Curriculum

Personal health and physical development - A

A2 Regular physical activity

Level 2: Experience creative, regular, and enjoyable physical activities and describe the benefits to well-being.

Level 3: Maintain regular participation in enjoyable physical activities in a range of environments and describe how these assist in the promotion of well-being.

Level 4: Demonstrate an increasing sense of responsibility for incorporating regular and enjoyable physical activity into their personal lifestyle to enhance well-being

A3 Safety management

Level 2: Identify risk and use safe practices in a range of contexts.

Level 3: Identify risks and their causes and describe safe practices to manage these.

Level 4: Access and use information to make and action safe choices in a range of contexts.

Healthy communities and environments - D

D1 Societal attitudes and values

Level 2: Explore how people’s attitudes, values, and actions contribute to healthy physical and social environments.

Level 3: Identify how health care and physical activity practices are influenced by community and environmental factors.

D3 Rights, responsibilities, and laws; D4 People and the environment

Level 4: Specify individual responsibilities and take collective action for the care and safety of other people in their school and in the wider community.

Social Studies

Continuity and Change

Level 2: Understand how time and change affect peoples' lives
Level 4: Understand that events have causes and effects

Place and Environment

Level 2 Understand how places influence people and people influence places
Level 3 Understand how people view and use places differently
Level 5 Understand how people's management of resources impacts on environmental and social sustainability

Identity, Culture, and Organisation

Level 4: Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities

Level 5: Understand how systems of government in New Zealand operate and affect people's lives, and how they compare with another system

Nature of Technology

• Level 1-3; Understand how technological development expands human possibilities and how technology draws on knowledge from a wide range of disciplines.

Number and Algebra

Level 3: Use a co-ordinate system or the language of direction and distance to specify locations and describe paths

Level 4: Communicate and interpret locations and directions, using compass directions, distances, and grid references

Level 5: Apply trigonometric ratios and Pythagoras’ theorem in two dimensions

• Field Trip Number Challenge - Word (31k) | PDF (125k)
• Surveying Maths Problem - Word (87k) | PDF (485k)

Speaking, Writing and Presenting 

1. uses an increasing understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts
2. creates a range of texts by integrating sources of information and processing strategies with increasing confidence

1. making the connection between Web conferences, Background Pages, Videos, and own discussion when generating written responses
2. assimilate information from Web conferences, Background Pages and Videos.

Listening, Reading and Viewing

1. selects and reads for enjoyment and personal fulfilment
2. recognises connections between oral, written, and visual language
3. integrates sources of information and prior knowledge confidently to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts
4. thinks critically about texts with increasing understanding and confidence

1. printed copies of Background Pages could be part of classroom library
2. making links between Web conferences, Background Pages, and Videos
3. Web conferences, Videos and Diaries can be used to make sense of Background Pages and Diaries and generate questions to put to experts for further clarification