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STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

FOUNDATION 

We have been enjoying the engaging learning opportunities over the last few weeks in Term 2. As we continue to count to our ‘100 Days of Foundation’, we are learning to count by 10s and even 5s as we reached 71 days this week!

Foundation LW welcomes Olivia Krizmanic from ACU who will be completing a teaching placement for the remainder of Term 2.

We are very proud of all the students in Foundation, they have been engaged and learned so much during their first 70 days at school. This was evident when they proudly shared their learning with their families on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. As communicators, the students selected a piece of writing that they felt they had achieved great success in and described their writing to their loved ones. It was lovely to see so many interested and proud families at our Celebration of Learning.

As inquirers, we have been engaging in finding out about different types of toys, past and present, what they are made of and beginning to describe what they look like and how they move. We began our learning journey by tuning in to our family’s toy history. We found out what our parents and grandparents' favourite toys were when they were young. As researchers, we used this prior knowledge and new information we learnt from reading the nonfiction text “History of Toys” by Stewart Ross, to design our own brand new toy! Some of our fabulous designs were: 

• A horse toy that walks in the dark - Mason 
• A six wheeled car booster that travels 1000km per second - Leo G 
• A rainbow robot that dances - Lucy 
• A car made from metal and when you press the blue button it turns on - Thomas 
• A robot made from metal with a disco light - Isabel 
• A doll that walks when you press the patterns of the dress - Ruby

Our parent helper timetables have been placed on the entrance doors to our learning spaces. Please write your name down in a time slot that is available. Please note, new timetables will be posted on a Thursday afternoon. As always, please remember to bring back any library bags by Tuesday so that we can borrow a new book on Wednesday.

Please ensure that your child is revising their sight words each night and not just practising the new set of words. The words on the larger ring also need to be looked at on a regular basis so that everyone becomes more confident when using the words in their writing.

Have a wonderful week. 

Leanne Wenckowski and Alex Phillips

Foundation Team

YEAR 1/2

This week in 1/2, has been our busiest yet. We finished our Celebration of Learning Pieces, embarked on our excursion to Campbell Turnbull Library and explored National Reconciliation Week. We also had the opportunity to welcome our families and peers into our learning spaces to showcase our finished Inquiry pieces and engage in many learning experiences. 

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we went on our excursion to Campbell Turnball Library, where, as thinkers, we explored many texts by different Indigenous authors in the library. We were excited to engage with a multitude of books and have a story read to us before we searched and read books for our own enjoyment. 

On Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, we held our Celebration of Learning. As self-managers, we welcomed our families into our learning spaces to showcase our completed Inquiry learning. Throughout Term 2, we have been meaningfully learning about Indigenous Culture Perspectives and how we can continue acknowledging and respecting our First Nations Peoples. As researchers, we have learnt about our Traditional Owners, their ceremonies and sacred dances. We have engaged with different Dreamtime Stories and aspects of their culture that extends from their musical instruments to the many uses of bushfood. As inquirers, we expanded our learning by engaging in the CERES excursion and researching many non-fiction texts, including videos and books. It was great to show our families and friends our completed Inquiry pieces and share them with our loved ones. Many of us presented our work as booklets, information reports, and posters. We ventured across the different learning spaces Thursday morning to celebrate our peer's work, and as collaborators, we learned from them as we listened to their presentations. 

Look at us as self-managers by leading our learning and showing our loved ones and peers our fantastic learning. 

Thank you, families, for coming and celebrating all of our hard work. We are very proud of each student’s effort and could see how excited they were to show off their learning, but more, we could see the pride beaming off their faces. 

This week we celebrated National Reconciliation Week, where we researched the theme “Be a Voice for Generations.” As collaborators, we continued exploring our shared histories, cultures and how we could contribute to reconciliation in Australia. We decorated hands as a symbol of solidarity. We made connections to the importance of continuing to learn about their rich culture, traditions, histories, and experiences. 

We look forward to next week as we continue our learning of addition using different strategies, like friends of tens, doubles and near doubles. In reading, we will look at inferring, finding evidence in our texts and using our prior knowledge to draw conclusions. Finally, we look forward to our Cultural Infusion Day next Friday, the 9th of June, where we will engage in different workshops exploring Aboriginal Artefacts, Dance and Storytelling. We will be part of an interactive program exploring West Indies Rhythms and Instruments and partake in Commedia Clowning. We can’t wait to see everyone’s costumes!

