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PLT 3 Secondary

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​​​​​​2023 - SEMESTER2 SNAPSHOT

​Learning Area
​​Snapshot

English

Students in Secondary 1, 2 and 3 are focusing on different types of poetry and language features used in reading and writing poetry. Our cohort is building student knowledge about different types texts and that these can have similar characteristics; identifying connections between texts and their personal experiences; listening for rhyme, letter patterns and sounds in words; using familiar words and phrases and images to convey ideas. As a school we are focusing on Phonics during our word work sessions in the day.  Junior secondary students will be focusing targeted skills to improve their reading comprehension. As part of our word study students will also be introduced to topic specific vocabulary centred around poetry. The Secondary 1, 2 and 3 cohort are focusing on writing a range of poetry that describes their identity.

Maths

​Place Value: Each student is concentrating on the numbers relevant to their knowledge level. We are developing the skill of using place value to write and work with numbers using everyday experiences. Place value knowledge underpins the learning of working with numbers to recognise, model, read, write and order numbers from 0 up to 100 and beyond. 

Measurement: Compare objects using mass, length and capacity; order objects based on lengths using informal units; and use metric units for length.

Money: Students will recognise Australian coins and notes according to their value; represent money in various ways.

Addition and Subtraction:​ Students will carry out simple addition and subtractions using counting strategies; perform simple addition and subtraction calculations using a range of strategies.  

Multiplication and DivisionStudents will describe number sequences resulting from skip counting; recognise increasing and decreasing number sequences; recall addition and multiplication facts for single-digit numbers.

Fractions: Students will identify representations of halves, quarters and eighths; divide collections and shapes into halves, quarters and eighths; model and represent unit fractions.

Shape Students will sort and match objects according to their features and common characteristics; describe two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects and recognise the features of these objects.

Location and Transformations: Students will use appropriate language to describe location; use the language of direction to move from place to place; explain the effects of one-step transformations and interpret simple maps of familiar locations.

Chance: Students will classify outcomes of simple familiar events; describe outcomes for everyday events and conduct chance experiments and list possible outcomes.

​Positive Behaviour for Learning

'PBL' is our school's positive behaviour program. Students are learning all of the school expectations and exactly what that means for them through explicit instruction and lessons each week. Students will develop their resilience and social-emotional learning through the following

Core values: Care, Courage and Cooperation​.

​Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

People Live in Places: Students will be identifying important events in their lives and will recognise why some places are special to people; observe the familiar features of places and represent these features and their location on pictorial maps and models; relate stories about their past and share and compare observations about familiar places

Health and Physical Education (HPE)

Good Choices, Healthy Me: In PE, students will identify actions that help them be healthy, safe and physically active; demonstrate practices and behaviours to keep themselves safe and healthy in different activities; perform fundamental movement skills and solve movement challenges.

Project Based Learning

The Poetry of Us: This semester students will write, illustrate and publish a poetry book that celebrates their identities.  Students will compose individual poems and also work in small groups to create collaborative poems.  Students will explore the concept of identity through a variety of experiences.  They will explore and bring language to their own identities and investigate identity and poetry. Students will create illustrations for their book and publish and share their book at a Poetry cafe'.

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Last reviewed 18 October 2023
Last updated 18 October 2023