Learning News

Learning News Week 8, Term 1 2025

Learning News

This fortnight, we've seen fantastic mathematical learning across the school, with students engaging in a variety of topics including whole numbers, addition, position, and angles. Year 1 explored position through hands-on activities with BeeBots, while Year 4 combined creativity with learning by identifying angles to create angle art. It’s exciting to see such enthusiasm and exploration in the classroom.

Additionally, our Year 3 and 5 students have shown great dedication in completing their NAPLAN tests, including Writing, Reading, Conventions of Language, and Numeracy. Well done to all students for their focus and effort!

Leah Summerell

Leader of Pedagogy / Mathematics Specialist Teacher

K/1

Kindergarten and Year 1 have been working with a focus on whole numbers in Mathematics. We have learned the importance of zero in the counting sequence and that zero represents a quantity. We applied our knowledge of the Friends of Ten to represent the numbers that combine to make 10, using tens frames and concrete materials. We recognised that 5+5 is a double and can also be represented as two groups of 5. We have been working very hard to learn the correct way to neatly form numbers and have been practising the various counting patterns within 100. 

Great job Kindergarten and Year 1.

Mrs Underwood

K/1 Teacher

Year 1

In Year 1, students are developing their understanding of place value by exploring grouping in tens. Using hands-on materials like popsticks, counters, tens frames, and tens towers, we are learning to recognise how numbers are made up of tens and ones. Through engaging activities, we practice bundling popsticks into groups of ten, arranging counters on tens frames, and building tens towers to visualise numbers in place value houses. These concrete experiences help build a strong foundation for number sense and mathematical reasoning.

Year 1 Teacher

Miss Lyall

Year 2

Year 2 have been working hard to apply their knowledge of place value in Mathematics. We use MAB and interlocking blocks to show the value of a variety of numbers. Students also used their computers to take a photo of their learning and upload it on Padlet. We have some very clever mathematicians in our class! Well done year 2! Miss Rasche

Miss Rasche

Year 2 Teacher

Year 3

Year 3 has been very busy this week. We have been looking at the meaning of the equals sign in a number sentence and how both sides need to be balanced. Year 3 has discovered that number sentences can look different but still be equivalent. For example; 7+3=10 and 15-5=10 are equivalent as they both equal 10. We have learnt how to combine two numbers to create a decade number to assist us when solving a variety of addition problems. Well done Year 3!

Mrs Davis

Year 3 Teacher

Year 4

In maths Year 4 we have been learning about Angles. In particular naming/classifying different types of angles and the close relationship that angels have with 2D shapes. 

Checkout our angel's artworks.

Miss Martin

Year 4 (Minions) Teacher

Stage 3

This week Stage 3 have been learning about the Cartesian Coordinate System (or Cartesian Plane) and discovered that it was invented in 1637 by René Descartes. It is a coordinate system that consists of a horizontal x-axis and a vertical y-axis that allows pinpoint accuracy for plotting points on the intersections of the grid.  This is different to the grid reference system, often used in maps, that plots an area using the coordinates for a space.  Stage 3 have had lots of fun learning to use the Cartesian Plane and challenging themselves using negative coordinates.  We can’t wait to see what our mystery pictures bring once we finish plotting the coordinates!  Great work Stage 3.

Mrs Shepherd

Stage 3 Teacher/AP