Curriculum Overview
Throughout their Year in Prep, students will have opportunities to learn in many different ways. Prep students will participate in active learning through the Explicit Teaching model. They draw conclusions, solve problems, cultivate thinking skills, collaborate, communicate and develop a positive sense of self.
Prep students explore the following subjects/topics:
- English: Students will engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They will listen to, read and view spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as some texts designed to inform. The texts explored will include traditional oral texts, picture books, various types of stories, rhyming verse, poetry, non-fiction, film, multimodal texts and dramatic performances. Students will participate in shared reading, viewing and storytelling using a range of literary texts, and recognise the entertaining nature of literature.
- Mathematics: Students will connect names, numerals and quantities, count numbers in sequences, continue patterns and compare the lengths of objects, use materials to model problems, sort objects, use familiar counting sequences to solve unfamiliar problems
- Science: Students will observe and describe the behaviours and properties of everyday objects, materials and living things. They will explore changes in the world around them, including changes that impact on them, such as the weather, and changes they can effect, such as making things move or change shape. They will learn that seeking answers to questions they pose and making observations is a core part of science and use their senses to gather different types of information.
- HASS: Students will develop an understanding of their personal worlds, including their personal and family histories and the places they and their families live in and belong to. They will explore why places are special to them and others. As students explore the people and features of their social and physical worlds, they will examine representations of place and sources, which may include stories from family members and from different cultures. Students will investigate how people feel about and look after places.
- Technologies: Students will explore and investigate technologies − materials, systems, components, tools and equipment − including their purpose and how they meet personal and social needs within local settings. They will develop an understanding of how society and environmental sustainability factors influence design and technologies decisions. Students will evaluate designed solutions and consider their impact of decisions and technologies on others and the environment. They will learn about common digital systems and patterns that exist within data they collect. Students will organise, manipulate and present data in creative ways to create meaning.
Prep children also learn about:
- negotiating rights, roles and responsibilities and developing social skills for working and playing with others
- diverse social and cultural practices of people in their community
- making healthy choices
- experimenting with materials in a variety of creative, imaginative and innovative ways
- technology in everyday life
- music and movement.
Term Overviews
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