🗓️ TERM 1 DATES

🌱 March 4th: Interschool Sports Gala Day 1

🌱 March 4th: Level 5/6 Information Video Released (link to come)

🌱 March 10th: Labour Day Public Holiday

🌱 March 11th: Interschool Sports Gala Day 2

🌱 March 12th - 21st: NAPLAN Testing

🌱 March 20th: Colour Run

🌱 March 26th: Primary Dream and Lead Conference (Grade 6 only)

🌱 March 27th: Whole School Photos

🌱 March 28th: Whole School Cross Country (TBC)

🌱 April 4th: End of Term 1 (2:30 dismissal)

🗓️ TERM 2 DATES

🌱 April 22nd: Term 2 Begins (Tuesday)

🌱 May 19th - 23rd: Grade 6 Gelantipy Camp

🌱 May 26th - 30th: Grade 5 Gelantipy Camp

Volunteer Child Safe Training - Term 1 Sessions

· Week 6: Wednesday, 5th March | 5:15 - 5:45 PM (online)

https://eduvic.webex.com/eduvic/j.php?MTID=mef3a2152e87f811c709212cd25375ce6

· Week 9: Monday, 25th March | 5:00 - 5:30 PM (online)

https://eduvic.webex.com/eduvic/j.php?MTID=m338c73b0471873f39d56a73e6c91506f

We encourage all new volunteers or volunteers needed to update their training to attend one of these sessions to ensure compliance and to continue making a positive impact in our school community.

DROP OFF AND PICK UP IN LANTANA

Please be mindful of the road signs on Lantana Road. It is a NO PARKING zone in front of the school, during school start and finish times. To ensure a smooth and safe process, we have a designated pick-up system at the end of the day where a teacher monitors and guides students into cars lined up in the queue. This system works efficiently when there are no parked cars breaching the signage during these times. Thank you for your cooperation.

🌱 LITERACY

This week, we are continuing our mentor texts, War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (Grade 5) and The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett (Grade 6).

In Reading, we are learning about appositives and personification and will continue to focus on comprehension and analysing the text for rich vocabulary.

What you can do at home

Ask your child to share what they have read about in the mentor texts during week. Enable them to read texts of their interests on a daily basis and talk to them about what they’re reading and why.

In Writing, Grade 5s are working on persuasive texts in preparation for NAPLAN. They will be forming clear arguments and using persuasive language to convey an opinion based on a given prompt. Students will be developing reasons for their arguments while continuing to include punctuation and write with clarity.

The Grade 6s will focus on strengthening their narrative writing by refining their unique voice and style. They will practice a variety of figurative language (personification, similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, idioms, alliteration, etc) to make their work more expressive and engaging.

In Spelling, students in Grade 5 will continue to work on their independent word lists, based on their results on the SWST. This will continue each week, with new words and a variety of activities to choose from.

Grade 6 students are focusing on understanding the meanings of various suffixes. They’ll explore how the suffix ‘ad’ and ‘ac’ indicate “toward,” as in words like adjust and accumulate. They’ll also look at how these suffixes change the meaning of base words.

🌱 NUMERACY

This week, Grade 5 students will continue to investigate NAPLAN questions with explicit teaching; focusing on understanding what the question is asking them to find, recalling the numeracy skills required to solve it and the steps involved.

Grade 6 students will be working on place value, focusing on representing, ordering, and comparing numbers with decimals. They’ll also practice rounding, along with adding and subtracting, to build a solid foundation and boost their confidence with these operations.

What you can do at home

Discuss and work on decimal problems while you are grocery shopping or purchasing goods. You may want to discuss how much change is given when paying with cash. You may also discuss decimals when cooking at home, when weighing and measuring ingredients.

🌱 CBL

We’ve already explored what it means to be an Australian citizen, including the process of becoming one and the responsibilities it involves. Next, we’ll focus on the 1967 Referendum, a significant moment in Australian history. We will investigate the Constitution of Australia and how it impacts people in different ways.

Essential Question:

How and why do people connect to achieve laws in society?

Guiding Questions:

- What does it mean to be a citizen?

- What is democracy in Australia and why is voting in a democracy important?

- What are the roles and responsibilities of the different levels of government and how do they connect?

- How are laws developed and enforced?

🌱 WELLBEING

We are working on helping students to recognise the positive, negative and mixed emotions that we all experience throughout our days. We will use discussions and activities to explore a variety of scenarios and the feelings that may be associated.

🌿 REMINDERS

🌱 Please assist your child in ensuring that their iPad comes to school every day, fully charged.

🌱 Please refer to the email communication (12/2/25) in regards to giving permission for allowing connection for your child's iPad to Moysle. This permission must be given before your child can bring their iPad into class.

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