SLA News

SLA are ready to learn! Students have returned to school with enthusiasm and interest in our term focus. Last week we celebrated and acknowledged our ANZAC’s and made ANZAC biscuits while thinking about measurement and using our operational knowledge to modify recipes. 

To celebrate St Joseph the Worker day, we happily joined our school community at mass. This was followed by an exciting STEM challenge using timber sticks and tape to create a bridge. Working in teams we used our prior and new knowledge to create designs that were aesthetically pleasing and sturdy. 

We are also exploring visual literacy, interpreting imagery and text to make meaning within the context of our new unit focused upon Rights and Responsibilities with consideration for our technological world and our relationship to new and emerging technologies. 

Our mentor text is ‘We Are All Born Free’ The Children’s Guide to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for Children. We have already begun deconstructing our text through questioning and lively discussion. 

Students were immersed in Scratch for coding and mathematical conceptual learning. This week we begin our location unit in maths and are learning to use integers to move characters and locate characters on a grid and cartesian plane. There is lots of new learning for SLA and we hope students come home to tell you all about it. 

Next week we commence Naplan and are preparing students by introducing persuasive text this week.