Creators & Designers Prep Inquiry Unit – can you help us?

Our Term 3 Inquiry unit, Creators and Designers, will see students exploring a range of materials and the ways that they can be changed. For our ‘Tuning In’ activities, we require a variety of materials for students to sort, as well as explore the possible ways to change the objects/materials. If you have any of the following materials lying around at home that you would be happy to donate to the Prep area, we would be very grateful!

The following is a list of some suggested materials:

Metal: paperclip, pipe cleaner, foil, spoon
Plastic: straw, spoon, bottle, container
Rubber: balloon, rubber band
Wood: stick, icypole stick
Paper: plain paper, crepe, cardboard, paper towel
Glass: marbles
Other: sponge, tissue, a piece of fabric, playdough, a ball of wool, elastic, cotton wool, rock or stone

Thank you,

Kylie Smith, Sophie Cartelli & Emily Seing

Sports News

Tomorrow, we start our term 3 interschool sports program. All students in grades 5 and 6 will be participating in the following sports: bat tennis, rounders and soccer. Our first game is away against Macleod College. The soccer and bat tennis teams will be walking to Macleod College. Unfortunately, Macleod doesn’t participate in rounders. The students in the rounders teams will remain at school for a training session with Ms Zealley. Games begin at 12.15 pm with the girls’ teams playing first.

Netball Results

Congratulations to both our A and B netball teams for qualifying for the HDSSA finals. Our A team had a comfortable win in the semi-finals and progressed to the grand final.

Unfortunately, they lost by 1 goal in a nail biter game against St Martins and walked away with the Runners Up Pennant. Our B team were knocked out in a close game in the semi-finals. Still, a great effort considering most of the girls have never played netball before. A big thank you to Jacquie Macneill for helping on the day.

Kelli Zealley

Sports Coordinator

Book Club - Issue 5

Magazines for Issue 5 of Book Club are on their way home.

Every purchase from the Scholastic Book Club not only gives your child wonderful educational resources at home, but also contributes to the school Library collection which benefits all of the school children.

There are 4 ways to order:

1. By credit card using LOOP, where you complete the book order and pay online – nothing needs to be sent back to school

2. Credit card over the phone, you still need to complete an order form & return it to school with the 11-digit receipt number

3. Cash (correct money) in an envelope with the completed order form

4. Cheque (made payable to Scholastic Australia) with the completed order form

Orders are due back to school by Friday 29 July, with delivery around one week later.

GROW YOUR HOME LIBRARY (& INDEPENDENT READERS) WITH THE FREE BOOK OFFER!

Every child deserves access to quality and affordable books, and Scholastic Book Club offers great prices with Value Books as low as $3 on every issue of Book Club. Best of all, if you order on Issue 5 you can select FREE BOOKS!

Place your Issue 5 order on LOOP to select up to 3 FREE BOOKS. To qualify all you have to do is spend over $30 and you can select 1 FREE book, or spend over $50 and you can select 2 FREE books or over $70 and you can select 3 FREE titles from a special online list. The list will display after you create your order and head to the checkout. See www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP for more information.

Students Of The Week

Term 3 - Week 1

Congratulations to our leaders of learning!

Prep K - Patrick and Campbell

Prep S - William and Max

1/2N - Lauren

1/2K - Olivia and Livinia

1/2R - Sofia and Choigo

1/2W - Charlotte and Kiarnah

2/3A - Abdirahman and Sophie

3/4K - Hayden and Louie

3/4W - Amina and Ethan

4/5B - Nicola and Matteo

5/6T - Jason and Indi

5/6Y - Hassano

Students & Learning

Classroom Learning With PS