Learning & Teaching
Learning and Teaching encompasses the following areas: Student Outcomes, Curriculum, Assessment, Reporting, Principles and Pedagogy.
L & T AND LITERACY - Vira Pirrotta
LITERACY
READING @ HOME TIPS
There is no magical formula for learning to read. Children learn in their own time according to their own pace. There is no critical age when all children should have mastered reading.
Children need ongoing quality experiences with books. Providing a regular, reading routine at home assists children in their quest for reading success.
During reading, there are many effective ways to assist children to identify unfamiliar words or correcting errors while reading. Prior to saying anything when assisting your child please allow sufficient wait time. Allow your child to look around the page for clues as too often they will appeal for help. Rescuing won’t help! Telling them the word does not allow them to become independent.
After waiting sufficient time, if your child is still unsure try saying:
- Read on and collect other clues.
- Go back to the beginning of the sentence and re-read what you read.
- Look at the illustration and see if there are clues there.
- What do you think would make sense here?
- Say the first sound and look at the picture to help
- Does it make sense?
- Does it sound right?
- Does it look right?
Always try to keep the reading flowing because it is paramount that the reader comprehends the text. Therefore if your child is labouring over a word and is becoming frustrated, just move them on and continue reading. We do not want reading to become a task. It should be an enjoyable experience for both you and your child.
For further information please visit:
https://www.petaa.edu.au/w/teaching_resources/parents_guide.aspx
https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101-guide-parents
INQUIRY
Our aim at St Fidelis is to create learning environments that cultivate curiosity and create confident, capable and creative learners. In order to do this, we have engaged the services of Kath Murdoch. She will work with teachers and support them in engaging our students to grow as thinkers, collaborators, self-managers, communicators and researchers. This term our focus will be on Social Responsibility. In order to engage the students with teachers will focus on the following big questions.
TERM 1- SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | ||
Foundation, Year One and Two | Year Three and Four | Year Five and Six |
Big Question: How can art tell our story? An Inquiry Into how artworks help capture and express our histories with a focus on the local area. An inquiry into the designing/making process. | Big Question: How can art help us think about the past? An Inquiry Into significant events in Australia’s history and how perspectives about these events are expressed through artworks | Big Question: How can art change the world? An Inquiry Into how art can be used as a way to influence people’s thinking/action. How democratic community allows freedom and expression. An inquiry into how to make a difference. |
Throughout the term, students will engage in many authentic learning experiences that will lead them to produce a piece of artwork for the art show. Something we are all looking forward to.
SPORT & PE - Michael Jennings
SSV Coburg District Sport Competition
The start of the SSV Coburg District Sport Competition commenced on Friday 25 February 2022. Our teams played against St Bernard's. Congratulations to our softball, basketball and bat tennis teams. They displayed great teamwork and sporting behaviour in their first games of playing these sports. We hope they really enjoyed the experience.
Results:
Boys Softball
St Fidelis 17 defeated St Bernard's 13
Girls Softball
St Fidelis 10 drew with St Bernard's 10
Boys Bat Tennis
St Fidelis 36 defeated St Bernard's 15
Girls Bat Tennis
St Fidelis 25 defeated St Bernard's 22
Boys basketball
St Fidelis was defeated by St Bernard's
Girls basketball
St Fidelis defeated St Bernard's
SSV Coburg District Tennis Championships
The SSV Coburg District Tennis Championships was held at West Brunswick Tennis Club on Tuesday 22 February 2022.
Congratulations to the following competitors on their participation, enthusiasm and sporting behaviour at this event.
The school community is extremely proud of their performances:
Thomas Vernal, Daniel Gaffney and Zachary Lymberopoulos.
Special mention to Thomas Vernal who won all of his games and became the SSV Coburg District Boys' Champion. Thomas has qualified to further his experience by participating at the next level of competition; the SSV Inner North/Moreland Division Championships. Good luck Thomas and congratulations on your achievement.
SSV Coburg District Swimming Trials
The Coburg District conducted its Annual Swimming Trials on Thursday 24 February 2022. Congratulations to the following students who performed with enthusiasm and displayed great skill at this swimming event. Once again the school community is very proud of your efforts. Well done!
Maya Woodhouse
Luca Tsangaris
Xena Tsangaris
Xavier Carr
VISUAL ART - Joe Frazzetto
A Request For Some Assistance
During our school's renovation in 2021, (some of the oldest sections of our School Building) we discovered these beautiful old hard wooden panel folding doors behind some walls. These panels are part of the school's history and there is a story behind these panels. They have been hidden between plaster walls for the last 60 years.
We would like to restore these panels in order to display school photos from the past and present. These photos will retain some of our school's history but also be a great inquiry for our current and future students.
We are asking a parent or parents to take on a project to restore the six folding wooden doors to their original state. The panels need to be sanded and applied with 2 coats of varnish.
Please email Joe Frazzetto (joef@sfmoreland.catholic.edu.au) if you are interested in taking on this project. We will be very appreciative and grateful for your support and time.
NUMERACY - Colleen Monaghan
This week was a special one with Tuesday being the 22/2/22! This palindrome day is unusual because it’s also an ambigram, meaning that on a calculator it can be read upside down in exactly the same way.
