Learning and Teaching

Student Led Conferences with Parents and Teachers - 17 August

Parents are invited to make a booking to meet with their child's class teacher to discuss their progress and learning goals. These student led conferences will be held in the STEM room ad will be for 10 minutes each.

Please arrive 5 minutes prior to your scheduled meeting to ensure that they run on time.

Students are expected to be at the conferences as they will be sharing their learning and future goals at this time as well as hearing feedback from their teacher.

Visual Arts Project Term 3

Early this year, I applied to be involved in a free grant to enhance children's creative skills and personal wellbeing. We were lucky to be accepted into the ‘Kaleidoscope’ Program. Tegan, our artist in residence, will be working with groups of children to create a beautiful mural. Below is some information about the program.

The Song Room's KALEIDOSCOPE Program is funded by the Victorian Department of Education and Training as part of the Positive Start in 2022 initiative. This initiative aims to re - engage students and boost their physical and emotional health and wellbeing in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Led by experienced Teaching Artists and Wellbeing Experts, the Kaleidoscope program supports primary school students to discover new ways to reconnect with their learning, peers and community through sequential arts learning experiences designed to explicitly build social and emotional skills. The program will be delivered in schools for 1 full day a week across a ten week block during Terms 2 – 4. It aims to empower all students to flourish and to discover bright new colours and patterns, just like a kaleidoscope.

 

The students at St John's have had input into the planning of what will be an exciting collaborative project and a lovely addition to our school. We hope that you enjoy watching it evolve over the remainder of the term as we transform the bare wall in the breezeway.

 

Deirdre Cosgrave - Visual Arts Teacher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing in the Junior school

In Year 1/2, we have started a ‘Writing Gems’ book. This book is to compliment our writing program and help students to generate ideas that can be used in their own writing. Students take an image or an item from a special memory or moment. We lead them through a reflection process, focusing on the memory, using each sense (see, hear, touch, feel and taste) one at a time. They record the ideas that match that sense around the image or item on a page in their special Writing Gem book. Students then use their key words and phrases from their sensory reflection, to create descriptive pieces of writing. This is really enhancing the students thinking, reflecting and creating and engagement in the writing process.

Kristina Reid - Literacy Leader - Writing

Italian Day this Thursday

We are celebrating a whole school Italian Day on Thursday 11 August. On this day students may come to school dressed in the Italian colours or in a fancy Italian costume.

 

Visible Italian Art in the Community Competition

The Visible Italian Competition entries are due on Italian Day. This a great opportunity for students to take lots of photos about everything Italian. There is a great Hamper full of Italian treats to be won!

Photos can include:

  • Restaurant and café names 
  • Italian cars
  • Italian products at supermarkets 
  • A menu or recipe
  • Food cooked at home
  • Italian people you know
  • Street signs
  • Clothing brands
  • The ideas are endless...

Present your photos along with captions as a poster, seesaw activity, photo album or slideshow. All entries close Thursday 11 August  (Italian Day).

 

Submit your entries to your classroom teacher or Signora De Amicis.

 

Grazie

Signora De Amicis