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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 1, 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 Saving Saddler Street by Ruth Starke. After 113 years, Saddler Street School is going to be closed down. Over the decades it has taught hundreds of migrant children including Sam Papamanos in 1937 and Sim Van Le in 1996. Sim has a plan to save the school, enlisting the help of fellow students. 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 1, 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
Term 1
First Contact (4)
Year 4 students will learn about the lives of the First Australians before European settlers arrived in Australia and the causes and reasons for the journey of the First Fleet. They will practise thinking and acting like historians as they are immersed in stories of first contact between Indigenous Australians and European Settlers.
Making Democracy (5/6)
Year 5 and 6 students will learn about the values of Australian democracy and the key features of the electoral process. They will learn about the responsibilities of the three levels of government. Your students will learn about the Stolen Generations and the fight for equal rights in Australia.
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.
Term 1
First Contact (4)
Year 4 students will learn about the lives of the First Australians before European settlers arrived in Australia and the causes and reasons for the journey of the First Fleet. They will practise thinking and acting like historians as they are immersed in stories of first contact between Indigenous Australians and European Settlers.
Making Democracy (5/6)
Year 5 and 6 students will learn about the values of Australian democracy and the key features of the electoral process. They will learn about the responsibilities of the three levels of government. Your students will learn about the Stolen Generations and the fight for equal rights in Australia.
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 |
Performing Arts Group 3 |
Performing Arts Group 2 and 4 |
Performing Arts Group 1 |
5/6 Interschool Sport |
Visual Arts Group 2 |
Visual Arts Group 1 and 3 |
Visual Arts Group 4 |
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PE Group 1 and 4 |
PE Group 2 and 3 |