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From The Team
What a busy and exciting time the Foundation students have had over the last 2 weeks! They celebrated all things maths on Magical Maths Monday, invited grandparents and special visitors to Breakfast Club and Open Morning, and participated in Open Night activities. I think the highlight of the week was our whole school picnic, where families from all different year levels gathered together in the beautiful sunshine.
I am very impressed with the way the students are using their decoding skills to read both known and new words. All their hard word of learning letters and sounds is now becoming evident in their reading and writing.
- Merran
What We Are Learning
Reminders
Excursions - payment and permission: Please check Compass for details about our upcoming excursions.
Communication folders: Please remember to bring these to and from school each day. We really appreciate your support with this.
High Frequency Words & Yellow Reading Log: Continue to help your child to practise their high frequency words and read each night. They are stored in their black display folder in their communication folder.
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‘Healthy Eating So Kids Thrive’ Incursion
This week, the Foundation students enjoyed their second incursion run by EACH ahead of our Knox Community Gardens excursion. In our second session of the ‘Healthy Eating So Kids Thrive’ program, the students revised ‘Go, Grow and Glow’ foods, and learned how everyday foods help their bodies stay healthy. Students also had fun tasting different fruits and vegetables that they may not have tried before.
Magical Maths Monday
F-2 students had a fantastic day last Monday during ‘Magical Maths Monday’!
Education Week
What a wonderful week celebrating education at Scoresby PS!
Our New SPS Acknowledgement of Country - An ACES Literacy Group Project
On the 2nd of May, the Year 5/6 Accelerate, Challenge and Extend (ACES) Literacy Group presented their new Acknowledgement of Country. This presentation included a slideshow with why we have an Acknowledgement of Country, how it is different from a Welcome to Country, how we did our research, the history of an Acknowledgement of Country, and our final product of the Acknowledgement of Country.
We did our research by searching up other Acknowledgements of Countries and recording interesting facts and ideas. When Australia was divided into nations, before the European settlement, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples would travel the country. Whenever they travelled into a new nation, they would do an Acknowledgement of Country, and in return the owners of the land would do a Welcome to Country.
An Acknowledgement of Country says that you are meeting on land of the First Nations peoples. This gives us an opportunity to show respect for traditional owners and the connection to our land. The Aboriginals pay respect to our country, we pay respect to them.
An Acknowledgement of Country is different from a Welcome to Country because an acknowledgement is saying thank you and we will respect the land and recognise elders. A Welcome to Country can only be done by a First Nations person and it is to welcome people to their land.
We did research individually and wrote our own Acknowledgement of Country before writing an Acknowledgement of Country together. We have included two lands because we are in the middle of two lands, Wurundjeri and Bunurong.
The group created the new Acknowledgement of Country and we wrote, revised and edited it, then sent it to Mrs Hartley, Mrs Rheumer and Mrs Sheaf for some feedback.
