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Dear Families,

It is hard to believe that we are at the end of Term 2 and already halfway through the year! Our Neighbourhoods have been humming with learning, and it has been wonderful to see our student’s pride in presenting their work to their peers and families over the last few weeks. They are also really looking forward to sharing with you at the upcoming 3 way conferences on July 24th in Week 1 next term, please book your time when the bookings open up on Compass.

Below is a link to an interesting Blog about pencil grip and handwriting and the importance of hand strength in setting our young learners up for success. This is particularly important if you have preschooler or younger learner at home, but also has some helpful information for our older learners who may need some support in this area. For families with preschoolers at home, we really strongly encourage you to build in some of the hand strengthening activities to support your child with getting ready to start school next year.

Link to Blog

Over the holiday period please encourage your child to keep engaging in the reading process either by reading themselves, being read to or by listening to an audio book. Of course we would also love them to go onto Numbots and Math Fact Lab regularly. It might help if you set up a schedule or a regular time of the day when they log on to keep those number facts going.

At our final assembly this week we recognised the following students for their high level of participation on Numbots & Math Fact Lab.

Happy holidays everyone. We are looking forward to another term packed full of learning in Term 3!

Sam Birrell

AP – Teaching & Learning