Curriculum updates

 Throughout Term 4, students have been able to engage in exploring, examining, inquiring, questioning, problem solving, investigating and discovering content across all key learning areas. 

Here are some highlights across the P-4 classes: 

• Prep: Consolidating the initial sounds for the letters ‘m, s, a, t, f, d’.  Also to enhance and further support students’ transition into Kindergarten, they are using these sounds to blend CVC (constant-vowel-constant) words. 

• Kindergarten: Exploring a range of traditional fairy tales and retelling them orally. Kindergarten students are using the basis of these fairy tales as inspirations to create their own variation of these classic fairy tales.    

• Year 1: Discovering the use of alliteration to enhance the description component of their creative narratives. They have also been exploring similes as another avenue to build rich descriptions to captivate their audience through their imaginative writing.    

• Year 2: Examining the power of imagery in particular, simile, personification and onomatopoeia to bring their imaginative stories to life! Students focused on building their writing sophistication by embedding the ‘show, don’t tell’ strategy!  

• Year 3: Exploring language features including casual language and time/sequence connectives to enhance their informative writing of explanations. Students widened their vocabulary by encompassing tier 2 words to improve their text cohesion and enhance the sophistication of their writing. 

• Year 4: Inquiring about the impacts of advertising and its influences on people in our wider community. This interdisciplinary focus has involved designing and making a community centre and discovering sustainable methods to support communities.    

Reneé Andrews
Acting Co-Assistant Head of Primary, Instructional Leader