Year Level News
Including Specialist Subjects
Upcoming Excursions and Incursions
Please ensure you have processed all consents and payments on your Compass portal to guarantee your child's participation in all upcoming incursions and excursions.
If your child is unable to attend any of the events, please notify the office via email - here.
Library News
Book Club Issue #4 is now out - orders close Friday 6th June.
Order - HERE
AUSLAN News
We are very excited to have deaf author Kerrie Taylor back again to visit NLPS students!
During the week of 16th June, all students from Foundation to Year 6 will be timetabled to meet with Kerrie during their Auslan or Library class time. Building on the knowledge students have learnt during Auslan classes, Kerrie will have a different focus for each year level.
Foundation students will learn to sign shapes and the size of objects.
Year 1 and 2 will focus on colour and weather signs.
Year 3 and 4 will participate in descriptive games and activities.
Year 5 and 6 will focus on deaf world activities.
Kerrie will also be the Auslan interpreter for the virtual assembly on 20th June. Make sure to add this to your calendar!
Foundation News
What a busy and exciting fortnight it has been in Foundation! Our young learners have been diving into the fascinating world of reptiles, creating their own reptile information reports. Each report included a title, a labelled diagram, and three interesting facts using scientific words to describe their chosen reptile—what fantastic researchers we have!
In Maths, we’ve been exploring the features of 2D shapes. Students searched both indoors and outdoors to find shapes in their environment, then put their creativity to the test by making their own shape pictures. This hands-on activity also gave us a great opportunity to practise our scissor skills and strengthen fine motor development.
Our robots—crafted with care and imagination—are proudly displayed outside our classroom windows, facing our line-up area for all to admire.
We’ve also been playing a fun addition game using dice, helping us practise subitising and building quick mental maths skills. And of course, Friday Milo continues to be a much-loved highlight, with students happily sipping their warm drinks after lunch.
We can’t wait to see what the next two weeks hold for our fabulous Foundies!
Year 1 News
On Friday 30th April the Year 1 students had an incursion with the amazing Nick from Discovery Dome. We all headed over the MPR where we were wowed with the inflatable planetarium dome. Inside the dome Nick taught us about how the Earth, Moon and Sun rotate and orbit around each other, making night and day and seasons. He also taught us about the stars and how our Sun is a star made up of burning gas. We learned that we have different seasons based on how the earth is spinning on it’s axis.
This incursion complements our knowledge building unit on ‘changes are all around us’ where we are exploring the day and night sky, seasons and weather. Students also completed a fun shadow experiment this week exploring how shadows change during the day because the earth is rotating.
Year 3/4 News
Excursion to the LUME
Year 3 and 4 students went to the LUME on Thursday the 8th of May. All the classes went on 4 different buses. We left at about 9 o’clock and arrived at around 9:30. When we arrived we sat down to eat our snack.
Freya & Esme
Painting in Eleven Words
Students chose a favourite Van Gogh painting to create a poem about what they could see. Please see the photos of the artworks with words cut from newspapers and books.
PE/Sports News
What a day we had for our recent Athletics Carnival!
The day ran as perfectly as the weather was, which made for excellent conditions.
A huge thank you to Mr A for all the work before, during and after the carnival, as well as to all the parent volunteers and the Williamstown High students for assisting on the day. It is impossible to hold these events without volunteers and we appreciate you giving up your free time to us so very much.
