Specialist Learning Community

  • Mr Frank Patti

    Specialist PLC Leader

    Italian Teacher

  • Miss Hayley Rogers

    Physical Education Teacher

  • Mrs Jess Borg

    Visual Arts Teacher

  • Mrs Skye Munro

    Visual Arts Teacher

  • Ms Laura Zamurs

    Science Teacher

  • Mrs Laura Inglesi

    Performing Arts Teacher

Term 4

Term 4

Physical Education

  • In Term 4, Prep students will focus on developing their fundamental movement skills, particularly around kicking. The key learning outcomes include building eye-foot coordination, kicking stationary and moving balls, and improving accuracy and distance. They will also practice teamwork, give and receive feedback, and apply their kicking skills in games.

    Each week, there will be a target skill focus, such as kicking for accuracy or distance and using kicking techniques in-game settings. The program is designed to be engaging and hands-on, with activities that involve working with peers, reflecting on performance, and problem-solving.

    This term will conclude with assessments that celebrate the students' growth and achievements in their physical skills.

  • In Term 4, Grade 1/2 students will focus on developing their overarm throwing and two-handed striking skills. They will improve their technique, such as throwing at both stationary and moving targets, adjusting the power of their throws, and using the correct form when striking a ball.

    Students will also learn how to apply these skills in various games, where they will need to decide where to throw or hit the ball and how to work effectively as part of a team. Fielding skills will also be a focus, teaching them how to set up a fielding team and react quickly during striking and fielding games.

    This unit is designed to build on the fundamental movement skills learned in earlier years, with a greater emphasis on strategy and teamwork. Students will have opportunities to practice, reflect on their performance, and collaborate with their peers, with assessments at the end of the term highlighting their growth in both physical abilities and teamwork.

  • In Term 4, Grade 3/4 students will focus on netball and basketball as part of their physical education. The key learning outcomes will include mastering movement concepts such as dodging, evading, passing, and receiving the ball while developing an understanding of teamwork and game strategies in invasion games.

    Students will learn how to maintain possession, control the pace of the game, and use defensive techniques. They will also practice shooting, passing, and working collaboratively in a team setting. Each week will focus on specific skills like shadowing, passing, team defense, and game play, helping students build confidence in their abilities.

    The program fosters leadership, communication, and problem-solving, culminating in team matches where students can apply the skills they’ve learned.

  • In Term 4, Grade 5/6 students will focus on the principles of invasion games through the sport of rugby. They will develop important skills such as dodging, evading, passing, and maintaining possession, all within the context of rugby.

    Throughout the term, students will practice key skills like defending, controlling the game's pace, and working together as a team. They will also focus on strategies for attacking, including passing under pressure and supporting their teammates on the field. Emphasis will be placed on offensive and defensive play, helping students understand when to take risks and maintain control.

    In addition to physical skills, students will enhance their teamwork, communication, and decision-making abilities, which are critical for success in rugby. The term will culminate in modified rugby matches where students can apply the concepts they've learned, ensuring a fun and engaging experience while reinforcing the importance of collaboration and respect on the field.

Visual Arts

Welcome back to another exciting term! Over Term 4, the Prep to Grade 4 students will learn colour theory through teacher-guided lessons and exploration of art that involves mixing, tinting and blending colours together. Understanding colour relationships will enhance the student's ability to express themselves artistically while understanding the foundation of each colour makeup.

  • The Prep students will begin Term 4 exploring the colours of the rainbow using 'ROY-G-BIV' songs and stories. They will create rainbow clouds that feature their names on their art folios, which they will take home later in the year. The students will then explore Mondrian-inspired art using the three primary colours before they move on to colour mixing to make secondary colours. They will explore the process of colour mixing by creating a Colour Wheel Snail. The Prep students will end the year creating Christmas or holiday-themed arts and crafts.

  • The Grade 1/2 students will start the term with a guided drawing lesson on creating a Laurel Burch cat using oil pastels. Once they have drawn their fantastic felines, the students will carefully add different patterns before backing them onto coloured papers and creating a mosaic-style border. Students will then review the primary colours by painting popsicle stick paintings and layering these three primary colours together. They will then explore warm and cool colours by creating a collage leaf out of warm colour tones, which they will back onto a cool colourway background. The students will end the year making Christmas or holiday themed arts and crafts.

