Yan Yean 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

Labelling Your Child's Belongings

Take Home Reading Book

Please label all lunchboxes, containers, drink bottles and school uniform items so they are easily identifiable.

Responsibility is one of our school values and we encourage students to be responsible for their belongings.

Brain Food

Students eat brain food once a day. Brain food consists of fresh fruit or vegetables, but no processed foods. We encourage students to bring brain food each day.

Yan Yean Learning Community is expected to read 15-30 minutes most evenings. You can see what your child is reading as it should be recorded in their diary each evening. 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.

Yan Yean Curriculum Snapshot
Semester 1, 2020

English

Reading

This semester Yan Yean students will be participating in reciprocal reading groups, focusing on the reading strategies of making predictions using clues from the text, clarifying words by looking at words in context, questioning and recognising cause and effect in the texts they read.

Our community will read
A Long Walk to the Water- Linda Sue Park. Linda Sue tells the story of Nya, a young girl from Sudan. It is Nya's responsibility is to walk to the pond twice a day every day to fetch water for her family; it is a long, hot walk, but water is scarce in the region. She wishes she could go to school but that is only for boys....

Writing

In semester 1 we will embed our whole school writing approach by looking at the following text types and writing strategies

Descriptive writing- 'A Letter to My Teacher' focusing on writing paragraphs
Narrative writing- 'A Moral Tale' using similes, metaphors, personification and descriptive language
Persuasive writing- 'Student Leadership Elections Speeches' (6) 'I Have a Dream' (4/5) investigating persuasive techniques- emotive language, power of three and alliteration

Sound Waves

This year at MPPS we are continuing to use Sound Waves in 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. They 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 using Mathletics at home and creating real life experiences involving maths like cooking, shopping, reading a calendar and timetables.

Number
Students will investigate whole numbers to trillions and decimals to hundredths. They will learn to expand numbers and look at their composition to help understand place value. We will have daily opportunities to improve our number fluency be developing mental maths strategies in addition.

Chance and Data
Students will have the opportunity construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and tables, appropriate for data type, with and without the use of digital technologies.

Space and Measurement
Students will interpret timetables and calendars in relation to familiar school and local community events and use their diaries to record these. In the are of time students will compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and convert between them.

Students will choose appropriate units of measurement for length, area, volume, capacity and mass. They will have opportunity to see connection between place value of decimals and measurement. For example go online shopping and find some items measured in litres and millilitres. Record and order them in their decimal form. 1.5 litres of milk, 1.25 litres of coke, 0.75 litres of vinegar, 0.5 litres of sauce.

STEAM

Integrated Studies

Term 1
The Game of Life (4)
Students will consider ethics, customs, hobbies and sports, and people who are important in their lives as they develop cards to play in " The Game of Life". They will learn which health messages in the media are safe to trust and how to say no when someone in pressuring them.

Ethics and Emotions (5/6)
Students will consider ethical dilemmas as they learn about the value of honesty, respect and loyalty. They will consider the influence that the media and others have on them and the impact that being a fan of someone or on something has on our identity. Students will write a story that includes a moral lesson and share aspects of their identity during the "Identity Expo".

Term 1- RRRR
Developing our Learning Culture (4-6)
Students will develop good habits for their mind and social skills for how to work effectively with others.

Excursions, Special Events and Programs

Interschool Sports

Date	Round	Venue	Address	Playing
Friday 14th Feb	1	Home	Tennis, Teeball & Volleyball - 40 Riverdale Bvd Mernda Cricket - Waterview Recreation Reserve Mernda	St Mary's Whittlesea
Friday 21st Feb	2	Home	Tennis, Teeball & Volleyball - 40 Riverdale Bvd Mernda Cricket - Waterview Recreation Reserve Mernda	Mernda Primary School
Friday 28th Feb	3	Away	Tennis, Volleyball & Teeball - 44 Mernda Village Dr Mernda Cricket - Waterview Recreation Reserve Mernda	St Joseph's Catholic School
Friday 6th Mar	4	-BYE-	-BYE-	-BYE-
Friday 13th Mar	5	Away	70 Breadalbane Ave Mernda	Mernda Central College
Friday 20th Mar	6	Home	Tennis, Teeball & Volleyball - 40 Riverdale Bvd Mernda Cricket - Waterview Recreation Reserve Mernda	Hazelglen College
Friday 27th Mar	7	Away	Tennis, Teeball & Volleyball - 2435 Plenty Rd Whittlesea Cricket - AF Walker Reserve, Laurel St Whittlesea	Whittlesea Primary School

Specialist Timetable

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Assembly	Library PE YYLC 1 Performing Arts YYLC 2 Visual Arts YYLC 3	PE YYLC 3 Performing Arts YYLC 1 Visual Arts YYLC 2	PE YYLC 2 Performing Arts YYLC 3 Visual Arts YYLC 1	Interschool sport