Mount Pleasant Road Primary School & Kindergarten

Independence Centre

Curriculum

Get ready 3/4H’s newsletter 2 is ready, so get comfortable and read some amazing news written personally by 3/4H! - Written by Alma

 

In Writing we have been making epic stories of Mrs Streitberger getting shrunk! We had a lot of fun writing about Mrs Streitberger. It took awhile but it was worth it! We followed something called the Writing Process we’re we draft, edit, revise and publish. We are making our books into stories to add them to the library. We made sure that we have WOW words, descriptive phrases and punctuation. Written by Isla and Sara

 

This week for Reading we went to the library to read some books like the world record books. We were also focusing on comparing texts that present similar information or ideas and discussing why we think one is more understandable or engaging than the other. We used Venn Diagrams and explored a range of texts including short stories, videos and books with no words. - Written by Stewart and Miss Honan

 

In the spirit of the Commonwealth Games, we are making 3D athlete villages in Maths! We used nets to plan, colour, and build some buildings by cutting and folding paper! We explored and calculated the area and volume of our athletes village. After, we made some rough estimates of how many athletes could live in our buildings. We used different multiplication strategies, including arrays, groups of, vertical multiplication and repeated addition to show out thinking. - Written by Tom

This fun and joyful week of school we have been focusing on recycled things including chewing gum, recycled sneakers and recycled medals! It’s been great learning about recycled things. The best thing about recycling is we keep the world clean! I hope that you are not littering or wasting paper, ink etc. -  Written by Emily and Tash

 

This week all seniors have been busy bees as we have been helping Bu Mundy manicure the garden. We have been planting, weeding, raking and digging all to make sure our garden is nice and pretty ready for the spring/summer seasons! We hope that our plums, apricots, strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes and herbs grow nice and healthy so the juniors can use them in their cooking lessons. Just a reminder that our school is collecting seed donations and would be more than happy if you made a kind donation to the garden. And good luck to our S.R.C’s who are making a hopefully phenomenal sign for the garden. That’s it from 3/4H today and we hope to see some more seed’s in our donation box! - Written by Emily and Tash 3/4H

Remember it is Indonesian Day this week on Wednesday 17th. Students are encouraged to where red and white clothes or indonesian clothes. You might even say to Bu Mundy "Happy Indo Day!". - Written by Stewart

 

Have a wonderful week, 

Miss Chooi, Miss Richardson, Miss Wang, Mrs McCoy, Miss Tillotson and Miss Honan 

Student Voice:

This week's Student voice has been collected by Anna and Lahin. 

'What do you like about the garden?'

  • Natasha R - I’ve been looking at how things has changed over time
  • Emily J - How we have been planting different seeds in the garden.
  • Ashley L -  Finding Potatoes and digging
  • Estelle W - I like weeding and raking.

Reminders

  • This week is Science Week. To help celebrate, there will a 'Spot the STEM' competition where students can submit photos of STEM in their everyday lives through a GoogleForm. On Thursday Lunchtime, Miss Wang will be holding a STEM session focused on the Science Week topic 'Glass'. 
  • Please bring in any cardboard boxes or recycled material that students will use later in the term for their STEM and Guided Inquiry project.
  • Indonesian Day - Wednesday 17th August. Where red and white clothing to help celebrate
  • ICAS English - Wednesday 17th August 3:30pm - 4:40pm. 

Pupil of the Week

3/4C: Siraj A -

For demonstrating perseverance and problem solving when calculating how many athletes could stay in each building in your Commonwealth Games Athletes village. Well done Siraj!

 

3/4H: Jude M -

For demonstrating a love of learning and perseverance when constructing your 3D athletes village nets, and applying your multiplication knowledge to calculate how many athletes can stay in each building. Keep it up Jude! 

 

3/4M: Arav C -

For demonstrating a love of learning and determination when writing your story about ‘Little Mrs Streitberger’. It was excellent to see you challenge yourself to write more detail and use descriptive language. Keep it up, Arav!

 

3/4R: Scarlett S -

For demonstrating perseverance when folding and building your 3D nets. It was great to see you designing your map to match your 3D net calculations. Great work, Scarlett.

 

3/4T: Brandon P -

For showing perseverance when building your 3D olympic village. It was great to see your problem solving skills in use when matching your 3D net to your plan. Amazing work, Brandon!

 

3/4W: Kevin Z -

For demonstrating perseverance and curiosity when completing your Maths Commonwealth Games project.  You worked hard to measure your map and calculated your area using multiplication.