Specialist Subjects

Science

The Science Program is based on the resource ‘Primary Connections’. Primary Connections focuses on developing students’ knowledge, understanding, and skills in science through a guided-inquiry approach.

We focus on four content strands:

• • Biological Sciences – Big Ideas
  • Chemical Sciences – Big Ideas
  • Earth and Space Sciences – Big Ideas
  • Physical Sciences – Big Ideas

It works on a 2-year cycle across the whole school, so each student learns each strand accordingly.

Health and Physical Education

Each week, students have a one-hour lesson around Health and Physical Education. This learning is focused on students enhancing their own and others’ health, safety, wellbeing and physical activity participation in varied and changing contexts.

Learning includes the acquisition of movement skills, concepts and strategies to enable students to confidently, competently and creatively participate in a range of physical activities. This curriculum area also helps them to be resilient, and to make decisions and take actions to promote their health, safety and physical activity participation.

Students are involved in athletics each year with opportunities to advance to further levels of competition. Our school is part of the Linton District School Sports Association and competes in various sports (netball, football, soccer etc.) with other local schools.

The Arts

The Arts is a curriculum area that all Woady Yaloak students enjoy participating in. Students participate in Visual Arts and Performing Arts on a rotating basis.

In Visual Arts, students are encouraged and guided to be creative and imaginative as they acquire a variety of skills.

In Performing Arts, students rotate between music, dance and drama. Performing Arts allows our students to be self-expressive, show their emotion and develop their confidence when performing and presenting in front of others in an encouraging environment.

At Woady Yaloak Primary School, we run bi-annual school concerts and art shows in alternating years.

L.O.T.E. – Japanese

Japanese is a curriculum area that all children at Woady Yaloak participate in for one hour a week. The children are given the opportunity to learn Japanese words and phrases by using them in various situations.

Some examples of the language studied are introducing themselves formally, asking and answering questions and giving and receiving various items. The children also participate in activities relating to the many cultural differences between Japan and Australia, as well as learning about some of the many festivals that are held in this fascinating country.