Educational Achievement 

Reading

As the end of term is coming up quickly, school library books are due back. Even over the the holidays, it is super important to keep on reading!

You can continue to read by checking out books at the town library, searching for free online reading books and reading apps, find some books in the house or ask your neighbours to do a book swap to find something new to read. You might even ask the Easter Bunny to bring you a new book! 

First Nations Reading Tutors

A lot of our year 6 students (and some year 5s) are so passionate about reading, they volunteer their time to support some of our younger students to continue to develop their reading skills. They help their young buddies use reading strategies of breaking down a word, sounding out, re-reading to help develop fluency and talking about the story to help develop comprehension. 

Some of our leaders are heading over to Gulliver's kindy this week during National Storytime Week and will read books with our Kindy friends. 

NAPLAN

Students in year 3 and 5 have been busy sitting NAPLAN tests over the past 2 weeks. All students have given every test a red-hot-go and it has been so impressive to see. Results from this testing isn't usually available until later on in the year. 

CURRICULUM

All students have been working hard on reading, comprehending and writing narratives. Students from 5/6P have been working hard on writing 'Hooks and Zingers' which are the start of the story, to hook the reader in, and to give some background information. 

Beep, bop, bang. It was 6:30am on a Saturday morning and I had a big day ahead of me. 

I put my hair up tight, got dressed and ate a bit of breaky. Today was my State Championship 100 metre sprint. I knew it would be tough, but I was up for the challenge. I had butterflies in my tummy and goosebumps on my skin. My first challenge was to face the Brisbane traffic. "Oh no," I thought in my head. -Annabel

When will it end? I haven't met someone in a week. My team died, no one else lived, only me. I'm left. 

'Crumple'. Gotta run and hide. You can' tell if these are infected, people are cured, or not. Their acting is too good. The only way to survive is to kill anyone you run into. Don't trust, don't let your guard down, don't sleep. It's been two months of no sleep. 5 years of this stupid world. Why do I care to live? - Amelia

We can't wait to read some interesting narratives in the next couple of weeks! 

Music

Research conducted by the Tony Foundation in Australia highlighted that  “Music learning improves students’ confidence in their sense of self and a realistic sense of their capacities & abilities”. Of course, our main goal in Music is to build musical skills but there are so many great by-products of music learning. Increasing confidence is one of them. Here’s the link if you’d like to read more https://www.alberts.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Alberts_Music-Education-Report_A4.pdf 

Resilience and Music

If you are a parent of a child in band, strings or choir (or considering it for the future) you might like to skim this article. It talks about some of the side benefits of being part of choir, band or strings. Our musicians are developing so much more than their musicianship in every rehearsal! Thanks to the parents who help them with this massive commitment. 

Instrumental Music

Monday March 25th - Concert Band Practice 8am in the hall. NO instrumental lessons throughout the day, due to Staff Professional Development.

News from our Library

Thank you to the P & C and parents that supported Book Fair, especially our very capable volunteers. We raised nearly $6000 which allows us to buy more resources for the library.

Chess Club is held every Tuesday at Morning Tea

Reader's Cup practice is every Wednesday at Lunch

Library is open to children every morning from 8:30am and all breaks except Friday Morning Tea.  Activities such as reading, colouring, board games and block play are available during the breaks.