Around the Classes - Specialists

Foundation 

Ms Yao

Year 1-2

Ms Yao

          Years 3-4

Miss Tu

Years 5-6

Ms Yao

Focus Areas: 

• Chinese greetings
• Counting 6-10 in Chinese 
• Chinese Happy Birthday Song

Focus Areas: 

• Parts of body
• Sentence making using the word “有”(have/has)
• Dragon Boat Festival

• Colours
• Basic Greetings
• Likes and dislikes using sentences

Focus Areas: 

• Chinese characters handwriting. 
• Basic strokes of characters.
• The First Emperor of China
• The Great Wall of China

Foundation to Year 2

Years 3-4

Years 5-6

FMS—KICK 

Focus Areas:

• Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) 
• Safety (S) 
• Refining movement skills 
• Concepts and strategies 

INDIGENOUS GAMES OF AUSTRALIA

Focus Areas: 

• Football
• Netball 
• Valuing Diversity
• Lifelong physical activity (LLPA)
• Refining movement skills

INDIGENOUS GAMES OF AUSTRALIA

Focus Areas: 

• Football
• Netball 
• Valuing Diversity
• Lifelong physical activity (LLPA)
• Refining movement skills

MINI-ATHLETICS—RUNJUMP AND THROW 

Focus Areas: 

• Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) 
• Active Play & Minor Games (AP) 
• Elements of Movement Critical & creative thinking

MODIFIED TRACK & FIELD: RUN, JUMP, THROW 

Focus Areas: 

• Elements of Movement
• Safe Choices
• Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)
• Safety (S)

TRACK & FIELD: SPRINTS, LONG/HIGH/TRIPLE JUMP, SHOT PUT, DISCUS, RELAYS

Focus Areas: 

• Refining movement skills 
• Elements of Movement 
• Safe Choices
• Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)
• Safety (S)

Foundation to Year 2

Years 3-4

Years 5-6

Developing musical knowledge -  

Focus Areas: 

• Developing musicianship skills through singing, movement and body percussion
• Devising and practising items for Junior Concert, “Fellowship of the Colours”

Developing musicianship skills - 

Focus Areas: 

• A continuation of recorder studies
• Developing musicianship skills through singing, movement and body percussion
• Devising and practising items for Senior Concert, “The Chronicle”

Developing musicianship skills - 

Focus Areas: 

• Further development of recorder studies
• Furthering skills in musical elements: rhythm, melody, notation and harmony 
• Ensemble work
• Devising and practising choreography for Senior Concert, “The Chronicle”

Focus Areas: 

• Enhancing musical knowledge including tempo, dynamics, structure and articulation
• Building oral skills through notation, improvisation and listening tasks

Focus Areas:

• Developing note reading skills
• Developing skills in aural identification and performance of rhythmic elements—patterns

Focus Areas:

• Exploring film music
• Composition construction: outline, development and analysis of simple pieces
• Hone note reading and rhythmic patterning
• Revising recorder technique

Years 3-5

Creating Drama in a Group - 

Focus Areas: 

• Developing skills in collaboration and teamwork
• Understanding each other's roles in the group
• Applying problem-solving within teamwork

Shaping and Performing Dramatic Action -  

Focus Areas: 

• Learning how to create believable characters and relationships through voice, body and movement
• Developing narrative structures and tension whilst creating Drama