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.

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 revising their understanding of shape properties and interpreting and creating our own grid references. We have been identifying how composite shapes can be used in our environments and how combinations of familiar shapes and objects are made. Across the next week we will continue to look at identifying and comparing 2D and 3D shape properties, expanding on their knowledge of line and rotational symmetry, and making their own symmetrical patterns and pictures.

Student's enjoyed the task of creating their own logo's using composite shapes this week, designing a logo for new brands using ICT. We strengthened our understanding of directions and positions in grid referencing with a fun game of battleships. Families at home may want to give battleships a go and enjoy extra practice of grid referencing at home. 

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: Supporting Children to Understand Their Rights and Stay Safe

We are continuing to learn the important skills to help them understand and protect their personal rights. While it’s sometimes thought that young children are too young to encounter or understand issues such as unfair treatment or unsafe behaviour, it’s important that they have the language and strategies to recognise and respond if something doesn’t feel right.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been talking about body boundaries and consent in age-appropriate and empowering ways. The children have explored what it means to feel safe and comfortable, how to say “no” if someone crosses their boundaries, and how to ask for help from trusted adults. These discussions help children build confidence, respect for themselves and others, and a strong sense of personal safety.

Through activities like learning the No, Go, Tell strategy, children are encouraged to speak up, seek help, and understand that their body belongs to them. These lessons empower children to care for themselves, to say “no” when they need to, and to know that there are trusted adults who will listen and support them.

Visual Art

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