Teaching, Learning and Wellbeing
Seeking Donations for Crochet Club
Do you have a crochet hook gathering dust at home?
If so, we'd love to take it off your hands. This term, Kate is trialing some small group crochet sessions with a group of Grade 5 students. We are looking for some size 4-5 crochet hooks. We are also happy to take yarn donations. You can leave these at the office for me to collect. Thank you in advance!
Building Confident, Capable Writers at RGLPS
Writing is an important but challenging skill for all children. In fact, it is one of the most cognitively demanding tasks we ask students to undertake at school. Many children find writing very difficult, particularly when organising their ideas, staying on topic, writing clear sentences, using punctuation correctly, and revising their work. Many children write the way they speak and need to be explicitly taught the differences between spoken and written language. Strong writing also relies on solid background knowledge, as students need to understand a topic before they can write effectively about it.
This year, all of our teachers undertaking professional learning around The Writing Revolution (TWR) approach to improve our writing instruction. TWR uses a simple, clear, and highly structured method to help students become confident and organised writers. Humanities and science content is taught through integrated reading and writing sessions, with reading and vocabulary lessons providing the background knowledge students need for their writing. A fundamental skill is identifying the difference between a sentence and a fragment. I will illustrate the difference in the examples below:
- A map helps people understand how to get from one place to another. (sentence)
- the capital of Victoria. (fragment)
A sentence is a complete idea. A fragment is only part of one. At RGLPS, we will help students expand fragments into full, clear sentences. This additionally helps children to use correct grammar and punctuation while making their writing clearer and easier to understand. It also helps young writers organise their ideas so readers can follow their thinking.
As a school, we believe this structured approach will support all students to become more capable and confident writers, who can write meaningfully about their learning and experiences.
2026 Term One Team Newsletters
Term One Team Newsletters were released last week to parents and carers. This document outlines curriculum foci and important information for the term ahead. If you haven't had a chance to read the newsletter as yet, this can be found in your Compass alerts or by clicking the following link: https://newsletters.naavi.com/i/JlO8j3N
Have a great week everyone!
- Kerron Worsdell
Learning Specialist