Learning & Teaching

LITERACY

Welcome to the first SPS “speech box’ for the year.  Each speech box will cover a different topic and provide information and suggestions for things you can do at home to support your child with their learning.  If you would like further information contact the SPS speech pathologist at the school.

https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/TheEarlyCatastrophe.pdf

SPORT & PE - Michael Jennings

SSV Coburg District Swimming Trials

The Coburg District conducted its Annual Swimming Trials on Thursday 11 February 2021. Congratulations to the following students who qualified for the forthcoming Division Swimming Championships. We wish them all the best of luck.

Alice Hockey 1st 12 Year girls Breast stroke

Eva Petersen 2nd 11 Year girls Breast stroke

SSV Coburg District Sport Competition

The start of the SSV Coburg District Sport Competition will commence on Friday 26 February 202. Good luck to our softball, basketball and bat tennis teams. We hope they really enjoy the experience.

SSV Coburg District Tennis Championships

The SSV Coburg District Tennis Championships has been rescheduled for play on Wednesday 24 February 2021.

Good luck to our competitors. 

NUMERACY - Colleen Monaghan

This week I worked with some of the junior students on problem-solving. They solved problems with symmetrical patterns. It took lots of trial and error before they found solutions. They had to work systematically to find different ways to make a necklace with two colours and a symmetrical pattern. It was great to see them working as collaborators when looking for solutions.

Some of the students in Grade 3/4 worked on problem solving today. They used clues to help them work out the placement of the numbers on a mixed up clock

The Problem:     

There is a clock-face where the numbers have become all mixed up. Can you find out where all the numbers have got to from the ten statements below? Here is a clock-face with letters to mark the position of the numbers so that the statements are easier to read and to follow

STEM - Joe Frazzetto

STEM is back! Back with great challenges, wisdom, and curiosity! The new Foundation and Year 1/2 students come into STEM with inquisitiveness and wonder where they discovered the meaning of the letters of S.T.E.M. and what does it mean to be a Scientist, Technological User, Engineer, and Mathematician.

Foundation and Year 1/2 students collaborated and communicated with each other by coding their BeeBots to travel to collect nectar from a flower and return to their hive. It was fantastic to observe the students working collaboratively to solve a technological problem by coding their BeeBot to achieve a goal. WOW!

Year 3 to 6 students came into STEM with excellent prior knowledge of the meaning and purpose of STEM. They activated their prior knowledge by recording their thinking about the meaning of the word STEM through the use of a thinking routine known as a Y-Chart. The students explored the language of coding and how we communicate with technology. They used the Binary Coding alphabet to write their name and date of birth.  

ART - Joe Frazzetto

BUTTERMILK is LINKED to the WEB

St Fidelis would like to welcome Buttermilk the Picasso Cow. 

Last year the Year 1/2 students Inquired into  how dairy products get to our place and our plates. The students designed and explored how they would like to showcase their learning and what they discovered. This was all learning done online during the mid year lockdown in 2020. 

The students designed and painted their understanding from ‘Farm to Plate’ on Buttermilk and produced a short film displaying the inquiry process via a powerpoint which was then uploaded onto a QR Code for all the community view.

The community are welcome to bring their iPhone or other device scan the QR Code and learn about how our food gets from the farm to our plate. Buttermilk is located in the Hawthorn Street Yard where the playground is situated. 

VISUAL ARTS - Joe Frazzetto

In Visual Arts, the students from Foundation to Year 3/4 have been focusing on the art element ‘LINE’ where the students from F - 2 explored and drew a variety of lines using pastels.

Students from Year 3/4 explored and drew a variety of creative lines using a black fine liner. They had a seashell where they looked, felt and studied the shape, lines and texture of the shell. The students were asked to draw the shape and lines of the shell and using it as bases of the body of a fish. The students had to get creative and used a variety of lines to design their fish’s fins and tail where they drew their own ‘Shellfish’ using a black fine liner pen.

CONGRATULATIONS AVIA

We would like to congratulate Avia (5/6OS) for her 3D Art piece titled ‘Love of a Mother’ which has been selected to be photographed and published in a book that is going to been given to MACS Board of Directors. 

Avia also had to write a short paragraph addressing ‘What do you like most about arts and creating arts? Why is it important to you?’ The MAC Board of Directors said, “Avia’s artwork was beautiful and demonstrated the skills that some of our younger students have in construction and sculpture and so we believe that she is more than deserving of being able to represent some of the younger students' voices within the book.”

The best thing about arts and creating art is the freedom to create anything, with anything. You don’t need to use expensive things to create art. Sometimes the best results can be achieved with everyday materials. Art is a place where there is no judgment. This is important to me as it takes me to my happy place. I can easily express my feelings and emotions through art of any kind. 

Art is a big part of my life.Avia 

Well done Avia! You are a true Picasso!