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A Message from our Head of Junior School

Ms Harold

Assalamu Alaykum

Dear parents/carers,

What a wonderful end to Week 2 we had here at Junior

School, celebrating the CBCA Book Week with our Book

Parade! It was wonderful to see so many of our

students dressed up as their favourite book characters

and carrying their favourite books under their arms as

they paraded across the stage in the library. I have

included a sneak peak collection of photographs in this

week’s bulletin and look forward to announcing our best

dressed winners next week.

Next week, we look forward to meeting with some of

our new and existing Bellfield families via our online

ZOOM Kindergarten Orientation session. If you have a

child starting with us in Kindy next year, please keep an

eye out for an updated letter informing you of your

scheduled Kindy Orientation Zoom session, where

parents will have a chance to learn more about Kindy,

meet some of our staff, and have any questions

answered.

This week, we have included a learning outline for all

grades, to keep you updated on what your child will be

learning throughout Term 4. Learning will continue right

up until Week 9 of this term, so we ask you continue to

support your child at home with their nightly reading

and homework tasks. Yearly reports will be issued in

Week 8 and Parent Teacher Interviews will be

conducted via telephone. Our annual prize day will be on

Wednesday 2nd December and we are awaiting NSW

Health advice regarding when parents will be permitted

back on campus. Stay tuned!

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Warm regards

Ms Harold

Term 4, 2020

Week 2

Kindergarten 2021

Orientation ZOOM

sessions by

appointment from

26th October

National Bandanna Day

&

World Teachers Day

Friday 30th of October

Prophets Birthday

Carnival

5th of November

Things to come

Talk-and-Walk-a-Thon

On Friday 16th of October Junior School participated in a Talk and Walk a thon designed

by the Peer Support Group of Australia.

The Talk-and-Walk-a-Thon was designed to highlight the importance of talking with others

as a way of connecting to strengthen a sense of belonging, empathy and understanding.

Students were invited to stretch their legs and strike up a conversation with a range of

peers they may not have connected with before. Engaging with others for the first time

doesn’t come easy to everyone. Simple prompts on a range of topics, including food, music,

sport, hobbies, school subjects and the future, were provided to help students establish

relationships.

The day was a great success, and it was fantastic to

see all of our students engaging in meaningful

conversation with each other.

Sarah Williams

Pastoral Care Coordinator

Term 4 - Stage 1 Outline

Year 1

English

This term, students will be taught how to write a structured Fantasy Text / Digital Text, using

grammatical language and features to enhance meaning. Students will be delving into the setting,

plot, Heroic Character analysation in Fantasy Text types through writing & representing sessions,

speaking & listening news topics. Grammar and punctuation will be integrated into all three areas.

✓ This program also casts off the story books, using them as a stimulus for the various digital

texts, including the use of ICT, Comic magazines, stimulus images and story books. This

stimulus will initiate unit focus, whereby students will be guided into the habit of discussing

the purpose, possible audiences, and features of fantasy narratives.

✓ Group work strategies will be utilised to ensure differentiated learning is apparent. Choice

of texts will be based on the needs and interests of groups of students. Students will access

a range of such texts for independent as well as shared reading and deconstruction. The ideal

ingredients for engaging with both fantasy and life consists of close connections between

reading and writing layered with creative and analytical conversations around language choices

and their relationship to context and purpose.

✓ This program utilises InitiaLit to target phonics. It is a synthetic phonics-based program that

helps build upon the very foundations of spelling and reading techniques. This program will

allow students to focus on key phonemes, understand the chemistry of a word and provide

them with the skills needed to become confident readers and writers.

✓ Students will be utilising the computer labs to publish written text, and build their ICT skills,

such as logging on, navigate, and using the word application. Students will also use IPAD's in

the classroom, to build on and consolidate their use of vocabulary.

Math

This term the program is designed to incorporate the Working Mathematically strand along with the

Number & Algebra, Measurement & Geometry and Statistics and Probability strands of the New

South Wales Mathematics K-10 Syllabus.

It is also integrated various Key Learning Areas, such as Physical Education and Geography. This will

result in lesson objectives overlapping to provide students with the opportunity to gain a deeper

comprehension of the focus outcomes. Students will explore fractions, as well as aspects of time

and data.

