Principal Report
Brianna & Ian
Welcome to Edition 19 of our Newsletter.
Our First Master Cooking Class
A huge thankyou to Biriyani World for conducting our first Master Cooking Class. It was wonderful to see our community coming together and enjoying learning how to cook and feasting on the delicious food.
We will be conducting 1 more cooking class this term and 3 in Term 4. Keep an eye out on compass for more details.
Book-week
Book-week in Victoria is August the 17th to August the 23rd. To celebrate book-week and our library we are having a book-week dress-up with the theme "Come as your favourite book character" which will be held on Thursday the 22nd of August.
We have purchased many of the nominated books from the Victorian Book Council "Books of the Year" for our library.
Art Project
Our Arts/Story Project is really progressing well. Thanks to everyone for giving their time. If you have a story at home could you please send it to school so it can be included in the project.
Balanced Readers
We continued our professional learning on Monday the 5th of August as school with our focus on developing balanced readers.
The focus is to ensure our children can decode text, clearly comprehend their reading and fluency and phrasing.
How can you assist your child's reading at home.
- read to them every night
- listen to your child read every night (take home books should be familiar reading)
- regularly discuss what good readers do - fluent, self correct, re read to make sense
- read recipes, instructions, advertising
- reinforce the good strategies our child uses
- retell story - what was the story about
- discuss feelings of characters, events, possible outcomes
- read a wide range of text types
Chinese Students Visit
We are excited to be providing opportunities for our students to be real Global Citizens. Our Chinese visitors have been really enjoying their time at our school and in Australia.
We hope the friendships that the children have developed with continue long after the children return to China.
Thankyou to amazingly kind DCC students who have welcomed and cared for our International guest both this week and last Friday. The children are really putting their Mandarin learning into action.
**On Friday 9th August at 2:10pm we will be holding a special assembly with songs and a presentation for our Chinese Visitors. Everyone is welcome to join us.
Uniform Reminder
Thanks to everyone for ensuring children are in the correct school uniform. **Reminder notes will be coming home for children not in the correct uniform.
Science Week
Our Science Fair in on Monday morning the 2nd of September at 9:00am in the gym. All parents are welcome to come along. Children will be working next week with a Scientist to help them prepare science experiment to demonstrate at the Science Fair. Children will need to work on their Science Fair Project at home.