Learning Communities

Foundation - Learning Snapshot

What a super week, we’ve had in the Foundation Community. Our very first bus trip and visit to St Brendan's church. We were very proud of the children’s behaviour and the way they represented St Luke’s during our Mass. It was also lovely to see parent faces at our Mass, thank you for coming along.

A big thank you to everyone who attended Parent Teacher Interviews last week. This was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and reflect on your child’s learning journey.

Next Week’s Learning (Week 7)…

SMART Spelling

Next week our word of the week is ‘t ea ch er’. Teacher is a pretty cool word because there is more than one digraph in it, there are 3! -ea like in beach

-ch like in chair -er like in brother

Reading

Next week in reading we will explore the 2022 CBCA Book Week theme ‘Dreaming With Eyes Open…’ we will continue to spark our joy of reading by reading a number of the shortlisted stories.

Writing

In Writing, we will continue to look at Procedural writing. This week we enjoyed learning about the features of a procedural text ‘how to do something’. We learnt how to write a procedural text after a visit to our 'St Luke’s Beach' where we learnt how to make a sandcastle. Next week we look forward to writing a procedural text on ‘Recipe For a Good Teacher’.

Mathematics

In Mathematics, we will be looking at the concept of ‘equal’ and will practice sharing objects equally into groups. We will continue to practice our skip counting by 2s, 5,s and 10s. We will practice our ‘quick thinking’ skills and teamwork by having a Mathematics game session on Friday.

Inquiry

In Inquiry, we will continue to explore what it is too ‘be healthy’. We will be looking at how we can fuel our bodies for energy and different ways for us to be physically active.

Religious Education

In Religious Education, we begin our new unit ‘Our Church’. In this unit we will learn that church is a place where we can come together to celebrate Faith. We will look at ways we celebrate at home, school and church and how it makes us feel.

Ongoing Assessments - PAM

This week our Religious Education ongoing assessments have been released, please take the time to view these and celebrate the learning of your child. Over the fortnight Mathematics and Literacy assessments will be uploaded, we will notify you when this has been completed.

Important things to remember:

Monday 22nd August - African Drumming 12:45pm

Wednesday 24th August - Whole school Book Week activities

Friday 26th August - Book Week Parade 9:15am (children are welcome to dress up as their favourite book character)

Monday August 29th- Athletics Carnival 9-3pm

Thursday 1st September- Foundation Unit Liturgy 12:45pm (Parents and grandparents are welcome to attend)

Friday 16th September- Last day of Term 3

Foundation Team

Bre Levesque, Sarah Small, Lijarna Bekirofski

Junior Learning Community

Thank you all to everyone who attended the Parent Teacher interviews last week. It was lovely seeing you and having families in the building again. If you were unable to attend and would like an interview please don’t hesitate to contact us. (More information for Mercuri Parent Teacher interviews will come in the following weeks). This week we welcome back Gabriella Mercuri from her holiday overseas. It was wonderful to see the students going to our first mass at St Brendan’s Church in a few years. The children participated reverently and respectfully. This experience will lead nicely to our Junior Liturgy that is taking place next week at school.

Book week:

Book Week begins next week with the theme: Dreaming with Eyes Open.

Throughout the week our school will be celebrating books and Australian children's authors and illustrators. On Wednesday 24th March, students will be rotating classrooms to read this year’s Shortlisted books and do some creative activities. Then Friday 26th August is a Dress up day for our Book Week Parade. We will begin this at 9:15 am on the basketball court (weather pending). Students are encouraged to dress up as a character from a book of their choice. This is a great time to explore some picture story books at home and discuss their favourite characters and stories.

Literacy:

This fortnight we have continued our focus on narrative writing, specifically fairy tales. Students have worked to identify the elements of a narrative. The students have created their own fairy tales and are turning them into a book. We are so impressed with the imagination of the students.

Mathematics

This week is the conclusion of our unit on multiplication. Over the past few weeks students have been using concrete materials to construct 'groups of'. They have associated multiplication to their everyday lives through the use of worded problems. They represented multiplication equations through the use of arrays and explored its connection to addition. Your child's progress from this unit will be uploaded as an Ongoing Assessment task to PAM in the upcoming weeks.

Inquiry:

We are continuing with our unit: How Can I Be Healthy. Students created a keynote identifying the different food groups and their properties. We will continue to explore the benefits of different foods next week.

Religion:

Our unit of work on Baptism has ended this week and the Ongoing Assessment Task has been uploaded to PAM. Thank you for sending through your child’s photo from their Baptism. This provided valuable conversations in our classrooms. Students loved comparing different baptism symbols they had discussed in class. We now move into our new unit until the end of the Term: We can Pray in Different Ways.

Ongoing Assessments-PAM

As mentioned above, Religion Ongoing Assessments were released this week. Please take the time to view these and celebrate the learning of your child. Over the next fortnight, a Mathematics assessment task will be the third Ongoing Assessment to be uploaded. We will notify you when this has been completed.

The Junior Learning Teachers.

Middle Learning Community

This term is certainly flying by!

Thank you to everyone who has brought a shoe box in and sent pictures to your child's classroom teacher for the memory box students will make as part of their Religious Education learning. If you haven’t had a chance to do so, if possible please send this through as we will begin creating these next week.

The Middle Learning Community teachers email addresses are below:

On the 31st August, students will be going on an excursion to Aquamoves as part of our Inquiry topic ‘How Can I Be Healthy?’ Through this excursion, students will participate in a guided tour which will demonstrate the many ways Aquamoves assists people to remain healthy. They will also participate in a fun boot camp style fitness session and spend some time on the all abilities playground, which is another facility people use to remain healthy. A permission form for this excursion will be sent out on PAM. This excursion is free of charge.