✓ This term a big part of Physical Education has been merged with ‘Math and Movement’,

integrating whole number skills into weekly warm up activities. In Physical Education, students

will be engaged in ‘math and movement’ to make some solid connections to abstract

mathematical concepts, especially those with multiplication and division, also enhancing their

use of mathematical language – shared, divide, equally, rows of and groups of. These

exercises stimulate the brain, allowing it to be energised, active and ready to absorb

mathematical information

✓ A Whole Number PPT is utilised weekly, students will take part in Whole Number warmups

where students will practise concepts, they have learnt throughout the year such as counting,

addition, subtraction, place value and world problem solving.

✓ This term, we have also embedded the ‘Money Smart’ unit into our Addition and Subtraction.

Students explore the considerations involved in making spending decisions. Practical

activities, involving coins and notes, help to illustrate that money is a finite resource student

build a classroom supermarket to formulate simple questions and gather responses. This

further incorporated reading and writing whole numbers, and count by twos, fives, and tens.

In exploring two-digit prices, students start to develop deeper understanding of place value.

The lessons are differentiated to meet the needs of a wide range of learners through

interactive, hands on learning experiences.

Week Topic

1-10 Number and Algebra - Daily Whole Number Warm Up

- Place value

- Addition and Subtraction

- Multiplication and Division

- Problem Solving

1-3 Number and Algebra - Addition & Subtraction Money

4 Number and Algebra - Multiplication & Division + Integrated throughout the term into

‘Math & Movement’ in P.E.

5 Measurement and Geometry – Area + Integrated into Geography ‘Project based Learning’

5- 6 Number and Algebra - Fractions & Decimals

7-8 Measurement and Geometry - Volume & Capacity, Mass

9 Measurement and Geometry - Three-Dimensional

Geography

This term, in Geography students will learn about the different features of places and how we care

for these places. In this unit students will be designing a new space for their classroom, along with

a new skate park!

Students will:

• investigate the natural and human features of places.

• describe the reasons places change

• identify the active role of citizens in the care of places

• explore activities occurring in places

• explore how the spaces within places can be used for different purposes.

Mathematics has also been Integrated into Geography, allowing students making connections, hence

appreciate learning. This Geography unit of work integrates identifying space and area and how we

can utilise the space in different ways to meet the needs of a variety of activities. Students will

learn to organise space, using measurement skills, finding the perimeter, and compare area. In

addition to these skills, students will be surveying and collecting data. This process includes

mathematical skills, such as tallying and scoring. The geographical skills of analysing data allow these

two skills to merge and add meaning to their learning.

Science and CAPA

This term Creative Arts, Music, has been integrated into the Science unit. In this unit students will

learn about the different forms of energy around us and how can we detect them. This unit has been

designed to cast off CANVAS learning platform, an innovative technological teaching and learning.

In Science students will learn to:

• produce and describe different sounds, for example:

• by blowing, scraping, striking, shaking

• by observing musical instruments from different cultures

• explore how the volume and pitch of a sound can be changed

• identify sound, light, heat, electricity, and movement as forms of energy

• explore sound, light, and heat from various sources, using the senses

In Music students will learn to:

• play a range of sound sources and develop their aural awareness

• use instruments constructed by themselves to detect different sound sources

• explore the potential of each sound source and experiment with different ways to produce

sound

• name sound sources and learn how to correctly hold, strike, play and suppress sound sources

Overall students will be provided with an assessment that engages students on applying their science

and musical skills. Students will plan, design, and construct a musical instrument and describe how

its works and makes sound.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

In this unit, students will develop their knowledge and understanding to

lead healthy, safe, and active lifestyles at home and in their community.

They explore ways to make positive decisions about their health, safety

and wellbeing.

Key inquiry questions

- How can I act to help make my environments healthy, safe and active?

- How can I be responsible for my own, and others’ health, safety and wellbeing?

In Physical Educations students will be working on fundamental movement skills, Students are

provided with opportunities to learn how to play co-operatively through games. They explore actions

that make school a safe place whilst learning to communicate when challenges arise during physical

activity.

Key inquiry questions:

• How can we move and improve our involvement in physical activity?

use strategies to work in group situations when participating in physical activities, for example:

– work cooperatively with a partner when practising new skills

– communicate positively when working in groups to encourage others and promote

inclusion

– describe and/or demonstrate how to include others in physical activity

• How can we participate safely and fairly during physical activity?

Students identify rules and fair play when participating in physical activities, for example:

– explain why rules are needed in games and physical activities

– demonstrate turn-taking and safe sharing of equipment when participating in

physical activities and minor games

– explain how rules contribute to personal safety and fair play and apply them in

group activities

– communicate how and when they and others demonstrate safety and fair play

Year 2

English

This term, students will be taught how to write a structured persuasive text, using grammatical

language and features to enhance meaning. Students will be delving into persuasive text types

through writing and representing sessions.

