Term 1 Overviews, 2025
Michelle Faragalla - Foundation to Grade 2
Claire Rosenhain - Grade 3 to 6
Foundation
In Term 2, students continue in the learning area of Music as they explore different instruments, their backgrounds and unique sounds that they create, and expanding their knowledge of musical instruments. This term students are preparing for an in-class performance where they will be visited by another grade to watch them sing and play on the Xylophones “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star”. The Foundation students will also be learning about how to give positive feedback, receive constructive feedback, and to be a good audience member.
Mrs.Faragalla
Grade One
In Term 2, students will be continuing to learn in the area of Music, exploring different instruments every week, learning about their origin, the sounds they make and how they are made. Students will be preparing for an in-class performance where they will be visited by another grade to watch them sing and play the Ukulele on a Wurrundjeri song “Rain is falling on Country”.
Grade Two
Grade Three
Throughout Term Two in Performing Arts students in Grade Three will be engaged in learning about the Elements of Dance and how these can be used effectively to convey meaning and ideas in performance. Students will watch, discuss and explore dances from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including dances of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Inspired by folk dance steps from around the world, students will learn, copy, create, practice and perform dances.
Ms.Rosenhain
Grade Four
Throughout Term Two in Performing Arts students in Grade Four will be engaged in learning about the Elements of Dance and how these can be used effectively to convey meaning and ideas in performance. Students will watch, discuss and explore dances from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including dances of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. They will learn and practice various dance steps, from common, well-known steps to more technical dance steps to build a movement vocabulary from which they will create their own dances that convey meaning.
Grade Five
Throughout Term Two in Performing Arts students in Grade Five will be engaged in learning about the Elements of Dance and how these can be used effectively to convey meaning and ideas in performance. Students will watch, discuss and explore dances from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including dances of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. They will learn and practice various dance steps, from common, well-known steps to more technical dance steps to build a movement vocabulary from which they will learn, practice and perform various dance sequences.
Grade Six
Throughout Term Two in Performing Arts students in Grade Six will be engaged in learning about the Elements of Dance and how these can be used effectively to convey meaning and ideas in performance. Students will watch, discuss and explore dances from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including dances of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. They will learn and practice various dance steps, from common, well-known steps to more technical dance steps to build a movement vocabulary from which they will collaborate with other students to create, practice and perform various dance sequences.
