Curriculum News
INTEGRATED CURRICULUM
This term, our whole school concept is Sustainability. We use essential questions to focus the student's attention and guide their inquiry. This term, the questions we will be exploring are:
Team Foundation
What are the basic needs of living things?
What impact do the changing seasons have on living things?
How can we sustain the environment?
Team 1-2
How can we leave a tiny footprint on the environment?
Do we know what we can reuse, reduce and recycle?
How can we set goals and influence others to look after our environment?
Team 3-4
How do living things depend on each other and the environment to survive?
What impact do we have on the environment?
Who is responsible for caring for the environment?
How can we reduce our environmental footprint?
Team 5-6
What causes natural disasters?
How do geographers and scientists study the environment?
How do meteorologists collect weather data and why is this important?
How does the environment influence how people live, work and play?
CURRICULUM PLANNERS
A reminder that our term overviews are available through the school's website https://www.bpark.vic.edu.au/page/205/Curriculum-Planners
SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING
There are so many ways that our parent community support our school. One way that you can support your child and their learning is to get involved, promote learning and have conversations with your children. If you were after ideas how to support your child the below link provides numeracy and literacy tips to support parents of students aged 0-12 years.
How to: the way we teach certain concepts today may be different to how you learnt to do them at school, especially in mathematics. For example: Subtraction with regrouping (borrowing or trading). Below is an excellent link that explains how we teach subtraction today using regrouping:
HOME LEARNING
A friendly reminder to all parents about our expectations for home learning in Grades 3 to 6. As stated in our Home Learning Policy (available on our school website), home learning is an opportunity for students to reinforce and practise their reading and number skills taught in the classroom. It also supports students to develop their time management skills in preparation for secondary school.
It is expected that students in the senior levels (years 3-6) read for 30 minutes a day (Monday to Thursday).
For Maths, students in years 3 - 4 are to complete two My Numeracy modules and years 5 – 6 three My Numeracy modules from Essential Assessment. These activities are differentiated and aim to consolidate what the students are covering in class. If your child is having difficulty with a task, please direct them to the tutorial that explains the activity. If this does not help your child, have them screen shot the question/s they are having trouble with. Their teacher can spend time in class to explain the task or to modify their level.
We understand that people have busy schedules/weeks and if your child is not able to complete their home learning, please drop their teacher an email letting them know.
Thank you for your time and support. If you have any questions, please contact your classroom teacher.
Compiled by Shannon Reeve