Around The Classes - Specialists

Years 3-5

Skills, Techniques and Processes - 

Focus Areas: 

• They apply the conventions of drama to their performances 
• They interpret and perform texts, devise drama and develop scripts 
• They make props to support their ensemble work

Making and Responding -  

Focus Areas: 

• Students develop their understanding of improvising, interpreting scripts and rehearsing
• They become attentive audience members and engaging in the practises of analysing and reflecting on their own and others’ drama works 

Foundation 

Ms Yao

Year 1-2

Ms Yao

          Years 3-4

Miss Tu

Years 5-6

Ms Yao

Focus Areas: 

• Moon Festival
• Colours
• Chinese colour song
• Review family vocabulary

Focus Areas: 

• Moon Festival
• Feelings and emotions
• Review family vocabulary

Focus Areas:

• Writing characters
• Making simple sentences
• Creating a ‘self’ booklet

Focus Areas: 

• Moon Festival
• Chinese food 
• Ordering food in Chinese

Foundation to Year 2

Years 3-4

Years 5-6

Developing musical knowledge -  

Focus Areas: 

• Developing musicianship skills through singing, movement and body percussion
• Furthering listening skills in rhythm and pitch
• Learning about the orchestra instrument families (strings, brass, woodwind and percussion)

Developing musicianship skills - 

Focus Areas: 

• A continuation of recorder studies (letters B, A and G)
• Learning to identify notes on the treble stave
• Developing musicianship skills through singing, movement and body percussion

Developing musicianship skills - 

Focus Areas: 

• Further development of recorder studies
• Furthering skills in musical elements: rhythm, melody, notation and harmony 
• Ensemble work

Focus Areas: 

• Ensemble work
• Building oral skills through notation, improvisation and listening tasks
• Rehearsing for Good Shepherd’s Christmas Carols, 2023

Focus Areas:

• Four Instrumental Families
• Developing note reading skills on the treble stave
• Ensemble work
• Rehearsing for Good Shepherd’s Christmas Carols, 2023

Focus Areas:

• Instruments of the Orchestra and their families
• History of Christmas Carols
• Hone note reading and rhythmic patterning
• Revising recorder technique
• Preparation for Carols, 2023

Foundation to Year 2

Years 3-4

Years 5-6

FMS—FOREHAND STRIKE (TENNIS)

Focus Areas: 

• Fundamental Movement Skills 
• Safety
• Refining movement skills
• Concepts and strategies

INVASION GAMES - (SOCCER)

Focus Areas: 

• Refining movement skills 
• Concepts and Strategies
• Fundamental Movement skills
• Active Play and Minor Games

INVASION GAMES - (SOCCER)

Focus Areas: 

• Refining movement skills 
• Concepts and Strategies 
• Ethical Behaviour
• Fundamental Movement skills
• Active Play and Minor Games

CELEBRATION GAMES!!! 

Focus Areas: 

• Active Play and minor games 
• Benefits of Physical Activity 
• Elements of movement
• Fitness & Physical Activity 

STRIKING & FIELDING GAMES - (CRICKET)

Focus Areas: 

• Refining movement skills
• Ethical Behaviour
• Fundamental Movement Skills
• Relationships and sexuality

STRIKING & FIELDING GAMES - (CRICKET)

Focus Areas: 

• Refining movement skills
• teamwork & leadership 
• concepts & strategies 
• Games and Sports