Kindy Start for 2021 Kindergarten Students

Due to Department of Education Guidelines around COVID-19, our Kindy Start program for children starting school in 2021 will be taking on a different form this year.

Families will be notified of the innovative way will be approaching Kindy Start this year in the next week.

We look forward to working with our littlest learners and helping to ready them for big school.

Mrs Peta Proudford I Assistant Principal Infants

Infants

Year 1 students are flying through Term 3!

Students have been working on writing pieces of greater length and editing their work for spelling and punctuation. Their hard work and attention to detail are noticeably paying off! We have been expanding our vocabulary through our obsession with all things Captain Underpants, and it has been exciting to see students use interesting adjectives in their writing.

In maths, we have been practising our skip counting and early multiplication facts. We are growing in our confidence every day! We have also been working on correcting number reversals by practising the formation with concrete materials. Year 1 are keen mathematicians.

Miss Corrine Birney I Year 1 Teacher

Primary

It has been a busy few weeks of learning in primary classrooms. It is with a touch of sadness that we have had to cancel our upcoming NRL Gala Day for Year 5/6 and our Crookwell High School Planetarium visit for Stage 3 and 4. Unfortunately due to new restrictions, we cannot hold these excursions - however, we will do everything we can to provide great replacements!

Science Week

The primary classes were heavily engaged in Science Week. Miss Moorby from the high school set up an awesome escape room for us to try - and while we found it very challenging, we worked hard together in teams and used problem-solving skills to try and escape a nuclear submarine! Thank you to Miss Moorby for going to so much effort to provide it for us.

We've also been studying 'pointillism' in art, and we combined this focus with our Science Week Underwater theme to create some fantastic artworks which will be up in the library for all students to vote on this week. Keep an eye out for them!

We also enjoyed a virtual presentation from NASA and the Maritime Museum about upcoming missions to Mars - and learned all about Mars rovers, how they launch and the future of space exploration programs. It was very technical, but exciting at the same time!

Jason Stuart I Assistant Principal - Primary (Relieving)

Year 5/6

English

We are currently working on non-fiction explanation texts, specifically on 'The Water Cycle' to tie-in with Science Week. These pieces of writing will be published through our Google Classroom - and then we get to write our Explanation texts! We have also been exploring grammar and punctuation in our writing, specifically how we can improve writing using more advanced grammar and punctuation.

Mathematics

We have discovered that we are pretty good at column addition and subtraction this week - and we know exactly how to follow the process to solve number problems. There are times that we have trouble with written maths problems, so we need to make sure we are following the process for multi-step word problems and identifying the exact way to solve these problems.

STEM

In STEM we are continuing on our SPLAT unit of work, looking at designing robots and creating characters and objects using aspects of technical drawing. We're getting better and better every lesson!

We look forward to another great few weeks of term 3. It's incredible how fast this year is flying by!

Mr Jason Stuart I 5/6 Teacher I Assistant Principal Primary (Relieving)

Award recipients

Week 5
Star Students
K/1	Coby Halls	For amazing work in reading and writing!
Year 1	Emmett Crozier	For making positive choices and being ready to learn!
Year 2/3	Amali Bush	For an excellent effort with her writing!
Primary Awards
Year 3/4	Zac Reid	For making great choices to get the most out of his learning time!
	Peter Gordon	For settling into the 3/4 classroom and for being a helpful class member!
Year 5/6	Angel Gorman-McKnight	For a fantastic effort in narrative writing.
Birthdays	Peter Gordon
Reading awards
25 Nights	Tommy Ford
50 Nights
75 Nights	Digby Merriman, Beau Taylor, Patrick Smith
100 Nights Harrison Croker
Star Card Awards	Mason Friend, Deon Nicholas, Tahani Birney, Henri-June Daley, Elijah Broomhall, Billy Reid, Beau Taylor, Thomas Ford, Coby Halls, Ruby Gomes, Mackenzie Stephen, Leilani Hardefeldt, Brock Riles, Mila Patyuk
Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Awards		Beau Taylor, Brayden Shean, Fergus Smith, Josh Jones

Week 6
Star Students
K/1	Tesi Roberts	For working hard to improve in all areas of learning!
Year 1	Bradlee Cox	For his improved focus in all learning activities!
Year 2/3	Annie Smith	For being dedicated to her learning!
Primary Awards
Year 3/4	Hunter Stephen	For his improved effort and focus in all learning areas!
	Banjo Crozier	For trying his best to complete his activities!
Year 5/6	Aleks Cummins	For showing a mature attitude towards his English writing.
	Blake Cross	For the brilliant effort and attitude towards difficult maths and English learning.
Rainbow Room Awards
Birthdays		Eddie Bailey, Max Galvin, Destiny Hardefeldt
Reading awards
75 Nights		Tyler Joyce
100 Nights		Joyce Hawley
Star Card Awards	Patrick Smith, Zac Reid, Blayde Trotter, Ella Wilson, Ty Gibbons, Tyler Joyce, Tesi Roberts, Mason Owen, Macie Harris, Digby Merriman, Eddie Bailey
Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Awards		Macie Harris, Tesi Roberts, Finlay Shore

Diary dates