✓ Grammar and punctuation will be integrated into all three areas. This program also casts off

the story books, using them as a stimulus for the various persuasive texts, including writing

letters, advertisement, and structured persuasive reports.

✓ This program utilises InitiaLit to target phonics. It is a synthetic phonics-based program that

helps build upon the very foundations of spelling and reading techniques. This program will

allow students to focus on key phonemes, understand the chemistry of a word and provide

them with the skills needed to become confident readers and writers.

✓ This program aims to enrich student learning and heighten comprehension of text with the

use of various learning means. Students are taken on a journey through stories to explore

avenues of meaning, text types and ICT

Math

This term, In Mathematics students will be exposed to mathematical concepts in Number and

Algebra. Students will explore money; explore the relationship between

multiplication and division; will work with factions and decimals around halves, quarters and eighths;

and will work on applying their number skills to solve problems. Students will also be studying area,

length, volume and capacity in Measurement and Geometry.

✓ The unit aims to embed the learning of mathematics within their real-life contexts.

Intentional teaching is used to make learning explicit, challenge children to consider new

ideas, test current thinking and develop deeper understandings.

✓ Science and Technology has also been integrated into Math, through Data Collection.

Students will be Investigating, questioning, and making predictions by collecting and recording

data. Students will be reflecting on their experiences, about the data collected, by comparing.

✓ This term a big part of Physical Education has been merged with ‘Math and Movement’,

integrating whole number skills into weekly warm up activities. In Physical Education, students

will be engaged in ‘math and movement’ to make some solid connections to abstract

mathematical concepts, especially those with multiplication and division, also enhancing their

use of mathematical language – shared, divide, equally, rows of and groups of. These

exercises stimulate the brain, allowing it to be energised, active and ready to absorb

mathematical information

✓ Students will be utilising the computer labs to consolidate their mathematical, and build their

ICT skills, such as logging on, navigate, research, and use various application.

Week Topic

1-10 Number and Algebra - Daily Whole Number Warm Up

- Place value

- Addition and Subtraction

- Multiplication and Division

- Problem Solving

1 Number and Algebra - Addition & Subtraction

2-3 Number and Algebra - Multiplication & Division + Integrated throughout the term into

‘Math & Movement’ in P.E.

4 Number and Algebra - Fractions & Decimals

5-6 Measurement and Geometry – Length and Area

7 Measurement and Geometry - Volume & Capacity

8-9 Number and Algebra – Patterns and Algebra

Science and CAPA

This term Creative Arts, Music, has been integrated into the Science unit. In this unit students will

learn about the different forms of energy around us and how can we detect them. This unit has been

designed to cast off CANVAS learning platform, an innovative technological teaching and learning.

In Science students will learn to:

• produce and describe different sounds, for example:

• by blowing, scraping, striking, shaking

• by observing musical instruments from different cultures

• explore how the volume and pitch of a sound can be changed

• identify sound, light, heat, electricity, and movement as forms of energy

• explore sound, light, and heat from various sources, using the senses

In Music students will learn to:

• play a range of sound sources and develop their aural awareness

• use instruments constructed by themselves to detect different sound sources

• explore the potential of each sound source and experiment with different ways to produce

sound

• name sound sources and learn how to correctly hold, strike, play and suppress sound sources

Overall students will be provided with an assessment that engages students on applying their science

and musical skills. Students will plan, design, and construct a musical instrument and describe how

its works and makes sound.

Geography

This term, in the Geography unit students will explore places across a range of scales within Australia

and Australia’s location in the world. Students represent and describe the position of objects on

maps and within their local area. They will gather, organise, and display data on the places people

have visited in Australia and examine the factors influencing people’s access to places. They will be

given opportunities to discuss connections people have with places, both locally and globally. Students

will respond to texts to understand the special connection Aboriginal Peoples have to Country.


• Where are places located in Australia?

• How are people connected to places?

• What factors affect people’s connections to places?

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

Students will discuss what is involved in living safely and how their actions

have implications. They will begin to explore not so common dangers to

extend their learning.

I want my students to learn to:

• Develop the skills and attitudes necessary for an active lifestyle.

• Develop healthy habits.

• Make good choices when it comes to their safety in all areas.

