Governing Council 

We are exploring our Knowledge of supermarkets and where the food in our lunch boxes comes from. We are excited to explore these ideas through conversations at home and at preschool, as well as finding more information in books and videos.

Room 6 and 7 

• Students have been enjoying our new literacy block structure with a focus on building fluency. 
• It has been exciting exploring our local area, discovering different natural, managed and constructed places and learning to record them on a map! Next step- learning to give and follow directions. 

Room 8

• This term we are Technology Buddies with Room 12. We are learning to use Maker’s Empire 3D design application on the theme of Fairy tales. One of our challenges is to design and create a house for the 3 Little Pigs and a magic wand. Later in the term, we will use the 3D printer to print some of our designs.
• We have started DFE Spelling and the students are learning the new routines for this spelling program.

Room 9

• We are Technology Buddies with Room 11 and are working on a challenge to become successful navigators by designing a map for others to find hidden treasures in the schoolyard that will be 3D printed.
• Students are excited to learn about space in science, where they compare the sun, moon, and Earth.
• Students are identifying local landmarks and why they are important to the Modbury Community.

Room 11 

• Students are enjoying our new class novel - Because of Winn-Dixie
• We are Technology Buddies with Room 9 and working on a challenge to become successful navigators by designing a map for others to find hidden treasures in the school yard which have been made on the 3D printer.

Room 12:

• Maker’s Empire Entrepreneur Challenge Course - Year 5s to begin enterprise program and sell 3D printed items to raise funds for their Graduation in 2025
• Speech writing - Year 5s are writing a persuasive/motivational speech on a topic of choice using taught persuasive techniques. Yr 6s are preparing their speeches for graduation. 

Room 14

• We have started using the Scratch program, which teaches students how to write computer code in a kid-friendly way.
• Students have enjoyed learning about data and graphical representations, including collecting and representing their own collected data.
• We have been looking at what makes effective speeches. This is to especially help our Year 6 cohort, who have started writing their own graduation speeches. Year 5s are writing a motivational speech of their own

Students are now working with the new DfE phonics program. The students are enjoying learning the new program along with the staff.

Students are enjoying using an ipad calculator app, to add and subtract large numbers. We are working on functional strategies that the students can use to support life skills in the community.

PE

Reception - Year 2:

Fundamental Movement Skills (F.M.S.)

Throughout term 4, the students in rooms 6, 7 and 8 will have a strong focus on Fundamental Movement Skills via a range of small games, activities and movement stations. 

These include:

• ‘Throwing and Catching’: with a variety of ball types; tennis balls, small basketballs etc. These skills will be demonstrated by the students individually, with a partner, in small groups, or as a whole class.
• This will lead us into ‘Bouncing’: using different sizes of basketballs students will be learning to bounce the ball while stationary. This will include bouncing off of the walls, floor, and performing bounce passes via partner/small group games.
• ‘Kicking’: both Football (soccer) and AFL. Using different shaped balls. With soccer kicking, students will not use their hands, but with AFL kicking, they will. This will lead us into games such as ‘wall defense’ where students will be able to perform both types of kicks (soccer and AFL) in the one activity.
• ‘Running’: Students will be running in a range of different ways within a range of different games. These include games where the students have to run along lines, run to avoid the lines, and run everywhere while incorporating additional Fundamental Movement Skills.
• Striking: Students will be striking/hitting different sized of balls with different bats. These will include cricket bats hitting large, medium and small balls off of cones (stationary). This will then develop into striking large ‘dodgeballs’ which are moving towards them.

Years 3 - Year 6:

This term, the focus sports are Golf (first half) and Cricket (second half). 

We will be starting off with Putting - How to hold and use the putter. We will then move off into different putting drills and activities before students play an 18-hole putting game with a partner. 

We will then move off into Irons and Drivers; how to hold and use these, and some drills/activities around using irons and drivers. 

Halfway through the term (week 5), we will be doing our second round of the “fitness testing” - which is the beep test and the grip strength test. The students all did this in term 1 as a ‘baseline’, they will then do it again in week 5 and compare their results.

In the second half of the term, we will be moving onto cricket.

This will include Bowling, Batting, Fielding and Throwing.

Students will be participating in a range of drills/activities for each of those cricket aspects before moving into mini-games and finally a larger game of cricket.

Performing Arts 

• Practicing with classes end of year concert dance
• Learning different styles of dances etc with all year levels 

Japanese

Reception to Year 2 students have been enjoying a story about two fictional children, Ben and Holly, who get to travel from Australia through Japan. Through this story students are invited to explore Japanese culture and learn greetings and other polite expressions. Ben and Holly will be 'sending' a package back from Japan containing things that are Japanese. This week the children have enjoyed a touch and feel game with a Kimono and Yukata (traditional Japanese clothing). We have also finished some bowing puppets that will brought home this week. Perhaps your child can use these puppets to teach you some Japanese greetings.

The Year 2s and 3s in Room 9 have just started their unit of learning of the extremely popular Japanese cartoon, Pokemon. Over the next few weeks students will be designing their own Pokemon card, with the Pokemon's name, height, weight and hobbies written on the card.

Students in Year 4,5 and 6 have been enjoying using their own creativity to produce a short story. They are using the sentence structure we have learnt through looking at the Japanese version of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Catepillar.  I cannot wait to see what the final products will be!

EALD

Rm 6 & 7 

• - Introduced procedure writing - where we might see it in the world around us and its purposes.  
• - Introduced preposition vocabulary in terms of giving direction.

Rm 8 

• Recapped features of narrative genre and examined another model text.
• Introduced “processes” in terms of functional grammar and simple verb tenses.

Rm 9

• Recapped purposes and features of information report
• Introduced paraphrasing skill and practiced note taking skill

Rm 11

• Assessment on students’ slide presentations (information report)

Rm 12 & 14

• Supported students on writing of persuasive and graduation speeches.