Learning & Teaching

LEARNING & TEACHING - Di Manthos

‘Heal Country’ was the theme of Naidoc week this year.   As part of our Inquiry- ‘Cultural Diversity’, the students celebrated and acknowledged the traditional owners of the land by inquiring into Indigenous stories, culture and art. 

Covid restrictions pending,this week two incursions have been organised to develop students' appreciation and understanding of the Indigenous culture. 

The students in Year 4 re-designed The Australian flag using their understanding behind the meaning of the Aboriginal and Torres strait islander flag. Students explored the meaning of the colours and symbols on the flags. 

Students listened to the story ``Mad Magpie by Indigenous author  Gregg Dreise It is a beautiful story “inspired by wise sayings and the knowledge of his elders’. He gives thanks to his elders and writes:

“ Our hearts and moods are like the river.

The ferocious waterfalls on mountains deliver us gentle water.

We don’t choose to focus on it’s turbulence, just it’s calmness.

Sometimes our river is dry, sometimes it floods- they are hard times.

The river guides our hearts and our moods. It gives us life.”

Students wrote reflections on the meaning of the story.

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BOOK CLUB

Book Club orders are now open for Issue 5.  Orders can be online via Scholastic Australia LOOP website or app. ORDERS DUE THIS WEDNESDAY, JULY 21.

NUMERACY - Colleen Monaghan

Welcome back to Term 3 and another home learning week. 

Some ideas to do at home this week include: This link is brilliant it takes you to Bridges 2 which allows you to click on the grade level you are interested in. It lists what students at each level are learning and allows you to click on different concepts to find out more.

It is designed to assist parents so well worth a look .

https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/families/bridges2

Activities of the day:|

https://sites.google.com/mathlearningcenter.org/math-at-home

Numerical acumen

Great for practising fast facts and exploring these; you can access free and get one area under each number topic.

https://www.numericalacumen.com/sample_game

Good Luck,

Colleen Monaghan 

Maths Leader 

PE & Sports - Michael Jennings

INNER NORTH/MORELAND DIVISION CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS

Congratulations to Mikaila Theodoropoulos and Christian La Porta on qualifying to participate at the Inner North/Moreland Division Cross Country Championships. After a number of postponements, the Inner North/Moreland Cross Country Carnival was finally held at Banyule Flats Reserve, Somerset Drive, Heidelberg, on Tuesday 13 July 2021.

Mikaila and Christian are to be commended on their efforts in competing at this very challenging and difficult event.

A special thank you to Mikaila’s and Christian’s parents for being so flexible with all the postponements to organise time to transport and support their children at this event.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE

SSV COBURG DISTRICT WINTER SPORT FINALS

The proposed SSV Coburg District Winter Sport Finals has been rescheduled from Friday 16 July to Friday 23 July. Please note that this is dependent upon the State Government’s COVID19 restrictions.

VISUAL ART - Joe Frazzetto

YEAR 3/4 ART - FRIENDSHIP OF ONE NATION!

As artists and inquirers, the Year 3/4 students explored the importance of creating and building a closer and respectful relationship by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the Land, the Wurundjeri people during NAIDOC Week.

Year 3/4 students focused on how Indigenous Australians communicated with each other through symbols. The students explored images of Indigenous Australian Hand Stencilling on cave walls and discussed the colours they could see and symbols they used to communicate with each other. The students discovered rock or cave wall hand stencils were used as a means of communication of their life, their rituals, and their customs. The Indigenous Australians would mix crushed ochre, water and animal fat to make these hand stencils.

We looked at the Wurundjeri Symbols and their meanings. We discussed which symbols represent gathering and meeting places to depict and develop RELATIONSHIPS. The Students traced their hand, cut it out, placed it on black A3 cardboard and used the side of a pastel and rubbed the edges of their hand stencil. They used their hand stencil to depict friendship with the Indigenous Australians. They used symbols of gathering and meeting of White and indigenous Australians to showcase the relationship between 2 people and sign of reconciliation and friendship.