Grade 3/4B (Teacher: Mrs Brenda Bailey)
Welcome to Grade 3/4 B. My name is Brenda Bailey and I have been a teacher for the past 8 years here at Coldstream Primary School. I have a total of 17 years of teaching experience in a variety of settings. I enjoy teaching in the 3/4 area and getting to know each of the children. I enjoy talking with them and learning about all of their future goals and dreams. Students enjoy many activities where they are engaged in cross curricular activities. The 3/4 area teachers plan together and spend a great deal of time ensuring that children have a well rounded education.
Excursions and Incursions are a part of every school year. We also try hard to modify our teaching strategies to attend to individual needs of students. Children are given the opportunity to work individually, with partners, within small groups and, at times, within a larger group setting. This gives students the opportunity to work cooperatively and positively within the classroom and school environment. Students are set nightly homework tasks which they are expected to complete in order to better prepare them for homework task requirements in the upper school. This also helps students build on their skills to become better organised, advance forward in their personal learning and better prepare them to become more independent workers.
In the 3/4 area we have many positive reward systems to encourage children to always try their very best with behaviour as well as with their work.
Terms 3 & 4
This semester students will investigate inventions and innovations that are useful for everyday living. They will present and complete a research project at school on an inventor and their invention and prepare and present a speech to perform in a ‘Time Machine’ production which will be presented to students and parents. Students will have the opportunity to investigate how different devices operate through a special tinkering day. For a home project they are given a choice between designing and constructing a vehicle, which is powered by wind energy which they will later present to their peers. If this does not interest them they can choose to come up with their very own invention which will be presented during a special Patent Day.
Students will reflect on actions, behaviours, consequences, and emotions that are encountered in everyday life. Through role-play, games, activities, discussions, the multi-media and the Life-Ed van students will become familiar with “themselves” and the people around them. They will also participate in activities to help them understand the effects of bullying.
