TERM 4, 2013 – CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
CURRICULUM
RELIGIOUS
EDUCATION
PREP
JUNIORS
MIDDLES
SENIORS
Our church
Loving God and Others
Sacraments of Initiation
Sacraments of the Church
Our Journey to Christmas
Getting Ready for Jesus
Christmas the Promise
Fulfilled
Harmony in Creation, Our
Responsibilities
Jesus Helps me to Choose
ENGLISH
Reading & Viewing:
 Foster children’s
enjoyment of reading
and encourage children
to choose their own
books to read at home
from a variety of texts.
 Increase knowledge of
focus words.
 Increase understanding
of rhyming words
 Provide opportunities
for children to share
their feelings and ideas
about texts
 Continue to promote
the use of reading
strategies such as,
reading on, re-reading
and reading for
meaning.
Writing:
 Write descriptive
sentences.
 Write a simple report.
 Experiment with using a
narrative writing style
 Write about personally
significant events
 Write from left to right,
top to bottom
 Understand the
purpose of a full stop
and begin to use them
in writing
 Attempt to spell words
by writing one or more
of the letters in a word,
usually having the
beginning and final
sounds
 Correctly use and spell
focus words that have
been learnt
 Include spaces between
words consistently
Spelling:
 Recognise letters of the
alphabet
 Spelling correctly sight
words
 Identify the initial,
medial and final sounds
in three letter words
Speaking & Listening:
 Actively participate in
class discussions
The First Christmas
Reading & Viewing:
 Identify main ideas
from a non-fiction text
 Skimming and scanning
a text for main ideas
 Continuing to develop
strategies to assist in
becoming independent
readers
 Developing literal and
inferential
comprehension skills
Writing:
 Consolidating skills in
the stages of the writing
process
 Researching, locating
main ideas, supporting
ideas and note taking
 Developing the use of
complex sentences
 Writing letters,
recounts, narratives and
poetry
 Making plausible
spelling attempts at
unknown words
 Continuing to develop
appropriate
handwriting skills
 Writing an information
report using the correct
structures and features.
Speaking & Listening:
 Presenting information
orally to an audience
 Applying appropriate
oral presentation
techniques such as
variation of tone and
pace and pitch when
communicating to an
audience
 Retelling of main facts
after reading an
information report
 Displaying the
behaviours of an
attentive audience
member eg:
appropriate
questioning, eye
contact and facing the
speaker
Reading & Viewing:
 Sound, letter and word
relationships
 Consolidating and
extending decoding
strategies
 Reading to improve
fluency and
comprehension
 Retelling main ideas
from a text
 Sequencing
 Identifying main ideas
from a non-fiction text
 Skimming and scanning
a text for main ideas
 Continuing to develop
strategies to assist in
becoming independent
readers
 Developing literal and
inferential
comprehension skills
 Being able to compare
and contrast events
from a text
 Key understandings of
cause and effect
Writing:
 Consolidating skills in
the writing process
 Researching, locating
the main ideas,
supporting ideas and
note taking
 Developing the use of
complex sentences
 Writing narrative and
poetry texts
 Making plausible
attempts at spelling
unknown words
 Continuing to develop
appropriate
handwriting skills
 Implementing an
editing process
Speaking & Listening:
 Presenting Information
orally to an audience
 Retelling the main facts
after reading an
information report
 Displaying behaviours
of an attentive audience
Feast of the Christmas
Season
Reading & Viewing:
 Consolidating spelling
skills and strategies
 Consolidating
comprehension
strategies –
Drawing Conclusions
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Finding Author’s
Purpose
 Analyse and explain
literal and inferential
understandings from a
variety of texts
 Reading to improve
fluency &
comprehension
Writing:
 Consolidating the
structures and features
of –
Discussion
Speeches
Narratives
 independent editing
skills to provide
structure and meaning
 Publishing and
presentation skills
 Spelling skills and
strategies
 Building vocabulary
bank for writing
 Consolidating and
demonstrating the
appropriate use of
grammar and
punctuation
Speaking & Listening
 Presenting Information
orally to an audience
 Displaying behaviours
of an attentive audience
 Displaying leadership
qualities

MATHEMATICS
Formulate and ask
relevant questions
 Correctly sequence
events when re-telling a
story
 Communicate messages
and ideas clearly to
others
 Use a wider vocabulary
Number & Algebra:
 Writing and reading
numbers from 1-20
 3-d shapes
 Time concepts
 Sharing
 Money
 Revision of addition and
subtraction
 Problem Solving
 Measurement concepts
Health & Physical Education:
 Continue to develop
skills required to
perform different
movements – skipping,
hopping, side-step,
running.
 Practise ball handling
skills catching,
throwing, rolling, and
dribbling
 Team Games, working
co-operatively and
taking turns
 Making choices –
identifying good and
bad choices
 Applying skills in
preparation for Tabloid
Sports Day
iSTAR
Number & Algebra:
 Building on skills and
counting patterns to
100 and beyond (2s, 5s
and 10s)
 Revising, modelling,
ordering, recording 2
and 3-digit numbers
 Units, tens and
hundreds place value
 Practise counting
forwards and
backwards
 Solving simple
multiplication and
division problems
 Recognising that
multiplication and
division are inverse
operations and using
knowledge of
multiplication to solve
division problems
 Identifying and
comparing fractions of
common shapes and
collections
 Renaming simple
fractions and identifying
fractions that are
equivalent
 General revision of all
areas covered during
the year
Number & Algebra:
 Practise counting
forwards and
backwards using a
variety of strategies
 Reading & writing
numbers
 Ordering numbers
 Solving multiplication &
division problems using
a variety of strategies
 Using number lines
 Single and multi-step
word problems
 Developing &
consolidating problem
solving skills and
strategies
Measurement & Geometry
 Using metric units for
length, mass and
capacity
 Using scaled
instruments to measure
length, angle, area and
mass
 Using scaled
instruments to measure
capacity, temperature
of shapes and objects
Investigative Student
Teacher Active Research
(iSTAR)
Investigative Student
Teacher Active Research
(iSTAR)
Statistics & Probability:
 List possible outcomes
and recognise variations
in results
 Compare one event to
another as being less
likely / more likely to
happen
 List possibilities of
occurrences in everyday
events
Investigative Student
Teacher Active Research
(iSTAR)
Prep:
What Can I do to Make the
World a Better Place?
Grade 1:
What makes a good toy?
Grade 3:
How do machines work?
Grade 2:
How do we use
Communication
Technology?
Grade 4:
How is heat important in
our lives?
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Number & Algebra:
 Multiplication &
Division of whole
numbers, decimals and
fractions,
 extend understanding
of operations with all
numbers
 solve problems
involving the four
operations
 identify features of
prime, composite,
square and triangular
numbers
Measurement & Geometry
 Units of measurements
for length, mass,
capacity and volume
 Angles
 Grid references
 Timetables
 Temperature
 Constructing prisms and
pyramids from nets
Statistics & Probability:
 Data representation
and interpretation
 Estimating probability
of events
 List outcomes of chance
experiments
 Represent probabilities
of those outcomes
using fractions
Investigative Student
Teacher Active Research
(iSTAR)
Grade 5:
How can you turn a simple
idea into a million dollar
idea?
Grade 6:
What can we create to help
solve the problems that
affect people around the
world?