Students of the Week

CLASS	NAME	REASON
FLW	Asha Dickinson	For confidently sharing your writing with the whole class over a Google meet. We all enjoyed listening to your creative ideas. Well done Asha!
FAM	Orlando Bonacci	For being so persistent with your reading and writing and always having a go, even when you find something challenging. Well done Orlando!
1/2SC	Dianna Mansour	For being a persistent and open-minded thinker who poses thoughtful questions to deepen her understanding. Dianna, you are a star!
1/2BF	Pierre Matsamakis	For confidently sharing his thinking and respectfully listening to others during our Google Meets. Keep it up Pierre!
1/2MD	Julius Rocillo	For the growth that you are demonstrating as a learner. Julius, you are putting in such a great effort towards all areas of your learning and should feel very proud of yourself. Well done superstar!
3/4GT	Kiara Louca	For being a leader in our class and being open-minded in her attitude and her thinking when being a learner. Your effort is always noticed Kiara and we are grateful to have you in our class.
3/4MM	Joe Hamwi	For the consistent focus he displays during his online reading group. Joe has effectively used the skimming and scanning technique to locate key words in a text.
3/4KD	Ethan Mercadante	For turning ordinary words into poetic form using figurative language. Ethan you are a brilliant wordsmith!
5/6OS	Jamie Dixon	For listening to feedback and working hard to improve his learning this week. And for consistently attending all Google Meets and engaging positively with his teacher and classmates. Keep up the amazing work Jamie!
5/6VC	Cara Pappas	For being a conscientious learner who attends extra Google Meets and completing extra learning tasks. Well done Cara!
5/6CF	Tom Gallagher	For confidently sharing his predictions and thoughts relating to our class text “39 Clues''. He is commended for his engaging, insightful and thoughtful discussion thoughts and for respectfully listening to others during our Google Meets. Well done Tom!

Foundation

This week in Foundation, there was a lot of excitement as the countdown to on-site learning began. As reflective thinkers, we shared how we were feeling about returning to school and had time and opportunity to ask questions and discuss anything we were worried about. We have enjoyed our online sessions each day as we connected with each other, shared our thinking and made lots of new discoveries.

We have come so far, and our ability to be confident, courageous, curious, persistent and respectful learners, communicators, collaborators, researchers, thinkers and self-managers is something to celebrate and be proud of, and we will continue to display these skills and assets in the learning space.

As mathematicians, we continued to find out about Money. As thinkers, we applied our knowledge and understanding of Australian coins, as we engaged in play in our own shops at home. We also made different values using the coins, and engaged in shopping during our online meets, where we visited a cafe, a bakery and the supermarket and paid for our purchases. We even made different amounts and put them into our very own little piggy banks.

As writers, we continued to write about our experiences at home. Some of us wrote stories titled ‘Guess What Happened Today’, where we applied our knowledge of Narratives. We made sure to include a problem and a solution. As thinkers, we also included capital letters, spaces, sight words and full stops, and recorded known sounds, blends and digraphs.

At the end of the week, we enjoyed some Fun Friday tasks with our families. Some of us built forts, whilst some of us watched our favourite YouTube channel, Art Hub For Kids, and engaged in directed drawing. We made paper planes, cards, lego creations, origami, and engaged in cooking.

We look forward to seeing everyone on-site this week as we reconnect with each other. It is great to be back, seeing everyone's smiling faces and sharing our remote learning experiences.

Foundation Team, Leanne Wenckowski and Alycia Marsico.

Year 1/2

We have settled into Remote Learning for our last term of the year! We continue to build our resilience and support each other as we navigate through our learning. As e-learners we are confident in sharing our learning with our peers using technology. We have come a long way!

As readers, we are exploring different types of texts about nature and our environment. We have researched about rainforests, how plants and flowers grow, how to make herb gardens and what leaf litter is.

As inquirers, we are investigating the different types of gardens, such as water, dessert and flower gardens. We have noticed that these gardens have similarities and differences. This week we chose two gardens to compare and contrast. Later in the week we created our own dream garden. As thinkers, we needed to visualise what we wanted our gardens to look like. We thought about where flowers, trees and plants were placed and what other unique features our gardens could have. Take a look at some of our dream gardens!

As mathematicians, we are continuing to explore Multiplication. This week we focused on creating an Array City using our multiplication knowledge of arrays, groups of and number sentences. Have a look at our beautiful cities!

On Friday the Year 1/2s engaged in an online virtual incursion on Cyber Safety. We learnt three important things from the incursion…

1. Talk to a trusted adult

2. Keep all personal details private

3. Have a balance between screen time and green time (playing outside, playing with board games and toys, playing sport, dancing and building a blanket fort)

We also spent our Friday afternoon engaging in Mindfulness activities. Take a look!

