Classroom & Curriculum News

Weekly Assembly Awards

Congratulations to the students who worked hard this week and received an Encouragement  and Recognition Award!!

Prep 

Buddy activities

We love having buddy time between the Grade 6s and the preps. We do fun craft activities, sport games and respectful relationship lessons that make it so interesting across the age gap. The Grade 6s are so kind, patient and nurturing to us and we love hanging out with them. The preps loved the St Augustine fun day run by their buddies, learning the ropes of what leadership will look like in a few years time. We also had fun playing some teamwork and cooperation icebreaker games on the senior yard all together. 

Stick Insects

A few weeks ago, Quin kindly bought in his pet stick insects for us to hold and look at. We wrote all kinds of descriptive sentences about how they made us feel and what they looked like. There was lots of squeals and giggles in the classroom but we tried our best to be quiet for the small visitors. Thankyou Quin for sharing all of your knowledge about Bluey the stick insect!!!

House Colour Competition

3/4 News

3/4 students meet Honey the puppy!

Last week on Monday, Miss Maher's puppy came in for a visit. She loved her time at school and getting pats from everyone. We hope she'll be back for another visit soon!

3/4 excursion to Yarraville Village 

In Maths, the 3/4 students have been looking at money, so on Tuesday last week they went on an excursion to Yarraville Village. The students used their knowledge and skills about money to make some purchases. The students browsed the prices of fruit at Prestige Fruit and Vegetables and made a purchase. The students then used their remaining money to buy another snack from another shop, including Alfa, Grill'd, Under the Sea Fish and Chips and Souvlaki GR. The students then ate their purchases in the Yarraville Village Pop-Up Park.

Basketball Grand final 

Well done to Kiera, Stephanie, Hazel, Charlotte & Hayley from Year 4 and their team 'Wembley Wildflowers' for winning their basketball grand final in the U12 Girls Division 3 last Saturday. What a great game it was, keep up the awesome work girls!

5/6 Hoop Time

Last Friday, some of the 5/6 students participated in Hoop Time basketball competition against other primary schools in the area. The girls and boys All Star teams had some fierce competition. 

Congratulations to the Boys All Star teams making it to the Semi finals.

Amazing effort from the Girls All Star teams making to fifth place.

5/6 Inquiry Museum Walk

Thank you to parents, students and teachers who came along to the 5/6 classes on Tuesday for the museum walk. 

This term for inquiry, the students learnt about the 'Journey to Discovery' and completed a research task on a famous inventor and their invention. The likes of Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Josephine Cochrane, Nancy Johnson, The Wright Brothers and Henry Ford. 

Below are some of the amazing replica models of the famous inventions.

Italian Prep-Yr6

Another successful term: Preps have been learning numbers, colours, days of the week through storytime, songs, games and online tasks.

Year 1/2 students have been little mathematicians  completing maths tasks in Italian!!  Online maths tasks and completing equations all written in Italian.

Year 3/4 students have been working on their monster creative projects.  Writing descriptive pieces and now onto making their monster. 

Year 5/6 students have been working and completed their amazing stop motion projects.  The stop motions have been sent out to the Dante Alighieri committee to share and promote our school in the wider community.   5/6 students have also been working on reading comprehension tasks, dictations, grammar rules as a transition into year 7 language class. 

The students have enjoyed using the new Italian resources across the board, learning the language  in small groups.

Congratulations to all the children and happy holidays to all.

Benefits of learning a language: Education.VIC.GOV.AU

Learning a language:

• develops an understanding of how languages work which leads to improved literacy skills, including English literacy
• helps students develop critical thinking, analysis and problem solving skills
• teaches students about other peoples, their ideas and ways of thinking
• inspires interest in and respect for other cultures
• enhances employment and career prospects
• contributes to social cohesiveness through better communication and understanding

School Colour Fang Run

Thursday 26th October will be our School Colour Fang (Fun) Run. Please watch the video below to get a sense of what it will be like. More information to come Week 1 of Term 4.