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Term 3 Announcement: Remote Learning
During Term 3, all students at MPPS are required to transition to remote learning. Students will primarily use Google Classroom to engage in learning. Students have daily schedules to complete assigned learning tasks, submit assignments and receive feedback from their teachers. This information is based on the curriculum content for Term 3 which students will be learning on-site or remotely.
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 |
Take Home Reading Book |
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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 FoodStudents 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 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 2, 2020
English
ReadingThis 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 Paper Planes - Steve Worland. Paper Planes tells the story of Dylan, an imaginative twelve-year-old boy who discovers that his talent for folding and flying paper planes could take him to the World Paper Plane Championship. With a great challenge soaring ahead and a goal to fly into the number one spot, there's no telling how far he can go! |
WritingIn semester 2 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 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 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 3
Forces and Functions (4)
Year 4 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.
The Journey to Discovery (5/6)
Year 5 and 6 students will explore and learn about light refraction, electrical circuits, states of matter, and the scale of the solar system through hands-on experiments and exercises.
Term 3- RRRR
Managing stress and stressful situations (4-6)
Students will develop self-soothing techniques and practice calming their bodies and relaxing their minds when they're feeling overwhelmed both physically and emotionally.
Term 3
Forces and Functions (4)
Year 4 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.
The Journey to Discovery (5/6)
Year 5 and 6 students will explore and learn about light refraction, electrical circuits, states of matter, and the scale of the solar system through hands-on experiments and exercises.
Term 3- RRRR
Managing stress and stressful situations (4-6)
Students will develop self-soothing techniques and practice calming their bodies and relaxing their minds when they're feeling overwhelmed both physically and emotionally.
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.