Message from the Principal
James Penson
YEAR 5 MELBOURNE CITY CULTURE & CONNECTION DAY
What a GREAT day last Thursday! The Year 5’s visited the Arts Centre, Birrarung Marr, the NGV, ACMI, Carlton Gardens and finished off with a delicious dinner and gelato on Lygon Street. Our vision at Greenhills is for our students to be curious, connected and open to challenge and have a positive impact on the community. Days like this one are perfect examples of us working and striving to deliver this vision.
A special thanks to Andrea Williams for her incredible organisation to make this day possible, along with all of her helpers including the Specialist Teachers, Janine and parent helper Sarah. We can now look forward to this day becoming a regular part of our camps and extra-curricular program.
FAMILY EDUCATION EVENING – TUESDAY 21st NOVEMBER 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Our Family Education Evening will again have a positive transition focus this year. This is your chance to participate in your child’s education and find out a little bit more about what next year will look like! We will launch into the fun and activities at 6.30pm and your challenge is to complete 3 different 15-minute sessions in the classrooms your child/ren will be in 2024. For example, our current Year 1 students will be able to join in with their parents through 3 different Year 2 activities, all of approximately 15 minutes so that we finish at 7.30pm.
This evening will be very active, hands on and a wonderful way to get that Greenhills experience as a family.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact me: james.penson@education.vic.gov.au
Year 1’s | 1GC Spelling - How to give a tricky word a go. 1JC Writing - How to enhance a sentence. 1KO Maths - Fun number games. |
Year 2’s | 2AD Writing practise – Build your editing skills during this session. 2JM Maths game - Learn to improve your skills at adding using partitioning. 2SH & 2LO Spelling – Learning and consolidating long vowel sounds (graphemes). |
Year 3’s | 3MH Maths -Using Hands-on Maths Games to practise Number Fluency. 3AK Well-Being & Zones of Regulation -Do a Check-in of students' emotions focusing on Happiness and breath work. 3RM Typing Club - Learn to correctly use a keyboard to type with speed and accuracy. |
Year 4’s | 4TW Literacy - Spelling session looking at developing spelling strategies. 4DS Numeracy - Developing mathematical thinking through problem-solving and reasoning. 4JR Science - Developing an understanding of shadows. |
Year 5’s | 5BC Maths -Using blocks to build objects to then to translate, reflect and rotate on grid paper. 5SM Wellbeing -Explore the Zones of Regulation by sorting and brainstorms a range of emotions and strategies for each zone. 5/6LR Science -Get under the microscopes and explore what a range of different materials look like close up. |
Year 6’s | 6TS Spelling - Students will get the opportunity to use their agency to set and work on a personal spelling goal. They will be looking at a variety of spelling strategies to help practice and remember spelling rules and patterns. 6BS Maths - Find out what numeracy in Year 6 looks like when we 'Check Your Level' and then use student agency to choose the learning focus that is 'just right' foy you. |
GREENHILLS COMMUNTIY CHRISTMAS TREE
Our school is part of the Community Christmas Tree’s display at Greensborough Plaza. Our tree was designed and decorated by our Year 1 artists who were inspired with the theme “Family Christmas”. Each student used fine liner pens to draw a scene of what makes Christmas special for their family. They then blended out the edges with chalk pastel and added their decoration to our sparkly tree.
For every $20 spent at the Plaza you receive a token to vote for your favourite tree. The winning school will then receive $2000 towards their fundraising initiatives.
MEET WITH THE PRINCIPAL TEAM
Yes – Webex session at 7.30pm tonight. This will be our final Mid-Term Meet with the Principal Team for this year.
Some of the topics that we will cover include:
- School structure & class sizes model for 2024
- Planning and Key Actions for 2024
- Working together to create a positive transition.
Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
James Penson
Principal
