Kinross Wolaroi Family Bulletin

Around the Junior School

Orange Show Schools Display 

At this year’s Orange Show, the Junior School entered a display in the ‘Schools Display’ section. The theme was The History of our School. 

 

Students thoroughly enjoyed learning about the School’s history, including learning about significant individuals who helped shaped the school to be what it is today, as well as learning information about the construction of certain buildings or facilities still used by Kinross Wolaroi students today. 

 

Artworks were completed by students from Kindergarten to Year 6, with each grade focusing on a different aspect of the school’s past. 

 

Congratulations to all Junior School students involved in the process of creating the display; it received a Highly Commended ribbon. 

 

Mrs Holmes

Junior School Specialist Art Teacher

Da Vinci Decathlon

Last term a group of students from Year 5 and Year 6 participated in the Da Vinici Decathlon held at Scots All Saints College Bathurst. Our team of eight competed across 10 disciplines: engineering, mathematics, code breaking, art and poetry, science, English, ideation, creative producers, cartography and legacy. For each discipline the students were presented with a problem that they needed to solve. 

 

Our team consisted of Angus Triggs, Felix Knox, Dylan Cutter, Max Golding, Julian Capanas, Faustine Geronimo, Georgia Dunn and Aria Patel who all worked together to problem solve and think creatively to provided answers for the tasks they were presented with. I am overjoyed to report that they represented the Kinross Wolaroi Junior School with pride and determination earning themselves third place in the legacy discipline. 

Autumn in Pre-Kindy

This week in Pre-Kindy we have been learning about the four seasons, focusing on Autumn. Our Monday class went on a leaf hunt, searching the junior school playground for different; colour, shape and size leaves. We also made a big pile of leaves in our own playground and loved throwing them up in the air and dancing in them as they fell to the ground. Such fun and wonder for everyone. 

Kids Lit Quiz 

Thursday May 2, 2024 

Kinross Wolaroi's Kids’ Lit Team comprised 22 students this year. We had three Senior School teams, two Junior School teams and two reserves. The Central West heat was held at James Sheahan Catholic High School on 2 May 2024.  

 

Kids Lit is an annual literature quiz for students aged 10-13 years. Quizzes are held in many countries around the world. We were faced with 10 categories (Amphibians, Aviation, Big Cats, Colours, Dancing, Dogs, Names, Superstitions, Tattoos and Wives) with 10 questions in each category so we had 100 questions to answer on the day. 

 

If a team won a round, they were all able to choose a book prize. Sometimes, there would be an individual competition and some of our students were lucky enough to win $5 if they were the first correct guess. They might have been given an author’s biography and had to guess the author or perhaps they were read the first page of a book and had to guess the title. 

 

This year Alexander Priest, Milly Middleton, Josie Cardiff and Harrison Church placed 3rd overall and Ethan Butchard, Maggie McRae, Austin Wark and Nick Sweetapple came first. The winning team are now heading to Sydney to compete at the National Final on Monday 3 June. 

Team 1

Devan Prasad

Hannah Cunningham

Jude Jansen

Brooke Howard

 

Team 2 

Nick Sweetapple

Austin Wark

Ethan Butchard

Maggie McRae

 

Team 3 

Josie Cardiff

Milly Middleton

Alexander Priest

Harrison Church

 

Team 4

Daniel Hayward

Oscar Flynn

Evie Butchard

Willa Tomlinson

 

Team 5

Daniel Kerdic

Angus Triggs

Leopold Wade

Lachlan Pantehis-Marriott

 

Lola Short was our reserve for the SS

 

Anna Kenny was our reserve for the JS.

Merit Awards - Term 1 Week 11 

K Nemo

  • Charlie Kerdic: Demonstrating great listening skills and trying hard when blending sounds to make words.
  • Hayden Castledine: Speedy work in maths daily reviews and quick recall of the number facts within 10.

1 Eco-Octonauts

  • Edward Doyle: Improved reading
  • Charlotte Elder: Consistent effort in all class work

1 Minton

  • Chloe Oldroyd: Segmenting her sounds carefully and using her spelling rules to help her spell unknown words.
  • James Meachin: Being a wonderful friendship ninja and being so considerate of his friends.

2 Lorax

  • Hugh MacMahon: Excellent number work in our daily maths review and ‘keeping your eyes on the target’ during small group activities. 
  • Stani Fatai: Incorporating imaginative and creative adjectives in your sentence writing.

3 Uno

  • Fatehjit Singh: His application and accuracy when working on multiplication and division.
  • Ivy Chapman: Producing an amazing informative text about Antarctica.

4 Kiernan    

  • Edith Triggs: For her positive approach to learning across all areas of the curriculum and for taking pride in her work.
  • Nick Rourke: For putting in 100% effort when researching and designing his Astronaut poster in English. Well Done! 

4 Goodall

  • Kayley Lett: Her consistent effort and participation in Mathematics throughout Term 1. Kayley has shown commitment to her learning and grown her confidence in this area tremendously.
  • Lilly Kilby: Showing hard work and dedication during our informative paragraph writing lessons. A great job researching, drafting, and editing to create well written paragraphs.

5 Seed

  • Thomas Cardiff: Consistently exemplifying impeccable manners and courteous behaviour.
  • Winona Wade: Unwavering dedication and tireless efforts and demonstrating a commendable work ethic.

5 Bear Grylls

  • Nick Strahorn: His enthusiasm and engagement in all subjects. Nick brings a growth mind set to all lessons and is always up for a challenge! Keep up your hard work.
  • Clara Whittle: a wonderful first term at the Junior School. Clara is an independent and hard worker who takes on all tasks with enthusiasm and positivity.

6 Rober

  • Lachlan Pantehis-Marriott: For his quest for new knowledge through asking interesting questions and his enthusiasm for learning.
  • Harriett Johnston: For her wonderful attitude towards her learning and continued positive efforts in mathematics.

6 Dalziel

  • Jack Geard: His application in mathematics lessons and clearly setting out his work to make his thinking visible.
  • Lachie Healey: His application when writing his historical report on Gough Whitlam. Keep up the great work!