The Learning Zone
Living Well, Learning Well
| Kinder | Laiken O’Brien | Improving his confidence within the classroom and sharing his ideas during class discussion. | Perseverance |
| Kinder | Heidi McDonald | For working well with her peers during maths rotations and always helping others. | Teamwork |
| Year 1 | Amaya Insch | For furthering her understanding by reading at home and striving in class to achieve her best. | Perseverance |
| Year 1 | Ben Vince | For listening attentively and participating in class discussions. | Love of learning |
| Year 2 | Flynn Harrison | For persevering during maths lessons, leading to him successfully completing his arrays worksheet using repeated addition to solve multiplication problems. | Perseverance |
| Year 2 | Gus Lawlor | For displaying enthusiasm in all learning areas and always willing to share his ideas with his classmates. | Love of Learning |
| Year 3 | Heidi Barnes | For being eager to learn new things, focus on tasks and work independently in class. |
Love of learning |
| Year 3 | Eve Pereira | For always trying to put a smile on everyone’s face when they are feeling upset or sad and being able to consistently manage her own emotions and behaviour. | Humour and Self Regulation |
| Year 4 | Campbell Denovan | For always showing kindness and having manners to both staff and students, throughout the whole school day. | Kindness and authenticity |
| Year 4 | Daisy Baker | For trying new games during play times and always demonstrating great sportsmanship to her peers. | Fairness and teamwork |
| Year 5 | Georgie Duff | Being sensible and a good role model in Student Led Conference practices. | Love of Learning |
| Year 5 | Oscar Sheridan | Playing fairly in the playground and listening to the teacher. | Fairness and Love of Learning |
| Year 6 | Sophie Altmann | For trying her best in all learning areas. | Perseverance |
| Year 6 | Jerimiah Watson | For being settled and productive during learning times. | Self-Regulation |
| Year 6 | Larah Pisani | For making every soccer game fair and including others. | Fairness |
| Kinder | Tommy Wark | For showing resilience and trying his best in the classroom. | Perseverance |
| Kinder | Jordyn Tudgey | For being a kind and considerate classmate and always producing work to a high standard. | Love of Learning |
| Year 1 | Erick Peterson | For staying focused and applying himself to activities in class. | Perseverance |
| Year 1 | Andie Duff | For applying herself to tasks in Literacy with success. | Perseverance |
| Year 2 | Jonty Nichols | For helping others and being kind. | Fairness |
| Year 2 | Walker Tudgey | For always including others in his games. | Kindness |
| Year 3 | Amarni Seach | For being settled and productive during learning times in all subjects and treating others with respect. | Kindness & Self-Regulation |
| Year 3 | Hope Welsh | For her ability to focus on her work in all KLA’s and approaching learning tasks with enthusiasm and curiosity. | Love of Learning & Curiosity |
| Year 4 | Isabelle Wall | For always putting her hand up to ask questions and working hard at her school work. | Love of learning and curiosity. |
| Year 4 | Maleyah Miller | For always engaging in classwork with a smile and respecting her peers' opportunities to learn. | Love of learning. |
| Year 5 | Acaysha McCumstie | For putting a consistent effort into all areas of her work and always treating her peers with respect and compassion. | Love of Learning and Teamwork |
| Year 5 | Harry Blake | For asking thoughtful questions and sharing his extensive background knowledge during learning time. | Curiosity and Wisdom |
| Year 6 | Hugo Holmes | Persevering and doing his best with school tasks, while dealing with adversity. | Perseverance |
| Year 6 | Kate Waterford | Staying focused and on the task at hand during key learning areas, even with tasks she finds more challenging. | Love of Learning and perseverance |
| Year 6 | Rupert Frend | Engagement and perseverance in all key learning areas. | Resilience |
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| Kinder | Tommy Wark | For showing resilience and trying his best in the classroom. | Perseverance |
| Kinder | Jordyn Tudgey | For being a kind and considerate classmate and always producing work to a high standard. | Love of Learning |
| Year 1 | Erick Peterson | For staying focused and applying himself to activities in class. | Perseverance |
| Year 1 | Andie Duff | For applying herself to tasks in Literacy with success. | Perseverance |
| Year 2 | Jonty Nichols | For helping others and being kind. | Fairness |
