Learning and Teaching News
Our Prep students have continued learning how to care for themselves by following simple health messages and building healthy habits through play, in line with the Victorian Curriculum focus on personal health, safety and growth; they practised handwashing, brushing their teeth, caring for their skin using sun‑safety messages, and explored how food, hygiene, sleep and movement help their bodies stay healthy.
Students shared their ideas through Think–Pair–Share routines, created anchor charts, and used learning‑station posters to apply health messages in real‑life play scenarios. They also investigated how people grow and change over time by sequencing the stages of life from baby to child to adult, comparing their baby photos to how they look now, and predicting what they might look like as adults.
In the first week of next term in Prep, we will welcome Life Ed Victoria for a Health and Wellbeing session titled “My Body Matters”.
This age‑appropriate program helps students learn:
What our bodies need to stay healthy
The importance of personal hygiene
How to choose foods for a balanced diet
Why physical activity and sleep matter
We look forward to deepening the wonderful learning students have experienced this term.
Science in Term Two
Next term, students from Prep to Year 6 will explore key Physical Science ideas through hands‑on investigations and scientific inquiry.
Our Prep learners will begin discovering how objects move, how pushes and pulls change movement, and how vibrations create sound, using simple scientific language to describe what they notice.
In Years 1–2, students will build on these foundations by investigating how the size, shape and material of objects affect movement, and comparing how different materials vibrate to make sounds of varying pitch and volume.
Students in Years 3–4 will deepen their understanding of forces such as friction, gravity and magnetism, and explore how heat moves from warmer to cooler objects, observing changes like warming, cooling and melting.
In Years 5–6, students will apply systems thinking to investigate how light behaves when it hits different materials and how electrical energy flows through circuits, designing and testing their own models to explain why circuits work or fail.
Across all levels, students will develop scientific vocabulary, use diagrams and data to communicate their ideas, and build strong inquiry skills that help them make sense of the physical world around them.
Auslan News
Our students from Prep to Six have continued to build their Auslan learning through short, engaging video demonstrations integrated into their classroom. This term, students have been practising the Auslan alphabet and learning to sign their own names, as well as exploring signs for colours.
Embedding Auslan in our weekly routines helps students develop early communication skills, deepen their understanding of inclusive languages, and strengthens the way we embed our learning powers in authentic learning opportunities.
Kathy Blythe
Learning and Teaching Leader