In Physical Educations students will be working on fundamental movement skills, Students are

provided with opportunities to learn how to play co-operatively through games. They explore actions

that make school a safe place whilst learning to communicate when challenges arise during physical

activity.


• How can we move and improve our involvement in physical activity?

use strategies to work in group situations when participating in physical activities, for example:

– work cooperatively with a partner when practising new skills

– communicate positively when working in groups to encourage others and promote

inclusion

– describe and/or demonstrate how to include others in physical activity

• How can we participate safely and fairly during physical activity?

Students identify rules and fair play when participating in physical activities, for example:

– explain why rules are needed in games and physical activities

– demonstrate turn-taking and safe sharing of equipment when participating in

physical activities and minor games

– explain how rules contribute to personal safety and fair play and apply them in

group activities

– communicate how and when they and others demonstrate safety and fair play

Stage 2 Term 4 Guide

Assalamu Alaykum Parents

This term in Stage 2, students will be exploring visual literacy by studying picture books and films

in English. They will learn about visual techniques authors use in picture books and films and how

these have an impact on the audience. Students will continue to learn grammar concepts such as

possessive adjectives, comparative adjectives, connectives, clauses and complex sentences.

In Maths, 3/4S, 3A, and 3S students will learn new concepts and consolidate what they have learnt

this year in Whole Numbers, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Volume and

Capacity, Area, Fractions and Decimals, Chance, Three-Dimensional Space and Time. 4A and 4T

students will focus on Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Area, Volume and

Capacity, Angles, Fractions and Decimals, Three-Dimensional Space, Patterns and Algebra and

Data.

In Geography, Year 3 and 4 students will examine the unique natural flora and fauna of Australia

and will explore reasons why and how these need to be protected. Students will identify world

heritage sites and designated national parks in Australia and examine the role that they play in

preserving the habitat of many of our native flora and fauna, as well as discussing Australia’s

current strict customs laws and the way in which these also act as protection.

In History, Year 4 students will examine the journey of the First Fleet from England to Sydney

Cove and the establishment of the penal colony. Students will examine images and written sources

from the State Library of NSW to investigate the journey of the First Fleet to Botany Bay, Port

Jackson and Sydney Cove, as well as convict records and other primary source materials. Using

these sources, they will investigate the everyday life of one person who sailed with the First Fleet,

either a convict, solider, ex-convict or official. Students will examine the reasons for selecting

Sydney Cove and the hardships faced in the early days in the colony, including Aboriginal

resistance.

In Science and Technology, students will explore solar power as a form of energy. They will be

posed with a problem and will need to find a solution: Our school is spending too much money on

electricity. We need to convince Ms Harold to install some solar panels in the school. Year 4

students will also be learning about how magnetic and non-magnetic forces affect objects with and

without contact.

In PDHPE, Stage 2 students will learn about how they keep themselves and others safe. Students

explore a range of health issues and identify strategies to keep themselves and others safe.

Health issues that will be investigated include child protection, drug education, road safety, and

online safety.

In Creative Arts, students in Year 3 and 4 will do an artist study of Vincent Van Gogh and will

experiment with techniques similar to those he uses. Year 4 students will learn to play the

recorder and will explore how to do body percussion.

A look into Term 4 for Stage 3…

Find below an outline of what students in Stage 3 will be learning this term!

Year 5

Subject Topic/overview Assessment

English

Characterisation 1

• Students will explore different

media and how different authors

use characterisation of individuals

to enhance their understanding of

people and events

• Students will look at effective

techniques authors used to engage

readers

• Narrative

• Persuasive text

• Spelling

• News

• Grammar Exam

• Comprehension Exam

Total weighting: 50%

Maths

Number & Algebra

• Multiplication and Division

• Fractions and Decimals

• Patterns and Algebra

Measurement & Geometry

• Time

• Volume and Capacity

• Three-Dimensional Space

• Angles

Statistics & Probability

• Chance

• Topic tests


Science Unit: Electrical Energy

• Exam


Geography Unit: Badgery’s Creek Airport: The

Good and the Bad

• Exam


CAPA

Visual Arts Unit: Face it (5 weeks)

Music unit: Unit: Underneath the

mango tree (4 weeks)

• Artwork

• Music performance


PDHPE

PDH: How can I improve community

health and wellbeing?

PE: How do children play around the

world?

• Exam


Year 5/6


English

Characterisation 2

• Students will identify how

different authors use

characterisation of individuals to

enhance their understanding of

people and events



readers

• Narrative

• Persuasive text

• Spelling

• News

• Grammar Exam



Maths

Number & Algebra





• Time



• Angles


• Chance

• Topic tests


Science Unit: Electrical Energy

• Exam



Good and the Bad

• Exam


CAPA




• Artwork



PDHPE




world?

