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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 4, 2023
English
ReadingThis semester Yan Yean students will be participating in reciprocal reading groups or literature circle discussion, focusing on the comprehension strategies of literary analysis.
Our community will read... Millions the Not-So-Great Train Robbery By Frank Cottrel-Boyce Illustrated by Steven Lenton Two brothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to joining the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appalling dilemma - how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying a million pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boys soon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is the clock ticking - the bungling bank robbers are closing in too. Pizzas or World Peace - what would you choose? |
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 fractions, decimals and percentages. Students will solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of fractions with the same or related denominators. They will solve word problems by using number sentences involving all four operations. We will have daily opportunities to improve our number fluency at the beginning of each maths session.
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 estimate, measure and compare angles using degrees and construct angles using a protractor. They will investigate angles on a straight line, angles at a point and vertically opposite angles and use results to find unknown angles.
Number
In the area of number we will be investigating fractions, decimals and percentages. Students will solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of fractions with the same or related denominators. They will solve word problems by using number sentences involving all four operations. We will have daily opportunities to improve our number fluency at the beginning of each maths session.
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 estimate, measure and compare angles using degrees and construct angles using a protractor. They will investigate angles on a straight line, angles at a point and vertically opposite angles and use results to find unknown angles.
STEAM
Integrated Studies
MAPPEN Level 5/6 - Bizarre Bazaar
Overview
Students will gain a real-life understanding of the design and production process when creating a brand new product. Each team will produce an item that is marketed and then sold at a market called 'Bizarre Bazaar'.
Concept Phrase
Impact of Creativity
Rationale
Thinking creatively helps when we are planning, designing, building, and improving.
Investigation Into
Essential Questions
Future Action
Students will be able to analyse the ways that things they consume and use have been mass produced. They will be more discerning about ways in which products are marketed. They will apply creative thinking to anything they design and/or produce.
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
Dove Self-Esteem Project
The self-esteem workshops address key topics, including the impact of society, professional and social media on appearance ideals.
Through class discussions, small-group activities, engaging videos and activity worksheets, we will cover
• Unrealistic appearance ideals
• The impact of social media, celebrity culture and advertising
• Body activism and positive behaviour change
Buddies
This semester our Grade 6 students will work together with their Prep buddies on structured activities to develop positive relationships and social interaction. The Grade 6 students will have the opportunity to take on responsibility, demonstrate their leadership skills and learn how to be a positive role model for younger students.
MAPPEN Level 5/6 - Bizarre Bazaar
Overview
Students will gain a real-life understanding of the design and production process when creating a brand new product. Each team will produce an item that is marketed and then sold at a market called 'Bizarre Bazaar'.
Concept Phrase
Impact of Creativity
Rationale
Thinking creatively helps when we are planning, designing, building, and improving.
Investigation Into
- Market research
- Advertising
- The production process
Essential Questions
- Why is market research important?
- What makes a good advertisement and why?
- How do I overcome the challenges of producing more than one of the same item?
Future Action
Students will be able to analyse the ways that things they consume and use have been mass produced. They will be more discerning about ways in which products are marketed. They will apply creative thinking to anything they design and/or produce.
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
Dove Self-Esteem Project
The self-esteem workshops address key topics, including the impact of society, professional and social media on appearance ideals.
Through class discussions, small-group activities, engaging videos and activity worksheets, we will cover
• Unrealistic appearance ideals
• The impact of social media, celebrity culture and advertising
• Body activism and positive behaviour change
Buddies
This semester our Grade 6 students will work together with their Prep buddies on structured activities to develop positive relationships and social interaction. The Grade 6 students will have the opportunity to take on responsibility, demonstrate their leadership skills and learn how to be a positive role model for younger students.
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 YYLC 2 & 4 |
Performing Arts YYLC 1 |
Performing Arts YYLC 3 |
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Visual Arts YYLC 3 |
Visual Arts YYLC 2 & 4 |
Visual Arts YYLC 1 |
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PE YYLC 1 |
PE YYLC 3 |
PE YYLC 2 & 4 |
Grade 6/Prep Buddies |