Specialist Happenings

Visual Arts

It has certainly been a busy time in the art room. Some of the year 5 and year 3 students have been busy helping me with props for the school production. It has been a huge whirlwind of paint, poscas and fun! 

Year 6 are still going on with their sustainable fashion work and have been enjoying it every step of the way. 

We are happy to announce that we are completing a school mural with artist Rox Martyn. All students in year 3-6 will be participating in both design and completion. The year 6 students have already helped Rox in generating ideas and have done a fantastic job of conceptualising what inclusivity means to them. 

Ms H will be updating everyone on the progress of this project soon!

Royal Brighton Yacht Club 150th Birthday Celebration Sail Project

Our sail decorating is almost complete and ready to be put on a yacht  ready for the launch of the sailing season on Saturday 4th October. Our very creative students have each designed and drawn a 'superhero of the sea'. We are excited for the launch- all SEPS families are invited to visit Brighton Yacht club between 9-11 am and see all the sails from Bayside schools, grab a sausage from the sausage sizzle and enjoy the sailing spectacular at 11am. We would love to see you there. Please RSVP via compass/Trybooking no later than 1pm, Monday 15th September.

Here are 2C celebrating our fabulous Yayoi Kusama inspired sail!

Keep creating!

Ms Hemmings and Ms Van Etten

Mandarin

This week, our Preps students have been making fantastic progress in learning to write Chinese characters! This week, they have been practising family member words and are becoming more confident at writing them on their own.

The characters we are focusing on are: 爸爸 (bàba) – Dad,  妈妈 (māma) – Mum, 哥哥 (gēge) – Older brother, 姐姐 (jiějie) – Older sister, 弟弟 (dìdi) – Younger brother, 妹妹 (mèimei) – Younger sister

It has been wonderful to see our Preps take pride in their handwriting as they learn to recognise and write these important words for their families! 💖

Our Grade 1/2 students have been continuing their learning on the topic of weather. This week, they are now able to describe the weather for today (今天 jīntiān), tomorrow (明天 míngtiān), and yesterday (昨天 zuótiān).

Students practised how to read, say, and write weather sentences in Chinese characters. 

It’s exciting to see them combining their vocabulary with time words to make complete sentences in Mandarin!

This week, our Grade 5/6 students have been extending their skills in Mandarin by learning how to describe animals in more detail. They can now use both colours and body features to write full descriptive sentences. For example, the tiger is orange and black colours, it's mouth is white, the tail is very big. It likes to eat beef. 

It’s been wonderful to see students becoming more confident in writing creative and detailed sentences that bring animals to life in Mandarin!

You are all amazing!

你们真棒！(Nǐmen zhēn bàng)

Miss. Low

Physical Education 

Over the next 2 weeks students will continue practising their striking, running and catching skills in different modified games. Each grade will be focusing on skills/games based on their current age and ability levels. 

Next Thursday (18th September) we have our famous SEPS Footy Colours Day! Students are encouraged to wear their teams' footy colours and bring a gold coin donation to raise money for Kids with cancer. Donations can also be made online here: https://www.footycoloursday.com.au/s/3697/5251 

Below is a list of the activities the students will be engaging in! I'm sure there will be plenty of excited students! Looking forward to a fun-packed day! Please not our parade and competitions will be students only. 

• Footy Parade in the stadium 9am 
• Classroom Longest kick competition 
• Year level longest kick Grand Final

Hope everyone gets involved and good luck to everyone in the longest kick next week! 

Mr Davies & Mr Foster

District Athletics Carnival 

Congratulations to the 70 students who proudly represented Sandy East at the Seaside District Athletics Carnival on Thursday, 31st August. Our students should be commended for the extra training and commitment they put in during lunchtimes and outside of school hours – their dedication truly paid off on the day. 

A special congratulations goes to the following students who placed 2nd in their events and will now advance to the Division Competition on Thursday, 9th October:

• Julian Parsons – 2nd in U/11 Triple Jump and U/11 200m Sprint
• Chloe Buckley – 2nd in U/9/10 High Jump
• Jack Guerra – 2nd in U/9/10 100m Sprint
• Millie Ocuneff – 2nd in U/11 Shot Put

A special mention also goes to the students who achieved 3rd place in their events:

• Austin Brown – 3rd in U/9/10 Triple Jump
• Zara Bazy – 3rd in U/9/10 Shot Put
• Wig Beaver – 3rd in U/12/13 High Jump
• Alice Duff – 3rd in Hurdles

Well done to all competitors for their outstanding effort, sportsmanship, and enthusiasm. Sandy East is proud of you!

Science

The students have focussed on: -

Foundation - Movement

Our young scientists have continued to learn about movement, including thinking about all of the vehicles that need wheels and to start to consider whether movement involves the force push or pull.

Level 1 & 2 - Mixtures

This week, Level 1 and 2 have continued to focus on mixtures as different things together but also these things being able to be separated. We have continued to consider the use of conveyor belts as a method of separating things.

Level 3 & 4 - Habitats and Food Chains

Level 3 and 4 have continued to study and model the food chains of different animals. We have also learned about the vocabulary associated with food chains - producers, consumers and decomposers.

Level 5 & 6 - Soils and Erosion

Our senior students have been considering the composition of soils and the impact of weather to create weathering, erosion, transportation and decomposition.

Wilko, Safety Sue and Ms Cullen