  • This term, the Grade 3/4 students will start with reviewing warm and cool colour tones by drawing a seasonal tree featured on an alternating warm and cool-toned grid background. Throughout this art piece, the students will revise their colouring skills using a pencil and focus on colouring in one direction. The students will then create monochromatic paintings (gradations of colour) 'zentangle' flowers. Students will draw a flower shape using grey lead pencils before filling the flowers with outlined patterns. They will then select a colour for painting a tint, adding small amounts of their chosen colour to white paint whilst they paint their background in gradation order from light to dark. To finish their revision of colour theory, the students will paint a balanced, asymmetrical design using nonrepresentational geometric shapes. They will replicate their original design four times using acrylic paint to create symmetry.  The students will be encouraged to paint each square using complementary and monochromatic colour schemes. They will end the year making Christmas or holiday-themed arts and crafts.

  • The Grade 6 students will complete their final term designing and creating their graduation plates. The students have been eagerly waiting all year to start this particular art piece, where they will reminisce on their primary school journey. The Grade 6 students will be encouraged to create an individualised plate highlighting their favourable memories at KPS, including friends, favourite subjects, year-level teachers and extracurricular activities. These plates will feature at the graduation ceremony evening at the end of the year. The Grade 5 students will start with creating a string art-inspired piece where they will press drawing pins into dots on a plan going through the cardboard before they choose a coloured thread and a plastic needle to follow the steps to thread their artwork repeatedly, creating a wonderful geometrical design. Later in the term, the Grade 5/6 students will create a one-point perspective drawing, showing buildings appearing to get smaller as they get further away, moving towards a single ‘vanishing point’ on the horizon line. This method of drawing is a way to create an illusion of depth on a flat piece of paper to look three-dimensional and realistic.

Science

Physical Science

  • The Grade 3/4 students will learn about where heat comes from and how it can be produced by completing activities in the unit ‘Heating up’.  They will identify heat sources and look at how heat can transfer from one object to another.  During this unit, the Grade 3/4 students will also plan and investigate to compare the conductivity of different materials.  Through this task, they will look at identifying variables and develop an understanding of what makes a fair test.  Students will also practice collecting data, using instruments such as thermometers, and presenting this data in graphical formats.

  • Grade 5/6 students will complete the unit ‘Light shows’ and learn how light travels in a straight line and how light can be produced by living and non-living things.  They will also investigate how light can be reflected and refracted by different materials and how this is used in everyday applications.  Students will use their design skills to produce a periscope using mirrors and common items and investigate how different colours can affect the amount of heat transferred from one object to another. 

During Term 4, Grade 3/4 and Grade 5/6 students will learn about the Physical Sciences. The Grade 3/4 and Grade 5/6 classes will also complete STEM tasks using the littleBit and Ozbot kits to develop their coding skills and understand how robotics is used in everyday life.

Italian

  • Foundation students will begin the term by consolidating what they have learned throughout Terms 1 to 3. They will then learn to name some objects found in a typical classroom and around the school, such as the toilet (il bagno) and a chair (la sedia). We will continue to work on numbers, naming body parts, and exploring how Italy celebrates Christmas.

    As in previous terms, Foundation students will continue to discover the basics of Italian culture, explore landmarks of Italy, and learn the foundations of the Italian language, all while covering new content. Numbers will be incorporated into each unit. Learning body parts will be part of our warm-up games, with singing and repetition to reinforce vocabulary.

    Students will demonstrate their understanding of the Italian language by responding to verbal and non-verbal prompts from their teacher through engaging activities. These activities include familiar games, sing-alongs, role-playing with classmates and teachers, and labelling diagrams. Students will also learn about the Italian lifestyle, engage with storytelling, and continue to discover iconic landmarks of Italy.

    Some of the key phrases and responses students will learn or respond to include:

    • "Mettiti le mani sulla testa" (put your hands on your head)

    • "Matita" (pencil)

    • "Posso andare in bagno?" (Can I go to the toilet?)

    • "Buon Natale" (Merry Christmas)

  • Grade 1/2 students will start the term by consolidating what they have learned throughout the year through verbal role-playing. They will then begin learning to name objects found in a typical classroom and around the school, such as the toilet (il bagno) and a chair (la sedia). We will continue working on numbers, naming body parts, and exploring how Italy celebrates Christmas.