We are looking forward to another week of engaging learning and welcoming the Year 1/2s onsite on Thursday and Friday!

Year 1/2 Team

Belinda Filippone, Stefanie Carriera and Maria Delaney

Year 3/4

Hopefully this is our last week of full time lockdown as we head into increased freedoms. As we know more from the changing landscape we will keep you informed.

This week we are continuing on with poetry and the use of figurative language such as simile, metaphor and hyperbole. Our Inquiry is based on the use of spaces available to us with particular reference to school space. We are looking at the process, purpose and thinking behind the design of spaces being used. We encourage you to walk/ride with your children to look at the way space has been utilised at the new elevated railway station at Coburg. You might discuss the way this could have been done in terms of consultation with the community and who they think is being catered for in the use of the space.

In Maths, we are looking at the use of calendars to organise time and reading and interpreting timetables.

We are looking forward to the return of students to the classroom. Keep an eye on the SkoolBag App for updates on how the return will be organised.

Year 5/6

Year 5/6

This week the Grade 5/6 students will hopefully complete their last full week of online learning and begin the transition back to full time onsite learning. The excitement in returning to the classroom after a long and challenging time online is building. Even though this remote learning hasn’t been ideal for all learners, the 5/6 teachers are so proud of the positivity, enthusiasm and positive growth mindset that the students continue to exude. We are optimistic and looking forward to welcoming the students back to the classroom safely. We once again take this opportunity to thank our hardworking parents for their continued support and understanding.

Reading and Writing

Students continued exploring persuasive techniques used in advertisements to persuade an audience. They discussed and identified various persuasive techniques such as appeals to common sense, fairness, family values, justice and patriotism. Other persuasive techniques include using evidence, statistics, expert opinions, research findings, and even attacks on opposing views. Using humour or puns were also a valuable and successful technique explored. Rhetorical questions, cause and effect, generalisations, colloquial language, and repetition can be particularly persuasive. Students constructed persuasive texts to their teachers about iPad purchases and end of school class parties with success.

We are also continuing to listen/read our whole class text “The 39 Clues”. This week the main characters, Amy and Dan, survived a bomb explosion, sabotage by other teams and defied orders by human services to return to their horrid Aunt Beatrice's care. They convinced their rather unsuspecting au pair, Nellie, to agree to chaperone them. Students impersonated Nellie and her thought processes and feelings by creating a diary entry from Nellie's point of view as she was enroute to the next clue’s destination: Paris.

Dear Diary…

I have no idea what's going on, Amy and Dan are going crazy! They say that they have a family scavenger hunt but now they are taking me to paris! I mean it has always been my dream to go to Paris but I have a feeling that something is up with these two but I can’t put my finger on it.Amy and Dan keep on telling me not to worry about anything, and that just makes them sound even more suspicious. Whatever these two are doing I’m not sure I want to be a part of. Their excuse is that they are on a family scavenger hunt but I don’t trust or believe that for one minute. There was a real bomb! This is definitely not a family tradition, what family tries to blow each other up? I am excited about Paris though, especially since I don’t have to pay. I’m not sure where they are getting the money but I don’t care. I don't think that they understand but this is getting serious, I got a call from Amy and Dan but I didn’t tell them anything. All I want is to know the truth about what’s going on. I don’t think that they realise what they are doing to me. I could lose my job because of this and from seeing that bomb at the museum where Amy and Dan were, I badly hope that was a coincidence!

Love Nellie

Dante Gr 5/6CF

Dear Diary,

How in the world did a little trip for some scavenger hunt turn into a dangerous trip around the world? So what happened was that these two kids I babysit came up to me, their names were Amy and Dan and they said “oh we need you to help us with this trip as we can’t do it without an adult”. But of course I had to ask my dad first, which was always annoying. When I got on the phone he was a little mad but you know we always take that as a yes. So now I am these kids whatever you call it, Babysitter? Chaperone? How in the world did a little trip for some scavenger hunt turn into a dangerous trip around the world? Oh by the way I forgot to mention Amy brought their cat, Sadeline. Sadeline is quite annoying but I have to deal with it (Amy’s orders). Okay, we get there and Amy and Dan go into the library. It had been a good 10 minutes, which we can all agree is way too long to wait in the car but you know my music is on so that changes everything. But anyways, I hear a big KA BOOM! I looked over and saw smoke. I don’t really know what happened to me but I stayed in the car. When they got back in the car I asked “What happened”? Amy replied “forget about that” and pulled out a phone that didn’t belong to her. I can not believe she stole! Apparently there was a picture of a clue or whatever on the phone, she read it, did some smart stuff I don’t really know and now we are going somewhere called ‘Independence Hall’ I tried to persuade them that it was too dangerous and now Beatrice has called social service! Surprisingly they didn’t care!! When we got there, I told them to be quick, because I only had 6 songs left on my playlist, oh and of course I wanted them to give me an explanation. When they got back I got the explanation but it was the same thing they said at the beginning and now we had to go to Paris! I acted as the responsible adult but at the end said yes saying this was the last trip (but who wouldn’t want a free trip to Paris)!

