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Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Auburn South Primary School is excited to be participating. The PRC application offers a range of exciting features including:

  • access to a library catalogue (including book images and blurbs)
  • a modern user-friendly interface
  • rewarding students with badges as challenge milestones are achieved
  • the option for students to mark books as a favourite, give them a star rating or complete a book review

The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 8 September 2023.

 

Students’ from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Students’ from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.

 

All students’ who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers.

 

To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklist and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: https://www.vic.gov.au/premiers-reading-challenge

Kind regards,

Judy Mundy & Lisa Skelton 

Library

Book of the Week

Come Over To My House

Written by Eliza Hull and Sally Rippin

Illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett

 

Come Over To My House is a delightful picture book that explores the home lives of children and parents who are deaf or disabled. Co-written by disability advocate Eliza Hull and bestselling author Sally Rippin, the inclusive rhyming text authentically explores the characters' various disabilities. A cast of friendly characters invite friends over for a play – there’s fun to be had, food to eat and families to meet! (Hardie Grant).

This book is a CBCA Notable Book.

Cupcake stall: Wed 24 May

There will be a cupcake sale on Wednesday 24 May. The sale will take place at Lunchtime by the Canteen. Cupcakes are available for a gold coin donation and the money raised will go towards the Year 5 and 6 production costs. 

Big thanks to Karen Morwood and 6C for helping with the cooking of the cakes in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden kitchen sessions.

Please Note: For the children with Allergies

The ingredients of the cupcakes are:

  • caster sugar    
  • unsalted butter   
  • cocoa     
  • Self Raising flour     
  • eggs     
  • cornflakes
  • frozen raspberries     
  • milk chocolate chips
  • white chocolate chips      
  • brown sugar      
  • hundred and thousands     
  • Philadelphia cream cheese

Thank you in anticipation for buying a cupcake!!!

The Production Team

Pre-loved donations for Reconciliation Week

As part of our actions for Reconciliation Week, ASPS is proud to announce that we are again collecting donations of preloved children's books, teaching resources and football boots for distribution by not-for-profit Books n Boots to rural/remote First Nations Communities.  

Your donation is greatly appreciated.

Please drop off your contribution on Monday 5th June between 9-10am at the portable classroom closest to the back gate on Burgess Street near the soccer pitch.  

Thank you.

For further information: https://www.booksnboots.org.au/

Melbourne University Mathematics Research Competition

Each Thursday an excited and enthusiastic group of mathematicians from year five and six come together and spend time working on their entries for the Melbourne University Mathematics Research Competition. 2023 is the second year students from Auburn South have competed in the competition and it is wonderful to see the commitment from students to researching all aspects of their problems.

This year’s questions include tiling troubles, chess board conundrums, mapping mysteries and scintillating symmetry. We can’t wait to share some of our solutions with everyone.

Feel like a Winter Warmer?

Being sold Mondays to Thursdays 

(not on Fridays)

The 72nd Annual Science Talent Search

The Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria Inc. invites all students at Auburn South Primary School to enter this year’s Science Talent Search. You may enter as an individual or as part of a group of two. You may enter into one or more of the Sections described in the handbook. STS handbook

 

Why enter the Science Talent Search?

Apart from it being a long-standing ASPS tradition, its significance lies in its opportunity to provide authentic open-ended inquiry. As an IB school we want to help our students develop a broader understanding and application of science and technology in the wider community.  The Science Talent Search is a program that allows children to experience science inquiries through open project work.  In doing so, it develops the attitudes and dispositions highlighted in the IB Learner Profile, as well as the Approaches to Learning (ATL), the skills deemed critical for IB students in school and life. 

According to STAV, the Science Teachers’ Association the STS has three broad aims: 

  1. To stimulate an ongoing interest in the study of sciences by: 
    1. encouraging independent self-motivated project work amongst students of science; 
    2. giving students the opportunity to communicate their achievements to a wider audience; 
    3. according recognition of effort and achievement in a scientific enterprise. 
  2. To promote the direct involvement of the students in the processes of science and its communication. 
  3. To give the public at large an opportunity to see the quality of work being achieved in science, by both primary and post primary students.

All students who enter will be eligible for awards such as bursaries and/or certificates.

The theme for 2023 is ‘Innovations: Powering Future Industries’, however, other scientific themes and topics are welcome with the exclusion of the two sections below. 

 

Primary Creative Writing- picture story book

Topics: 

1. The clever tractor on my farm 

2. Hello, welcome to my smart home 

3. The factory that managed itself 

4. My friend the drone can do…

 

Primary Poster

The theme for Posters is Innovations: Powering Future Industries                                           

1. Robots saving lives 

2. Innovations for a sustainable future 

3. Technology and sustainable agriculture 

4. Welcome to my smart house

Note: These are the ONLY topics that will be judged. 

 

Sections open to any scientific topic or theme: Experimental Research, Working Models, Inventions, Video Productions, Games, Computer Programs and Science Photography.

 

If your child wishes to enter please fill in the entry proforma and return it together with the entry fee in a sealed envelope to the school office attention: Ms K STS by the 26th May to allow time for processing.

Entry fees: Individual $9.00 per entry (inc GST), Group (maximum 2 students) $17.00 per entry (inc GST)

All entries registered in the School Portal by the closing date on 28 May 2023 will be invoiced and must be paid, even if the entry is not subsequently submitted. This is because administration of the entries will have already occurred from this point on.

If you have any questions please email Ms K Joanne.kretsis@education.vic.gov.au