Classroom News 

Foundation

Hooray! We reached the 100th day of Foundation, so it was time to celebrate! Our young learners have been busy exploring, making friends, and discovering new things every day. Today was all about having fun and recognising their amazing journey so far! 

WELL DONE FOUNDATION!

What a great day! 

Year 1

An update from Ziggy...

Ziggy, our beloved class pet, has been on a roll with his weekend getaways! Over the past few weeks, he’s explored three different homes, each time making new friends and having exciting experiences. This week, Ziggy is packing his little suitcase again, ready to embark on another adventure. We’ve enjoyed seeing all the creative writing and speaking opportunities this has provided. I wonder who Ziggy will go home with this week?

Year 2/3

Hello Families,

The children are to be congratulated on their class assembly last week. They did such an awesome job and we are so proud of them. Please enjoy the photos below. With this wonderful weather it has been lovely seeing the children out at recess and lunch enjoying the sunshine. Please enjoy the photos below. Have a wonderful weekend.

Year 3/4

Migration Stories: Interview 

Dear Parents and Families,

We hope this message finds you well.

As part of our Inquiry unit, “Around the World Stories,” we are excited to offer our Year 3/4 children an enriching opportunity to learn about different cultures and experiences. To support this unit, we would like your help in facilitating an interview with someone from your family who has moved to Australia from another country.

Here’s how it will work:

• Your child will bring home an iPad either this week or next week. 
• The iPad will be used to record the interview with your family who has moved to Australia from another country.
• Children are asked to use the questions, which were developed in class with the children, to guide their interviews.
• Please ensure the iPad are returned to school on the following Tuesday. 

We ask that the iPads be used just for this recording purpose. Kindly refrain from using them for games or other activities to ensure they remain in good condition for all children.

Thank you for your support  in making this learning experience both meaningful and memorable for our children. 

If you have any questions or need further information, please let us know.  

Thank you

Denise & Antoniette

The questions are as follow:

• What country did you come from?
• How old were you when you came to Australia?
• What year did you come to Australia?
• How did you travel to Australia? Did you come straight to Australia or to another country first?
• Did you want to move to a new country?
• Can you explain the reason why you came / moved to Australia?
• Was there a major event in your country of birth? What was it? What happened?
• How many people came with you to Australia? 
• Who were the people that came with you to Australia?
• Do you still have family in your home country (country they came from)? Why did they not come to Australia too?
• How did you feel when you arrived? Can you explain what you thought of Australia when you first came? Has this changed now?
• Did you work in your birth country? When you came to Australia did you do the same job?
• What was your favourite memory of your country of birth? 
• How is Australia different from  _________? 

Year 4/5              AUSLAN

In AUSLAN, we are learning new signs like train, skate-board and boat. It was a lot of fun. We also learnt emotions signs like happy, bored and sad. Overall, AUSLAN is good to learn.   By Shamus

On Thursdays we have AUSLAN with Janine. She teaches us new signs nearly every lesson. She also helps us to remember the signs because she always repeats it again for us if some of us don’t remember the sign.   By Tristan

The year 4/5 students have learnt new AUSLAN signs on Thursday. Janine is teaching us AUSLAN signs and feelings. We can now communicate in AUSLAN.   

By Stephanie and Raffaele

Every Thursday we have AUSLAN with our AULAN teacher Janine. Each Thursday, she teaches us new signs like trailer, hello, question and happy. The signs are made with different hand shapes.   By Brenton

In AUSLAN, we have been learning some new signs like airplane, car and much more! Janine has been a great teacher. If you don’t understand how to make the hand sign, she will always help us!   By Natalie

During this week’s AUSLAN, we learnt about emotions and transportation. My favorite sign is happy and trains. I'm really thankful that our AUSLAN teacher Janine has taught us these wonderful signs. I really AUSLAN and I wish we could do it everyday!   By Allie

Year 5/6    

Student Wellbeing

Last week the staff spent a Professional Development day on the area of Wellbeing. A really successful day of learning, facilitated by our Wellbeing Leader, Kate. We shared strategies and programs being taught in classes across the school, as well as looking at a whole school strategy used throughout each school day, known as Brain Breaks. 

In Year 5/6 we use an online spinner to decide what activity we are doing for our brain breaks. Whatever letter of the alphabet is chosen. the students follow the instruction. It's a great break from our work.

We believe that brain breaks are important because......

# it gives you a chance to renew your mind and refocus on your work ~ Veer

# they relieve our stress from our work ~ Fortunato

# it's fun! ~ Alex

# it clears our mind and breaks up the work ~ Roman

# it helps get our mind off everything!  ~ Yianna

The Olympic Games

As the 2024 Paris Olympic Games draw to a close, we reflect on the work done by students in 5/6. Students were asked to choose a country, an athlete and what that athlete was famous for in the Olympics. So great to learn about champions from around the world, both past and present. 

The Year 5 / 6 Olympics

We have been enjoying friendly competition across all four teams across a range of Sports; netball, soccer, basketball, ping pong just to name a few. We have really enjoyed trying new sports, such as tennis, volleyball and badminton. The cauldron will be extinguished at tomorrow's closing ceremony which will see all athletes head home for a well earned rest!