Curriculum+Connections+Term+1


 * __Theme__** : Building a Sense of Belonging - Whanaungatanga "Melville Kids are Caring Kids"

__**Vision**__ : "Our students will create a positive classroom and school climate through finding out about themselves and understanding what is needed to get along with each other"

__**Essential Question**__ : "How do we develop respectful relationships?"


 * __Major Learning Area__** : Health - Relationships with others/Healthy communities

__**Supporting Learning Areas**__ : Social Sciences - Identify and compare ways of establishing and managing relationships. Describe how their own feelings and beliefs may be different but have similar purposes.

__**Focus on Key Competencies**__ : Managing Self and Relating to Others

__**Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening Purposes**__ : to entertain and to socialise

__**Number**__ : Addition/Subtraction, place value, geometry - angles, symmetry and enlargement


 * __Sports__** : School swimming, interclass touch

__**PE Focus**__ : Building co-operation

__**Technology rotations**__ : Food Technology, Wood and Materials, Biotechnology, Much and Performing Arts

__**Te Reo Maori**__ : Whanaungatanga - Nga mihi, greetings, class treaty

__**ICT**__ : Digital storytelling

__**School wide assessment**__ : Asttle and STAR testing; Parent Conferences - goal setting, Spelling Analysis Test, Basic Facts Test

__**School Events**__ : Japanese students and Kids on Bikes