Teaching and Learning
Digital Reports
On Wednesday our mid-year reports will be provided to families by email for the first time. For the last two terms, we have been working hard to implement a new electronic reporting platform for all classes.
The aim is to provide the same information as our traditional reports, but delivered digitally directly to families, through email. The format of the reports will be similar to current reporting templates, with only minor changes.
Reports will be emailed on Wednesday afternoon next week. If you do not receive your reports by email (at the address you have provided to school as part of your enrolment) by FRIDAY morning, please contact the school to update your email details.
You will also receive a reminder through text messaging on Wednesday, reminding you that reports are now available.
In term 3 we look forward to asking for community feedback around the new reporting process.
Learning in the Blue Building
National Simultaneous Story Time
In week 4 we participated for the first time as a whole school in national simultaneous storytime with over 2 million students. We read the book Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker. What a fabulous event to be able to share the same book together and then have the author Aura Parker read it to us all at the same time. We asked each class to hold a competition for a someone to win their very own copy of the book. As this event is all about promoting reading, the competition was centred around reading behaviours. Here are the students who won the book in their class.
| 1006 | Congratulations to Yozen for winning the competition with her stunning cover illustration for the book "Bowerbird Blues"! Her creative and captivating artwork beautifully captures the essence of the story, making her a well-deserved winner. Well done, Yozen! |
| 1007 | Jasmine in 1007 won the book for creating a 3D cover of the book! |
| 1008 | In 1008 the book went to Bella Le due to the amount of independent reading she does at home and completing literacy pro in her own time. |
| 1013 | Brenda in 1013 who is someone who always tries in reading, gives it a go in class even if they find it hard. The class voted and had a say. |
| 1014 | Sunny from 1014 is highly deserving of winning the Bower Bird Book due to her hard work and significant improvement in both her reading and oral language skills. |
| 906 | Andrej Ikic from 906 won the book, with a convincing oral presentation. |
| 907 | Aryam in 907 for completing the most amount of quizzes on Literacy Pro in her class. |
| 908 | Hawa Jalloh who has been working really hard to improve and learn, focussing on her work, asking clarifying questions whenever she is unsure and trying to implement feedback to improve her work.
|
| 911 | The students in 911 wrote about what they learnt and they connected to the Bowerbird story. Nihara Sooraj won the competition in our class and she was very excited to win the book. Nihara wrote:(edited) I have learned that I need to help the land from pollution and keep the environment clean. I have also learnt about the Bowerbird's feelings. I connect to the story because I love art, writing sentences and I love the colour blue.
|
| 912 | Kira Adeosun in 912 for showing persistence in her reading, helping other people in class when reading and providing helpful feedback during partner reading. |
| 807 | Sajjad in 807 for making improvements with his blending and decoding of words. |
| 808 | Inder in 808 has worked really hard at improving his reading this term. |
| 812 | Zahra Aldhoux in 812 has improved so much in reading and has developed so much more confidence in using different strategies to sound out challenging words. |
| 813 | Aaliyah Stam in 813 practises reading every night and has improved her sounding out, blending and see it/say it skills.
|
| 707 | Carter in 707 for becoming more independent. |
| 708 | Khadijah Abdu for making great progress in her reading. |
| 709 | Shakylaha Wanganeen won the book in 709 for her wonderful progress with learning her sounds and tricky words this semester. |
Book Club
Book club is now happening at Woodville Gardens School. We had our first issue this term and lots of families bought new books to read at home. Book club issues will come out twice a term. Keep your eye out for the next issue in term 3.
Edson Robotics in action in Technogies!
The students in 908 were very engaged in manipulating the Edison Robots and watching them follow a number of commands. The most enjoyable one was the "Sumo Wrestling".
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data
