Curriculum
Foundation Term 4 2023 Overview
Literacy | |
Reading
Fiction and non-fiction elements
Simple retelling of procedural texts in sequence of events
Little Learners Love Literacy Stage +4 - 6 Heart Words
Little Learners Love Literacy Phonics
| Writing
Handwriting; letter starting points, directionality, size, spacing
Informative and procedural writing elements
Fiction and non-fiction elements
Create short texts using sound and letter knowledge
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Numeracy |
Compare, order, and make correspondences between collections, initially to 20, and explain reasoning
Connect days of the week to familiar events and actions
Represent practical situations to model addition and subtraction
Represent practical situations to model sharing
Describe position and movement
Language and processes of counting by naming numbers in sequences, initially to and from 20, moving from any starting point |
Performing Arts & Personal & Social Capabilities |
Performing Arts, Drama Windsor Primary School Performance - A Lion Tale
Personal and Social Capabilities Family, peers & the community |
Year 1/2 Term 4 2023 Overview
Literacy | |
Reading Different sounds created from letter combinations including graphs, digraphs and trigraphs using SMART Spelling
Check for understanding, monitor and self-correct
Use text features to learn important information (titles, headings, captions, graphic features
Summarising the text
Infer and support with evidence | Writing Creating compound sentences to connect ideas (and, but, so)
Narrative, persuasive and procedural writing elements
Punctuation, including full stops, question marks, exclamation marks and commas.
Presentation - headings, handwriting, spacing, diagrams and illustrations
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Numeracy |
Describe patterns with numbers and identify missing elements
Solve problems by using number sentences for addition and subtraction
Give and follow directions to familiar locations
Interpret simple maps of familiar locations and identify relative positions and key features
Investigate the effect of one-step slides and flip
Identify and describe half and quarter turn
Create displays of data using lists, table and picture graphs and interpret them |
Performing Arts & Personal & Social Capabilities |
Performing Arts, Drama Windsor Primary School Performance - A Lion Tale
Personal and Social Capabilities Family, peers & the community |
A wonderful way of fostering empathy in young children is through picture story books. At Windsor PS we use picture story books throughout F-6 to further the development of emotional intelligence, creating important classroom discussions and the opportunity to practice empathy, compassion, problem solving, resilience and all aspects of emotional intelligence.
Story Box Library offer a range of online stories that are used widely in classrooms at WPS. They recently offered an online event on how to foster wellbeing and strong resilience from a young age through storytelling.
Simply register using this link and watch a recording of the event: Resilience and Emotional Literacy in the Early Years
https://pages.storyboxlibrary.com.au/general-all-events/
Click here to download the PDF of the presentation slides:
Years 3 - 6 Term 4 2023 Overview
Literacy | |||
Reading Focus: How Author’s Hold Readers Attention Week 1: Purpose and Audience Week 2: Text Features - Narrative
Week 3: Camp
Focus: Vocabulary Week 4: Camp Activity Week 5: Musical Activity
Focus: Online Texts Week 6:Online text Features
Focus: Grammar Week 7: Rereading texts for grammatical choice Week 8: Editing texts
Focus: Week 9: Simple and complex sentences | Writing Focus: Narrative Texts Week 1: Introducing Narrative texts Week 2: Structure and Language Features Week 3: Camp and Recount Writing Week 4: Camp Brochure Project Week 5: (School Performance) Week 6: Developing a setting and character Week 7: Plan and Write a narrative
Focus: Persuasive Texts Week 8: Introduce Week 9: Structure and Language Features
| Writers Notebook
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining
Mini Lesson with Vocabulary and language Focus before notebook writing.
Week 1: Homophones Week 2: Homophones Week 3:CAMP Week 4: Verb groups Week 5: Musical Week 6: Commas Week 7: Proper Nouns Week 8: Pronouns Week 9: Plurals Week 10: Exclamation Mark | Spelling Week 1: ce as in ice
Week 2: ie as in chief
Week 3:camp
Week 4: ci as in special
Week 5: ui as in fruit and ew as in screw
Week 6: n/nn/kn
Week 7: e as in garden
Week 8: Prefix dis
Week 9: consonant suffix - ment
Week 10: Consonant suffix - ly
Week 11: v as in voice |
Numeracy |
Odd and Even Numbers Place Value Multiplication and Division Shape Geometric Reasoning Fractions and Decimals Symmetry and Transformation Statistics and Data |
Inquiry Learning |
Sustainability: Introduction to sustainability Natural renewable and nonrenewable resources Reduce, reuse, recycle Overuse of water Deforestation Saving energy |
Performing Arts & Physical and Health Education |
Performing Arts, Drama Windsor Primary School Performance - The Lion Tales
Physical Education Years 3 -6 Camp @ Ferngully Lodge Swimming Program Years 3 /4 - Soccer Gala Day Years 5 / 6 - Ultimate Frisbee Gala Gay
Health Year 5 - Man Up Respectful Relationships Program Year 6 - Transition to Secondary School Programs |
MATHS NEWS
The Australian Mathematics Competition was conducted in August.
Our students achieved some terrific results:
Year 3:
Certificate of Proficiency awarded to:
Katherine Lukey
Certificate of Credit awarded to:
Nelson Wang
Year 4:
Certificate of Participation awarded to:
Arianna La
Certificate of Proficiency awarded to:
David Colmanarez-Fradique
Emily Lim
Sophia Le
Certificate of Credit awarded to:
Senuka Hemchandra
Certificate of Distinction awarded to:
Tayden Ngapera
Certificate of High Distinction awarded to:
Ivy Hua
Sebastien Do
Year 5:
Certificate of Participation awarded to:
Ayesha Joshi
Nina Dowman
Certificate of Proficiency awarded to:
Dwitika Ahuja
Martin Perez
Neveah Chitrapong-Gammon
Certificate of Credit awarded to:
Lillian Bowden
Frank Wang
Year 6:
Certificate of Participation awarded to:
Henry Goode
Certificate of Proficiency awarded to:
Shiv Giri
Yar Buol
Certificate of Credit awarded to:
Audrey Smith
Sam Hutchinson
These students will be presented with their certificates at next week’s assembly.