PLT Spotlight

Senior STEM

During Term 4 in STEM, our senior students have been learning design technologies. Throughout the unit, they have followed the design process to conduct research, create plans, construct a model, and evaluate its success.

Our Year 3 and 4 students have been busy working in groups to create a toy or a game that uses push and pull forces to function. The designs that have been produced show great imagination, problem solving and collaboration. They range from puppet shows and pop-up boxes, to larger basketball and soccer games.

Our Year 5 and 6 students have learned about a wider range of forces as well as how to use a range of components to create an electrical circuit. Students have applied this understanding to create a model car that can move, light up or make sound. Some of the designs include ambulances with loud sirens, trucks with bright headlights, and cars designed to look like animals.

Our students have shown they can take an idea and create a finished design solution, flexibly adapting when met with challenges. Great work everyone!

Junior PE 

This term our focus in PE lessons has been on developing our striking technique through a range of sports and games.  Students have thoroughly enjoyed learning to bat, strike or control the ball through sports such as tee ball, cricket, tennis and hockey.  A major focus of the term was cricket, where we were lucky enough to have some experts from Cricket Victoria come out and teach our students in F-2 some games and skills used in the game of cricket.  Students enjoyed learning to bat, bowl, field, make runs and have a whole heap of fun whilst learning all about cricket.  The learning continued in the classroom where each grade was given a set of squishy cricket balls to complete the ‘Cricket Mascot Challenge’.  Each week classes were given a challenge to practise their throwing, catching, bouncing and game play through a number of targeted activities that got progressively harder.  When students completed the challenge they were able to take these balls home to continue the learning beyond the classroom.

In the last couple of weeks of term all students in Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 have had the opportunity to participate in an Aquatic Fun Day.  These days were held at Casey Race and gave all students the opportunity to practise their safety skills in the water.  For many it was their first time going into the deep end of the pool and trying a life jacket on.  These are important experiences to allow students to gain confidence in the water and increase their awareness of how to ensure they are safe around the water.  We hope all students had lots of fun participating in activities such as the inflatable, water games, safe entries and exits and free play in the water while learning some new skills!

Senior PE

This term has been a busy but fun term!  We had our annual Colour Run, where we raised over $13,000 which was amazing, but also had SO much fun out on the field running around and getting coloured!

A huge congratulations to Kael (6C) for coming 7th in the State at Athletics, where he competed in 100m sprint. Such a great achievement against!

On 1st December our Year 3 and 4 students went to the MCG Museum. We got to do a tour of the MCG and learnt a lot of interesting facts, such as the oldest part of the MCG is the lights! We got to play in the Game On area and experience and try a lot of different sports. We learnt a lot about different sports people in the Museum and had we had a presentation by retired Olympian Diver, Jenny Donnet. All the students and teachers had a really great day.

On Thursday 7th December, we had Brooke Buschkuehl, an Australian Olympic Long Jumper, come to our school to talk to our Year 3-6 students about her journey to become an Olympian. She talked to us about her challenges, how she overcame set backs and built her resilience, her achievements and her plan for the Paris Olympics in 2024. She was such an inspiration to all of us. Check out the article  in the Cranbourne Star News!

https://cranbournenews.starcommunity.com.au/news/2023-12-14/star-visits-clyde/

Unfortunately due to the crazy Melbourne weather we had to cancel our Year 3-6 Swimming carnival, but we are hoping to reschedule for 2024.

On Monday 11th December, we held a Staff vs Year 6 netball game in the gym. Lots of students came to watch and to cheer everyone on. The teachers walked away with the win! The final score being 36-9. It was a great game by all players and we can’t wait for some more competitions in 2024!

Art

What an AMAZING year we’ve had in the art room!  Students have tried their hands at many types of art process and techniques such as paper-mache, stitching, 3D drawing, painting, construction, printing and more. They’ve assisted with painting the school production backdrops, some mosaicking on the legacy tiles on the foundation building, they all had the opportunity to paper-mache and paint a giant giraffe sculpture named Jim that is now living his best life in the office foyer (ask any of your children in years 1-6 why that is his name), and provided ideas for a mural for next year.  We’ve had winners from the badge design competition and other opportunities for students to express their own creative selves. Everyday students from years F to 6 have inspired us and shown us what amazing artists they truly are and I hope that they’ve come home and shared with you all the wonderful new creative skills they’ve learned. Also, once again, the Year 6’s have eagerly prepared self-portraits for the legacy tile project so they can leave their own legacy on the walls of Clyde Primary School for all to enjoy once they transition to their Secondary School experience.

There are some more big plans underway in the art room for next year….so watch this space.

Music

This term, Junior students further developed their understanding of the different percussion instruments. They learned how to play maracas, triangles, tambourines, castanets, cymbals, and djembe and worked collaboratively to create music. Year 3 students identified the parts of the ukulele and started to learn to play some basic chords. Year 3 and 4 students identified different instruments in the world through games and categorised them to their matching instrument families such as Woodwind, String, Percussion and Brass. Year 4-6 students developed their understanding of time signatures, note values and counting skills through the lessons in drumming using bucket drums. Year 5 and 6 students completed research on musical genres and bands in the world.  

Our Choir continued to grow and performed so well at the Cranbourne Day care and Kindergarten, Parent Helper Tea and at the Christmas Carols. The Year 1 Singing Group also did a wonderful job performing at the Parent Helper Tea.

Junior STEM 

This Term, in Junior STEM we have continued focusing on Design Technologies and learning to use the design process. We have been learning about different forces such as push/pull, gravity, and sink/float. We investigated how the forces of push and pull are used to create movement in children’s toys.

We used the design process and our new knowledge about forces to design and build a car ramp that would move a toy car across the floor.