TERM TWO 2023, ITALIAN OVERVIEW
Teacher: Emily Parrella (Signora)
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The Goal of Languages at St Joseph’s Payneham
In Italian at St Joseph’s Payneham, students communicate and make meaning in the language being learnt; they reflect on the interrelationship between language, culture, learning and identity and thereby develop their intercultural capability.
Reception
The fundamentals of Italian
Through a variety of oral language, singing, games and hands on activities, students continue to share, connect with and reflect on what they already know, do and understand about Italian language and culture.
• Students respond to greetings, phrases and simple instructions in Italian.
• Students explore, notice and mimic the sounds of the Italian language through songs and stories with a focus on the sounds of the alphabet, including the five vowels.
• Students develop their mathematical understanding of numerals, shapes, and patterns.
• Students engage in play and imaginative activities to interact with each other in Italian.
Term 2 Units of Learning
Carnevale and celebrations in Italia
Recount Writing
Italian Traditions
Italian Dancing
Commedia dell’Arte
Continuation of the fundamentals of Italiano
Year 1
The fundamentals of Italian
• Students explore greetings and phrases that vary according to relationship and context.
• They use Italian to respond to teacher questions and classroom instructions.
Year 2
Year 3
• Students view and share texts which build their repertoire of vocabulary, modelled language; the vowel sounds and the 21 letters of the Italian alphabet.
• They engage in play and imaginative experiences to share information, likes and dislikes and to interact with each other in Italian.
Term 2 Units of Learning
Carnevale and celebrations in Italia
Recount Writing
Italian Traditions
Italian Dancing
Commedia dell’Arte
Continuation of the fundamentals of Italiano
Communicating meaning in Italian: Using language for communicative purposes in interpreting, creating and exchanging meaning
Understanding language and culture: Analysing and understanding language and culture as resources for interpreting and shaping meaning in intercultural exchange
Learning Skills Students:
• Use Italian language to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves
• Use cues to respond to questions and instructions
• Use simple formulaic language
• Locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning
• Use familiar words and modelled language to create texts.
Term 2 Units of Learning
Carnevale and celebrations in Italia
Italian Traditions
Italian Dancing Visual Arts
Commedia dell’Arte
Italiani Famosi
Communicating meaning in Italian: Using language for communicative purposes in interpreting, creating and exchanging meaning.
Understanding language and culture: Analysing and understanding language and culture as resources for interpreting and shaping meaning in intercultural exchange
Learning Skills Students:
• Use Italian language to initiate structured interactions to share information
• Use modelled language to participate in spoken
Year 4
Year 5
and written activities that involve planning
• Locate and respond to key items of information in texts using strategies to help interpret familiar contexts
• Use modelled language and basic syntax to create texts.
Term 2 Units of Learning
Carnevale and celebrations in Italia
Recount Writing
Italian Traditions
Visual Art and Design
Traditional Italian games
Commedia dell’Arte
Italiani Famosi
Communicating meaning in Italian: Using language for communicative purposes in interpreting, creating and exchanging meaning.
Understanding language and culture: Analysing and understanding language and culture as resources for interpreting and shaping meaning in intercultural exchange.
Learning Skills Students:
• Use Italian language to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal world
• Use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning
• Locate and respond to key items of information in texts using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts
• Use modelled language and basic syntax to create texts.
Term 2 Units of Learning
Carnevale and celebrations in Italia
Recount Writing
Italian Traditions
Visual Art and Design
Traditional Italian games
Commedia dell’Arte
Italiani Famosi
Communicating meaning in Italian: using language for communicative purposes in interpreting, creating and exchanging meaning
Understanding language and culture: analysing and understanding language and culture as resources for interpreting and shaping meaning in intercultural exchange.
Learning Skills Students:
• Use appropriate sound combinations, intonation, and rhythm in spoken texts
• Collaborate in spoken and written activities
Year 6
that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information
• Use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Italian or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience
• Create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context
• Sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type.
Term 2 Units of Learning
Carnevale and celebrations in Italia
Recount Writing
Italian Traditions
Visual Art and Design
Traditional Italian games
Commedia dell’Arte
Italiani Famosi
Communicating meaning in Italian: Using language for communicative purposes in interpreting, creating and exchanging meaning.
