Each week our School Captains will be announcing Remote Learning Heroes - as nominated by class and specialist teachers. We will publish a fortnightly list here but you can look forward to the special 'hot off the press' video recordings each week on a Tuesday from our Captains via Compass and Facebook.

Remember to scroll down for Week 7.

Remote Learning Heroes of the Week

Week 6

Foundation

FS	Lucy A - For her great contributions during Reading Group sessions. Maeve R - For her enthusiasm during our whole class Webex sessions. Sarah G - For her recount of the Giant Jam Sandwich. Shaarav G - For always trying his best with the work he is submitting each week.

FD	Ryder G - For the contributions you make to our Reading Group sessions. Poppy H- For always trying her hardest no matter what she does. Great job! Sarah W - For her excellent contributions to our small group reading session. Parker R - For creating such fabulous patterns in maths.

FR

Malakai W- for trying hard to listen carefully during reading groups on Webex

Violet - for putting in effort to make her learning tasks neat and colourful!

Arnav B - for contributing ideas to discussions during reading groups on Webex

Christian E and Stefan D - Mrs Ruggeri can’t wait to see you on Tuesday!

FW

Tom A - for writing a truly disgusting sentence about his World’s Most Disgusting Sandwich.

Maddie M - for always having something interesting to say in our Webex reading groups.

Eddie P - for working hard to learn his Hot Words. Well done!

Kai M - for consistently working hard throughout our period of Remote Learning.

Year 1

1K	Sophia - for writing a detailed procedural text on how to play Beetle which included diagrams to help the reader. Sam - for demonstrating his knowledge of skip counting patterns. Lachlan - for always being eager to show his ideas and experiences during our Webex class meetings.

1L

Charlie - for the fun video you created demonstrating how to give your soft toy a bath.

Flynn R - for the amazing effort you put into your 3D shape models.

Zac - for being brave, sharing your ideas and speaking to your classmates during our Webex meetings this term. We are very proud of you!

Hudson - Well done Hudson on creating your fun video showing how to give your soft toy a bath.

1T

Lexi J - For being resilient in having to complete Remote Learning between home and school.

Bonnie KH - for persisting with her procedural writing even when she found it tricky to complete.

Asthon H - For keeping a positive mindset during Remote Learning.

Charlie D - For being brave sharing his writing during Author’s Chair time in our class meetings online.

1RD

Nicholas - For showing such enthusiasm during our class WebEx Maths games!

Milla - For the fabulous box constructions she has made while learning about 3D shapes.

Jacob - For the wonderful work he has been completing while remote learning

Willow - For showing us such a fun way of doing skip counting while remote learnin

Year 2

2R

Mila S - For working enthusiastically and consistently during Remote Learning.

Indi W - For her great effort of regularly working through all the tasks in her Remote Learning. I love your presentation on Transport.

Kailyn V - For doing her personal best in all areas of Remote Learning.

Jack K - For the consistent effort he puts into his Remote Learning.

Archie J - For the quality work he produced during our Remote Learning

2G

Emersyn S - For her enthusiastic approach to Remote Learning and doing every task to her personal best.

Lachlan W - For being persistent and mindful during Remote Learning.

Manudi H - For the outstanding effort you put into all your work.

Harry N - For always being respectful and courteous during our WebEx meetings.

2K	Grace H - For always participating in our 2K Webex chats. Angelina C - For doing your personal best at all your remote learning. Caden G - For doing amazing maths and setting it out beautifully. Jack J - For sharing your shark toy during our class Webex chat.

2D

Jacob P - For completing an excellent fact file on Manatees and for sharing it with our class.

Maiya P - For always striving to complete her work to a high standard.

Charlotte G - For her resilience and determination to do her best while learning remotely.

Sima H - For her enthusiasm and positivity towards her learning.

Year 3

3KB

Owen T - For the outstanding effort you are putting into your homeschooling work.

Sam M - For always showing respect during the class Webex Chats.

Alina I - For the beautiful presentation of your google slide.

Jordan S - For being brave and sharing your beautifully written narrative.

3AT

Gabe - for the awesome video he made with Sam H about an invention.

Darcy - for a huge improvement in the presentation of his work. Keep it up!

Poppy - for continuing to work really hard at her writing.

