Year Level News

Foundation

Exciting Experiences! The Foundation students enjoyed a brilliant fortnight of exciting firsts. They narrated and sang songs to entertain the school community in their first Soiree on Wednesday, 15 November. We are so proud of how confidently the students read their lines and sang songs accompanied by actions. 

On Thursday, 16 November, they had their first Athletics Day. Mr Pannam and the Year 6 leaders did a fantastic job organising fun events for the children to compete in. The student’s persistence and sportsmanship were excellent. 

Then, Friday 17 November was school disco day! We thank the P&F team for organising such a fun event. It was great to see the children dancing and having fun to classics such as the ‘Chicken Song’ and more recent songs such as ‘Shake It Off’. 

Last Friday, 24 November, we had our second visit from the Melbourne Fire Brigade. The firefighter shared important safety information with the students. They were taught to ‘Get down low and go go, go’ if there is a fire and then go to a safe meeting place as prearranged with their family. They also learned to ‘Stop, drop, cover and roll’ if their clothes caught fire. The visit ended with taking turns to use the firefighter’s hose in the playground. We are very grateful to the MFB. They were called away but kindly returned so that all the children could have a turn with the hose. 

Emma McIntosh & Jessica Dijanesic

Foundation and Year 6 Teams 

Year 1 

The Year 1 students have been learning how to tell the time to the hour and half hour on digital and analogue clocks. They enjoyed playing various games to help them consolidate their learning and enjoyed watching a behind the scenes tour of Big Ben in London! 

Teresa Fountain & Karen Abrahams

Year 1 Teachers

Year 2

In Literacy, our Year 2 students have been writing Poetry. 

A raindrop is plain. 

It can mess up your day. 

You could've played all day, but rain will come and ruin your day. 

Rain is good, rain is great. 

Rain makes the foggy clouds drift away. 

You can watch the raindrops happily flee as they drip down your window with lots of glee. By Eason

Rain 

A transparent liquid that splashes on my roof.

Just like water but comes from the clouds instead of taps. 

Puddles form on the ground waiting to be jumped in. 

Soaked up in the ground to be washed away through the drains.  

By Henry

Some say they are blue. 

They look clear but are colourless. 

Sometimes soothing on a tin roof, though you wouldn’t want to go down the slide when they fall. 

If you have gumboots and a raincoat, you could splash around in the puddles but then the rain gets too strong.

 Just when you think your fun is over, you see a rainbow!  

By Jemima 

Have you seen the drop of dew?

On a leaf but only a few.

Glistening in the morning sun.

Swimming around sounds like fun.

If you simply read the label.

You can drink it on your table.

Water helps you survive.

It will keep you alive.

You don’t just have to stay well fed.

Without water you will be dead.

Would you like to take a dive?

In the ocean where creatures thrive?

By Alice S 

Rain Drops

Drip, drop.

Plip plop.

Rain pattering on the street.

On your window, while you eat.

Rain entering the pipe.

Gushing out the other side.

Whooshing, flowing river.

Streaming down the road.

And entering the gutter.

Then suddenly it stops.

Drip, drip, drip, drip drop.

Then the sun.

By Suyin

Rain Water

Rain pattered down the window.

I wish it would go!

But rain is also so useful, because without water we would die.

So if we want to survive, water has to stay alive.

So now when you see water, you know it’s not a game.

It’s something very useful but living without the fame.

By Elsie 

Effie Liarakos & Kirsty-Lee Eather

Year 2 Teachers

Year 4

In Science this term the Year 4 students have been learning about forces, motion, friction, different types of energy and gravity. As part of the unit they are required to build a marble run…..sounds easy right? Wrong! The marble runs have some rules that the children must follow:

1. You will work in groups of 3.
2. The height and width must not exceed 1 metre (10% leeway).
3. The aim is to have your marble take around 20 seconds to reach the bottom – surprisingly this is the hardest part!
4. You will have 1 roll of masking tape ONLY.
5. You can use a variety of different materials you find around the room to change the surface of the run to increase or decrease the momentum of the marble. 
6. You can use the inside and outside of the box.

Not only do the children need to follow the above rules but each group came up with their own rules they need to follow to ensure that each team work cooperatively together throughout the process.

Using boxes that the children have brought in from home they’ve made a great start and we are excited to share the final results at the end of the term!

Delia Robey, Carrie Leete & Sandra Johnson

Year 5 Teachers

Year 4 Science - 4A Student Perspectives

Our 4Awesome class has been learning about Gravitational Potential Energy (G.P.E) whilst reading about Galileo’s discovery of Gravitational Potential Energy in Fluency Pairs this Tuesday morning. It all started after we read “If you hold a pencil up to your height, you know that pencil will fall to the ground when you let go. That pencil has the ability to be in motion because of gravity.” That prompted us all to stand up and drop our pencils/highlighters, but not all of us dropped just one thing. 

Raphael dropped both his pencil and a tennis ball he had found somewhere near him. We then wondered if the theory that 2 objects will fall to the ground at the same rate was true. To further explore this, we devoted the rest of our math sessions for the week to expand our understanding of G.P.E. 

We then spent the next three maths sessions dropping different objects, filming each drop in slow-motion and recording this information in a table. We are up to analysing the data by using our knowledge of fractions and percentages to compare the results of dropping different objects. 

By Sadie & Sylvia 

Class: 4Awesome 

Year 5

The Year 5 Leadership speeches are well under way, with the children practising reading out their speeches on the microphone in the Hall, in preparation for next week’s voting. Our students have been demonstrating exceptional growth in their public speaking skills, including using eye contact with the audience. All students have impressed us with their articulation and passionate speeches, showcasing significant growth.

They are excited and looking forward presenting their speeches to the Year 3 and Year 4 students next Wednesday. We wish each and everyone of them the best.

Tim Andrews & Melissa Kah

Year 5 Teachers

Literacy News

The following students have completed Minilit Level 2.  

• In 2A Frankie and Pierce. 
• In 2B Ruby, Layla and Ellie.

They have worked consistently this year learning phonemes along with improving their reading and writing skills.

Amanda Davies

Education Support