Governing Council 

We have been noticing what is growing in our raised garden beds. The children noticed green strawberries growing. We slowly watched them turn red, then they disappeared! We were disappointed we didn't get to eat them, but we're having fun hypothesising where they went or who may have taken them.

Our blue water pump is back in action. The children showed their connection to our outdoor area by noticing the weeds that has grown in the waterway and offered to help Ms Rose clear the weeds.

Rm 6 and 7

Students in the hive have enjoyed writing procedural texts this term, and the activities we planned to inspire their writing! Including making fairy bread and planting sunflower seeds! The children in both rooms performed in our end of year concert item together, dancing to “Footloose”, it was a wonderful night!

Rm 8

Students are enjoying our Dfe spelling program that we started this Term in Room 8. All students enjoyed performing at the concert and one of their highlights was having such a wonderful large audience to clap. Our excursion to Wizbang was an outstanding success! 

Room 9

• Students were excited to share their “Ghost Busters " and “Happy” dances with the community at the end-of-year concert. They also enjoyed the whole school excursion, during which they watched Moana 2 and played at the Civic Park playground. 

Room 11, 12 and 14

• Everyone enjoyed performing at the concert last week and our highlight was attending the movies to see Wicked to celebrate 2024.

Room 11 

• Students are enjoying writing narratives and then compared them to their Term 1 narratives and reflected on how  much they have improved in the structure, spelling and engaging the reader. 

Room 12

• Students enjoyed writing a persuasive/motivation speech to entertain or persuade an audience using writing techniques such as hyperbole, alliteration and rhetorical quesions. Year 6 have been working hard to prepare for their graduation ceremony. 

Room 14

• Students have been learning about writing and presenting speeches that engage and motivate the audience. We have been covering data and probability in mathematics. Additionally, we have been really enjoying how to code using the Scratch program - a kid-friendly website that is both challenging and engaging for students. Year 6’s have been working well towards preparing for their graduation ceremony.

Room 10 has three students transitioning into high school next year. Unfortunately, only one student has gained a position in a special options class. Two of the students have been  placed in mainstream classes. With SSO support, these two students have joined our senior class for most of term 4, to support the development of skills required for mainstream schooling.Our deputy Ali has worked closely with the high schools to achieve the best possible outcomes for both students.

All students have  enjoyed the opportunity to participate in the Children’s Variety Christmas Party with approximately 1000 other students from primary special classes - it was a great day for all. 

PE

• The Reception - Year 2 classes have focused on Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) with a focus on Throwing, both overarm and underarm, Catching, Bouncing, Dodging and Kicking, both AFL and Soccer style. We have done this through a range of different games and activities with a different FMS focus for each week. 
• The Years 3-6 students participated in golf in the first half of the term - with a focus on putting and controlling the strokes, how hard they need to hit the ball, and direction.
• Through the second half of the term, the Years 3-6 students have participated in Cricket - batting, bowling and fielding (which includes catching, throwing and stopping the ball in various ways). This has been done with a range of partner/small group drills, as well as mini games.

Performing Arts 

• Concert went really well
• At the end of the program for the term
• Come and try choir performance went well for students who wishing to join choir next year

Japanese

• Rooms 6, 7 and 8 have been enjoying a story about two children called Tom and Sally. Tom and Sally have been ‘sending’ packages back to the children with all sorts of Japanese things to explore, such as kimono, chopsticks and Japanese money. We have also been enjoying songs and games to help us to learn greetings and polite expressions and gestures in Japanese, such as bowing and saying konnichiwa.
• Room 9 have been learning about how to say a characters height and weight and have been designing their own Pokemon cards with this information, along with their Pokemons favourite hobby.
• Rooms 11,12 and 14 have been working in pairs to write a story using sentence structure of “subject wa day ni food o how much tabemash’ta”, meaning “On this day, I/they ate this much of this food.” Some students have begun presenting their story to the class and we hope to hear more presentations during this week and next.
• These students have also enjoyed using Blooket (an online quiz programme) to practise reading of some hiragana characters.

EALD

Rm 6 & 7 

Focused on teaching and learning circumstance of place - preposition words to support genre writing of procedure text.  Use of farm maps to describe the position of animals in a farm.  Students also enjoyed playing barrier games to practice using preposition vocabulary.

Rm 8

Focused on writing of narrative and exposition genres.  Use of model texts and templates to introduce purpose and structure of genre writing.

Rm 9

Focused on writing information reports on animals.  Templates were used to demonstrate the importance of research and paraphrasing skills. Students followed the information report genre structure carefully and enjoyed using templates to produce their independent information report on animals. 

Rm 11

- Oral presentations of information report on animals

- Revisited narrative writing. Focused on understanding the structure of narrative genre, development of characterisation and setting.

Rm 12 & 14

Support writing of speeches and poetry