Emily Steele
Teacher
Room - A4
Ōrākei Y4, 5 & 6 Hub - Term Overview 2026
Kaupapa | Lines of Inquiry
Under the Same Stars
Y4: Ancient Egypt daily life and society. Y5&6 Investigating daily life in the Victorian era and Medieval society in Europe. Investigating how the Industrial Revolution changed technology, work, transport and daily life in Britain.
Investigating how social class affected people's living conditions, education, health and opportunities.
Pāngarau | Maths
Geometry
Identifying, classifying, and explaining similarities and differences between 2D shapes and between prisms and pyramids.
Identifying and describing the interior angles of triangles and quadrilaterals.
Identifying shapes with rotational symmetry and determining their order of rotational symmetry.
Probability
Conducting repeated chance experiments or games, identifying the outcomes, and describing differences between them using likelihood vocabulary.
Identifying the likelihood of an everyday event as being impossible, unlikely, even-chance, likely, or certain. Placing everyday events on a number line according to their likelihood.
Ngā Toi | The Arts
Design a historical diorama illustrating everyday life during the Medieval or Victorian period, highlighting how a transformative event (e.g., the Black Plague or the Industrial Revolution) altered societal structures, work, and community living.
Te Reo Māori
The Treaty of Waitangi
The way to address someone reflects the relationship you have with that person and the context.
Tēnā koutou is a formal greeting used to respectfully acknowledge three or more people.
Literacy
Pānui Reading
Reading class novel. K6 The Last Bear. K4: Kensuke's kingdom. Discussing new vocab, Read accurately and fluently using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension to build meaning. Respond to queries by evaluating the information and ideas in a text to demonstrate and support comprehension. Identify how the author and illustrator has made the text exciting by using plot tension, character and setting. Understand and apply new vocabulary during speaking, reading and writing
Tuhituhi | Writing
Create persuasive text for particular purposes and audiences, developing and expanding on ideas with supporting details from topics or texts. They use paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas. They use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features. They spell using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.
The Code spelling programme
Using direct speech marks and punctuation.
Events
Term 4
Athletics
Hauora | Health & PE
PE
Athletics and Large Ball games
Health
Collaborating in groups.
Resilience Programme
School Value - Excellence
I can explain the “why”
