Curriculum Snapshot

Term 2, 2019 What’s happening @ Yarrilee SS

Our school’s 2019 priorities are;

MAJOR FOCUS for Teachers & Students

Reading: A continued focus on the skills and behaviours needed to create capable and comprehending readers

Mathematics: Teachers & students using the 4 Proficiencies of the Australian Curriculum Mathematics

MINOR FOCUS for Teachers & Students

Writing: Using the 7 Steps in Writing in classrooms

Digital Technology: An introduction to the NEW curriculum for all to experience

ENGLISH

Prep Imaginative Texts- Enjoying and retelling stories- students will listen to and engage with a range of literary and non-literary texts with a focus on exploring how language is used to enter-tain through retelling events. They will sequence events from a range of texts and select a fa-vourite story to retell to a small group of classmates. Students will prepare for their spoken retelling by drawing events in sequence and writing simple sentences.

Year 1 Informative Texts- Animal Reports! Students listen to, read and view Australian literature, in-cluding the oral narrative traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and In-formative texts representing Australian Animals. Students will write an informative text about the selected Australian animal and include a supporting image.

Year 2 Informative Texts-Recount the occasion! Students read, view and listen to a range of texts to comprehend and compare the text structures and language features of informative texts. Stu-dents create an informative text, a written Recount of an excursion, or school event, with a sup-porting image.

Year 3 Persuasive Texts- You will be convinced! Students read, view and analyse persuasive texts. They will demonstrate their understanding of persuasive texts by examining ways persuasive language features are used to influence an audience. Students use this language to create their own persuasive texts

Year 4 Imaginative Texts – Poetry Word Play- Students will read and listen to a range of humorous and nonsense poems by different authors. They will identify structural features and poetic language devices in humorous and nonsense poetry. Students will create a multimodal presentation about the poem “Jabberwocky” explaining how the poetic devices and wordplay are used to engage the reader.

Year 5 Imaginative Response- Narrative Text- Students listen to, read and interpret a novel from the fantasy genre showing understanding of character development in relation to plot and setting. They create an imaginative response depicting contrasting fantasy characters in relation to setting and plot.

Year 6 Informative Response-Travel Bug! Students have been reading exemplars of recounts that document personal experience. They will explore how language features, including the use of descriptive and evaluative language, reflect on the thoughts feelings and emotions of the au-thor’s experience. Students will write a travel diary entry depicting a chosen country

Mathematics, Science & Digital Technology Numeracy

Diagnostic Testing

Each Term we give students a page of Mathematics questions to complete. Their responses gives teachers an insight into their mathematical thinking. It helps us to find out what they know, what they need to learn and what they think about some maths concepts. We plan our mathematics programs using this data, our school assessment schedule and the Australian Curriculum as an important guide.

These diagnostic tests have been done and our plans for Term 2 developed. We will do the test again at the end of this term to measure individual growth.

Digital

Technology

Digital Technology is being taught and assessment trialled in order to prepare YSS for full implementation, assessing and reporting in 2020. Years 3—6 will do so in Semester 1 with the assistance of our Digi Tech Ambassador Mr Frangos and Teacher eLibrarian Mr White.. We have the Laptop Lab, Maker Space and eLearning Lounge in the library for classes to access. Prep—2 are building ICT capabilities and will implement Digital Technology in Semester 2.

SCIENCE —students will be studying the following STRANDS

Prep Chemistry—students study the properties of materials and investigate if Gum Boots can be made from newspaper

Year 1 Biology—students compare the external features of prehistoric dinosaurs and animals of today

Year 2 Biology—students investigate the life cycles of some species and determine why some offspring look like their mum and others don’t

Year 3 Chemistry —students will investigate the melting points of foods and discover if the changes are reversible

Year 4 Chemistry— students describe the differences between natural, processed and recycled materials

Year 5 Chemistry—students investigate the properties of solids, liquids and gases

Year 6 Earth and Space Science — students study the effects of seismic activity to the Earth’s surface especially in developed countries

HASS & HYBRID units

HPE—Health & Physical Education: This term Middle School students will participate in Friday afternoon sports in which they can try out to play one of the sports on offer for their GALA DAY in Term 3. Term 2 is also the time in which we have our ATHLETICS CARNIVAL.

The ARTS — Visual Arts & Music are both taught at YSS. The Music Program, ran by Mrs Rostedt and Mr & Mrs Frangos runs all year for Years Prep to 6. Classroom teachers implement the Visual Arts Program with Prep—6.

LOTE—We learn Chinese Mandarin as our Language Other Than English in Years 4—6. this term the Year 6 students compete in the Chinese Speaking Competition at USHS.

Our LIGHTHOUSE offers individual and innovative approaches to engage and educate students with a

diagnosed disability.

We have exceptional staff in the LIGHTHOUSE who conduct activities such as:

Age appropriate pedagogy

Individual Learning goals

Stephanie Alexandra Kitchen Garden

Story Dogs

And much more….

Our 5 KEYS TO SUCCESS

HPE, The Arts & LOTE

ENRICHMENT 0pportunities

Prep—2 This semester students in Prep-Year 2 will develop their knowledge, understanding and skills through the History strand of HASS. The focus being on ‘significance; sources; continuity and change’. These units will partner with the Design Technologies curriculum, where students will explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to produce design solutions.

Year 3—6 This term Year 3 students will continue exploring places near and far. They will develop their knowledge, understanding and

skills through the inquiry question: How and why are places similar and different?

This term Year 4 students will continue investigating Early Exploration and Settlement. They will develop their knowledge,

understanding and skills through the inquiry question: What were the short and long term effects of European settlement?

This term Year 5 students will be investigating Communities in Colonial Australia. They will answer the inquiry question: How and why did the lives of the people in the Australian colonies change or stay the same because of the gold rush?

This term Year 6 students will learn about Australia in a diverse world. They will demonstrate an understanding of the diversi-ty of places by representing, interpreting and describing data and information about the characteristics of places.

GOLF:

YSS Eagles will run in 2019 again with stu-dents doing golf training both on campus and off at the driving range and Hervey Bay Golf Course.

CHEER:

The YSS Spirits' will be training again in 2019 ready for any performances they need to flip and fly into.

MUSIC:

A huge range of opportunities to do singing and instrumental development through Yar-rilee Voices, Rock Band, Big Band, Instrumen-tal Music (wood and brass) Guitar groups and iBand.

DIGI TECH:

This term we are hosting the 2nd annual STEM#Fest event where students from around the Bay will compete in challenges of coding games, creating animations, drawing with Robots, solving mazes, fighting in sumo and much more,

RUGBY LEAGUE:

Run by Mr Boon this squad is working on build-ing skills, strength and agility to compete in the Development Cup.

AFL:

Mr Grimsley will be training teams for the AFL Development Cups for both boys and girls in 2019.