Specialists

Physical Education

The students in grades 3-6 enjoyed participating in a Q&A session with four members of the Hawthorn Football Club - James Blanck (#36), Changkuoth Jiath (#9), Jaime Uhr-Henry (#43) and Sam Frost (#8). Students asked many interesting questions about their training, eating habits and personal questions such as favourite animals.

On Friday 39 students from grades 3-6 attending Mirrabooka Reserve to participate in the District Cross Country. The weather was wonderful and our students should be very proud of their achievements and their support of each other. 

Weeden came 2nd overall in our Highbury District!

We wish the 16 students proceeding to Division the best of luck for Wednesday 28th May.

Kitchen/Garden

5/6C made some delicious desserts in the kitchen last week. They made dragon fruit sorbet, berry granita, choc-nana smoothie and a mango dream smoothie. The recipes can be found below.

FRENCH

• Prep

  The Preps finished their family trees and are ready to start a new topic next week, food.

• Grade 12L

  The students are learning a new concept: all nouns and adjectives in French are gendered, either feminine or masculine. We used cards in class to visualise this rule that is very important to understand the language.

They applied this knowledge to describe their puppets' body parts:

• Grades 2/3S and 3/4P

The students are working with a book about life in the Prehistoric Era. In small groups, they are demonstrating that they can fill in missing words in the text:

Next week, they will start designing their own page of the book (illustrations + full sentences to label their drawings).

• Grades 5/6

  The students have learnt a new grammar rule: the different ways to translate 'the most' and have applied it to describe their maps of France:

STEAM

Weeden Heights Primary School students have been working hard in STEAM! In Term 2:

•    Prep students are learning about materials, their features such as what they feel like, and how they are used for different purposes. Students captured images of various materials on a treasure hunt in the playground and drew a map to help locate their material.

•    Year 1/2 are learning about mixtures, including those used in baking! 

They are exploring how some powders such as salt mix (dissolve) while others such as sand do not (not able to dissolve).

•    Year 2/3 are learning about how all matter in the world is in one of three states – solid, liquid or gas. They are learning how we can change matter’s state by melting, refrigerating or freezing, using everyday matter such as chocolate, honey and water.

•    Year 3/4 are coding to solve problems using block coding through code.org. They have developed skill in loops (repeating patterns of code) and will soon be programming our Mabot and Sphero Robots!

•    Year 5/6A are learning about light sources, how light is transmitted, absorbed, reflected, and refracted and how shadows are formed.

It has been a pleasure to what the students’ understanding of STEAM grow, as well as their developing science inquiry skills such as making predictions.