Barwon Heads Primary School Teaching And Learning Update

Grade 4

Literacy Block

This year the Literacy Block will based on a structured literacy model. Each Literacy Block is broken into seven parts, including a daily review, spelling (see below), reading fluency, handwriting, comprehension, vocabulary and writing.

 

As part of the literacy block students will undertake explicit teaching of strategies based on content knowledge. This term grade 4 students will be completing the World Mountains, Medieval Islamic Empires and Early and Medieval Africian Kingdoms units.

 

Spelling Mastery

As part of the literacy block, students will complete spelling mastery programs that specifically target their needs. Students will be completing these sessions each day and will be placed in groups within the grade 3 and 4 cohort.

 

Numeracy

This year students will be undertaking evidence based, explicit instruction lessons. As

 well as the explicit lesson, each lesson will include a Daily Review component in which students will review previous learning.

 

This term's topics include:

  • Addition and Subtraction,
  • Fractions,
  • Time,
  • Multiplication and Division.

 

Inquiry

In inquiry this term students will be focusing on how we belong to different groups.

 

Grade 4 Garden Program

This year, the Grade 4 students will once again be participating in the P.I.P.S. (Permaculture in Primary Schools) program, run by dedicated community volunteers and led by the incredible Deidre and Margaret.

Parents who wish to volunteer for the program can sign up via the class WhatsApp group. Sign-up sheets for these groups are available on classroom windows. Please be aware all parent volunteers require an active WWCC. 

This year, the program will take place on Thursdays during the middle block, from 11:25 am to 1:25 pm. Each class will have a session every fortnight, with Grade 4B starting this week and Grade 4A beginning next week.

 

Key reminders & Dates

Sunsmart: students need to be wearing hats when they are outside at school. They are also welcome to bring their own suncreen and apply themselves during recess and lunch.

Nude Food - Resource Smart School: 

As part of our commitment to being a ‘resource smart school’, we encourage all students and staff to bring nude food to school as much as possible. 

By practising Nude Food across the school, we reduce the amount of packaging and waste we bring to school that ends up in our bins to be sent to landfill.

Nude Food is a fantastic opportunity to educate children about how their actions can impact the environment and their health. Focussing on the positive message of ‘nude food = a healthy body + a healthy planet’. As a school we pride ourselves on reducing our ‘footprint’ and caring about the beautiful environment that we are so lucky to live in. 

Stationary:In year 4, students are allowed to bring their own pencil cases and stationary items.

Ocean awareness: students need to bring a hat, sunscreen, towel, bathers/rashie/wetsuit, waterproof bag, and some experience in towel (‘carpark’) changing, as change facilities are either non-existent or very limited.

  • Thursday, 13th of Feb 
    • Grade 4B PIPS session
    • Ocean Awareness 4B
  • Friday, 14th of Feb
    • Ocean Awareness 4A
  • Thursday, 20th of Feb 
    • Grade 4A PIPS session
    • Ocean Awareness 4A
  • Thursday, 27th of Feb
    • Ocean Awareness 4B
  • Friday, 28th of Feb
    • Ocean Awarenss 4A
  • Wednesday and Thursday, 12 - 13th of March - Camp Wilkin