Whole School Activities

Gymnastics

The program each week commences with a group warm up and stretches followed by a combined activity on rotating skills. Last Friday we enjoyed springing, jumping and landing. The activities are organised into 4 activity groups for rotation around the four apparatus stations for Rotation, Balance, Swing and Statics, which change each week. The sessions finish with a circuit combining all apparatus to finish and last week even involved the new foam pit which was lots of fun!

Lower Division

Lower Division have just concluded our latest mathematics unit where we have been looking at measurement and the different ways we can measure things. A popular activity was working out how to share items equally between a group of friends - discussing the sharing of salad rolls made us all hungry.

Lower Division has been continuing with our Drama studies where last week we started to make some simple puppets out of paper plates. The class is enjoying this greatly and we will finish decorating our creations this week before working in pairs to create a short scene to present to the class.

In English we have finished our study of  "The March of the Ants" where we looked and character and representation. Lower Division worked very well, constructing sentences and identifying the characteristics of the ants in the book. We have just started our unit on Context, where we will study the book "A Year on our Farm" and " All Through the Year".

Upper Division

This term, Stage 3 are engaging in a novel study on Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief written by Katrina Nannestad. We are exploring the author's style and applying this to our own writing. In a recent lesson, we made predictions prior to reading Chapter 9, based on the stimulus image in the book. The protagonist, Sasha, had been collecting items to recall parts of his life, jogging his memory as he finds the words to retell his experiences to others. We used the items as inspiration to predict and write our own ideas on what Chapter 9 may entail, using first person narrative, from the perspective of Sasha. Within this Tier 3 vocabulary has been a focus, as we unpack new subject specific language during shared reading, and apply this to our writing.