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Selamat Siang

This week has been another jam-packed week full of exciting new learnings for the students of the leadership centre. 

We have been exploring fractions and decimals using a “decimat”, helping us make sense of decimal size and decimal place value, and encouraging the use of fractional language to describe decimals. Rohaan M from 5/6FL said "Decimats help me understand values of tenths, hundredths, and thousandths" and Ryan R from 5/6S shared "Decimats helped me with identifying the powers of 10".

Our Guided Inquiry unit continues to evolve, as we collect images, recipes and conduct interviews, gathering information that represents our own identities. In the hopes of cooking their recipe of choice, students have created persuasive advertisements using emotive language, imagery, similes and metaphors. With all the compelling and diverse pitches, selecting a dish to cook together as a class will be a difficult task! 

It was wonderful to meet parents and caregivers this Monday at the Meet & Greet. 

Have a restful weekend,

The Leadership Centre Teachers

Reminders

• Yr 3 and Yr 5 Families: NAPLAN Locked Down Browser Download In preparation for the upcoming NAPLAN Assessments in Week 7 and 8, please ensure that your child/ren in Years 3 and 5 have downloaded the NAP Locked Down Browser 2024 from the App Store. If it is already on your child's iPad, please ensure that it is the most updated version with the 2024 logo shown below

• In addition to this, we ask that all students have a set of headphones (and if they wish a keyboard) at school as they will need to use these for many of the NAPLAN assessments and learning activities throughout the year
• Life Story Interviews: over the next two weeks 5/6s will choose one adult in their home or community to interview for their life story. This can be done by video or voice recording. We request that this task is completed at home no later than February 19, as we will be editing clips from the interview on February 20 during class time.
• Tissue box donations (A big thanks to those that have donated already)
• Hats and Water Bottles
• Senior Swimming Carnival: Friday 23rd February
• Twilight Sport: Thursday 29th February
• Sexual Health Victoria Parent Information Session will run via Zoom on 6 March at 6:30pm, before the student sessions begin on 13 Mar, more information to come. 

Pupil of the Week

5/6C - Mackenzie D

For demonstrating a love of learning when participating in class discussion and challenging yourself when completing tasks.

5/6S - Jonas T

For demonstrating persistence and working collaboratively in a small group, trying to understand how to read and interpret decimats in maths this week. 

5/6FL - Claire S

For demonstrating creativity when composing a written advertisement, persuading the class to make honey joys as part of our classroom cooking experience. 

5/6E - Ruby I

For demonstrating a love of learning when sharing ideas in your Guided Reading group. 

5/6N - William V

Well done using your perseverance when working through the learning pit when learning about decimals in maths this week.