Learning across Torrens

LNPS Team Points and Torrens Gaining Your Wings

To foster a community where everyone belongs and feels connected.

To create a caring climate, which reflects our school values:

Honesty, Respect, Care and Concern and Pursuit of Excellence

In collaboration with LNPS Team Points, Torrens students will be given the opportunity to 'gain their wings' by providing evidence of their commitment to our school values. This process is similar to the Year 7 High Flyer awards albeit in a much smaller scale. 

Students will need to provide evidence in the form of signed certificates, photos, videos staff/parent statements that show them living the school values of HONESTY, CARE & CONCERN, PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE and RESPECT.

Examples of upholding our LNPS Values:

Be polite and respectful to all - always greet and treat people in a positive manner

Be respectful to the environment - litter, toilet areas, learning areas inside buildings, outside learning spaces, on excursions…etc.

Show genuine care and concern for all - stand up for what is right - support people who are not feeling well, are injured, or who you know are having a tough time

Have the drive and determination to be successful.

Be honest even when it might get you in trouble!

Show good sportsmanship - cheer everyone on!

Think about and act to support people in our community

Demonstrate bravery - make your voice heard, make a stand against bullying and anti-social behaviour in the real and online worlds.

Students will be provided with a booklet and certificate templates to complete the program. Team Points will be awarded for each act. This will become part of their Homework for Terms 3 and 4.

Mathematics  

The focus for Mathematics in Term 3 will be centred on MASS / WEIGHT.

There will be many hands-on learning experiences for all students as well as workshops focusing on specific skills and strategies. Students will be encouraged to take risks, make many learning attempts and demonstrate their understanding at all times.

In Term 4, the focus will be on developing their understanding of graphing, money, time, data and statistics.

Number Facts

Students will continue to practise number facts at every opportunity as knowing these facts with fluency and automaticity is required in all areas of mathematics. In addition, they will be building up and using their fluency with multiplication facts to learn division facts.

It is essential students have a good working knowledge of  addition and subtraction facts to 20 and develop strategies to work with larger numbers. Rainbow Facts, Counting On, and Bridge Through Ten are three of these Secret Code Strategies that students in Year 3 and 4 need to understand and use proficiently. 

English

This semester, the essential skills of writing (punctuation, sentence structure, vocabulary use) will continue to be a focus during English. Students will continue to consolidate their knowledge and understanding of the language and structural features of narratives and explore information reports, providing factual information about a particular topic. 

15 min writing tasks will encourage creativity, as well as time to focus on the conventions of writing such as punctuation, paragraphing and sentence structure. They will be provided with opportunities to refine proofreading and editing skills which complete the writing process.

Reading

Comprehension skills are developed through engaging in and responding to a Class Novel, setting reading goals from student-teacher conferences, reading workshops and online reading programs such as CARS & STARS.

Students are expected to read nightly as part of their homework as this enables them to apply and consolidate skills learnt at school. 

Words Their Way

Spelling workshops are targeted to student needs and focus on understanding spelling generalisations. Through workshop learning activities, students will discover new spelling rules with the expectation that students will transfer these skills into their everyday writing. 

HASS

Year 3 - WHO LIVED HERE FIRST, AND HOW DO WE KNOW?

Students will explore Australia's past and travel back through time and discover the First Australian's. 

The focus will be exploring the key concepts of empathy, significance and perspectives. Students will explore culture, stories and language. 

Through their inquiry into how culture is shared and remembered, students will explore dance, visual art and multimedia with a focus on how these art forms are used to tell a story.

Year 4 - WHAT DO THE STORIES FROM THE FIRST FLEET TELL US ABOUT AUSTRALIA'S EARLY HISTORY?

We will be investigating reasons for the First Fleet journey, including an examination of the wide range of crimes punishable by transportation, and looking at the groups who were transported. Looking into attitudes to the poor, the treatment of prisoners at that time, and the social standing of those who travelled to Australia on the First Fleet, including families, children and convict guards. Finding out about daily life in the Botany Bay penal settlement and challenges experienced by the people there and how they were managed.