Education News 

Parent Information Session:

Writing and Reading

This year MPW has been fortunate to secure the services of Literacy Consultant, Lorraine Wilson. Lorraine’s work and approach to teaching and learning very much compliments the school’s Teaching and Learning Philosophy.

Lorraine is an author of many children’s books as well as teaching resources such as; Teaching Phonics in Context - L. Wilson and D. Hornsby, Writing to Live and Reading to Live. She is also a respected literacy consultant, recognised for many achievements such as:

  • ALEA Medal, awarded by the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association, 1996
  • The 2004 Service Award, presented by the Whole Language Umbrella, USA.
  • The ALEA Citation of Merit Award for Literacy – The Garth Boomer Award- awarded by the Australian Literacy Educators Association, 2005
  • Life Time Membership Award, presented by the National Council of Teachers of English, USA, 2011.

      

In first term, Lorraine has been working mostly with the P/1 team and she will continue to work with our teaching staff across the school in term two. During these sessions, Lorraine demonstrates good practice in the teaching of English. Areas that have been covered so far are; personal writing-including conferencing, publishing, ideas, spelling, punctuation and genre, modelled writing, shared writing, shared literature, language experience, dialogue, monologue, conversation and innovation.

Some of the areas that will be covered in term two include; poetry, oral language, speaking and listening and debating… just to name a few.

The teaching and learning of English is complex and Moonee Ponds West is very lucky to have Lorraine supporting our staff to consolidate and embed a whole school pedagogy and learning framework, which has an agreed language and is evident through consistent practice.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite our families to two information sessions, one about writing and one about reading, which will be held in the performance space.

  • Parent Information about writing Monday 1st May at 9.30-10.30
  • Parent Information about reading Monday 8th May at 9.30-10.30

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide childcare for either of these information sessions so we ask that you make other arrangements if care is required.

Please complete the below form and return to the office by Thursday 27th April. 

Free Activity Day (F.A.D)

What is F.A.D.? Free Activity day (F.A.D.) is a day where grade 5's and 6's get to spend the whole day doing fun activities that parents, teachers, family members, anyone you can think of run. It’s a great and fun day where kids can do what they love doing and develop new friendships.

Some kids from Room 10 wrote why they think F.A.D. is important.

“I think F.A.D. is important and should definitely be part of our curriculum because children can have fun and express creativity with other kids for a day.” Olivia. E

“I think F.A.D. is important because children get to have a chance to express their feelings in a different way.” Mitchell. C

“F.A.D. should definitely be part of our curriculum at M.P.W. because everyone enjoys it and it is fun.” Zara. B

Written by Caitlin M-P, Room 10.

Year One/Two News!

Last Wednesday as part of our inquiry unit, Exploring Our Emotions, ‘Inside and out’, children in the Years One/Two team participated in team building sessions run by Supreme Incursions here at school.

These sessions involved children working in groups to undertake challenges requiring them to work together, building on a variety of team building skills.

Rather than us telling you about it, here is what Lachlan Aitken has to tell you!

Jenny, Cassie and Amy

“We were learning how to work together. We did Island Hopping, Moon-ball Bounce, Blind Hopping and Tower Building. We were learning about trust, never giving up, taking turns and listening to each other.

The team building session was really fun… fun… FUN!”

By Lachlan Aitken

Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia - EpiPens 300 Recall - Reminder

Alphapharm Pty Ltd, following consultation with the Therapeutic Goods Administration, is recalling the following batches of EpiPen® 300 microgram (μg) Adrenaline Injection Syringe Auto-Injectors with a April 2017 Expiry due to the potential that these devices may contain a defective part that may result in the device failing to activate or requiring increased force to activate. Two reports world-wide have been confirmed of the device failing to activate in a batch of about 80,000 devices. 

Batch numbers:  

  • 5FA665
  • 5FA6651
  • 5FA6652
  • 5FA6653

Full details are available via the Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia link below:

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The Modern Family

For your information, Alyena Mohummadally, classroom teacher in room 13, will be on a panel to discuss the modern family on Tuesday 18 April at the Wheeler Centre. Please see the link below for further details.

http://www.wheelercentre.com/events/the-modern-family