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One-derful Class Chronicles

Term 4 Week 6 2026 - Friday 30th October

🌟 What We Have Been Up To

It was wonderful to welcome our parents and friends into the classroom to share our Leadership Notebooks and celebrate our learning and achievements. We are also in the thick of assessment as we reflect on students’ progress and celebrate their growth throughout the year. In Writing, students will explore narratives that teach an important lesson or moral, focusing on characters, settings and problems before creating their own stories. In Mathematics, students will develop their understanding of time by reading and representing o’clock and half-past times on analogue and digital clocks. In Science, students will begin our Push and Pull unit, investigating how different forces can make objects move, stop or change direction through hands-on activities.

As always, if you ever need anything, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at madeleine.simos@education.vic.gov.au.

Making 2D shapes in Maths

What is coming up?

Phonics

These are what we will be focussing on each week in our phonics lessons.

Week	Code	Examples
Week 6	ck vs k rule	black, trick, stuck, clock, think, bank, silk, risk
Week 7	dge vs ge rule	badge, edge, bridge, dodge, fudge, huge, cage, stage
Week 8	dge vs ge rule	judge, fridge, wedge, smudge, page, age, large, change
Week 9	tch vs ch rule	catch, fetch, pitch, notch, hutch, lunch, bench, branch
Week 10	tch vs ch rule	match, stretch, switch, scratch, clutch, punch, march, torch

Reading & Writing

Students will be moving into a narrative writing unit, exploring stories that teach us an important lesson or moral. We will investigate how authors develop characters, settings and problems, and how these elements help communicate a message to the reader. Students will then plan, write, edit and publish their own narratives, incorporating a clear beginning, middle and end, and a meaningful moral or lesson for their readers.

Mathematics

Students will be exploring shape and addition, with a focus on recognising, describing and comparing two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects. They will investigate the features of shapes, including sides, corners, faces and edges, and identify shapes in their everyday environment. In addition, students will continue to develop their addition skills by exploring a range of strategies to solve problems, including counting on, doubles and making ten. Through hands-on activities and investigations, students will strengthen their mathematical understanding and apply their skills to real-world situations.

Science

Students will begin our Push and Pull unit, exploring how pushes and pulls can make objects move, stop or change direction. They will investigate how different forces affect the movement of objects through hands-on experiments and observations. Students will develop an understanding of how the strength and direction of a push or pull can influence how an object moves.

Specialist Days

Monday - Music, Art/Cultural Studies, Leader in Me, PE
Wednesday- AUSLAN/Health Thursday - Library