What’s Happening in Grade 4 in Term 3, 2025
In Literacy students will be:
- Reading and exploring Storm Boy, focusing on themes, characters, and events.
- Discussing new vocabulary and descriptive language in the text.
- Responding to the text through oral and written tasks.
- Summarising parts of the text to show understanding.
- Answering follow-up questions to deepen comprehension.
- Making inferences and interpreting character actions and key messages.
- Improving sentence writing through structure and expansion.
- Developing note-taking skills from different sources.
- Planning and writing clear, organised paragraphs.
- Using notes to write a structured information report.
- Editing and revising to improve grammar and punctuation.
In Mathematics students will be:
- Applying the distributive and associative properties to solve number problems.
- Using the vertical algorithm to solve addition and subtraction problems, with and without regrouping.
- Estimating answers and checking calculations for accuracy.
- Understanding and working with equivalent fractions.
- Identifying, naming, and describing 2D and 3D shapes.
- Classifying and measuring angles, and beginning to draw and recognise different types of angles.
- Interpreting, giving, and following directions using maps.
- Drawing simple maps and using grid systems, including spreadsheets, to represent spaces.
- Posing relevant questions and collecting data using spreadsheets.
- Creating and interpreting picture graphs and column graphs based on the data collected.
In Inquiry students will be:
In Term 3, Grade 4 students will be exploring the concepts of rules, laws, and local government as part of their Inquiry unit. They will learn about the difference between a rule and a law, why laws are important, and who is responsible for enforcing them in our community. Students will also investigate the role of local councils, including how they make decisions and provide services that support the community. As part of broadening their understanding, students will be introduced to traditional law and lore from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. These topics will be explored through class discussions, written tasks, and opportunities to share their opinions with justifications. This unit aims to build students’ understanding of how communities are governed and the importance of fairness, respect, and responsibility in everyday life.
Wellbeing
As used in previous Wellbeing lessons, we will continue to use the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR). This term, the topic encourages students to:
- Understand that everyone has the right to be treated equally and respectfully, regardless of gender
- Challenge common stereotypes about what boys and girls “should” do or how they “should” behave
- Appreciate individual differences and promote fairness, empathy, and inclusiveness
- Build respectful friendships and interactions with others, regardless of gender
- Develop an understanding of key vocabulary such as consent, gender and violence.
Through this, students are learning how to build a safe, more respectful and inclusive community, both now and in the future.