Statement of Intent – Year 4 – Term 3

Religious Education Mathematics English Humanities & Social Sciences

The Spirit Who Strengthens:
Confirmation.
o Wondering at our emotions.
o Wondering at the Creator of
emotions.
o Attribute: God loves us.
o Jesus always expressed his emotions
in loving ways.
o Jesus promised the Holy Spirit to help
people love like him.
o Catholics celebrate stories of the
Spirit strengthening others.
O Catholics receive the ‘power from on
Learning Outcomes (WA Curriculum)
Number & Algebra
o Investigate equivalent fractions
used in contexts.
o Count by quarters halves and
thirds, including with mixed
numerals. Locate and represent
these fractions on a number line.
o Recognise that the place value
system can be extended to tenths
and hundredths. Make connections
between fractions and decimal
notation.
Measurement & Geometry
Writing
o Understand that social interactions influence the way
people engage with ideas and respond to others for
example when exploring and clarifying the ideas of others,
summarising their own views and reporting them to a
larger group.
o Understand differences between the language of opinion
and feeling and the language of factual reporting or
recording (ACELA1489)
o Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality
depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and
the intended audience.
o Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into
students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in
research.
o Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts
History
o Stories of the First Fleet, including
reasons for the journey, who
travelled to Australia, and their
experiences following arrival (e.g.
treatment of convicts, daily lives,
social order).
o The nature of contact between
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait
Islander Peoples and others (e.g.
the Macassans, Europeans) and
the impact that these interactions
and colonisation had on the

high’ through Confirmation.
o Christians are called to reflect love for
others through emotions.
o Continuing to wonder at how the
Spirit helps people express emotions
like Mary and the Saints.
God Knows Everything
o Wondering at the Creator of truth.
o Wondering at our learning gifts.
o Wondering at God who created
learning gifts.
o Attribute: God is the revealer of
truths.
o Jesus used his imagination to teach
truths.
o Jesus gave his truths to the Church.
o Jesus appointed Church leaders to
promote and preserve his truths.
o Members of God’s family believe the
basic teachings of Jesus.
o Jesus calls his followers to share his
teaching with others.
o Continuing to wonder at our ability to
learn and important truths revealed
by Jesus.
o Use scaled instruments to measure
and compare lengths, masses,
capacities and temperatures
o Compare objects using familiar
metric units of area and volume.
o Use simple scales, legends and
directions to interpret information
contained in basic maps.
Statistics & Probability
o Select and trial methods for data
collection, including survey
questions and recording sheets.
o Construct suitable data displays,
with and without the use of digital
technologies, from given or
collected data. Include tables,
column graphs and picture graphs
where one picture can represent
many data values.
o Evaluate the effectiveness of
different displays in illustrating data
features including variability.
and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and environment and people's lives
use information to share and extend ideas and
information (ACELY1687) (e.g. dispossession, dislocation,
o Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, the loss of lives through conflict,
informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of disease, loss of food sources and
the text (ACELY1690) medicines).
o Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s
point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, o The diversity and longevity of
using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal Australia's first peoples and the
effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak ways they are connected
clearly and coherently.
to Country/Place (e.g. land, sea,
o Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and
persuasive texts containing key information and waterways, skies) and their pre-
supporting details for a widening range of audiences, contact ways of life.
demonstrating increasing control over text structures and
language features.
Civics & Citizenship
o Use a range of software including word processing
programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and o The purpose of government and
select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements. some familiar services provided
Reading & Viewing by local government (e.g.
o Understand differences between the language of opinion
libraries, health, arts, parks,
and feeling and the language of factual reporting or
recording. environment and waste, pools
o Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred and sporting facilities, pet
meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and management) (ACHASSK091)
linking ideas and analysing and evaluating
texts (ACELY1692)
Spelling
o Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns
including double letters, spelling generalisations,
morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes
and word origins to spell more complex
words (ACELA1779)
Statement of Intent – Year 4 – Term 3

Visual Art Health Technologies Immersion, Excursions and Events

o Purposefully selects and uses a wide
variety of line types and qualities, making
aesthetic choices about placement to
create the planned effect.
o Purposefully chooses and creates a range
of colours to enhance artwork.
o Suggests or organises space by effectively
using visual devices in artwork.
o Development of artistic processes
and techniques to explore visual
conventions through:
- shape (open, closed; abstract; view
from top, side, bottom; positive,
negative)
- colour (monochromatic – all the
colours of a single hue; colours of
varying intensity)
- line (shows an edge line to indicate
emotion; lines of various weights)
- space (geometric, organic;
diminishing perspective)
- texture (piercing, pinching, pressing,
embossing, scoring)
- value (mixing of shades)
- to create artwork (ACAVAM111)
o Use of persistence and resilience as o Digital systems and peripheral • Faction Athletics Carnival – Week 8
tools to respond positively to devices are used for different purposes • Year 4 Expo – Week 8/9
challenges and failure. and can store and transmit different • Melville Council Excursion – Week
types of data. 8
o Strategies that help individuals to o Use simple visual programming • School Photos – Week 10
manage the impact of physical,
environments that include a sequence • Year 4 Sleepover, Week 10
social and emotional changes, such of steps (algorithm) involving decisions
as: made by the user (branching).
- positive self-talk
- assertiveness
- seeking help
- sharing responsibilities
(ACPPS034)
o The positive influence of
respect, empathy and the valuing
of differences in relationships
(ACPPS037)
o Strategies to identify and manage
emotions before reacting
(ACPPS038)
o Strategies to cope with adverse
situations and the demands of
others (ACPPS038)

o Appreciation and respect for a range

of artwork from different social,
cultural and historical contexts
(ACAVAR113)
o Responses that involve identifying
and reflecting on the meaning and
purpose of their own and
others' media work, using media
terminology (ACAMAR061)