Teaching and Learning
EDUCATION WEEK
Education Week is an annual celebration of education in Victoria.
This year Victoria will celebrate Education Week from Sunday 14 May to Saturday 20 May.
This year’s theme is ‘Active Learners: Move, Make, Motivate’, which celebrates physical activity, hands-on learning and student voice in education.
Further details regarding how we will celebrate Education Week will be in next week’s newsletter.
RECONCILIATION WEEK
WHAT IS NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
The dates for NRW are the same each year; 27 May to 3 June.
These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey— the successful 1967 referendum, and the High Court Mabo decision respectively.
27 May 1967 On this day, Australia’s most successful referendum saw more than 90 per cent of Australians vote to give the Australian Government power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and recognise them in the Census.
3 June 1992 On this day, the Australian High Court delivered the Mabo decision, the culmination of Eddie Koiki Mabo’s challenge to the legal fiction of ‘terra nullius’ (land belonging to no one) and leading to the legal recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of lands. This decision paved the way for Native Title.
Author Study
Check out the video celebration from this term’s Author Study by clicking on the link below! Author studies help students develop their reading, writing, research, and critical thinking skills. They establish a stronger community of readers that inspires and encourages a love of reading. Author studies expose children to different literary voices and styles and are easily integrated across the curriculum as you can see from our latest Author Study. They’re so much fun and create a buzz of energy throughout our school!
BPS 2023 Claire Saxby Author Study - https://youtu.be/AYXi1ekK2Zg
BULLDOGS READ UPDATE Western Bulldogs Colouring Competition The Western Bulldogs are excitedly looking ahead to the Round 10 clash at Mars Stadium for their first home game in Ballarat for the season with the Bulldogs taking on the Adelaide Crows on Saturday 20th May 2023.
Round 10 is also Sir Doug Nicholls Round which coincides with National Reconciliation Week which runs from Saturday, May 27 to Saturday, June 3.
As part of the school's involvement in the Bulldogs Read Program and to help promote the match on the 20th of May the Western Bulldogs are having a Colouring Competition which we are delighted again to promote through Ballarat & district primary schools, with a best ‘class’ prize. (See the attached Colouring Activity Sheet with Western Bulldogs excitement machine Cody Weightman – number 3.)
Competition closes on Thursday 18th May , so please ask students to return their activity sheets to school by then..
Major Prize for the best ‘class’ colouring in is –
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Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge
The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open, and we are excited to be participating. The PRC application offers a range of exciting features, including:
- access to a library catalogue (including book images and blurbs)
- a modern user-friendly interface
- rewarding students with badges as challenge milestones are achieved
- the option for students to mark books as a favourite, give them a star rating or complete a book review
The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 8 September 2023.
Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.
All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers.
To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklist and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: https://www.vic.gov.au/premiers-reading-challenge.
All students will be issued with a username and password this week. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact your classroom teacher or Nicole Phillips.