School News
Prep News
We’ve had some big highlights this past fortnight. The fruit cups have continued to defy all temperature odds and book week created a buzz throughout the school.
Phase 5 Smart Spelling is well and truly underway! In week 7 the weekly word was car focussing on the digraph ‘ar’ and the common words: you, must, down. In week 8 the weekly word was King focussing on the digraph ‘ng’ and the common words: his, all, of, going.
In writing, we have spent the past two weeks with our author’s hats on writing fabulous fairytales. The students have worked incredibly hard to draft and present their ideas following the structure of a fairytale. Keep an eye out for them in your child’s learning portfolio. We are sure it will be a highlight!
In reading, we have been reading a range of different books using text clues and our background knowledge to infer what the author is saying.
In Maths, students have been practising the skill of asking a question to collect data and representing it in a simple graph. A highlight was creating our own tasty treats and collecting data to see who would want to eat it.
The Prep Team
Alarna Creed, Allie Harrison and Elyce Munnecke
Level 1/2 News
We loved seeing everyone’s book characters come to life with book week, well done to everyone who decided to celebrate by dressing up and reading an extra book or two. It was a wonderful sight to see.
Our Literacy sessions have been extremely busy and full of excitement as we created information posters about different countries around the world. We researched through reading non-fiction books and using web pages to develop our knowledge about different cultures and traditions. Using our new knowledge and understanding, we have written these facts in our own words. We cannot wait to share some facts with you!
Edges, faces and vertices are all features of 2 and/or 3 dimensional shapes. We explored these shapes in detail, we challenged ourselves to not only to find edges, faces and vertices but to create 3 dimensional shapes using nets and to draw our own. We have been keeping our Maths brains in shape with all this hard work.
Everyone did a fantastic effort in the TriSkills gymnastics, what a blast we had learning some new skills. What a great way to keep our bodies moving.
The Level 1 & 2 Team
Kayla Hartrick, Tim Wilson, Mykaela Oakley. Daena Hailey & Reuben Langerak
Level 3/4 News
8 weeks of Term 3 have already flown by! It has been another very busy couple of weeks.
On Thursday the 25th of August students enjoyed dressing up as their favourite book character as a part of Literacy and Book Week. We showcased our costumes to the whole school community in the gym and it was great to see so many students and staff participating.
Friday the 26th of August the level 3/4 Students went to Hooptime and played basketball against other schools. It was a great experience, and all students were well behaved and tried their best in representing RHPS!
In Reading, students have been looking at different types of procedures. They have been learning to analyse features of a procedure and how different texts use verb groups to represent different processes.
In Writing students have been looking at writing different types of procedures, using correct text structure. They have been learning how to write a procedure on a topic of their choice using word choice appropriate for their procedure.
The last two weeks in Maths students we have looked at Location/Coordinates and Fractions. They were learning to use coordinates to describe location and in Fractions, learning to represent and calculate halves, thirds, quarters, fifths and eighths.
In Inquiry, students have started researching, designing, and creating their own assistive technology to help someone with a disability.
The Level 3/4 Team
Damien Smith, Rachel Boyle, Katie Smith, Carolyn Allen & Hayley Peirce.
Level 5/6 News
It has been another huge couple of weeks in the Level 5/6 area. In reading, we have been focusing on searching for and using the information to help us understand the text and use the information in our own writing. We have continued to keep all the skills of reading bubbling along, especially inferring meaning when not directly stated.
In Writing we have spent some time researching a favourite topic, these have included; favourite places, people, food, events and animals. From our research, we have been learning about writing information reports. These reports are looking at how we can use the information we have researched and present it in our own words.
In mathematics, students have begun learning about BODMAS (Order of operations) and their synonyms (PIDMAS, PEMDAS BIDMAS). We are learning about using their acronyms to solve increasingly more difficult equations that have more than one operation in them.
We are coming close to the end of our unit on Social Justice. Students are busy preparing their PowerPoint Presentations on their chosen charity to present to the class.
We are busy preparing for camp and finalising last-minute loose ends. Please make sure to begin to collect all the resources required for the camp which is week 1 of Term 4.
We wish Mr V a wonderful holiday as he heads off on some well-deserved Long Service Leave in Term 4. Mr V will return in Cup week.
This has been a very challenging week at RHPS, our thoughts go out to the family and those affected by the tragedy earlier on in the week. The students have demonstrated maturity and resiliency under these difficult circumstances.
Regards
Level 5/6 Team