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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 BelongingsPlease 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.
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Student diaries
Yan Yean Learning Community is expected to read 20-30 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 and to record important dates and special events. 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
Term 3, 2022
English
ReadingThis semester Yan Yean students will be participating in guided or reciprocal reading groups, focusing on the comprehension strategies of finding the main idea in a text, fact and detail, and understanding sequence
Our community will read... Grades 4 and 5 Paper Planes by Steve Worland Twelve-year-old Dylan Webber lives in outback Western Australia in a small country town. When he discovers he has a talent for folding and flying paper planes, Dylan begins a journey to reach the World Junior Paper Plane Championships in Japan. Along the way he makes unlikely new friends, clashes with powerful rivals and comes to terms with his family's past before facing his greatest challenge – to create a paper plane that will compete with the best in the world. Grade 6 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba A life-changing plan. When William Kamkwamba was a young teen, a terrible famine struck his tiny village in Malawi, Africa. The loss of crops left his family with nothing to eat or sell. Without money, William was forced to drop out of school. Fortunately, William found hope in the village library. There, he came up with an idea that would change the lives of the people around him. He would build a windmill. Made from junkyard scraps, William's amazing creation would bring electricity to his home. It would help his family pump the water they needed to farm the land. And it would turn this ordinary African teenager into a hero known all around the world as the boy who harnessed the wind. |
WritingIn term 3, we will embed our whole school writing approach by looking at the following text types and writing strategies
Reading EggsReading Eggs is an online program 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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Sound WavesThis 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.
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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
In the area of number we will be investigating strategies for multiplication and division. Students will use equivalent number sentences involving multiplication and division to find unknown quantities and solve word problems by using number sentences involving multiplication or division. We will have daily opportunities to improve our number fluency by developing times tables facts.
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
Student will explore objects using familiar metric units of area and volume. They will calculate the perimeter and area of rectangles and the volume and capacity of prisms.
Students will investigate the concept of location by exploring the use of scales, legends and grid reference systems on map.
STEAM
Integrated Studies
MAPPEN Level 4 Discovery Unit- Forces and Functions
Overview
Your students will be engaged in the practical application of physics and programming. They will learn how forces can be exerted on one object by another as they design and build a balloon-powered car. Your students will learn how to create simple programs using Scratch. They will create their own computer application and provide feedback to their classmates about their creations
Concept Phrase
Value Of Discovery
Rationale
Practical and engaging explorations of physics, engineering and coding will motivate students to pursue these skills as they get older.
Investigation Into
Your students will consider physics in their world; as they travel to and from school and as they play with their friends. They will appreciate the complexity and creativity of computer programs that they use every day. Your students will be able to discuss new scientific findings by referring to their knowledge of the scientific method. They will continue to develop their science, engineering and programming skills by establishing interest-based clubs at school.
MAPPEN Level 5/6 Discovery Unit- The Journey to Discovery
Overview
Your students will learn about light refraction, electrical circuits, states of matter, and the scale of the solar system through hands-on experiments and experiences. They will build a thermoscope, a paper circuit and a balloon-powered rocket. Your students will work towards creating a presentation and a quiz to highlight the wondrous facts that they have learnt during the unit.
Concept Phrase
Process Of Discovery
RationaleThrough learning about discoveries and the journeys that people go on to achieve them, we learn to value the process rather than the destination
Investigation Into
Your students will appreciate the scale and complexity of their world. They will use scientific knowledge and an understanding of the scientific method, as they discuss new discoveries. Through an awareness of historical patriarchy in science, your students will work towards equality in science and throughout of their lives. Your students will continue to develop science, engineering and programming skills as they move through their lives.
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
YYLC students will investigate respectful relationships by discussing stereotypes, bias and diversity.
MAPPEN Level 4 Discovery Unit- Forces and Functions
Overview
Your students will be engaged in the practical application of physics and programming. They will learn how forces can be exerted on one object by another as they design and build a balloon-powered car. Your students will learn how to create simple programs using Scratch. They will create their own computer application and provide feedback to their classmates about their creations
Concept Phrase
Value Of Discovery
Rationale
Practical and engaging explorations of physics, engineering and coding will motivate students to pursue these skills as they get older.
Investigation Into
- How forces can be exerted by one object.
- Designing and conducting experiments.
- Basic computer programming using Scratch.
- What are 'contact forces' and what are 'action-at-a-distance' forces?
- How do you design and conduct an experiment?
- How do you make computer programs using Scratch?
Your students will consider physics in their world; as they travel to and from school and as they play with their friends. They will appreciate the complexity and creativity of computer programs that they use every day. Your students will be able to discuss new scientific findings by referring to their knowledge of the scientific method. They will continue to develop their science, engineering and programming skills by establishing interest-based clubs at school.
MAPPEN Level 5/6 Discovery Unit- The Journey to Discovery
Overview
Your students will learn about light refraction, electrical circuits, states of matter, and the scale of the solar system through hands-on experiments and experiences. They will build a thermoscope, a paper circuit and a balloon-powered rocket. Your students will work towards creating a presentation and a quiz to highlight the wondrous facts that they have learnt during the unit.
Concept Phrase
Process Of Discovery
RationaleThrough learning about discoveries and the journeys that people go on to achieve them, we learn to value the process rather than the destination
Investigation Into
- The scale of the solar system
- Light refraction
- Electrical circuits
- States of matter
- Coding
- How can we create a model to show the scale of something?
- Why does light refract?
- What do we need to make an electrical circuit?
- What are the states of matter?
- How can we code a computer program?
Your students will appreciate the scale and complexity of their world. They will use scientific knowledge and an understanding of the scientific method, as they discuss new discoveries. Through an awareness of historical patriarchy in science, your students will work towards equality in science and throughout of their lives. Your students will continue to develop science, engineering and programming skills as they move through their lives.
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
YYLC students will investigate respectful relationships by discussing stereotypes, bias and diversity.
Japanese
YYLC students will explore the systems of language in Japanese by communicating collaboratively. They will investigate Japanese culture by looking at celebrations, food, dress, and music.
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 Classes
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PE Group 1 &2 |
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PE Group 4 & 5 |
PE Group 3 |
Performing Arts Group 3 & 4 |
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Performing Arts Group 1&2 |
Performing Arts Group 1 and 5 |
Visual Arts Group 5 |
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Visual Arts Group 3 |
Visual Arts Group 1 &4 |