From the Classrooom

Prep 2027 Information Night

🎉 Important Information

🎉 Important Information: Sentral App at Echuca Twin Rivers PS 🎉📱 Part 1: Please ensure you have downloaded Sentral and set up your profile- All camps, excursions and school events will now be managed through the Sentral app — nice and easy, all in one place!- This means we’ll be saying goodbye to paper permission slips and will no longer be sending hard copies home.- To get started, please check out the attached letter which shows you how to download and set up the Sentral app. Need a hand? No worries at all! 😊Sue in the school office is more than happy to help with installing or setting up Sentral — just pop in or give us a call.

✍️ Part 2: Signing Permission Slips- Once you’re set up, permission slips can be viewed and signed directly in the Sentral app.- The attached screenshots will walk you through how to sign a permission slip step by step.- If you get stuck, please don’t hesitate to call or come into the office — we’re here to help!

💳 Coming Soon – Payments via Sentral! We’re excited to let families know that payments will soon be able to be made directly through the Sentral app, making things even more convenient. We will communicate with you all once this is set up.

📌 Please Note:- Families who do not wish to use the Sentral app will need to visit the school office to sign permission slips at the front desk. Thanks so much for your understanding and support as we make this positive change at Echuca Twin Rivers Primary School

Our school will be celebrating Harmony Week from 16–22 March. This year’s theme, “Everyone Belongs,” reminds us that our differences make our community stronger and that everyone deserves to feel valued and included. Throughout the week, students will take part in activities that celebrate Australia’s rich cultural diversity. Students are encouraged to wear a touch of orange to show their support for respect, inclusion and belonging.

On the 19th of March we will be weary “touch of orange” and be celebrating with multi age group activities and parade. 

Keep an eye on Class Dojo and our socials for more information. 

Zooper Doopers

Wednesday March 4th from week 6...new SLC will be selling Zooper Doopers for $1 from the centre kitchen window at second recess!

Grade 1/2

This term in Inquiry, our Year 1/2 students have been exploring the seasons by using their senses to observe and describe the weather around us. We have investigated how weather impacts our world and discovered how to identify wind direction and strength by designing and building our own windsocks.

Students have also been learning about how clouds form and how rain falls. In our exciting “rain experiment,” children observed how adding coloured water to shaving cream represented rain building up in clouds before falling to the ground — a wonderful hands-on way to see the water cycle in action!

Our learning has extended beyond our local environment as we explored seasons around the world, with a special focus on the seven Indigenous seasons of the Yorta Yorta. Students are now bringing their knowledge together through a collaborative Seven Seasons mural project. We can’t wait to share our learning with you!

Grade 5/6

Students in Grade 5/6 have begun working with their Reading Fluency partners. Students sit side by side, or across from their partner, and read, one at a time, to each other for 1 minute each. After each child reads their partner offers them feedback about their reading. The task, repeated through the week, helps student to build their ability to read text accurately, quickly and with proper expression acting as a bridge between word recognition and reading comprehension

During one of our recent literacy sessions students were learning about the proper use for a comma and different ways to use them. One task was for students to write a list of items, making sure to place the comma in the correct place.

Jump Rope for Heart kicks off this Friday at Echuca Twin Rivers Primary School!

Jump Rope for Heart is the Heart Foundation’s primary school skipping challenge that helps kids move more, have fun, and raise funds for life-saving research and programs.

Register your child online, so they can receive the full benefits of the program and participate in online fundraising, simply follow the link below to get started. www.jumprope.org.au/parents 

Students will be able to skip before school, during sport lessons and during recess breaks, during this time you can share their online fundraising page with family and friends to help raise money for this great cause.

Thank you for supporting the Jump Rope for Heart program!