5-8 Community News
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
As the term concludes, on behalf of the teaching staff in 5-8, we wanted to take the time to wish you a happy Easter and a safe holiday. Thank you for your ongoing support this term. Without your support, our good work cannot be completed. Please do use this time to spend it with your friends and family. Keeping a good routine over the holidays, particularly the final few days of the holidays will pay dividends once the students return back to school.
As we transition back into Term 2, a few reminders:
- The colder mornings will bring about jumpers. Please ensure your child has a school jumper. If they do not, ensure a note is written to your child's TA teacher.
- Positive attitude. School brings about far more positives than negatives. The longer our children are at home, the harder it is to get them back to a school routine. Have students continue to name positives that have occurred or what they are looking forward to about returning back to school.
Lastly, over the holidays, please consistently check in with your children and help them manage their use of technology and personal devices. At the moment, apps such as Snapchat, Instagram and Discord, are posing some challenges at home which are then being brought into the school grounds. If you feel your child is being bullied online, please report it to your Child's TA teacher and to the E-Safety Commissioner. These two websites provide instructions on how to report online abuse.
https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-issues/esafety-guide
https://submit.esafety.gov.au/Produce/wizard/ca3acccd-07bf-4a12-9c0e-f93e50a46ab6?portal=1
Some strategies for a safer tech holiday:
- Moderate, safeguard and support young people online at all times. This looks like setting up a space where you can monitor the child's phone/iPad screen.
- Check-in and ask about friendships online
- Promote: If you wouldn't say it face to face, don't say it online.
- Ensure that the children have had enough time to rest from being in front of their screens. Set some times that are appropriate where your children are not on their screens. It's important that the students are getting 8-10 hours of sleep and are heading to bed at a reasonable time and without any technology around. Devices should be stored away from the child's bed.
This slideshow can help support any of the troubles you may have: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tRqyXTglZq3-nqCo06SlRHy7p7lfMCMb-s54xy9Gvn4/edit#slide=id.gcdfaed6094_0_20
Corey Carver and Anthony Poppa
Years 5-8 Community Leaders
Years 7/8 Food Technology
It has been a busy term in Years 7 and 8 Food Technology. The students have prepared a range of dishes and developed their skills in the kitchen. They have learnt how to make dough and prepared bread rolls and designed a homemade, healthy pizza. They have learnt about the role of nutrients in our bodies and how to incorporate these into their diet. They prepared fried rice, chicken tacos and noodles with honey soy chicken and identified the carbohydrate, protein, fats, vitamins and minerals contained in each meal. Their dishwashing skills have improved and they are all looking forward to demonstrating this at home over the holiday break.
All of the recipes that we have prepared are available in the Google classroom if students would like to recreate them at home.
Amanda Clohosey
Partnerhips
Recently, the Partnerships students concluded their Migration and Movement unit by choosing to cook a traditional meal that originated from either Vietnam, Britain and/or China. The choice of these countries and meals were related to the migration factors that forced some of the population to migrate to Australia. Students have explored the migration themes from the Vietnam War, English settlement to Australia (the Industrial Revolution) and the Gold Rush.
