Message from the Principal Team
Year 5/6 Butterfly Body Kind Leadership Workshop
On Tuesday twenty-five Year 5/6 students attended an online Body Kind Leadership Workshop. The students opted in to attend this workshop and during the session, they were presented with information and strategies on how they could develop actions to promote body positivity at CNPS.
Italian Day
Congratulations to Isabella and her collective of staff and parent helpers on an extremely successful and engaging Italian Day. Students across the years had a wonderful time moving between various activities: Tiramisu, bocce, soccer, self-portraits and Da Vinci’s bridge challenge.
District Athletics Day
46 students from Years 3 to 6 travelled to Coburg Athletics Track today to represent CNPS at the District Athletics. Congratulations to all of the students who competed today:
Zaineb 56MS Khalid 56B Louis 56B Ines 56MS
Jimmy 34S Irushi 56K Ryan 56B Freya 34C
Mischa 56B Flannery 56K Liam 34B Kit 34B
Alexa 56MS Amelie 56MS Rose 56MS Oscar 56K
Viktoriia 56K Issy 56MS Zara 56B Annie 56MS
Adesh 34S Louis 56MS Abigail 56MS Claude 34B
Seb 56MS Arlo 56MS Otto 56K Anton 56K
Vivienne 34B Gracie 56MS Olivia 56B Vito 34CO
Oscar 34CO Tom 56MS Ben 34S Margot 56MS
Alice 56MS Seb 56B Ethan 56MS Amelie 34B
Harry 34CO Mavis 56MS Alice 56B Quinn 56MS
Elsa 34S Catherine 56B
Wear It Purple Day
Tomorrow we will be celebrating Wear It Purple Day, which strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive school community where we respect the beliefs of all our students and their families and celebrate diversity. We look forward to tomorrow’s celebration and being able to purchase some purple cupcakes and/or wrist bands. We hope to see all our students in attendance, wearing purple and supporting LGBTQIA+ members of our school community.
Book Week Parade Wednesday 30 August
Next Wednesday we will be celebrating Book Week by coming to school dressed as our favourite book character. We look forward to our annual Book Week Parade at 9:15am.
Staff Professional Learning
Yarra Primary School Visit
Today Valetta McDonald (Assistant Principal) and Rachel Tan (Numeracy Leader) visited Carlton North Primary School to observe Maddi Davis teaching a Maths lesson on problem solving with fractions. The session’s focus was on demonstrating students being given the time for productive struggle and making use of enabling and extending prompts.
Learning Walks Monday 28 August
On Monday we will be conducting Learning Walks across the school. Learning Walks involve a group of teachers visiting multiple classrooms at their own school with the aim of fostering conversation about teaching and learning in order to develop a shared vision of high quality teaching that impacts on student learning. On Monday the focus will be on Six Indicators That Maths Teaching and Learning are Thriving At Your School (Vingerhoets http://robvingerhoets.com.au/maths/ ).
- Indicator 1: Evidence of the use and application of Key Words and effective use of Whiteboard space.
- Indicator 2: Ease of access and availability of essential materials and equipment for all classrooms.
- Indicator 3: An effective lesson structure for maths (and effective planning for maths).
- Indicator 4: True explicit teaching – at the point of need. A flexible, effective definition of explicit teaching.
- Indicator 5: High expectations – especially true of Foundation level students and, regularly, of female students.
- Indicator 6: Engaged (not simple busy) students and teachers and the regular use of open-ended tasks (problems and activities).
Principal Team
Rachel Corben and Jane Bilby