Understanding language and culture: Analysing and understanding language and culture as resources for interpreting and shaping meaning in intercultural exchange
Learning Skills
Students:
• Initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Italian language that are related to their immediate environment
• Use appropriate sound combinations, intonation, and rhythm in spoken texts
• Collaborate in spoken, artistic and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, ideas and preferences
• Use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Italian or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience
• Create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context
• Sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type.
Term 2 Units of Learning
Carnevale and celebrations in Italia
Recount Writing
Italian Traditions
Visual Art and Design
Traditional Italian games
Commedia dell’Arte
Italiani Famosi
Cultural Week
Week 3
A week filled with cultural immersion lessons within each year level.
Italian Cultural Day
Friday 19th May, Week 3, Term 2
Key contact details
Email eparrella@stjopayn.catholic.edu.au
SEESAW
Stay tuned on SEESAW for exciting learning happening in all Italiano lessons!
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS TERM
PHYSICAL EDUCATION OVERVIEW
TERM 2, 2023
Teacher: Adrian Mastrangelo
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Welcome to the Term 2 learning for Physical Education.
Junior Primary students will be engaging in Object Control Skills, including striking and dribbling with feet and hands.
Primary students will be engaging in Games & Sports
Receptions
Strand: Movement and Physical Activity.
Sub-Strand: Moving our body; Making active choices; Learning through movement.
Topics: Fundamental Movement Skills (Locomotor Skills), Object Control Skills (Striking and Kicking), Striking with feet and hands, Dribbling with feet and hands, Active Play.
Year 1 Strand: Movement and Physical Activity.
Sub-Strand: Moving our body; Making active choices; Learning through movement.
Topics: Fundamental Movement Skills (Locomotor Skills), Object Control Skills (Striking and Kicking) Striking with feet and hands, dribbling with feet and hands, Participation in functional activities, Identifies and discusses where they can be active and how the body reacts to being physically active.
Year 2 Strand: Movement and Physical Activity.
Sub-Strand: Moving our body; Making active choices; Learning through movement.
Topics: Fundamental Movement Skills (Locomotor Skills), Object Control Skills (Striking and Kicking) Striking with feet and hands, dribbling with feet and hands, Participation in functional activities, Identifies and discusses where they can be active and how the body reacts to being physically active.
Year 3 Strand: Movement and Physical Activity.
Sub-Strand: Moving our body; Making active choices; Learning through movement.
Topics: Games and Sports - Invasion Sports: Basketball (Shooting, dribbling, defending, rebounding, and passing. Net and Wall: Volleyball (Dig, Set, Spike, Serve). Demonstrating teamwork, respect and leadership when working with others.
Year 4 Strand: Movement and Physical Activity.
Sub-Strand: Moving our body; Making active choices; Learning through movement.
Topics: Games and Sports - Invasion Sports: Basketball (Shooting, dribbling, defending, rebounding, and passing. Net and Wall: Volleyball (Dig, Set, Spike, Serve). Demonstrating teamwork, respect and leadership when working with others.
Year 5 Strand: Movement and Physical Activity.
Sub-Strand: Moving our body; Making active choices; Learning through movement.
Topics:, Games & Sports – Net and Wall: Volleyball (Dig, Set, Spike, Serve, Gameplay, Team Skills, Volleyball Tournament). Invasion Games: Netball – Attacking & Defensive Tactics, Passing, Shooting, Rules of the game/Court Positions, Game Sense & Teamwork.
Discusses and participates in strategy and tactics for games and sports. Demonstrating teamwork, respect and leadership when working with others.
Year 6 Strand: Movement and Physical Activity.
Sub-Strand: Moving our body; Making active choices; Learning through movement.
Topics: Games & Sports – Net and Wall: Volleyball (Dig, Set, Spike, Serve, Gameplay, Team Skills, Volleyball Tournament). Invasion Games: Netball – Carnival Preparation, Attacking & Defensive Tactics, Passing, Shooting, Rules of the game / Court Positions refresher, Game Sense & Teamwork.
Discusses and participates in strategy and tactics for games and sports. Demonstrating teamwork, respect and leadership when working with others.
