Curriculum Overview
In Year 4, our students are given opportunities to become more independent and communicate more effectively with others. They continue to build and consolidate the essential knowledge and skills from previous years.
Year 4 students explore the following subjects/topics:
- English: Students will experience learning in familiar contexts and a range of contexts that relate to study in other areas of the curriculum. They will interact with peers and teachers from other classes. Students will engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They will listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is aesthetic, as well as texts designed to inform and persuade. These texts will encompass traditional oral texts including Aboriginal stories, picture books, various types of print and digital texts, simple chapter books, rhyming verse, poetry, non-fiction, film, multimodal texts, dramatic performances and texts used by students as models for constructing their own work.
- Mathematics: Students will make connections between representation of numbers, partition and combine numbers flexibly, extend place value to decimals, use appropriate language to communicate times and describe properties of symmetrical shapes. They will recall multiplication tables, communicate sequences of simple factions, use instruments to measure accurately, create patterns with shapes and transformations and collect and record data. Students will formulate, model and record authentic situations involving operations, compare large numbers and time durations and use numbers to continue patterns. They will derive strategies for unfamiliar multiplication and division tasks, compare angles, communicate information using graphical displays and evaluate the appropriateness of different displays.
- Science: Students will develop their understanding of classification and form and function through the exploration of properties of natural and processed materials. They will learn that forces include non-contact forces and begin to appreciate that some interactions result from phenomena that cannot be seen with the naked eye. Students will begin to appreciate that current systems, such as Earth's surface, have characteristics that have resulted from past changes and that living things form part of systems. They will understand that some systems change in predictable ways, such as through cycles. Students will apply their knowledge to make predictions based on interactions within systems, including those involving the actions of humans.
- HASS: Students will investigate interactions between people, places and environments over time and space and the effects of these interactions. They will expand their world knowledge and learn about the significance of environments, examining how people's need and want of resources over time has affected peoples, societies and environments. They will study European exploration and colonisation of Australia and elsewhere up to the early 1800's and life for Indigenous Australians pre- and post-contact. Students will examine the concept of sustainability, and its application to resource use and waste management, past and present, by different groups. They will be introduced to the role of local government, laws and rules, and group belonging and how they meet people's needs.
- Technologies: Students will have the opportunity to create designed solutions in some of the following contexts: Engineering principles and systems; Food and fibre productions and Food specialisations; and Materials and technologies specialisations. They will experience designing and producing products, services and environments. Students will explore digital systems in terms of their components, and peripheral devices such as cameras and interactive whiteboards. They will collect, manipulate and interpret data, developing an understanding of the characteristics of data and their representation.
Term Overviews
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