    Students will revisit the basics of Italian culture, explore landmarks of Italy, and learn the foundations of the Italian language while covering new content. Numbers will be included in each unit. Learning body parts will be part of our warm-up games, with singing and repetition to reinforce vocabulary.

    Students will demonstrate their comprehension of Italian through engaging activities, including familiar games, sing-alongs, role-playing with classmates and teachers, and labelling diagrams. They will also learn about the Italian lifestyle, engage in storytelling, and continue discovering Italy's iconic landmarks.

    Key phrases and responses students will learn or respond to include:

    • "Mettiti le mani sulla testa" (put your hands on your head)

    • "Matita" (pencil)

    • "Posso andare in bagno?" (Can I go to the toilet?)

    • "Buon Natale" (Merry Christmas)

  • Grade 3/4 students will start the term by concluding their unit on families (mia famiglia) and consolidating what they have learned throughout the year through verbal role-playing and text decoding. They will then begin learning to name objects found in a typical classroom, such as a chair (la sedia) or the toilet (il bagno). Students will use adjectives to describe the noun in simple sentences, such as "The chair is broken" (La sedia è rotta). We will continue to explore numbers, naming body parts, and how Italy celebrates Christmas.

    As in previous terms, Year 3 and 4 students will continue to learn about Italian culture, explore Italy's landmarks, and cover new content in the Italian language. Numbers will be included in each unit. Learning body parts, mastering letter sounds, and reinforcing vocabulary through singing and repetition will be part of our warm-up games.

    Students will demonstrate their understanding of Italian through various engaging activities, including familiar games, sing-alongs, role-playing, labelling diagrams, and using technology for pronunciation practice and task completion. They will also learn about the Italian lifestyle, engage with storytelling, and continue to explore iconic landmarks of Italy.

    Some of the key phrases and responses students will learn or respond to include:

    • "Mettiti le mani sulla testa" (put your hands on your head)

    • "La matita è rossa" (the pencil is red)

    • "Mi scusi signor Patti, posso andare in bagno?" (Excuse me, Mr. Patti, can I go to the toilet?)

    • "Buon Natale" (Merry Christmas)

  • Grade 5/6 students will begin the term by concluding their unit on families (mia famiglia) and consolidating what they have learned throughout the year through verbal role-playing and text decoding. They will then start learning to name objects found in a typical classroom, such as a chair (la sedia) or the toilet (il bagno). They will also use adjectives to describe objects in sentences, for example, "The chair has one broken leg on its left side" (La sedia ha una gamba rotta sul lato sinistro). We will continue to explore numbers, body parts, and how Italy celebrates Christmas.

    Students will further their understanding of Italian culture, explore Italy's landmarks, and continue to learn new content in the Italian language. Numbers will be a part of each unit. The students will learn the names of different parts of the body, master letter sounds, and reinforce vocabulary through warm-up games, singing, and repetition.

    Students will demonstrate their understanding of the Italian language through familiar games, sing-alongs, role-playing, labelling diagrams, and using technology for pronunciation and task completion. They will also be expected to provide more detailed responses than Year 3 and 4 students, incorporating more adjectives and reading aloud to practice their vocabulary.

    Some of the key phrases and responses students will learn or respond to include:

    • "Mettiti le mani sulla testa" (put your hands on your head)

    • "La matita è rossa" (the pencil is red)

    • "Mi scusi signor Patti, posso andare in bagno?" (Excuse me, Mr. Patti, can I go to the toilet?)

    • "La porta" (the door)

    • "Grande" (big)

    • "Buon Natale" (Merry Christmas)

Performing Arts

In Term 4, Prep—Grade 2 students will participate in a highly engaging musical journey. Using various rhythmic instruments such as hand drums, tambourines, maracas, and handbells, students will explore foundational beats and develop a sense of timing.

All students will explore vocal practice, pitch, and tonality. This term aims to instil a love for music and ensure an understanding of its fundamental elements.

Students will participate in the Christmas show! They will use the rhythmic knowledge they have gained throughout the year, along with a splash of facial expressions and choreographed movements.

Grade 1/2 students will also create music creating music through Boomwhackers collaboratively!

Prep - Grade 2

A very exciting term ahead for Prep – Grade 2 students!