Around The Classes - Specialists

Drama

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

Mandarin 

Foundation

Ms Yao

Year 1-2

Ms Yao

          Years 3-4

Miss Tu

Years 5-6

Ms Yao

Focus Areas: 

  • Family
  • Chinese family song
  • Review numbers

 

Focus Areas: 

  • Animals
  • Review colours
  • Using sentence to describe colours

 Focus Areas: 

  • All about 'myself'
  • Writing Chinese characters
  • Creating sentences

Focus Areas: 

  • 4 tones of Chinese Pronunciation
  • Famous tourist attractions in China such as The Great Wall of China, Terra Cotta Warriors and more.

Music

Foundation to Year 2

Years 3-4

Years 5-6

Developing musical knowledge -  

 

Focus Areas: 

  • Developing musicianship skills through singing, movement and body percussion

Developing musicianship skills - 

 

Focus Areas: 

  • A continuation of recorder studies
  • Developing musicianship skills through singing, movement and body percussion
  • Discussion and study of film music.

Developing musicianship skills - 

 

Focus Areas: 

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

 

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

Physical Education

Foundation to Year 2

Years 3-4

Years 5-6

FMS—BOUNCE 

 

Focus Areas:

  • Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) 
  • Safety (S) 
  • Elements of Movement 
  • Teamwork and leadership    

INVASION GAMES - BASKETBALL

 

Focus Areas: 

  • Refining movement skills 
  • Concepts and Strategies
  • Fundamental Movement skills (FMS)
  • Active Play and Minor Games (AP)

 

INVASION GAMES - BASKETBALL

 

Focus Areas: 

  • Refining movement skills 
  • Concepts and Strategies 
  • Ethical Behavior
  • Fundamental Movement skills (FMS)
  • Active Play and Minor Games (AP)

FMS- OVERHEAD THROW

 

Focus Areas: 

  • Active Play and minor games (AP) 
  • Relationships (RS) 
  • Refining skills 
  • Teamwork & leadership  

 

INITIATIVE GAMES & TEAM BUILDING

 

Focus Areas: 

  • Concepts & Strategies
  • Safe Choices
  • Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)
  • Safety (S)

INITIATIVE GAMES & TEAM BUILDING

 

Focus Areas: 

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