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS TERM
Netball Carnival – Year 6 Students only
School Soccer - (Years 2 – 6)
Winter Netball - (Years 2
Key contact details
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amastrangelo@stjopayn.catholic.edu.au
Adrian Mastrangelo (ysical Education Teacher & Sports Coordinator)
Parent Information
• Seesaw
• Skoolbag
School Newsletter
Useful Websites
• Go Noodle – Movement and Mindfulness Videos
(https://www.gonoodle.com/)
• Cosmic Kids Yoga – Online Yoga videos for kids
(https://www.youtube.com/user/cosmicki dsyoga)
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or via Seesaw
TERM TWO 2023, STEM OVERVIEW
Teacher: Nicholas Polvere
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Receptions will learn the fundamentals of programming. Through ‘Scratch Jr’ activities, learners will use block-based programming to control characters to move, jump, dance and sing. To demonstrate their grasp of these concepts, students will create an animation by programming a sequence of instructions and share their final project on SEESAW. By the end of the unit, students will have gained foundational knowledge in programming and developed basic computational thinking skills.
Year 1
Year 2
Year 1 students will further develop their programming abilities using Scratch Jr. Building on their foundational knowledge, students will explore more advanced programming concepts such as 'Start on Touch', 'Repeat', 'Start on Message', and other key programming blocks. By applying these new skills, learners will demonstrate their understanding by programming a playable game. They will then share their work by uploading a screen recording of their game to SEESAW. Through this course, students will continue to enhance their computational thinking skills and gain valuable experience in programming games using Scratch Jr.
Year 2 students will further develop their understanding and skills in computational thinking. Building on their prior experience with block programming in Scratch Jr, students will progress to using Scratch, a more advanced programming application. Through guided activities, students will extend their knowledge and apply new programming concepts to create their own Scratch animation. By the end of the unit, students will have gained valuable experience in programming and developed their computational thinking abilities, preparing them for more advanced studies in computer science.
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Building on their prior experience with block programming in Scratch, Year 3 students will use their knowledge of the engineering process to design and program their own 'Whack a Mole' game in Scratch. Through directed activities, students will apply programming concepts such as loops, variables, and conditional statements to bring their game to life.
Year 4 students will build on their programming skills and expand their knowledge of block-based programming using Scratch. They will be introduced to advanced programming concepts such as ‘Sensing’, ‘Control’, 'Variables' and more. To demonstrate their understanding of these concepts, students will create a playable maze game by programming a sequence of instructions.
Year 5 students will build on 3D modelling with the program, ‘Tinkercad’. They will create a 3D model of the product they have developed from their Design Thinking process for STEM MAD (Make a Difference).
Year 6 Year 6 students will continue to build on their 3D modelling skills using the program 'Tinkercad'. They will use their product formed from their Design Thinking process for STEM MAD (Make a Difference) and create a 3D model of it. Through direct activities and guidance, learners will explore the various features and tools available in Tinkercad to design, edit, and refine their 3D models.
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS TERM
STEM MAD is designed to acknowledge and promote STEM learning initiatives that address real-world problems and demonstrate how students in Catholic schools take action that matters by designing a service, product or innovation, to make a difference (MAD) to others or the environment.
Key contact details
STEM MAD
Nicholas Polvere npolvere@stjopayn.catholic.edu.au
TERM TWO 2023, PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC OVERVIEW
Teacher: David Shinn
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Welcome to Performing Arts & Music! The Performing Arts & Music space is a place where we all learn to listen and work together as a team towards a common goal. Fostering a strong sense of community in the class is a key focus. The students develop respect for a wide range of music making traditions from diverse cultures, allowing them to continue on our wonderful journey of music making!
Reception This term in Performing Arts & Music, Reception students will continue to develop their musical skills and knowledge through engaging in a variety of experiences and activities. They will build upon their foundation in musical language, learning about different families of instruments, rhythm and beat, basic music notation, and musical styles from around the world. They will have opportunities to create their own rhythmic musical compositions, utilising their knowledge acquired from Term 1, and will share this with the class. The aim is to provide a supportive and fun environment where Reception students can deepen their understanding and appreciation of music and develop a desire to continue their musical journey.
Year 1 This term in Performing Arts & Music, Year 1 students will continue their musical journey by building on their previous experiences and learning to perform together as an ensemble. They will focus on refining their singing voices and developing their ensemble skills through a range of engaging activities and experiences. Throughout the term, students will explore melody, rhythm, and harmony, and apply what they have learned through group performances and singing exercises. They will also have opportunities to learn about different families of instruments and continue to develop their musical language. We will focus on building rhythmic awareness in an ensemble setting and continue working on self-awareness and positive teamwork skills.
