Classroom & Curriculum News

1/2RS – Continuing Our Movement Exercises

We are thoroughly enjoying our exercise time each morning! After our morning circle, we spend around five minutes exercising and stretching before beginning our Mathematics lesson.

The students have become very knowledgeable about checking their pulse, understanding why it increases during exercise and recognising the importance of stretching. As many of our lessons require the children to sit on the floor, regular stretching and movement are important to help keep our bodies comfortable and ready for learning throughout the day.

Most importantly, check out the smiles in the photos! Our morning exercise not only gets our bodies moving, but also lifts our spirits. We have noticed that after exercising, the children are more engaged and ready to participate in Mathematics, with bright eyes and minds ready for learning.

It has been wonderful to see the positive impact that just a few minutes of movement has on everybody.

Reading in the Spring sunshine

1/2RS grabbed a precious moment in week 9 and enjoyed our FRAT (Fluency reading at three) outside in our kitchen garden. The children loved reading to their partner outside in nature and we hope to be able to utilise this space in the future for more reading opporutnities.

The T.S.Elliot cats were puringly wonderful last night. Thankyou to all our parents for the fantastic costumes and facepaint. Your children worked so dilegintly over the term to remember all the poems, I am sure you are so proud of them. Ihope you all have a safe, healthy and restful school break. Mrs Re.

PREP M news!!

Preps Meet Their Chromebooks!

Last week, our Preps had some helping hands from their wonderful Year 6 buddies as they used their Chromebooks for the very first time!

Working together, the Preps learnt how to use the keyboard to enter their usernames and passwords, while also learning how to be safe and careful when using their devices.

Once they were online, the Preps enjoyed playing a variety of literacy games and practising their word recognition skills. It was wonderful to see our younger students learning alongside their buddies and building their confidence with technology!

A big thank you to our Year 6 buddies for being such patient and supportive helpers!

Preps Explore Wombats!

Our Prep students have finished the term exploring the text Wombat. Through both fiction and non-fiction texts, students learnt all about the fascinating life of a wombat.

As part of their learning, the students wrote their own information reports about wombats. They included information about a wombat’s appearance, habitat and diet. To support their writing, students used a word bank poster to help them select and use topic-specific vocabulary.

It has been wonderful to see the students developing their knowledge, writing skills and confidence throughout this unit!

Preps Build Their Number Sense!

Our Prep students have been busy revising their knowledge of numbers from 1–50. They have been practising counting forwards and backwards and exploring important mathematical language such as one more and one less.

This week, students enjoyed playing a variety of fun and engaging games to develop their number sense. In one activity, each student was randomly given a number between 1 and 50 and worked together to place the numbers in the correct order.

It was fantastic to see the Preps working cooperatively, helping one another and using their mathematical knowledge to solve the challenge!

Wishing everyone a happy holidays!!

From the little dalmatian puppies from Prep M.

Year 3/4 News!

Wow what an amazing term we have had! To finish off with the concert was extremely special. We congratulate all the students on a remarkable effort this term with their learning & the concert!!!

Here are thoughts from students in Year 3/4L about the concert.

Fosco: every act was really good

Sebastian: it was fun and everyone enjoyed it

Anthony: it was good to watch everyone

Lenny: we practiced a lot and it all paid off

Jude: We rehearsed a lot for the concert & all the hard work was shown on stage last night!

Poppy: It was really fun and the music was great. There was lots of dancing and singing and happy faces

Eabha: I loved all the dances. It was fun and it was exciting. I especially loved ours!

Lila: It was cool to see everyone’s dances . The music was great and the show was amazing!

Chloe R: I liked how we all tried really hard and we made it really good. I think ours was the best!

Ellie: I liked the concert because everyone tried their best

Oslo: I liked 5/6s because they did a drum roll and they speaking too

Raf M: I liked everyone's costumes

Chloe P: I liked 5/6s as they had speaking and singing

Kiara: I like Pinocchio and 5/6s as they had cool tricks in them

Sophia: My favourite part was Cats by 1/2RS because of the way they sang was tricky and interesting

Grace: I think the concert was amazing. At my old school, they didn't do anything like that. I think it was wonderful that everyone worked together.

Fred: I loved Pinocchio and when Jimmy ended with a face plant.

Patrick: It was fun and before I got on stage it was a bit scary. 

We wish everyone a safe break & see you in Term 4!

5/6 J

Congratulations to everyone on a fantastic, very successful concert !!! It was so amazing to see so many talented kids take the big stage in front of a huge crowd. A special well done to James and Stella our wonderful art captains, MCing the whole night. 

We loved the whole build up of creating school of rock, and getting into our rock/grunge era!!! Well done to all of the other classes, particularly 5/6 PJ performing Shrek, an our 5/6 Italian concert of Pinnochio. 

Congratulations to all our 5/6 students who completed a fun summer Gala day. We had half of the group head to Yarraville West, to play VolleyStars and the other half went to Footscray city to play Volleyball. It was wonderful to see the competitive drive and great sportsmanship across the day. 

A special mention to The Grade 6 girls group: Heidi, Rosie, Esther, Stella, Aria, Greta, Sofia, Daisy  and Gemima that won their entire division in Volleyball and the grade 5 boy group: Oscar, Alex, Teddy, Jimmy, Tom, Mihail, Matthew and Aarvin  who won their division in Volleystars.

Thankyou to Gail Pearson, Mrs Witchell's mum who came in to speak about her charity work with St Vincent De Paul. It was a wonderful talk with the entire 5/6 cohort that connected really well with our religion unit.