| Year 2 | Walker Tudgey | For always including others in his games. | Kindness |
| Year 3 | Amarni Seach | For being settled and productive during learning times in all subjects and treating others with respect. | Kindness & Self-Regulation |
| Year 3 | Hope Welsh | For her ability to focus on her work in all KLA’s and approaching learning tasks with enthusiasm and curiosity. | Love of Learning & Curiosity |
| Year 4 | Isabelle Wall | For always putting her hand up to ask questions and working hard at her school work. | Love of learning and curiosity. |
| Year 4 | Maleyah Miller | For always engaging in classwork with a smile and respecting her peers' opportunities to learn. | Love of learning. |
| Year 5 | Acaysha McCumstie | For putting a consistent effort into all areas of her work and always treating her peers with respect and compassion. | Love of Learning and Teamwork |
| Year 5 | Harry Blake | For asking thoughtful questions and sharing his extensive background knowledge during learning time. | Curiosity and Wisdom |
| Year 6 | Hugo Holmes | Persevering and doing his best with school tasks, while dealing with adversity. | Perseverance |
| Year 6 | Kate Waterford | Staying focused and on the task at hand during key learning areas, even with tasks she finds more challenging. | Love of Learning and perseverance |
| Year 6 | Rupert Frend | Engagement and perseverance in all key learning areas. | Resilience |
| Week 4 | Name | Reason | Character Strength |
| Kinder | Jack Knapman | For always being a great friend and being a good example to his peers. | Kindness |
| Kinder | Isabella Thompson | For always engaging in InitiaLit lessons and trying her best at all times. | Love of Learning |
| Year 1 | Sam Higgins | For always having a kind word and a helping hand for anyone who needs one. | Kindness |
| Year 1 | Isla Barlow | For working so hard to master skip counting! Your dedication and effort in learning to count by threes, sixes, and nines is truly inspiring. | Love of learning |
| Year 2 | Lottie Wicks | For displaying bravery when starting at a new school. | Bravery |
| Year 2 | Liam Rees | For sharing his creative ideas with his classmates and persisting with difficult learning tasks. | Love of Learning |
| Year 3 | Shelby Sloey | For always displaying a positive attitude and persistence towards her learning. | Love of Learning and Perseverance |
| Year 3 | Heidi Ryman | For always showing appreciation for the opportunities she is given to learn in all KLA’s at school. | Gratitude |
| Year 4 | Harley Hinchcliffe | For demonstrating good sportsmanship to his peers during recess and lunch. | Fairness |
| Year 4 | Jack Levett | For persevering in his school work and seeing great growth in his results. | Perseverance |
| Year 5 | Georgina Grimm | For exhibiting positive choices in all learning activities and consistently looking for ways she can assist peers and teachers every single day. | Love of Learning and Social Intelligence |
| Year 5 | Jock Mainey | Playing fairly in footy, listening in class and being sensible. | Fairness & love of Leaning |
| Year 6 | Lyla Gault | For encouraging others to achieve their best at the diocesan athletics carnival. | Teamwork |
| Year 6 | Olivia Knapman | For seeking feedback on ways to improve in her learning. | Love of Learning |
| Year 6 | Nate Fathers | For extending himself in Maths to gain a better understanding of Chance. | Love of Learning |
Micah Moment
Congratulations our Micah Moment Award recipients Angus Johnson and Josh Jeffrey.
Debating
Round 2 of the Armidale Diocese Debating competition was very competitive as all teams implemented feedback from the previous rounds and worked to uplevel their skills. The topic for this round was that the future of the world is online. Both teams had to research the topic, form arguments and then deliver a persuasive 3-4 minute speech convincing the adjudicator of their arguments. Both teams had extremely close debates and have taken on the adjudicator’s feedback for Round 3.
Kindergarten Maths
In Kindergarten we are learning to represent the relations between the parts that form the whole, with numbers up to 10.
In our Ladybug addition we roll a dice and place the correct amount of counters on one side of our ladybug’s wings.
Roll the dice again and place the correct number of counters on the other wing.
How many counters altogether?
Year 2 Maths
Over the past two weeks, Year 2 students have been exploring the concept of area in their maths lessons. They have participated in a variety of hands-on activities, where they can measure and compare areas using uniform informal units in rows and columns.