Year 2 This term in Performing Arts & Music, Year 2 students will focus on developing their rhythmic skills and expanding their musical abilities by learning to play the ukulele. They will participate in a variety of activities that will help them to understand the basics of rhythm and timing, and apply what they have learned through group performances and rhythmic exercises. Throughout the term, students will also explore the ukulele and learn about its history, tuning, and basic chords. In addition, they will continue their exploration of indigenous music from Australian First Nations people, learning some Kaurna words and songs. The aim is to provide a supportive, engaging, and fun environment where Year 2 students can develop their musical skills, learn about different cultures and musical traditions, and begin their journey in playing the ukulele. By the end of the term, students will have a strong foundation in rhythm, a basic understanding of the ukulele, and a love for making music together.
Year 3 This term in Performing Arts & Music, Year 3 students will be exploring the world of music through the enchanting sounds of the recorder. They will learn to play melodies and harmonies, honing their skills in finger and breath control. In addition, students will have the opportunity to develop their musical literacy, learning about rhythm, tempo,
dynamics, and melody, as well as have opportunities to apply what they have learned by playing and performing in class, both individually and as part of an ensemble. By the end of the term, Year 3 students will have a solid understanding of the basic elements of music and the skills necessary to play the recorder, sing, and create beautiful music. Moving ahead, we will explore how ukuleles can provide a harmonic background to the melodies they have learnt on the recorder.
Year 4 This term in Performing Arts & Music, Year 4 students will be learning to play the ukulele and xylophone and will utilise technology to enhance their musical skills. They will start by learning the basics of playing individual chords on the ukulele and playing melodies on the xylophone. Later in the term, students will be using technology such as ‘GarageBand’ to assist in recording and creating loops, which they can then perform along with. This will give students the opportunity to explore their musical creativity and experiment with sound. Throughout the term, students will also learn about rhythm, tempo, dynamics, and melody, as well as have opportunities to apply what they have learned by playing and preparing for a mini concert. Students will collaborate with Year 5 and 6 classes to create a mini concert performance opportunity, where they will showcase their newfound skills on the ukulele and xylophone. By the end of the term, Year 4 students will have a solid foundation in playing both the ukulele and xylophone and have experience collaborating with other classes to create a musical performance.
Year 5 This term in Performing Arts & Music, Year 5 students will be honing their skills on the ukulele and xylophone, as well as delving deeper into basic music concepts. They will begin by mastering a range of individual chords on the ukulele, before moving on to playing melodies on the xylophone. In addition to playing, students will also explore the building blocks of music, including rhythm, tempo, dynamics, and melody. One of the most exciting aspects of this term will be the opportunity to create our own lyrics to a fourchord loop and perform it for an audience. This will allow us to showcase our creativity and musical skills. As part of this, students will have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers in Year 6 for a mini concert. By the end of the term, Year 5 students will have a strong foundation in music theory and the skills necessary to play both the ukulele and xylophone with confidence.
Year 6 This term in Performing Arts & Music, Year 6 students will be learning to play the ukulele and incorporating percussion instruments, including tuned percussion. We will continue learning the basics of strumming, fretting, and playing chords on the ukulele. In addition, students will explore the world of percussion and learn how to play different instruments such as drums, shakers, and tambourines. By incorporating these instruments into our ukulele playing, students will develop a greater understanding of rhythm and timing. Along with playing, we will also delve into music theory, learning about different chord structures, scales, and keys. Throughout the term, students will have opportunities to apply what we have learned by playing and performing in class, both individually and as part of an ensemble. By the end of the term, students will have a solid foundation in playing both the ukulele and percussion instruments and be able to perform songs with confidence. Additionally, they will have the exciting opportunity to collaborate with the Year 4 and 5 classes in a mini concert, showcasing their skills and creativity in a group performance.
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS TERM
Week 4/5 Mini collaborative performance for Years 4, 5 and 6! (times to be advised) – If your child is learning a piece and would love a supportive space for a performance opportunity to their peers, please have them speak to me!
Key contact details
David Shinn dshinn@stjopayn.catholic.edu.au
