Classroom News
Foundation
Numeracy
Foundation students have been learning about the numbers 7, 8, 9 after their fantastic understandings of making, representing part-part-whole of numbers 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. Students have been making their own number cards and collection cards of numbers 7, 8, 9 for their own maths resources. Students have been great investigators of how different parts can make up a number such as 6 and 3 make the whole number 9. Well done Foundation students on a fantastic term of learning, it has been great to see your numeracy growth!
Literacy
Foundation students have been focusing on Family this term in their literacy lessons. We have spoken about who is in our family, their names and what we celebrate as a family. We have loved learning about different families celebrations and what we do for these occasions.
Swimming
Well done for the Foundation students who spent 5 days in swimming lessons in Week 9! We had a ball, and it was great to see students growing confidence when swimming in the pool. We hope families enjoyed students swimming booklets we made about our favourite part of swimming each day – diving for the Sinkies were a stand out favourite!
Junior School Design Technology
This term the junior school students have been learning about space and all the planets in our solar system! We have investigated the planet names, sizes as well as major stars including the Sun. Students have learnt facts an extended their knowledge and understanding about what is out in space. This week students finalised our project by creating a space mobile! It was great to celebrate a successful term of investigating with creating these wonderful projects! Well done to all junior school students.
Junior School News
It has been such a successful first term in the Junior School. We are so proud of the settled start we have had to the year. It has been a huge Term 1, with athletics and swimming lessons, but the students have shown wonderful resilience and focus across the term. We hope they all have a fun and restful school holidays!
Literacy
To celebrate all their wonderful learning this term, we were excited to hold a fairy tale dress up day for the Junior students. Across the term, students have explored fairy tales and fables from around the world. We have compared them, discussed characters, and even written our own fairy tales! It was wonderful to see all of the amazing costumes today! Students loved reading their fairy tales to the Foundation students as part of this special day!
Digital Technologies
This term in Digi Tech, students have been learning all about sequencing! They have learnt that sequencing (or coding) is the way that we can ‘talk’ to machines. Students have learnt about all the ways they can code in Scratch Junior, and refined their skills across the term. They have had so much fun using the iPads, and creating their own code!
Middle School News
Wow, what an amazing start to the year by all middle school students. We are so proud of all Middle School students and the efforts they have shown in all of their learning. We cannot wait to see what you will all achieve next term! We hope all families have an enjoyable, safe and restful break.
Home Reading
Well done to students who continue to read each night, record this in their dairies and give them to the teacher for checking.Keep up the great work!
Athletics
Well done to all of the students who have moved onto the next round of Athletics. Students have competed at Goldsworthy Reserve against other schools in our community. They have all done a fantastic job!
Literacy
Over the last fortnight we have been exploring our Content Knowledge unit called ‘First Contacts’. Students have explored this from both the Indigenous Peoples perspective and the British. This week we are learning all about the Indigenous man Bennelong and his amazing life.
In Text construction we have begun learning the skill of note taking. Students have been finding the main idea of various texts and converting this into simplistic notes.
Numeracy
In numeracy we have continued to create a deeper understanding of numbers. Students have been continuing to build on the big idea of place value. Students have been able to rename, expand and count on and back from their numbers.
Senior School News
Visual Art
As the term comes to a close, I’m really proud to share the projects that the students have completed. The juniors have used their imagination to create a bunyip and developed their modelling skills to produce plasticine creatures. The middle and senior students designed a creature made from natural materials. They then collected their materials from around the school and finished the artwork with the use of paint. Grace and Liam worked as a team to make an amazing deer, well done! Students had a wonderful time working in small groups to produce some outstanding chalk designs. Fantastic effort middle and senior students, it was a wonderful display that the entire school enjoyed.
