Primary School

Before everyone heads off for a well-earned holiday break, we would like to wish all our students and families a safe, happy and relaxing break. It has been a busy and rewarding term, filled with memorable experiences. Our students have dressed up for special events, taken part in the Running of the Flags and Foundation Day celebrations, welcomed grandparents into their classrooms, participated in Walk to School, explored Indigenous sciences, represented our school at interschool cross country, and showcased their talents at the Twilight Concert. What an incredible term it has been!

It was a pleasure reading every student's report and reflecting on the hard work, positive connections, and progress made throughout the semester. We hope you enjoy reading and celebrating these achievements with your child. Thank you to our dedicated staff, supportive families and wonderful students for your enthusiasm, commitment and partnership in making this term such a success. We look forward to another exciting semester together.

Classroom News

Please see the classroom news below. Some fantastic experiences are happening in our classrooms; we hope you enjoy reading about them.

Djinda

It has been a productive end to a fabulous term; in the last two weeks, we have designed and engineered unique binoculars to explore the Wild Space with, and placed the finishing touches on our box designs, all whilst chatting, singing and making new friends. Happy holidays and I look forward to seeing you in Week One!

Kindergarten

We have had a wonderful term in Kindergarten. We have been very busy learning lots of amazing things. It has been so much fun to discover new fun facts about farming. In Talk for Writing, we completed the stories The Little Red Hen and Rosie's Walk. We loved using the puppets to retell the stories. We had fun learning the s, a, t, p, i, n letters, especially the little rhymes and actions that go with them. This week we did some very grown-up work, writing the correct letter sounds and matching them to the correct pictures. Wild Space adventures continue to be a major highlight of the week. Finding little treasures and letting our imaginations go wild in nature is such fun! We cannot wait to see what exciting things lie ahead for us in Kindergarten for Semester Two. 

Pre-Primary 

Makuru, the wettest and coldest part of the year. Has this stopped the fun in Pre-Primary? No, it has not! Even on the wettest days, we have been able to marvel at the weather. Hail stones that make it look like snow, rain that feels like a tsunami and wind that makes us think we are in a tornado. All the wintry weather has led to lots of wondering questions: How do tornadoes form? Do we get tornadoes in Australia? When will it be warm again? Luckily, we attend school in a place that has a beautiful environment to explore in all weather conditions.

Year One

Although the end of term draws near, this has not slowed the pace of learning, as the Year One class has begun exploring four types of sentences through a variety of fun games and challenging tasks. Mathematics work on the understanding of numbers has seen individual students take a different number and explore it through number stories, fact families, addition and subtraction sums, part-part-whole, drawings, and tallies. However, the most amazing thing about the end of Semester One in Year One is the progress these little ones make with their reading. Year Four Carman have been amazing reading mentors, listening carefully and patiently to the younger children, enthusiastically reading their new texts each Monday – thank you Year Four C!

Year Two

The end of last week saw our brave Year Two students present their assembly to a very large group of students and parents. We discussed how we were feeling about this, and how it linked to our Zones of Regulation in Health. The Yellow Zone can make us feel both excited and nervous at the same time and these feelings are all very normal. We discussed strategies to help us through these times and to the students’ credit, they were AMAZING! After all that pent-up energy and excitement, we headed to the Wild Space in the afternoon, where we played ‘shell shops’, looked at crabs, and some students even chose to write their spelling words in the sand! What a great way to end a busy day.

Year Three 

Students have been thoroughly engaged this week as they put the finishing touches on their dioramas, demonstrating great care, creativity and attention to detail. The dioramas clearly reflect the students’ learning, as they show their understanding of key concepts from our inquiry unit. Alongside this, the class has been diligently working on a small written piece that clearly outlines the similarities and differences represented within each diorama. In addition, it has been a real pleasure to watch each student perform The Tale of Milo Mencher. Their enthusiasm and growing confidence were evident, making the performances both enjoyable and rewarding to observe.

Year Four

Our classes were excited to share their Triptych artworks with the school community. Using natural materials, students created their own pigments and colours before using them to retell the stories of the First Fleet and its convicts. Each piece shows careful planning, creativity and effort, and students should be very proud of what they have produced. It was a great way to see their learning come together in a hands-on way and to finish off a fantastic semester.

Year Five

This week, we have been stitching together the strands of our avatar inquiry-based unit, putting the finishing touches on the national dresses, currency, and cultural highlights. It has been revealing to see how students considered the climatic challenges of dress whilst weaving symbolic meaning into their outfits ... pun intended. It has truly been a raging success as far as inquiry units go, and our occasional Year Four visitors are certainly counting down the terms until they can get stuck in. 

Year Six

There has been no slowing down for Year Six this week! It has been full steam ahead, all the way to the very end of Semester One. Year Six Sandy students were very excited to test their theories on the correct way to achieve the perfect level of ‘toastedness’ in Science, and we discovered that the microwave is most definitely NOT the best method of toasting! Year Six Osborne students have been heads down rounding out their investigations and inquiry projects and have indeed shown that we have a group of incredibly talented poets and makers of Maths games! We are looking forward to our holidays and cannot wait for an exciting Semester Two!

Have a lovely break.

Ms Leah Field | Head of Primary and

Mrs Hayley Ranger | Head of Early Childhood