Teaching and Learning

Hello families,

For the past few weeks, I have noticed that TIME has been on everyone's minds! Teachers have been administering TIMED assessments and students have been working hard to ensure they complete set tasks on TIME. In the Office, we have been TIMETABLING activities, events and planning for Term Three, working towards deadlines so that we don’t run out of TIME.

TIME indeed is our most precious commodity and we don’t seem to have enough of it …

Students across the school have been learning about TIME in Mathematics and for some of our students it is a huge challenge. With our advancing technologies, reading an analogue clock and calendar, measuring elapsed time and reading timetables are new skills to be mastered.

As teachers we understand the complexities of teaching TIME. It is the only area of mathematics that does not use the base ten system and this is hard for children to get their heads around. Suddenly we are talking in terms of 60 and counting by 5s, using fractions to make sense of ‘quarter past’ and ‘quarter to’ and thinking about how many star jumps we can do in 1 minute.

The 1234 Numeracy Guide has suggestions for what you can do at home to support your children and I have included the link. The Guide gives parents practical solutions to supporting your children at home and I encourage you to take the TIME to observe the changing landscapes, counting down to special occasions on the calendar and practice reading the analogue clock together (I changed my smart watch to show analogue time for this)!

Most importantly, enjoy the slower pace of the Winter school holidays and spending precious TIME with your families.

Happy learning!

Miss Barnett

Book Club

Scholastic Book Club is a service offered to students, parents and teachers. Brochures advertising a variety of books and computer software are sent home with each student, approximately twice a term.

Purchase of the books is not compulsory and there is no obligation. If you do wish to purchase any goods simply log into the Book Club site www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP and follow the prompts. All Book Club orders must be ordered and paid for via LOOP. Do not send order forms and cash to school. When the order arrives at school, books are sent home with students.

The School earns “Bonus Points” for each order which can be used to purchase new resources for the Library.

Issue 2 orders should be in by the end of next week and Issue 3 will be out early in term 2.

Click here for the Scholastic Book Club Parent Log in page or to register for new users.

How to order

Click on ORDER in the top menu or REGISTER first to save your details for the first time. Select Teesdale PS and your child’s class. Add your child’s name and last initial. Enter the item number from the brochure.

You can order for multiple children at once. All orders are linked directly to the school.

Our school receives bonus points, which are redeemed for a variety of books for the children therefore we thank you for your continued support.

If parents wish to collect orders personally from the office, please let the school know.

Please go to www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP and find Teesdale Primary School to order or alternatively you can download the LOOP app via the App Store or Google Play.

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