Oakhill Drive Public School
Stage 2 (Year 3 and Year 4) Areas of Focus
Term 1 2014
The focus areas listed below will be targeted in all Stage 2 classes during the term.
Content has been jointly identified by the Year 3 and Year 4 teachers from the NSW
Board of Studies’ Syllabuses and our school’s scope and sequence documents. It will
enable consistency in programming and planning to occur across all Stage 2
classrooms.
ENGLISH
(‘New’ Syllabus)
Parents are invited to refer to the ‘Stage Statement’ for Stage 2 English, located on the
Board of Studies website via this link:
http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/stage-2-stage-statements/
This statement provides a guide to learning content over two school years.
English Syllabus Content Areas for Stage 2:
 Speaking & Listening
 Writing & Representing
 Reading & Viewing
 Spelling
 Responding & Composing
 Grammar, Punctuation & Vocabulary
 Thinking Imaginatively, Creatively, Interpretively & Critically
 Expressing Themselves
 Reflecting On Learning
Stage 2 Term 1 English Unit – ‘Journeys’
In this unit, students learn to critically analyse and respond to texts, with a focus on
multimodal and visual literacy texts. Students will explore a modelled text called ‘Princess
Smartypants’ as well as other texts which are linked to the theme of ‘Journeys’. The
students will examine the English concept of characterisation when reading, viewing and
listening to traditional and fractured fairy tales as well as associated real life stories.
Stage 2 will continue to focus on the Super Six Comprehension Strategies and develop their
reading, writing, speaking and listening skills during the course of this unit of work.
MATHEMATICS
(2002 Syllabus)
Number
Count forwards and backwards by tens and hundreds
Use place value to read, represent and order four digit
numbers
Use a range of mental strategies for addition and subtraction
for 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers
Use and explain formal written algorithms for addition and
subtraction
Conduct simple chance experiments
Patterns and Algebra
Term 2
Measurement
Estimate, measure, compare and record lengths and distances
using metres, centimetres and/ or millimetres
Convert between metres and centimetres, and centimetres
and millimetres
Recognise the need for a formal unit to measure volume &
capacity
Estimate, measure, compare and record volumes and
capacities using litres and millilitres
Space and Geometry
Identify and name pentagons, octagons and parallelograms
presented in different orientations
Compare and describe special groups of quadrilaterals
Name, describe, sort, make and sketch prisms, pyramids,
cylinders, cones and spheres
Create nets from everyday packages
Describe cross-sections of three-dimensional objects
Data
Conduct surveys, classify and organise data using tables
Working Mathematically
Devise strategies in order to problem solve
Be able to complete multi-step problem
HSIE (Human Society & Its Environment)
Being Australian
This topic continues the concept of ‘Journeys’ as we learn
about the development of the historical and cultural
influences that underpin the broad notion of being Australian.
(Taught by RFF Teachers)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Which came first?
This topic continues the concept of ‘Journeys’ as we learn how
changes in the environment caused by humans may affect the
survival of living things. They develop their knowledge and
understanding of the life cycles of living things and the ways
that changes in the environment can affect life cycles.
Students use this knowledge to design an information product
to raise awareness of the need to protect local places and
spaces so that plants and animals can survive and reproduce.
CREATIVE ARTS
Footsteps Dance Program
This term students will be involved in more complex individual
dances and a broader range of dance styles. The elements of
dance – space, time and dynamics – are also explained and
incorporated into routines. This allows students to develop
their skills rhythmically through tempo and timing, and
creatively by using different directions, levels, groups and
difficulty of sequences.
Drama- A new look
Cinderella
This term students will be involved in developing a new
perspective on a traditional tale through improvisation and
reader’s theatre and make links with learning in English.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Personal Development
Health
Physical Education
This term the following topics and programs will be covered:
Child Protection
School Swimming Carnival
Daily ‘Crunch ‘n Sip’
Modified Cricket
Fundamental Movement Skills
PSSA/ School Sport
LIBRARY PROGRAM
Activities will include literacy, research and technology skills.
2014 Stage 2 Team:
Kathryn Marsaus (Assistant Principal and Year 4 teacher), Anne Fulton-Boote (Year 4
teacher), Liz Body (Year 3/4 teacher), Blane Steel (Year 3 teacher), Janelle Lord
(Year 3 teacher), Robyn Kulmar ( Year 2/3 teacher), Robyn Kayes (Learning and
Support Teacher)