Level 4: Connect

Level 4 2025

Lisa Fennessy & Isabella Nocera 4A

Tilly Van & Marc Restaino 4B

Michelle Stainforth 4C

Important Term 4 Events:

December 2nd: Level 4 Puffing Billy Excursion.

December 15th: Christmas Carols 

Lost Property: 

We have collected a large amount of lost property this semester with many items not being returned to their owner. If you believe any of the items below could be your child's, please encourage them to visit the Level 4 upstairs office and take their belongings home. We would love to see all items returned to the correct owner by the end of Week 9.

Term 4 Friday Sport: 

This term we will be starting our sport trials for Level 5 inter-school sports. This means our Level 4 sport time (separate to P.E) will now run on Fridays. As the weather is getting warmer, if you could please have a conversation with your child ensuring they have a hat and drink bottle for school especially on these days that would be most appreciated.

In the upcoming weeks your child will be given a form requesting for permission to walk down to Spring Street for Level 4 Sport. If we could please have these forms returned as soon as possible that would be fantastic.

Level 4 Novel Recommendations:

We understand that finding the 'right book' can sometimes be a challenge. Please see a list of recommended texts below. Each book is aimed for students at a Level 4-5 level. Please note that some of these texts may explore more mature or intense themes and may be a sensitive topic for some families. Alternatively follow this link to Dymocks 'Kids top 51 Books' for more options and the 2025 Book of the Year Shortlist.

Literacy: 

For Literacy, We have been refreshing our reading comprehension skills, revising what literal and inferential information looks like and how we can evaluate a text. To prepare ourselves the best we can for our upcoming assessments, in our Writing we have been practising our use of punctuation, specifically quotation marks. By using our WOW words, we can also include exciting vocabulary that is more detailed and can help hook our reader in.

As always we encourage each student to be reading at home and sharing their thoughts and wondering's about the text with family members. A main focus of our literacy work currently is to look at a characters perspective and point of view, analyse how a character impacts the text development, and how we can infer information from a text. 

Numeracy:

This week students have been revisiting their measurement understanding and applying their knowledge to measure length, and calculate the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes. We have been analysing the difference in measurement accuracy when using formal compared to informal tools, and had fun measuring different items around our  classrooms using different objects and measurement tools. The Level 4 students revised how we can accurately use rulers and measuring tapes to accurately measure lengths. As we work into next week, Level 4 students will be using their measurement knowledge to design floor plans for their dream house! 

As we continue on the home stretch to the end of term, we are going to re-visit our financial maths and practice solving problems involving calculating change and working with budgets. 

Inquiry:

Level 4 students have been learning about how different laws impact us in different environments such as school, sporting club or out in the community. They are currently exploring a range of different groups that they might be part of and how these influence the decisions we make, how we act and what we do. Students will be wrapping up the unit with a series of activities that enable them to reflect on what they have learnt this term based on government and society. We are looking into hopefully getting a guest speaker in the next couple of weeks for which students will need to prepare some 'interview questions' for. They will then engage in a mini research project based on civics and citizenship. 

Well-being: 

For the upcoming fortnight, the Level 4 students will continue their social and emotional learning through The Resilience Project Curriculum. Our social and emotional literacy remains a priority during this busy period of the year. As students anticipate changes and upcoming events we are reminded to draw on our Zones of Regulation Toolkit and our GEM practises - Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness. We are looking forward to maintaining our school values of Respect, Resilience and Relationships as we share and celebrate our upcoming end of term events. 

Visual Art

Please see the Specialist section of the newsletter for a gallery of amazing artworks.