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All year levels have been working on throwing, catching and striking skills through modified cricket activities and games. Ask your child which one of the following game/s their year level played:

Wreck it Ralph/Fix it Felix - students throw a ball at cricket stumps and if they hit they get to take a piece back to their team. They keep going until there are no pieces left.

Cricket Golden Child - one team is the running team. The other take it turns to bowl at the stumps. If they hit they yell stop and the runner stops. This continues until the last runner is the golden child and can get all the other runners back in if they make it around the playing space before the other team hits the stumps.

Scorcher Ball - Split into two teams. Every student has a ball. Playing area is a rectangle. 4 large balls are played in the rectangle Students throw the small balls at the larger ball to try and get it over the other teams line

Rapid Fire - Students use cricket batting tees to practise striking a stationary ball (can be adapted for Seniors where the ball is bowled so its a moving target). Other students form a line and try and stop the ball going past, if the batter gets it through they score a run. Can be played individually or as a team.

Year 2, Year 3 and Year 5 were lucky enough to round off the Cricket themed unit with a free clinic from Coach Peter from Cricket Victoria.

Senior Hoop Time

Well done to our three Senior Hoop Time teams that played at Casey Stadium on Wednesday 28th August. There was lots of laughter and buckets made. Thanks to the parents who transported students to and from the event. A big thankyou to Adam C, John B and Emily C for coaching the teams and Jess C, Alesha B and Lyn D for scoring each game.

Junior Hoop Time

Huge congratulations to our two Junior Hoop time teams that competed at Casey Stadium on Tuesday 3rd September. Both teams played with such heart and determination. The Future Stars mixed team finished 2nd in their pool and showed great teamwork. The All Star Boys team made it through to the semi-final and were unlucky to go down by a few points to the eventual winners Clyde.

Thanks to Adam C, Jess C, Lyn D, Alicia P and Kirstie S for assisting with coaching and scoring.

Special thanks to all the amazing parents who transported the students and also cheered them on!

Junior School Swimming

Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 students completed their 5 day swimming and water safety program at Casey RACE. It was great to see so many happy, smiling faces in the water. As part of the Swimming in Schools program we were once again able to subside part of this program for families. Not only do programs like this teach students water skills and safety around water, it also enable the students to become independent at getting themselves dry and dressed.

In P.E lessons back at school students completed a variety of water safety activities such as find a words and spot the difference tasks that reinforced water safety in difference environments. They also go to explore the Swim City game on iPads

Junior School

The Foundation students have completed their learning about the Road to Regulation, which is a process of identifying our feelings, matching them to a zone from our Zones of Regulation, and thinking of a strategy from our tool box to either wake ourselves and energise, stay focused, or bring our energy down. We have also begun our Life Education pre-work on our topic Healthy Bodies.

While the Year 1 students have been talking about what it means to be brave or kind and how that helps our friends, we have also started our Life Ed pre work on Safety Rules. The Year 2 students have continued their discussions about our strengths and how we can use them to achieve great things. Our Life Ed topic is Growing Good Friends.

Middle School

The Year 3 students have continued discussing our Stop, Opt and Go skills again, moving onto how we choose the right option to match what we are feeling. The Year 3 Life Ed topic is Healthy Bodies. Our Year 4 students are also discussing reading the emotions of the people around us to help when we are confronted with conflict. If we can read how our friends are feeling we can better handle when something goes wrong in our friendships. The Year 4 Life Ed topic is around being Cyber Safe.

Senior School

Our Years 5 and 6 students have completed their unit on topics from culture, sexism, racism, correct ICT use and the importance of having representation of all people from diverse backgrounds on TV, through the watching of Hardball and Mustangs FC. Their Life Ed topics are Think Twice, the affects of alcohol and Take a Breath, the health impacts of smoking and vaping.

Bullying, No Way!

Earlier this term Cranbourne South took some time to acknowledge Bullying, No Way!! National Week of action. Classes completed activities themselves and with their buddies, trying to foster relationships across the year levels. A lot of the time bullying stems from a lack of understanding. Some talking points you could use at home to foster discussions with your children could be: Who did you make smile today?

Who made you laugh today?

Did you notice anyone who was sad today, and did you do anything about it?

And talk about being a flame protector, there’s a wonderful video by Brene Brown that explains this conflict of supporting and celebrating success of ourselves and our friends, rather than putting people down. Have a look here.

GARDEN PROGRAM

Our Year 3 students have been getting creative by building frog saunas and Southern Brown Bandicoot Bungalows! This hands-on project teaches students about design, problem-solving, and environmental awareness as they created a small, safe habitats for frogs and bandicoots.

Save the Frogs - Frog species around the world are being wiped out by chytrid fungus, so far at least 90 species have become extinct. The frog saunas enable the frogs to raise their body temperature enough to fight off the fungus.

NATURE PLAY

Junior school students are embracing creativity and nature by learning to weave on weaving mats using natural materials. This hands-on activity allows children to explore different textures and patterns as they work with grasses, leaves, and other natural objects found outdoors. This lesson develops fine motor skills, patience, and an appreciation for the beauty of the natural world. It’s a wonderful way for them to connect with nature.

Environmental Science

Senior school students have been exploring the fascinating world of atoms and molecules. They’ve been learning that everything around us is made up of tiny particles called atoms, and when atoms bond together, they form molecules. A key focus has been understanding how water molecules behave. Through hands-on experiments, students have discovered that water molecules are attracted to each other due to a special type of bond called hydrogen bonding. This has led to exciting discussions about surface tension and how water can hold together in droplets. It’s wonderful to see students engaging with such foundational scientific concepts in such a practical and interactive way!

CONCERT

OH, WHAT A NIGHT!!

I cannot put into words how proud I am of the students bringing everything they had to the big night!

Thanks so much to all the families for their support in preparation for the concert and attending on the night.

A special mention to the students who assisted others on concert day to be their best. You really showed us your Murrup Spirit!

Please check Compass for the magnificent professional photos from the night.

Over the next couple of weeks students will be completing various art projects around the concert theme and creating a collaborative display to help them remember and reflect on their concert experience.

The Junior School have completed some reflections that will be put together into a book for their classes to share.

Here are a few behind the scenes pics from the concert to enjoy! Due to photo permissions, not every class could be featured.

The Junior School students have continued to explore coding with the Beebots. They have practiced entering an algorithm to make their beebot follow a specific path and using the online emulator to draw shapes with the beebot.

They were challenged to match a written code to a shape after entering the algorithm into the beebot and observing the shape it made on the floor.

Students reflected on the strategies they used and challenged themselves to move from physical manipulation of the beebot to more critical thinking and internalised problem solving.

In our Digital Technologies lessons, students in Years 3, 4, and 5 have been excitedly engaging with Edison robots to explore coding and robotics. Through hands-on activities, they are learning how to program the robots to follow instructions, navigate obstacles, and complete tasks. These interactive lessons are helping students build problem-solving skills, develop their understanding of algorithms, and foster creativity. By experimenting with Edison robots, students are gaining a solid foundation in digital literacy and coding, preparing them for more advanced technological learning in the future.

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