Ascot Vale West Primary School
The School strives to ensure that our students will become responsible,
motivated, life-long learners who can confidently face future challenges.
Overview Term 1, 2015
Curriculum
Area
Inquiry
Unit 2
Overview
Title of unit:
‘Where Do I Belong?’
Focus area: Civics and Citizenship and History
Homework
Research/
discussions
Key understandings
Students will work towards:
 Identifying people in their family, where they were born and
raised
 Understanding different structures of families and family groups
today and what they have in common
 Exploring how stories of families, past and present, are
communicated eg: photos, artefacts, books, oral histories, digital
media and museums
Inquiry skills
Students will work towards:
 Questioning: Developing and responding to questions about
families
 Compare and contrast: Comparing and contrasting the
similarities and differences between their own families and the
families of others
 Communicating: Sharing information and ideas through a variety
of media
 Analysing and interpreting: Identifying family structures and
sharing and discussing family histories
 Reasoning: Understanding that families are different
English
Speaking and listening
Students will work towards:
 Understanding expectations for class, group and partner
discussions
 Following instructions
 Explaining their thinking
Reading and viewing
Students will work towards:
 Developing routines that support reading including use of
classroom library, independent reading and take home books
 Selecting ‘just-right’ books that can be read independently
 Choosing books of interest and for various purposes
 Developing ideas in response to texts
Nightly home
reading
English
Writing
Students will work towards:
 Developing routines and practices for the writing workshop
including independent writing and writer’s notebooks
 Identifying audience and purpose in texts written
 Discussing decisions they make as authors when composing texts
 Developing knowledge of how words work to support their
writing
 Developing an understanding of writing conventions such as
correct letter formation and punctuation
Maths
Number
Mathletics –
Students will work towards:
complete
assigned tasks
 Making, continuing and recording repeating and growing
patterns
 Identifying, making and recording numbers to 100
 Counting numbers in sequence – forwards and backwards (to and
from 100)
 Fluent counting of numbers forwards and backwards by 2s, 5s,
10s (to and from 100)
Measurement
Students will work towards:
 Sequencing the days and months
 Identifying significant events in the calendar year
 Identifying o’clock and half past times on analogue and digital
clocks
Geometry
Students will work towards:
 Recognising and classifying familiar 2D shapes based on their
observable features
Personal
learning
Students will work towards:
 Developing habits and routines to be a co-operative class
member
 Developing and exhibiting appropriate behaviours for
maintaining positive social relationships