Specialist Subjects
Physical Education
This week's PE update is brought to you by Poonda Woorn (Gold House)
A reminder of our new House Colour names:
Poonda Woorn (Gold House)
Woolok Woorn (Blue House)
Keereekeeree Woorn (Red House)
Koomarkarrak Woorn (Green House)
What’s been happening:
Foundation - Years 1/2
Our Foundation and Years 1/2 students have made a wonderful start to their time in PE. They have been learning about our PE routines, exploring the space safely, and beginning to practise simple movement skills through fun games and activities. They have been exploring group games and developing their fundamental motor skills. We have also been learning about the Winter Olympics and exploring simple winter-themed movements and games.
Years 3–6
Students in Years 3–6 have had a fantastic start to the year. In the first couple of weeks, we have been exploring a variety of games while revisiting key movement skills and teamwork strategies. We have just begun our athletics unit starting with high jump.
Upcoming Events
- Years 3-6 SSV Division Swimming – Friday 27th February at Aquazone. Please ensure all permission forms are returned to Mr Burton by Thursday 19th February.
- Years 3-6 School Athletics Day – Tuesday 17th March @ Warrnambool East PS. More information will be shared closer to the date.
- Year 5/6 District Hockey – Tuesday 31st March @ Hockey South-West (Cramer Street Warrnambool)
Q&A with Poonda Woorn Captains: Mitch Synott, Bella Goudy, Finn Wines and Olive Coate-Kibeiks.
Your role
Our role as the Gold House Captains is to help and support others during sports days, guide younger students in events, and be role models for them. We are really lucky to come and help out in the Prep PE lessons.
Upcoming events to watch out for:
Bella - ‘Discus, swimming and hockey’
Finn - ‘Basketball, winter sports and hockey’
Mitch – ‘House Athletics and footy’
Olive – 'Athletics day'
What you are looking forward to doing this year:
Finn - ‘Sports day and cross country’
Mitch - ‘Sports day’
Bella – ‘Discus and hockey’
Olive – 'Helping out the Prep students in PE'
Science
We have had a great start to the year in Science. During the first two weeks of school, students enjoyed settling into our wonderful new science space. They took part in a scavenger hunt to explore the room and its equipment and created a science title page to begin the year.
We have now moved into our term learning. Junior school students are learning about living things, including how to identify what is living and what living things need to survive. Students in Years 5 and 6 are exploring evolution, looking at how living things change over long periods of time and the evidence scientists use to support these ideas.
Our Science Leaders have been working on keeping our space tidy and helping Nadine with our amazing Foundation students.
Students have shown wonderful curiosity and enthusiasm, and we are looking forward to an exciting term of science learning.
The Arts
