NAPLAN 2022

NAPLAN testing is next week for Grade 3 and Grade 5 students.

* Tue 10 May - Writing test (Grade 3 paper test/ Grade 5 online)

* Wed 11 May - Reading (online grades 3 and 5)

*Thr 12 May - Conventions of Language test (online grades 3 and 5)

*Fri - 13 May - Numeracy (online grades 3 and 5)

The following week (16 to 19 May) is time for make up tests for any students absent during the testing week. We realise that the Grade Three students will be on camp form Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 May, any student needing to sit a make up test from Grade Three will do this on Thursday 19 May.

Please ensure that the children's devices are fully charged every day next week.

All students in Grade Three and Five need to bring headphones each day for the NAPLAN tests. Headphones are essential to access the auditory explanations. Students without headphones will not be able to play these.

Please ensure that the children are rested and ready each morning with time for breakfast before they come to school.

Math Professional Learning - Cognitively Demanding Tasks

Staff participated in a MACs run professional learning session on Tuesday night with a focus on cognitively demanding tasks in Maths. Challenging tasks are demanding and thought provoking mathematical problems that aim to include all students in the lesson through characteristics such as being simply posed, open ended, can use multiple strategies and have multiple answers.

A problem to enjoy as a family;

12 legs

In a photo of a farmyard, you can see 12 legs.

Draw what the animals might be.

Give more than one possible drawing.

Show the mathematical thinking.

Remember "Whoever is doing the thinking is doing the learning..."

Don't reduce the thinking and struggle by giving too many instructions.

School Closure Day

Monday 30th May is a school closure day. Staff will participate in a days professional learning with a focus on Inquiry. We are working with the educational consultant Shaz Bailey.

Shaz has worked with Kath Murdoch (our previous educational consultant) and is the chair of the PYP network (Primary Years Program- International Baccalaureate). Shaz will work with us on the pedagogy of inquiry at a full day PL. She will also work with staff in facilitated planning sessions supporting the planning of the term inquiries.

Open Day Thursday 12th May 9am to 1pm

Next Thursday is our second school Open Day. We have distributed our new school brochures to the local kinders and Day care centres with the help of a few mums. Please spread the word at your kinders during drop off and pick up.

Enrolments for 2023 need to be in by next Friday and placement offers will be sent out by the last week of May.

National Walk Safely to School Day

Friday 20 May is National Walk to School Safely Day. This event aims to promote road safety and child health and fitness. 'Children who are regularly active are healthier, perform better academically' (National Road Safety Week 22).

We encourage our families to walk to school on May 20th. All students will receive or have received a tattoo sticker promoting this event that they can wear on the day.

Have a wonderful weekend and a great Mother's Day to all our Mums,

Larissa

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