Specialists

 FRENCH

  • Prep

    The Preps are starting to memorise numbers 0 to 10. In class, we regularly use a range of games online when we learn a new vocabulary topic. It is a fantastic and fun way for the students to develop their listening and spelling skills. There is always an option to either read or listen to the words that appear on the screen. Such games include:    

    - 'Yes or no?' - Is the word you hear describing the picture you see? 

    - 'Either / or?' - Look at the picture and pick the right word between two words?

    - Listen to the word and pick the right one among the full list of vocabulary (always made of 10 words).

    - Listen and choose between three words to make the flower grow.

    - Four in a row

    We usually play this game in small teams, so no student feels too shy or overwhelmed to come to the board and pick an answer. They always have the support of their teammates. 

EITHER / OR
LISTEN to the word and pick the right one
YES or NO
LISTEN and choose between 3 numbers
EITHER / OR
LISTEN to the word and pick the right one
YES or NO
LISTEN and choose between 3 numbers

Whenever possible, the preps learn a little song to help them memorise the new words:

  • Grade 1/2

    The students are learning a new grammar rule: the proper use of definite and indefinite articles, depending on the gender of nouns.

Physical Education

Students in years 4-6 attended the Winter Sports Highbury Gala Day on Friday 13 June. They displayed perserverance and positive sportsmanship throughout their many competitions. Congratulations to the soccer rounders team who came first for the day.

Congratulations to Alex and Vitesh for receiving the acknowledgement as displaying the best sportsmanship of the day in their respective sports, softball and soccer rounders.

 

 

STEAM

Weeden Heights Primary School students have been busy investigating in STEAM!

In Term 2:

  • Prep students have been investigating how different materials have varying strength, flexibility, comfort and resistance to water. Using this understanding, they selected suitable materials to make a rain jacket. The class together tested the materials to generate evidence to support their claims.

 

  • Year 1/2 applied their understanding about mixtures, including how some dissolve in water to solve a mystery!  Congratulations to the students who correctly identified that Ms Phillips wrote the cryptic message!

 

  • Year 2/3 created storyboards and stop-motion videos to show their understanding of how particles are spaced and move differently in various states of matter. They showed honey staying a liquid when frozen and ice cream becoming a liquid when melted.

Ice-cream melting:

Honey not freezing:

  • Year 3/4 have demonstrated how to apply block coding to make the Sphero Robots move, change colour and send a message! They have transmitted signals that used loops to repeat their commands.

     

  • Year 5/6A applied their understanding of how light travels in straight lines and is refracted to solve a problem.  Using torches and mirrors, they helped fictional characters to ‘see’ each other over a wall.  They have also developed independent skills in revising their new knowledge, constructing beautiful mind maps about light.

 

 

 

All year levels are developing great skill in predictions, observations and measurement in Term 3. Fantastic work, Weeden scientists!


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