Principal Team Updates

YEAR 6 CAMP COONAWARRA

Our Year 6 students and teachers have been having a ball at camp this week. The wide range of challenging activities offered at Camp Coonawarra build on the wonderful experiences provided by the CHPS Camping Program. Some of the activities which the students have been involved in throughout the week included; flying fox, hut building, archery, high & low ropes, giant swing, initiative and environmental activities. 

NAPLAN

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is a literacy and numeracy assessment that students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit each year. It is the only national assessment all Australian students have the opportunity to undertake.  From Wednesday the 12th March – Monday the 24th of March Year 3 and Year 5 students will undertake NAPLAN Assessments. 

As students progress through their school years, it is important to check how well they are learning the essential skills of reading, writing and numeracy.  NAPLAN assesses the literacy and numeracy skills that students are learning through the school curriculum and allows parents/carers to see how their child is progressing against national proficiency standards. 

NAPLAN is just one aspect of a school’s assessment and reporting process. It does not replace ongoing assessments made by teachers about student performance, but it can provide teachers with additional information about students’ educational progress. NAPLAN also provides schools, education authorities and governments with information about how education programs are working and whether young Australians are achieving important educational outcomes in literacy and numeracy.

For more information regarding NAPLAN please contact your child’s teacher or alternatively visit the website: https://www.nap.edu.au/docs/default-source/default-document-library/naplan-information-brochure-for-parents-and-carers.pdf 

In the Specialist Rooms

Art

Each Term Miss Michelin hosts a range of lunch time clubs for students to attend from drawing club to Year Level Art Academies. This Term Year 6 students were invited to be part of a lunch time club which focused on producing Art Work for the Young Archies competition. 

This is a competition for young artists to submit a portrait of a person who is important in their life. The competition requirements state that the portrait is ‘painted from life’ and that the subject has a sitting for their portrait – just like the Archibald Prize. You can create a portrait from memory or take a photograph to use for reference. Students who opt into this opportunity will be required to bring a current photograph to use as a reference point, and create their work at school.  

Students who are involved in this project have been busy choosing and interviewing their subject and have begun their initial sketching's in their work towards a finished product.

SMG

It was wonderful to spend some time in Prep Sensory Motor Gym (SMG) this week. It is Week 3 of them engaging in the program and the students were well versed in the routines, knowing that each lesson begins with a warm up to activate both sides of body. They then moved seamlessly into their learning stations where they practised a range of both fine motor and gross motor skills which linked back to what they have been learning in the classroom. 

Christian Holdsworth, Amy Prior, Julie Reid & Bree Jennings