Reading

In Week 7, students will continue to develop their understanding of the comprehension strategy, Compare and Contrast.

In week 8, students will begin to develop their understanding of identifying fact from opinion in written pieces.

Writing

In Weeks 7 and 8, students will create a new seeds page that they will use to inspire them for future writing pieces. They will also continue to build on their abilities to include a range of punctuation in their writing by self editing their work.

Spelling

In Week 7, our spelling focus will be on a as in 'banana' and al as in 'half’.

In Week 8, our spelling focus will be se as in 'cheese’.

Numeracy

In Weeks 7 and 8, students will be split into new math groups which will focus on multiplication and division.

Inquiry

In Week 7, students will learn about the Mental Wellbeing Dimension of Health and how they can maintain and improve it.

In Week 8, students will learn about the Social Dimension of Health and how they can maintain and improve it.

Religious Education

In Weeks 7 and 8, students will begin to decorate their memory box and create items that will represent special events in their life.

Reminders:

August 22nd - African Drumming whole school performance (onsite)
August 26th- Book Week Parade
August 29th- Whole school Athletics Day
August 31st- Aquamoves Excursion
September 7th- MLC Unit Mass

Middle Learning Community Teachers

Senior Learning Community

It was wonderful catching up with so many parents last week for Parent Teacher Interviews. We recognise that as parents you are your child’s first educators and working with you as a team for the best educational outcomes for your child is important to us. If you would like to make further contact with your child's teacher please do so by email and they will find a convenient time to get back to you.

It was very exciting having our first ever St Luke’s football team participating at state championships. Even though we did not bring home the trophy this time, we are extremely proud of all our boys for the effort and teamwork they displayed. It was clear they all enjoyed the experience.

From the boys:

My favourite part about the footy was getting to State and playing in it with all of my mates.

- Jack

My favourite part about State footy was playing footy and seeing a lot of great footy players. -Archie

I enjoyed kicking two goals and singing songs on the bus with the team. - Cody C

On Wednesday I enjoyed kicking three goals and the bus trip back. - Ryder

My favourite part of footy was probably going to State. It was fun hanging with my friends. -Jesse

At the footy I think the coolest thing was that Mr. Watts was driving the bus. - Declan

On Wednesday I enjoyed seeing other teams and learning more about football. On the bus was fun. I loved it and we couldn’t have done it without Mr Watts and Mr Keenan. - Archer

My favourite part was having fun playing with the boys and kicking the footy. - Sol

It was really fun and I hope I get another opportunity to do it in the future. - Levi

On Wednesday we went to Melbourne to represent our school playing footy which I love. It was great getting to spend it with friends. - Cam

It was a very fun experience and I was grateful to get to go. - Blessing

It was crazy. It was only our second year and we made it to State. I hope I get to do it again next year. - Noah

It was a good experience getting to go to Melbourne and play against Melbourne schools that we have never played before. - Cody M

I am pretty grateful we got to Melbourne and I think it's a good effort as so many schools signed up. - Samuel

The bus ride was long, but it was fun playing in Melbourne against all different schools. I hope I get to do it again next year. - Nathaniel

Even though we didn't win, we still had a great time. - Julian

I enjoyed running around in the breeze and kicking the football and getting tackled in the mud. - Deegan

I enjoyed playing football for the school. I enjoyed playing on the hamster wheel on the playground there. - Nate

I enjoyed winning one of the games and singing on the bus on the way back. - Clancy

Coming up:

We still have one more week, Wednesday 24th August, of inter-school sports. Students have enjoyed the experience of playing in friendly competition against other Shepparton schools and many have moved out of their comfort zone to try a new sport.

On Wednesday 31st August, some students will be heading to St Mel’s to participate in Arts on Show. They will have the opportunity to perform the dances and songs that they have been rehearsing. Notes have gone home to those students participating. Please see the link on this note if parents would like to secure a ticket for the concert.

W.A.L.T

Spelling: Graph /i/ making the "E" sound.

Literacy: Slam Poetry.

Numeracy: Measurement, Capacity, Mass, Length, Area, Volume.

Inquiry: We begin our Health Project on the 5 areas of Health.

Religion: People of Prayer, recognising Jesus as a Jew and looking at the different types of prayer.

Senior Learning Community Teachers

Year 5 Mini Vinnies - 5 Cent Friday's

This year the Year Five students will be organising a major fundraiser. This money will be going towards a school 30 minutes outside of Lismore which was highly affected by the 2022 floods. St. Joseph's Primary School in Coraki NSW had their sports sheds, school canteen and storage sheds destroyed during the floods. However their families lost everything with the school classrooms becoming evacuation points for the towns people. Many classrooms had beds set up with families creating makeshift screening to create privacy. Many students are currently still living with family and friends with a few continuing to live in tents on the school grounds as their homes continue to be uninhabitable. Families lost homes and business and were cut off from the outside world for weeks following the devastating

floods with no electricity or phone services.

We have decided to create a fundraiser to allow the school to assist those in their community who most need it.

Each Friday of Term 3 we will be collecting five cent pieces. We are calling it our '5c Fridays'. If students could please donate 5c pieces each Friday to our collection it would be greatly appreciated. Students can bring in as many as they wish to assist. Please if you wish to donate other coins these will also be accepted. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Mrs. Thompson at school.

Sandhurst Arts on Show