YEAR 4

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:

• Participate in the life and mission of the school.
• Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
• Build capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
• Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
• Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.

Religious Education

4.5 Mary, Mother of God: This unit explores the way in which Mary listened and responded to God in the events of her life. It highlights the importance and challenge in the Christian life of listening and reflecting and trusting in the ways of God. It explores Marian prayers and feast days as ways in which the Church honours Mary, the Mother of God. The unit also explores the qualities of listening and responding demonstrated in the life of Mary MacKillop. It invites students to reflect on ways in which they can receive and respond to God’s call and grace in their lives.

4.8 Advent to Christmas: A time for Journeying in Hope. This unit explores the concept of journey. We learn about the journeys of people in the Old Testament and God’s faithful relationship with them. The unit also examines the New Testament journeys of Mary and Joseph and the Wise Men. During Advent, we focus on our preparation for the journey toward Christmas and the second coming of Christ in glory. We focus on ways we can respond to God with us on our journeys of faith and life.

English

This term the students will engage in a reading and writing unit focused on Australian Poetry, which is linked to our History unit, ‘First Contacts’. Students will read and analyse Australian and Indigenous poetry and write their own poems based on the knowledge they have gathered throughout the unit. The student will be revising descriptive writing techniques and visual literacy. They will be taught explicit skills in relation to grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, and specific concepts about print.

Students will continue practising their reading strategies in Reading Groups. They will also engage in the ‘Soundwaves’ spelling program, which is encouraged to be used at home. The students will be tested on their words at the end of each Term.

Mathematics

Flexible Mathematics learning groups will continue this term Monday through to Friday. Mathematics lessons will involve problem-solving skills in the form of Launch Tasks. The activities are differentiated in order to cater to the student's needs and abilities. This term we will focus on the topics of 3D Space, Chance, Angles, Volume and Capacity, and Patterns & Algebra. The students are encouraged to continue to revise their times tables up to 10.

Science and Technology

This term students will explore the Stage Two Science and Technology unit on the Physical World. This focuses on light, heat and electrical energy and how contact forces affect the behaviour of objects. Students will develop their understanding of energy as a resource that can be generated and transferred. They will investigate the independent relationship between energy forces that affects the behaviour of objects. Students observe how energy and forces are used in the manufacture of products and in systems. Year Four students will explore the Inquiry Question: How do heat, light and electrical energy make things happen?

Mandarin

This term students in Kindergarten to Year 6 will continue to participate in the Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions.

Creative Arts

Visual Arts will involve a range of activities teaching students to use mixed media and collage techniques related to the history unit –Colonisation in Australia. 

In Drama will be looking at scene analysis incorporating storytelling, improvisation, and growth mindset. 

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

The Year 4 Games and Sports Unit is aimed at providing opportunities for students to develop their skills and build confidence in activities using Fundamental Movement Skills.

Students will practice and apply these skills during games such as Oztag, Cricket and Netball. Games are encouraged to build teamwork, communication, strategy and resilience.

Homework 

Students in Year 4 are expected to complete 40 minutes of homework nightly. Twenty minutes is expected to be dedicated to reading. The homework grid will be shared through Google classes. 

We look forward to continuing to work with you and your child this term. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher via a note or by appointment made through the office. 

Mr Michael Faber (4 Blue)

Mrs Lisa Mann and Mrs Drazena Prsa (4 Gold)

Mrs Alison Bofinger (4 White)

Important Dates for Year 4

Sport Day

4 Blue -      Wednesday  

4 Gold -     Monday and Thursday

4 White -   Friday

 Library 

4 Blue -     Thursday

4 Gold -     Friday

4 White -  Thursday 

School Term - Tuesday 11 October 2022 - Wednesday 14 December 2022

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