Curriculum Updates

As you may have heard, I will be temporarily leaving Ceres for the term as I have been appointed as the Acting Assistant Principal at Roslyn PS. We are lucky to have Anne Thompson join Ceres to take over my tutoring load. Miss Petzke will write the next Newsletter post for Curriculum and lead Curriculum whilst I am away! 

Education Week

What a great celebration of STEM we had last week for Education Week. A huge thanks to Miss Kinnear and Miss Willis for co-ordinating the STEM expo, Teamworks incursion and the Anna, the Guest Speaker. Thanks to Mr Noonan for his work on the STEM Expo. I saw and heard lots of excitement and learning during all the organised activities. 

Continuous Reporting

At Ceres, our reporting system is continuous – you will see Learning Tasks visible throughout the term. Teachers first administer a task, which could be a problem-solving task for Maths, a reading response task to a text or a dictated sentences task for writing. 

From this ‘pre’ task, teachers determine strengths and areas for future development, which shape a goal for the student for the term. The work sample of the task is posted on Seesaw, accompanied by a written comment from the teacher, which is the student’s goal. You can see this on Seesaw; feel free to comment or like these posts – students love to see that their parents have viewed their work! 

The unit of work for the next few weeks ahead then focuses on working on these goals and other skills/knowledge related to the topic. Finally, a ‘post’ task is administered which is ‘same-same but different’, eg. task is similar but the prompt, numbers or text might be different. This forms the assessment ‘of’ learning across the unit of work. 

Teachers write a comment on Compass that is visible (usually on a Friday) so that you can read about their strengths and how their learning has developed over the term.  These comments are very comprehensive, and teachers put a lot of time and effort into writing them. If you ever have any difficulty accessing these, please speak to your child’s teacher. 

Each semester, you will receive several Learning Tasks over the course of the two terms and at the conclusion of the semester, a report with a Values comment, Specialist subject comments, the Learning Task comments and Teacher Judgement against the Curriculum Achievement Standards. 

Reports will be ready for viewing in the last week of Term 2. 

New resources

We have updated our THRASS resources – new, fresh yellow THRASS charts have been purchased for our junior students as well as some new teacher resources to assist with the teaching of vocabulary and word families!

Maths at Home

Grade 3 -6

Play the ‘Remainders Game’. The game generates a secret number between 1-100. Apply your knowledge of factors, related multiplication facts and counting to identify the mystery number. https://nrich.maths.org/6402 

Foundation to Grade 2

Task: Shoes!