SPECIALIST CLASSES

LOTE - Italian
Prep
>Greet others
>Introduce themselves
>Ask someone ‘how are they?’ and appropriate responses 
>Recognise the following colours: red, blue, green, yellow, white and pink
>Recognise the seasons role-play buying and selling different fruit and vegetables at the market  
 
Grade 1 and Grade 2
>Recognise the role of a gelataria when buying gelato in Italy
>Name some of the different gelati flavours 
>Identify how to address shopkeepers (formally)
>Recognise, say and understand the meaning of ‘io compro’ (I buy), ‘io mangio” (I eat), ‘io vendo’ (I sell) and ‘io prefersico’ (I prefer) 
>Identify the differences between Australian dollars and Italian euros role-play buying and selling gelato at the gelataria  
Grade 3-6 Blended Italian
 <Complete set tasks over the course of the week
>Revise and use formal and informal greetings in the classroom
>Understand and use a variety of classroom commands
>Say and write the date in Italian
>Recognise, say and understand the meaning of ‘io mangio’ (I eat), ‘vorrei un/una’ (I would like a….) and ‘mi piace/non mi piace’ (I like/I don’t like)
>Role-play buying and selling pizza at the pizzeria (Grade 3 & 4)
>Role-play ordering and paying for a meal at a restaurant (Grade 5 & 6). 
The Arts
By the end of this term, we want out students to know how to:
Prep
  •  Use line to create an outline of myself/people
  • Repeat lines and shapes to make patterns 
  • Create a self portrait
  • Draw facial features
  • Paint hair
  • Create marbled prints using shaving cream
  • Create art using paper to collage
  • Create a landscape artwork
  • Identify foreground, middle ground and background
Grade 1 &2
  • Draw my own interpretation of characters from where the wild things are
  • Create a watercolour and oil pastel resist
  • Present my artwork to an audience
  • Create a street art inspired collage
  • Add pattern and detail to create another element to my art
Grade 3 & 4
  • Create a city scape refining their skills in perspective drawing
  • Discuss famous artworks and artists and how they have applied perspective techniques 
  • Create an abstract portrait
  • Explain the meaning of the term abstract art
  • Make lines using different mediums to create bold lines
  • Use and explain analogous colours
  • Use and explain complimentary colours 

Grade 5 & Grade 6
  • Apply elements and principles of art and design, such as balance, emphasis, shape and space, when designing a still life composition
  • Utilise scale and perspective in my art
  • Utilise different lighting and colour choices to represent moods and emotion in my artwork
  • Use iPad applications to alter and refine my photographs
  • Create a still life that has a narrative or personal meaning 

Physical Education
By the end of this term, we want out students to know how to:
Grade Prep:
<Cooperate with other members of the class
<Understand playground safety
<Identify sports equipment and sharing
<Establish an awareness of personal space
<Understand how to perform basic movement and locomotive skills such as (hopping, jumping, skipping, leaping, running) bounce a ball <Using the correct technique
<Describe two parts of the correct running technique
<Explain how good running technique assists us when we’re playing sport/games
<Use dodging strategies that will help us to get around objects quickly and evade taggers/opponents
<Explain the importance of rules in Minor Games
<Explain the importance of good sportsmanship in Minor Games 
<Taking turns and sharing
<Identify key words we are learning in each unit of work

Grade 1 & Grade 2:
<Cooperate with other members of the class
<Work positively in a team during group activities 
<Have a greater awareness of the safety implications of games and activities and identify possible ways to avoid injury use running strategies to continue improving their personal fitness levels through the 2019 term 1 and 2 lap challenge
<Establish an awareness of personal space
<Understand how to perform basic movement and locomotive skills such as (hopping, jumping, skipping, leaping, running)
<Bounce (dribble) a ball using the correct technique and applying it to a minor game
<Use our arms and legs efficiently when running
<Explain how good running technique assists us when we’re playing sport/games use dodging strategies that will help us to get around objects quickly and evade taggers/opponents
<Understand the importance of rules in Minor Games
<Understand the importance of good sportsmanship in Minor Games 
<Identify key words we are learning in each unit of work
​Grade 3 & Grade 4:
<Understand the health benefits of physical fitness
<Understand what an net/wall game is
<Identify sports that are net/wall games and making connections between the modified games we play and a net/wall game sport
<Apply offensive and defensive net/wall strategies including; placing a shot in open space away from my opponent, using different shots to gain advantage, using a ready position to successfully receive a serve or shot and positioning myself to defend space on my own court
<Identify key words we are learning in each unit of work
<Use running strategies to continue improving their personal fitness levels through the 2019 term 1 and 2 lap challenge
<Confidently execute skills in a range of athletic events

Grade 5 & Grade 6:
<Understand the health benefits of physical fitness
<Develop running, jumping and throwing technique in a range of athletic events
<Identify key words we are learning in each unit of work
<Use running strategies to continue improving their personal fitness levels through the 2019 term 1 and 2 lap challenge
<Identify sports that are net/wall games and making connections between the modified games we play and a net/wall game sport
<Apply offensive and defensive net/wall strategies including; moving my opponent around the court to create open space to attack, hitting a shot that my opponent has difficulty returning, positioning myself on my own court for the best advantage, reading my opponent’s body cues to move to the point of attack and changing directions quickly to defend my space.
<Develop running, jumping and throwing technique in a range of athletic events
<Identify key words we are learning in each unit of work
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STEM

Picture
By the end of this term, we want out students to know how to:
  • Grades 3 & 4
  • <Recognise different types of data and explore how the same data can be represented different ways
  <Collect, access and present different types of data using simple software to create information and solve problems
 <Individually and with others, plan, create and communicate ideas and information safely, applying agreed ethical and social protocols
 <Define simple problems, and describe and follow a sequence of steps and decisions involving branching and user input (algorithms) needed to solve them
<Develop simple solutions as visual programs  
<Explain how student-developed solutions and existing information systems meet common personal, school or community needs
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Grade 5 & Grade 6
<Acquire, store and validate different types of data and use a range of software to interpret and
<Visualise data to create information
<Plan, create and communicate ideas, information and online collaborative projects, applying
ethical, social and technical protocols
<Define problems in terms of data and functional requirements, drawing on previously solved
problems to identify similarities
<Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative design ideas
<Design, modify and follow simple algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English,
involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration
<Develop digital solutions as simple visual programs
<Explain how student-developed solutions and existing information systems meet current
and future community and sustainability needs 

MUSIC
​Prep
  • Identify and describe pitch as high or low
  • Accurately clap and perform to the beat of songs
  • Perform the beat of songs while singing
  • Visually represent beat
  • Track the beat in songs by clapping or pointing to the beat at the correct time 
  • Perform the beat and the rhythm of simple songs
 
Grade 1 and Grade 2
  • Perform the beat and the rhythm
  • Use Kodaly notation to record Taa (I), titi (Π) and Zaa (Z)
  • Compose and play music using the pentatonic scale
  • Use hand signs when singing
  
Grade 3 and Grade 4
  • Compose and play music using the pentatonic scale
  • Play tuned and untuned instruments
  • Identify what a like and dislike when listening to a piece of music
  • Work in a small group to create a performance piece
 
Grade 5 and Grade 6
  • Create a rap about my name using a prescribed outline
  • Create a backing track on GarageBand to accompany my rap
  • Record my rap using GarageBand
  • Play tuned and unturned instruments
 
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