Junior Campus

WELLNESS WEEK

This week we have focused on promoting and prioritising our wellbeing. Our goal has been to raise awareness about physical, mental and emotional health, and to encourage our students and staff to engage in activities and practices that contribute to their overall well-being. Our week…

• Motivational Monday - Music and dancing at recess and lunch plus skipping competitions. 
• Therapeutic Tuesday - Pyjamas replacing our uniforms, stress-ball construction at recess, and a movie at lunch time.
• Wellness Wednesday - Mindfulness activities at recess and lunch including collaborative chalk drawing. 
• Thoughtful Thursday - Multi-age board games at recess and lunch. A Book Swap at lunchtime supporting the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. 
• Friendship Friday - Footy Colours Day and a friendship bracelets sale supporting children’s cancer research. BBQ lunch at the Senior Campus.

Many thanks to Mrs. Milich and the S.R.C/KidsMatter teams for all their planning and organisation of this week’s events. 

OPEN CLASSROOMS

Each term we look to open the Prep to Year 6 classrooms up for parents to visit and see the learning at the Junior Campus. Parents are invited to call in next Wednesday 30 August from 11.20 am to 12.00 pm. Please note the following classes will have specialist lessons at this time. 

Year 2 - P.E

Year 3 - Drama

Year 5 - Chinese

WEEK 6 ASSEMBLY AWARDS

The following students received awards at this week’s Assembly.

ELC - Vann Creek for always having a positive attitude and being a great leader within our Piccino program. 

ELC - Lydia King for using her imagination to create new play experiences for her Piccino peers to be involved in. 

Prep - Mikey Slabbert for increasing confidence to have a go at spelling unknown words when writing sentences.

Year 1 - Annie Cain for her focused and engaged approach to her learning this term. 

Year 2 - George Malseed for displaying enthusiasm during our Geography unit and for his excellent recall of the continents.

Year 3 - Tilly Cameron for being a focused learner who tries her best and always completes her work neatly.

Year 4 - Angus Reid for his consistent high standards he puts into all our classroom activities.

Year 5 - Hugo Toma for general excellence in all learning areas and a confident, ‘can do’ attitude.

Year 6 - Sid Whitehead for his excellent teamwork and positive attitude during the Footy Unit in PE.

Year 6 - Elsie Brown for her excellent contributions to our reading discussions, supporting her ideas with evidence from the text.

HANDWRITING WORKSHOP

Well respected local Occupational Therapist Leanne Hudson will run a handwriting workshop next Tuesday, 29 August for interested Early Learning Centre and Junior Campus parents and students. The workshop will commence at 3.45 pm in the Year 6 classroom.  

Please register via this link: https://events.humanitix.com/2023-handwriting-workshop 

MUSIC INCURSION

The Junior Campus is eagerly looking forward to a musical incursion by renowned musician Audrey Klein on Friday 8 September. A message from Audrey:

My name is Audrey Klein. I am really looking forward to my visit to your school when we will dance, make music and explore instruments from a variety of cultures. I will be drawing on over 40 years of experience in multicultural music and dance performance and education, as well as on all my years in the Music classroom, to involve students in a very hands-on way. What better way to promote tolerance, open-mindedness and inclusion than through music and dance?

I can’t wait to meet you all!

SPOTLIGHT ON MYRNIONG LEARNING

Year 1 - This week we celebrated our 100th InitiaLit lesson!  To mark this milestone, we spent time exploring the number 100 in maths. 

Year 2/3 - To celebrate Book Week, students have worked together to create their own books. They were given a random character, object and setting that had no connection. They paired up and joined their ideas to show how amazing their imaginations are. Children love becoming authors and illustrators of their own books and take pride in creating them. They have considered the work of famous authors and what their job looks like, including the editing process. They have discovered that once their story is written, it is far from finished. There is still so much work to do. It is a great way to practise the work done in their Literacy lessons, showing their sentence writing skills. Expanding sentences to include more detail has been a focus. Reading aloud to their partner and listening for opportunities to make the story even better, such as adding strong vocabulary or changing a word for an interesting synonym. Writing a story with someone else requires patience, negotiation and a lot of teamwork. Every big author had to start somewhere. One day you may even see some of our budding authors in your local bookshop. 

Year 6 - The class commenced a study of the classic text ‘Storm Boy’ by Colin Thiele. They researched the Coorong area and focused on the rich language used by the author, for example ‘The winter wind came sweeping up from Antarctica with ice on its tongue, licking and smoothing his cheeks into cold flat pebbles’.

HOCKEY

The final round of regular season matches was played on Saturday.

Division 5 College Tigers and Black Panthers played each other in a tight and entertaining match. Black Panthers came away 2-0 winners, with Maggie Wallis and Anika Nelson scoring.  Best on ground for Tigers were Hazel Johns and Will Brown, and for Black Panthers, Chelsea Pickford and Tilly Cameron. 

Division 4 Foxes had an excellent 3-2 win over Demons. Foxes came from 2-0 down to claim the victory. Lachlan Reid scored twice and was joined on the scoresheet by Freddie Milne. 

Semi Finals Matches This Weekend

Division 5 Black Panthers v Coleraine Maroon - 12.30 pm at Pedrina Park

Division 4 Foxes v Wolves - 1.30 pm at Pedrina Park

Hockey Dinner - please RSVP is attending: