Turquoise Community

Hello from the Turquoise Team:

Terry Van Zyl, Steve Gray, Tenille Roberts,

Sarah McLoughlin and Sueanne O’Connell

We have had a fantastic start to the year, with fun, engaging lessons involving ‘getting to know each other’ activities, whilst settling into our new routines. The ‘Meet & Greet’ evening in Week 2 was a wonderful way to connect with parents, to ensure our students get the best out of their learning experience this year in Turquoise Community.

Students have already demonstrated their willingness to work cooperatively in teams as well as challenging themselves individually in all areas of the curriculum.

Below is a snapshot of what we will be covering in each Key Learning Area:

Reading:

Prediction and Prior Knowledge

Text Structures and Features

Visualising

Questioning

Summarising

Think Aloud

Writing:

Week 1 - 6: Narratives

Week 7 - 8: Exposition  

Please feel free to make an appointment with the team (through Compass), if you did not get the opportunity to attend the Meet & Greet.

Numeracy & Problem Solving

Problem solving will be playing a major focus in our Numeracy block

each week and this is an ideal opportunity for students to be challenged through their application of the foundational skills taught in Numeracy.

This term we will be covering a number of topics including:

Data and representation

Number and Place Value

Addition and Subtraction

Time

Money

Pattern and Algebra

Inquiry

Our Inquiry topic this term is Identity and Belonging.

We will be covering the following aspects through the Inquiry Process:

Ethics

Expression

Personal Identity

Culture

Change & Grow

Inclusivity

Wellbeing

Diversity

Interschool Sports

We return to Interschool Sport this term , with students competing in the following sports:

Tee-Ball

Hot-Shots Tennis

Hockey

Basketball

Volleystars