Student News

Foundation 

The Foundation students have been using our fabulous interactive TVs to support literacy. Here we are sounding out and making words with digraphs (two letters, one sound). 

We have been looking at measurement and focusing on measuring objects end-to-end, without gaps, with informal units such as counters, popsticks and blocks.

We were lucky enough to have also had the fire brigade visit and attend an incursion on Responsible Pet Ownership. 

Grades 1 & 2

Earlier this term, the Junior School students attended a Responsible Pet Incursion.

We learnt about how to look after our pets and how to approach a dog that we don’t know. 

We learnt that we need to STOP at least 3 steps away, 

ASK if we are allowed to approach the dog,

let the dog SMELL the back of our hand and then PAT along their back from their collar. We should never approach a dog that is not on a lead. 

Some of us were even able to put our new skills into action with Benson!

Grades 3 & 4

In grade 3/4 we’ve had a busy few weeks preparing for our production, practicing our songs, dance moves, and stage entrances. All the hard work paid off, and we were so proud to put on such an amazing performance last week!

Grades 5 & 6

Term 3 has been an exciting and action-packed time for our Year 5/6 students! Our senior students fully embraced their additional responsibilities during the school production, taking on key roles as leads or starring in multiple ensembles. Their enthusiasm, passion and dedication have been truly inspiring. We couldn’t be prouder of their resilience throughout the whirlwind of rehearsals, memorising lines, practising songs, and ensuring their costumes were ready to go over the past few weeks.

In Literacy, students are putting the finishing touches on their information reports. Each student has been researching and writing about the historical Australian figure after whom their Kalinda House is named: Dame Nellie Melba, Caroline Chisholm, Henry Parkes, and Frederick McCubbin. Throughout the process, students have developed strong research skills, learning to analyse information critically and write for different audiences and purposes.

In Mathematics, our focus has been on time. Students have been learning to convert between 12-hour and 24-hour clocks, measure and calculate elapsed time, and interpret and use timetables effectively.

We also had the pleasure of hosting the Lilyvale students from Japan, who visited our classes as their “home rooms”. It was so much fun to teach them some of our favourite brain break games, like Elevens (which we played in both English and Japanese!), Silent Ball and Heads Down Thumbs Up. Our students also had the opportunity to share insights into the daily routine of a school in Australia. In addition, we were lucky enough to experience a Japanese magic incursion together. Our Year 5/6 students did an outstanding job supporting the Lilyvale students, helping them feel welcome, and applying their problem-solving skills (including quick-thinking use of Google Translator when necessary!) to ensure their time at Kalinda was memorable and enjoyable.

Grade 6 Girls STEM excursion to Deakin

The Year 6 Girls headed to Deakin University for a Girls in IT day.  The students attended multiple seminars, activities and a tradeshow, learning lots of amazing and interesting information. 

Let’s hear what they had to say…..

Hunter - Learnt a lot about cyber security.

Celeste - Learnt that AI isn’t a bad thing and it is good in some cases

Eloise- Learnt about different things we can create with AI tools 

Amara- Learnt about how there is so many different jobs and all of them have really important jobs even the people that test hack the system.

Lexi- Learnt that everybody has a place in it and that. Anybody, no matter their gender, age or anything else can do it and reach their goals without being held back.

Tilly - Llearnt about cyber security and what the people there did if some information got leaked from a website and if an event happened how high were the risks.

Bonnie - Learnt about risk analysis and that to have a job in IT you don’t always have to know how to code with a computer you can find many other roles without being a qualified coder

Helaina - I learned all about Risk and how to assess a situation that may cause a problem.

Eden H - I learnt about risks you can take in cyber security. 

Willow M - I learnt a lot about how cyber security is not always a bad thing and AI is not a bad thing and can help us a lot with work, school and finding things out it can also be a lot of fun as we can play/make games of our own.

Annabelle - we learnt how to assess the risks of certain situations and how we can try to prevent them.

Lily - We learnt about hackers and how they try to break in to steal people’s personal info. 

Abi - We learnt that not all AI's are bad and we learnt how to use all the different types properly we also learnt how tennis can be linked to the internet. And also, we learnt about lots of different roles in IT.

Zoe - I learnt just how many people use AI in their day-to day life, from autocorrect to algorithm.