Love Nellie x

Jessica Gr 5/6CF

Dear Diary…

*Queue the russian accent* Uhh, so I don’t know what these kids are going on about, but they are risking their lives and making me travel from place to place with them. Which I find,

SO.. weird. And annoying. Anyway, they said they want to go to paris. But I don’t know

where they are planning to get all of that money from. And anyway, if anything happens

to them, I’m in a lot of trouble. But then again. PARIS? I love paris!

It’s funny how I was just a young adult listening to overrated boy bands and now I’m that,

but taking care of random family members that are 14 and 10 and are risking their lives.

And I don’t even know why they’re doing that. Even I couldn't even do anything that crazy. And I am definitely a lot more mature than them. What the heck did I end up getting myself

into?! I am starting to regret this.. I could’ve just spent my time scrolling through social

media for hours and hours, but no, I’m doing this. Gosh, well this obviously wasn’t the best of

my ideas.. Welp. Things can’t go that bad, right? I mean, what’s the worst thing that can h-

-appen? The kids die and I am the most untrusted adult in the world? AAUGH! This isn’t

worth it. They’re the people doing this dangerous stuff and so far, I still am risking my life.

AND MY REPUTATION! This is so embarrassing. I have to look after irresponsible kids and I am the one that makes sure they don’t do anything too stupid. On the other hand.. And WAY better hand, they need to go to Paris. Look, I get they might die doing whatever huge “scavenger hunt” they’re doing, but I would like to go to Paris.. Again! It’s my favorite place in the whole entire world.. And they want to take me there, just so I can “supervise” them? And I get paid in the end? This is crazy, but amazing at the same time! Is it worth going to Paris and risking our lives? Dang, I wish this diary could give me some advice..

Love Nellie x

Eve Gr 5/6CF

Dear Diary… I have got myself into a lot of trouble. I started babysitting Dan and Amy. They are one of the Cahill's. Dan and Amy have been traveling around the world and I just found out their Aunt doesnt even know they are doing this and their Aunt called the secret services to look for Dan and Amy! The secret services contacted me and i didnt know what to do. I asked Dan and Amy for an explanation this instant and they said they were in a scavenger hut and the winner will win lots of money. They wanted to go to France next they begged and begged and I agreed. I don't know if this was a good decision or a bad one. I don't know how to feel about this. I could lose my job or even die but you can't put down a free trip to Paris with nice hotels and delicious food!!!!! Maybe I'm getting way over my head. Should I be scared about the position I'm in right now?

Love Nellie x

Henry Gr 5/6CF

Numeracy

In Numeracy, the students have started their unit on financial mathematics - exploring budgets, costs, profit and loss. We explored 3D shapes further by constructing 3D shapes from their 2D nets. Students realised that 3D shapes could have a variety of nets. Constructing a mobile of their 3D shapes they further cemented their understanding by labelling the shape with their technical names, including prisms and pyramids. They labeled the shape’s faces, vertices, edges and apex’s and 2D shape identification within these shapes.

Religion

In Religion, student’s commenced their new unit “My mission and the Church.” Students have started to explore their current personal understandings of justice and commenced investigating the Church’s teachings on caring for the poor. They related Matthew 28:16 - 20 Commissioning of the disciples and the Good Samaritan scripture to their own experiences of love and compassion to consider ways they can live and act with a concern for the poor. This week they focused on Socktober - an organisation and initiative where students learn what life is like for children from Thailand, specifically those from slum areas in Bangkok, the bustling capital. They were asked to think about what it means to live their mission and explored how Sister Chalaad, at the Good Shepherd Sisters' Kindergarten, lives mission in her work and life.

We are exceptionally proud of how the students continue to persevere with remote learning. They have displayed resilience and patience. We encourage all students to continue to focus on the positives in their lives, the wonderful blessing God has granted us and the hope of the freedoms to come. We encourage all 5/6 students to continue to attend all meets over the final stages of remote learning and look forward to welcoming their smiling faces into the classroom next week.

Take care of yourselves and your families,

"Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 1

Cherrie Arnold, Michelle Casameto, Olivia Sargent, Viviana Clarke

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