainability. Students will view and engaged with the text, The Hidden Forest by Jeannie Baker throughout term. The text will stimulate discussion and ideas for a variety of writing genres, new and challenging vocabulary, and appropriate writing strategies that entertain, persuade, and inform their reader. Students will continue to develop their knowledge of and ability to use simple, compound and complex sentences, choosing an appropriate conjunction where required. Handwriting lessons will explicitly teach developing fluency when forming letters leading to joined letters. 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 Term 2 algebra, students will learn to:
- recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction as inverse operations
- apply to partition numbers and find unknown values in number sentences
- find unknown values in numerical equations involving addition and subtraction, using the properties of numbers and operations
- develop efficient mental and written strategies and use appropriate digital tools for solving problems involving addition and subtraction
- recognise and use the relationship between formal units of time, including days, hours, minutes and seconds, to estimate and compare the duration of event
- describe the relationship between the hours and minutes on analogue and digital clocks, and read the time to the nearest minute
- solve problems involving the duration of time including situations involving ‘am’ and ‘pm’ and conversions between units of time
Personal and Social Capability –
Resilence, Rights and Respectful Relationships
In Term 2, students will focus on the topic of Help Seeking. Activities within this topic area will assist students to practise communication skills that enhance peer support and help-seeking, identify a range of help-seeking strategies to negotiate positive outcomes to problems, discuss the concept of peer support and identify situations where it is appropriate to adopt this role, and describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe. Students will practice these skills through role plays, allowing them to use these skills in a variety of situations.
MAPPEN
Students will learn about Earth’s natural resources and the importance of using them sustainably. They will conduct simple experiments related to the water cycle, desalination, and filtration. Students will explore the issue of plastic pollution in our oceans and consider the actions they can take to reduce their use of single-use plastics. They will investigate the importance of rainforests and the unique animals that call the Amazon rainforest home. Students will learn about the processes involved in the water cycle and use this knowledge to create a three-dimensional model for the Harmony with H2O Exhibition.
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 1 PE CLC 2 Performing Arts CLC 3 Visual Arts CLC 4 PE CLC 5 Japanese |
CLC 1 Japanese CLC 2 Japanese CLC 3 Performing Arts CLC 4 Performing Arts CLC 5 Visual Arts |
CLC 1 Performing Arts CLC 2 PE CLC 3 Japanese CLC 4 Visual Arts CLC 5 PE Library |
CLC 1 Visual Arts CLC 2 Visual Arts CLC 3 PE CLC 4 Japanese CLC 5 Performing Arts |
Swimming Lessons Weeks 2-7 |