1/2 Team,  Alycia Marsico, Vania Sparano and Vicky Karalis 

YEAR 3/4

Thank you, parents and carers for coming to celebrate our learning with us on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. It was great to see our students showcase their learning to others. The Year 3/4 students happily engaged in discussions to explain what they have learnt, and how they have achieved success and reflected on their challenges. 

We had a great time on our Melbourne Museum Excursion on Wednesday, a big thank you to our wonderful parent helpers on the day too!

We had the opportunity to engage in so many wonderful learning opportunities during our busy day on the excursion. We had the opportunity to engage in a Self Guided Place and Culture in First Peoples exhibition, explore the Melbourne Story Exhibition, Milarri Garden, 600 Million Years and the Mini Mega Model Museum.

• I learnt that Animal skin was used as cloaks and that indigenous people didn’t have much freedom. (Zara A)
• I was surprised to learn that a diprotodon is an animal and its 3 long metres and almost 2 metres high and gunditjmara people made houses from volcanic stone. (Zita M).
• I am proud of the way I could find out lots of information about the Aboriginal lifestyle in one hour and answer nearly all the questions in the exhibit. (Gemma P)
• I am proud of the way I filled in my booklet and viewed and understood the exhibition well. Something I did well was record lots of detail in my booklet. (Estelle)
• Something I did well was to find out there are 11 different languages. (Hazel)
• I learnt at the Melbourne Museum that there is a rodent that is two feet high and three feet long. It has bright white teeth with silky fur that was brown, its fur was used to make a blanket. They were found in muddy swamps that are really damp, also they looked like Capybaras but ten times bigger. I’m proud of the way I wrote my detailed sentences and behaved excellently as well as the class at the expedition. (Louis P)    

In STEM this week, we engaged in making different models using the Education Lego Sets. In 3/4BZ we engaged in making the “Welcome to St Fidelis Robot”, this is where students collaborated in small groups to code their WeDo.2 robot on the iPads. We were able to record ourselves saying Welcome to Saint Fidelis, and program the robot to move forward and back using its sensors.

In 3/4BP, we had the opportunity to engage in small groups to collaborate and build a Lego Education SPIKE Hovering Helicopter. We used the Lego Essentials App to code our Helicopter, ensuring the blades were rotating and when tilted a background would appear on our iPad.

Enjoy the week!

Year 3/4 Teachers

Belinda Panzarino & Bianka Zorzut

YEAR 5/6

Another great week in 5/6 last week.  

On Wednesday, we had our Celebration of Learning and what a joy it was to see our wonderful 5/6 parents and families in the SLA! Our students worked diligently throughout the Term to produce a presentation about a particular subculture from a country. Walking around the SLA classrooms was like taking a walking tour around the globe! There were so many brilliant presentations and so much information about such a broad range of countries and cultures. From paintings, Kahoot quizzes, board games, 3D models and even karaoke, the students demonstrated their creativity with their presentations. We would like to congratulate all the students on all their hard work. 

On Thursday morning, we then had an opportunity to venture over to the Junior School building and walked around the classrooms checking out the work of our peers. It was incredible to see the fantastic work done by the other year levels and a great chance for our students to ask questions of the younger students about their learning. 

In Religion this week, we explored a painting of 'The Road to Emmaus” done by Mike Moyers. The students used their thinking powers to describe the feelings evoked from the artwork, their connections, questions and everything they noticed about the picture. From there we read the scripture passage of “The Road to Emmaus” and unpacked the most impactful words, sentences and phrases. The students then linked their initial ideas from the painting to that of the scripture. 

On Friday, the students participated in Inter School Sports against AIA. The following are our results:

Football

AIA 85 defeated SF 2

Soccer

Boys - SF 2 drew AIA 2

Girls - SF 1 drew AIA 1

Netball

Girls - SF 22 defeated AIA 2

Mixed - SF 3 drew AIA 3

Congratulations to all our students for their excellent teamwork and sportsmanship shown throughout our Inter School Sports competition. 

We look forward to another fantastic week in the lead-up to Camp! 

Have a wonderful week, 

Olivia Sargent, Graham Troy and Aoife O’Flynn.