Middle School News

Year 3

Literacy

Grade 3 students have been digilently preparing for NAPLAN, working hard and improving their narrative skills and mastering grammar concepts. In their narrative lessons they have been crafting creative stories, ecploring different characters, settings, feelings and plot structures. Additionaly, during The Writing Revoloution students have been focussing on sentence structure and using independent and dependent clauses in their writing.

Maths

Students have been focusing on rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000. Through targeted practice and explicit teaching, they are gaining confidence in this area and are making improvements. As a result, students are becoming more proficient at thi fundemental skill. Additionally students have been preparing for NAPLAN and focusing on NAPLAN style questions to build their confidence getting them ready for the big day.

Year 4

Literacy

Grade 4 students have been working hard during literacy focussing on the morphemes <metr> and <logy>. They have been expanding their vocabulary with words that include these morphemes and incoorporating them into sentences. During our Writing Revoloution lessons grade 4's have been exploring concrete and abstract nouns.

This term students be concentrating on improving their fluency and comprehension skills. We encourage all parents to engage in nighttime reading sessions with their children and to ask questions about the text throughout.

Maths

Over the last two weeks we have focused on rounding numbers up to hundreds of thousands and using a place value chart to deconstruct the value of numbers. Students have worked hard to learn this skill and have shown they are understanding the concept. Students will be sent home with homework that goes through revision for the fundemental math skill.

Homework will be due each Friday. If students dont bring in their homework bok they will need to complete their work during lunchtime on Fridays.

* Reminders *

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What A Week!

Well done on a fantastic, but busy week for our students. With lots of celebrations such as Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, tabloid sports and KABOOM! We anticipate that our students will be quite tired and will need a restful weekend (especially those going to TAYLOR SWIFT!)