Mount Pleasant Road Primary School & Kindergarten

Inquiry Centre

Highlight 

Selamat siang!

 

This week the 1/2 teachers have been blown away by the creativity and enthusiasm students displayed when writing narratives. We have spent the last few weeks exploring the structure of narrative stories including the characters, setting, a problem and a solution. The students had the opportunity to uplevel their writing using adjectives, language from our VCOP displays and get feedback from their peers on how to make their story more engaging. It was impressive to see students editing their writing by checking for capital letters and full stops.  You might like to ask your child about their talking pet narrative - what happened to their talking pet? 

Student Voice 

This week in Guided Inquiry, we learnt what our names mean:

“My name means that I am wise and knowledge” - Sophie W

“Amelie means hard-working” - Amelie T

“Did you know that my name means the greatest, like the maximum temperature” - Max S

“Liam means strong warrior and protector” - Liam M

Reminders

  • Please make sure your child brings a hat to school in Term 1. 
  • Please make sure your child brings a drink bottle to school. 
  • If you could send in a box of tissues with your child, these get used throughout the year by their class.
  • Easter Hat Parade - we will have some time to create one in class but you might also to start making a hat for the last day of school 

Pupil of the Week

1/2A - Hudson H

For uplevelling your writing about your talking pet and including such an interesting problem and solution. Amazing effort! 

 

1/2M - August O 

For demonstrating a love of learning and perseverance when modelling many ways to represent 3 digit numbers. Excellent work, Gusti! 

 

1/2S - Oscar V

For showing a love of learning and creativity in your writing this week. You included a beginning, middle and end when writing about your talking pet! Well done Oscar! 

 

1/2KS - Max D

For demonstrating creativity and independence when you were creating your Talking Pet writing. You added adjectives and took risks with your openers for each sentence. 

 

1/2E - Leo S

For showing creativity in writing this week by using a sizzling start for his story opener. Well done Leo!