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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 2, 2023
English
ReadingThis semester Yan Yean students will be participating in reciprocal reading groups or literature circle discussion, focusing on the comprehension strategies of making inferences, questioning, summarising and synthesising.
Our community will read... 47 Degrees By Justin D'ath Zeelie wonders if they’re in danger. When temperatures soar to 47 degrees one hot summer day, 12-year-old Zeelie hopes the nearby bushfires everyone’s talking about aren’t heading towards her family’s new home. What will they do if the wind changes direction? What about their belongings and their beloved pets? And why hasn’t her mum and brother returned from Melbourne? Nothing can prepare Zeelie for what’s to come... |
WritingIn term 2, 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 addition and subtraction. Students will use rounding and estimation to check the reasonableness of calculations involving money, decimals and fractions. We will have daily opportunities to improve our number fluency be developing mental maths strategies for addition and subtraction.
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 investigate the concept of time by converting between units of time, using am and pm notation to solve time problems, measure, calculate and compare elapsed time and interpret and use timetables.
Number
In the area of number we will be investigating strategies for addition and subtraction. Students will use rounding and estimation to check the reasonableness of calculations involving money, decimals and fractions. We will have daily opportunities to improve our number fluency be developing mental maths strategies for addition and subtraction.
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 investigate the concept of time by converting between units of time, using am and pm notation to solve time problems, measure, calculate and compare elapsed time and interpret and use timetables.
STEAM
Integrated Studies
MAPPEN Level 5/6 - Think Global, Act Local
Overview
Students will consider how to sustain the environment, the society and the economy. They will be immersed in the work of geographers as they consider how the data that they collect helps to inform sustainable actions. Students will build a weather station to collect weather data at school. They will research a country in Europe or North America and present their research at the 'Tourism Expo' to convince visitors to come to their country.
Concept Phrase
Sustainability
Rationale
Learning about the natural world, and how we are changing it, motivates us to live sustainably.
Investigation Into
Essential Questions
Future Action
Students will consider their actions on the sustainability of their world. They will understand how scientific and geographic thinking can impact on sustainable practices. Students will understand how Meteorologists collect and record weather data. They will develop a curiosity about other countries and identify themselves as global citizens.
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
YYLC students will participate in the Rhythm2Recovery program. The Rhythm2Recovery program supports social and emotional development through fun and engaging rhythmic musical activities. Students will explore emotional regulation, social connection and collaboration.
MAPPEN Level 5/6 - Think Global, Act Local
Overview
Students will consider how to sustain the environment, the society and the economy. They will be immersed in the work of geographers as they consider how the data that they collect helps to inform sustainable actions. Students will build a weather station to collect weather data at school. They will research a country in Europe or North America and present their research at the 'Tourism Expo' to convince visitors to come to their country.
Concept Phrase
Sustainability
Rationale
Learning about the natural world, and how we are changing it, motivates us to live sustainably.
Investigation Into
- Environmental, economic and social sustainability.
- Mapping and the work of geographers.
- Building weather instruments and using them to collect data.
- Using tables and graphs to record weather data.
- Severe weather and natural disasters.
Essential Questions
- What causes natural disasters?
- How do geographers and scientists study the environment?
- How do meteorologists collect weather data and why is this important?
- How does the environment influence how people live, work and play?
Future Action
Students will consider their actions on the sustainability of their world. They will understand how scientific and geographic thinking can impact on sustainable practices. Students will understand how Meteorologists collect and record weather data. They will develop a curiosity about other countries and identify themselves as global citizens.
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
YYLC students will participate in the Rhythm2Recovery program. The Rhythm2Recovery program supports social and emotional development through fun and engaging rhythmic musical activities. Students will explore emotional regulation, social connection and collaboration.
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 |
Drumming |
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Performing Arts Group 1 |
Performing Arts Group 2 and 4 |
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Performing Arts Group 3 |
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Visual Arts Group 4 |
Visual Arts Group 1 and 3 |
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Visual Arts Group 2 |
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PE Group 2 and 3 |
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PE Group 1 and 4 |
Inter-school Sport |