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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 |
Student diaries |
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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.
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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, 2021
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 Wonder by R.J Palacio. August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school - until now. He's about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, despite appearances? Reading 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. |
WritingIn term 3, we will embed our whole school writing approach by looking at the following text types and writing strategies
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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
Students will investigate whole numbers, fractions and decimals. 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.
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 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
Grade 4 Term 3: Someone Else's Shoes
Overview:
Grade 4 students will learn about social justice issues experienced by people with disabilities. They learn about the role that rules and laws play in our community as they share their opinions about existing laws. Students will research a disability and write creatively about an important day in the life of someone who has the disability that they have researched.
Students will investigate:
Essential Questions:
Future Action:
Grade 4 students will use an understanding of social justice to advocate for people in their community who live with a disability. They will appreciate the flexible thinking and courage shown by those with a disability and use them as inspiration to achieve their own goals. Students will perceive rules and laws as a mechanism for fairness in our community.
Grade 5/6 Term 3: Care for the Kids
Overview:
Grade 5/6 students will learn about the biggest problems facing children around the world. They will learn some persuasive techniques and work in groups to prepare and deliver a slideshow presentation encouraging people to support an aid agency. Students will learn some literary devices and write a spoken word poem about a cause that they are supporting. They will perform their spoken word poem at the Slamming Social Justice Show.
Students will investigate:
Essential Questions:
Future Action:
Grade 5/6 students will use an appreciation of the biggest problems facing children around the world to put their lives into perspective. They will use skills to persuade people at home and at school of their opinion. Students will be aware of the use of literary devices when they consume media and they will be able to use these devices when communicating. They will be confident when performing in front of an audience.
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
YYLC students will identify their strengths, the character strengths they admire in others and will demonstrate what character strengths might look like in action.
Grade 4 Term 3: Someone Else's Shoes
Overview:
Grade 4 students will learn about social justice issues experienced by people with disabilities. They learn about the role that rules and laws play in our community as they share their opinions about existing laws. Students will research a disability and write creatively about an important day in the life of someone who has the disability that they have researched.
Students will investigate:
- The organisations and aids that support people with disabilities.
- What it is like to live with a disability.
- Criteria for good rules and laws.
Essential Questions:
- How can we respect those who are different to us?
- What is it like to live with a disability?
- How can we make rules and laws that are fair for everyone?
- What can I learn from people who live with a disability?
Future Action:
Grade 4 students will use an understanding of social justice to advocate for people in their community who live with a disability. They will appreciate the flexible thinking and courage shown by those with a disability and use them as inspiration to achieve their own goals. Students will perceive rules and laws as a mechanism for fairness in our community.
Grade 5/6 Term 3: Care for the Kids
Overview:
Grade 5/6 students will learn about the biggest problems facing children around the world. They will learn some persuasive techniques and work in groups to prepare and deliver a slideshow presentation encouraging people to support an aid agency. Students will learn some literary devices and write a spoken word poem about a cause that they are supporting. They will perform their spoken word poem at the Slamming Social Justice Show.
Students will investigate:
- Aid agencies that support children.
- Big problems facing children around the world.
- How to encourage people to make a difference.
- Literary devices
Essential Questions:
- Who helps children around the world?
- What are the big problems facing children around the world?
- How can we encourage people to act?
Future Action:
Grade 5/6 students will use an appreciation of the biggest problems facing children around the world to put their lives into perspective. They will use skills to persuade people at home and at school of their opinion. Students will be aware of the use of literary devices when they consume media and they will be able to use these devices when communicating. They will be confident when performing in front of an audience.
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
YYLC students will identify their strengths, the character strengths they admire in others and will demonstrate what character strengths might look like in action.
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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Japanese |
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Performing Arts Group 1 and 4 |
Performing Arts Group 3 |
Performing Arts Group 2 |
Visual Arts Group 1 and 4 |
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Visual Arts Group 2 and 3 |
PE Swimming Group 1, 2, 3 & 4 |
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