• Exam


Year 6


English

Characterisation 2

• Students will identify how

different authors use

characterisation of individuals to

enhance their understanding of

people and events



readers

• Narrative

• Persuasive text

• Grammar Exam



Maths

Number & Algebra





• Time



• Two-Dimensional Space

• Position


• Chance

• Topic tests


Science Unit: What a disaster!

• Exam

• Research: How science can help

predict a disaster?



Good and the Bad

• Exam


CAPA




• Artwork



PDHPE




world?

• Exam


Year 2 Report

2C/2M

English

Year 2 students have been working very hard in their English lesson throughout the year. In term 3

year 2 students were busy learning about informative texts. Students looked at a variety of

examples and learnt the key features that belong in these text types. Students got involved in step-

by-step informative report writing. Our students wrote about different Australian animals and

included information such as their appearance, habitats, diet, etc.

Mathematics

Year 2 have been very diligent in working toward their Mathematics outcomes. Students got the

opportunity to explore and learn about time. They learnt to how to use time language such as

o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter-to, to communicate time! All students got to explore

both the digital and the analog clocks. Year 2 got creative at the end of the topic and all made

their own clock faces.

Science /Geography

Year 2 have been learning about our world through maps and globes. They have been given the

opportunity to use compasses to understand their location in our school. They became resource

rangers as they discussed and explored where various resources are found and how they are used.

Year 2 students began to identify the complex difference between renewable and non-renewable

resources; and have researched to discover that fresh water is one of the most valuable natural

resources available on Earth!

PDHPE

For our health lessons Year 2 students have been exploring how to stay healthy and active! They

have gained an understanding of how to recognise and make positive health choices and how they

can avoid unhealthy and unsafe options. Year 2 students continue to explore the various

environmental factors and choices they can encounter, that can impact their physical and mental

health.

Let’s keep loving learning!

Kindest Regards,

Miss Reem Chokr and Miss Masooda Akram

Year 2 Teachers

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations

to Alina Bakhtyari

and

Zakaria Farhat

for receiving a

Gold Level Principal

Award!

What has been happening in Year 5 Classrooms?

Assalamu Alaykom,

On behalf of year 5 we would like to welcome everyone into term 4, we

hope everyone had a wonderful break. Year 5 are quickly approaching their

last moments as ‘year 5’s’ and are preparing to become the seniors of

primary school at Bellfield College.

This term in English year 5 students will be studying the novel ‘Staying

Alive in Year 5’ by John Marsden. Year 5 will have a strong connection to

this book as we collectively have ‘survived’ year 5. Throughout the study of

this novel students will be using their imagination to write their own

creative piece of writing, analyse components that make up a narrative and

identifying a range of grammatic devices.

Numeracy is an important

part of Education. Students

are continually learning new concepts and developing their

ability and proficiency in topics they already know. This term

in year 5 we are refining the core mathematical skills required

of a year 6 student, as we slowly make our transition into next

year.

In Geography this term we are learning about the new

Western Sydney Airport that is being built in Badgerys Creek.

The proximity of the airport to Bellfield College and students’

homes, helps students relate to the topic. Students will be

building their own model of the airport as we learn about the purpose, roles involved, Indigenous relations

and sustainability perspectives involved in such a large-scale project.

This term in Science, students begin learning about electricity with an introduction to the most basic unit in

ordinary matter, the atom. students have previous understanding of atoms and we will expand on their

knowledge in introducing the world of electricity. First, they explore static electricity, followed by basic

current electricity concepts such as electrical circuits. Next, they

learn about the wonderful can full of chemicals—the battery.

Students may get a "charge" as they discover the amazing connections

that lie around them with electricity and how we can conduct our own

electricity!

This Term in CAPA Year 5 students will be focusing on the topic of

‘Face It’ within Visual Arts. They will investigate the representation of

the face in traditional and theoretical masks. We have discussed how

to develop expression and meaning in artworks through exaggerations

and distortions. Students have begun designing and drawing faces

emphasising exaggeration and distortion and use these drawings as a

reference for making a wearable mask in the weeks to come. STAY

TUNED!!!

Its going to be one rollercoaster of an end to the year and all of us in

year 5 are strapped and ready to finish the year on a HIGH!!!

Warmest regards

Mr Paras & Mr Al-bayati

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