Conor - for his mature and well thought through piece of writing on animal cruelty

3SB	Isaac B - For his outstanding work in maths this week. Liam G - For the confidence to share his work. Jose L - For extending himself with his writing this week. Kayla M - For her excellent attention during group chats.

Year 4

4S

Oscar P - Sensational story written and illustrated on the Adventures of Jimmy and the diamonds. Truly amazing work.

Amelia Mc - Great design and presentation of her Time machine last week.

Lily C - For her consistent work and effort shown in her maths last week, creating an awesome time machine and theme park schedule using time.

Oliver B- For joining in on our class Webex meetings and participating with a smile :)

4B	Lachlan B - For continuing to maintain good learning habits whilst at home. Liliana V - For her detailed information text on the Macaroni Penguin Hannah J - For her highly descriptive narrative “The Forest”. Edmond Z - For his brilliant Zoo map using perimeter and area.

4C

Daniel D - For a creative design and time machine model presented in a Minecraft movie. Beautifully shared during Webex as well. Super work!

Alyssia O - For a collection of very cool fun facts all about cats.

Charli J - For always sharing ideas and opinions during Webex Meetings in such a positive way. Your smile brightens our day!

Sam W - For creating a lovely nature collage for your Writer’s Notebook. Very creative!

4T (Mrs Doyle)

Daniel D - For a creative design and time machine model presented in a Minecraft movie. Beautifully shared during Webex as well. Super work!

Alyssia O - For a collection of very cool fun facts all about cats.

Charli J - For always sharing ideas and opinions during Webex Meetings in such a positive way. Your smile brightens our day!

Sam W - For creating a lovely nature collage for your Writer’s Notebook. Very creative!

Year 5

5DW	Hugo V - For putting in a huge effort with all his remote learning tasks. Lanna & Ava - For using their initiative and coming up with our class Webex theme and communicating this with everyone. Utkarsh C - For being such an active member of our Google Classroom communication stream

5H	Ethan W - for his proactive work ethic during Numeracy! Isla C - for striving to your personal best in all areas of your learning! Reece T - for working hard to achieve your goals with Hilary! Alyssa S - for striving to your personal best in all areas of your learning!

5L

Riley A - for her wonderful effort during Numeracy this week. Great job on your ‘Iso Freedom Party’ shopping list.

Natasha R - for continually producing her best work. Well done, all your hard work will pay off!

Gemma S - for putting in a wonderful effort. Even when things seem a bit tough, you always keep a smile on your face, giving it your all.

Gloria X - for showing great persistence and resilience during remote learning, pushing through challenges with technology!

Year 6

6A

Tayla W - for her excellent efforts in seeking and using feedback to help with online tasks.

Fred J - for his wonderful ‘good morning’ messages that help kick off 6A’s working day.

Callum S - for his outstanding narrative ‘Big Red Button’. You are clearly an inspired young writer!

Savannah K - for working incredibly hard to improve her knowledge of subtraction strategies. All your hard work has paid off!

6T

Lachie Mc - for applying himself during our live Maths Workshop to practise new skills and approaching challenges head-on.

Ruby H - for engaging in good discussions during our live Maths Workshops to help hone new skills.

Kai F - for responding to feedback and improving the overall quality of his work so that it is a true reflection of his understanding.

Mia D - for her incredible dedication to her daily learning activities, particularly her outstanding work in CBL that demonstrated her passion

6B

Logan E - For smashing out his work, handing it in on time every time to a good standard. Great work!

Maddy G - for producing some excellent maths work and handing her work in on time, responding to all teacher feedback.

Nicholas L - Being a solid worker, always turning in his work and hopping onto webex meetings promptly and participating in our daggy games.

Jemma W - For producing some great work and asking good questions to understand what is required for her work for the week

Specialists

Visual Arts

Xavier M 3AT - for persevering with a challenging drawing activity.

Performing Arts

Josh T - 6T for the amazing music that he has been composing using digital technology.

Physical Education

Katherine K 2R - for demonstrating great enthusiasm and skill in the set Gymnastics activities.

Japanese

Madeleine M FW- for your perfect kanji number on the onigiri rice ball captured with a smile for our sister school.

Remote Learning Heroes of the Week

Week 7

Foundation

FS	Ellise B - For ‘treating others as you would like them to treat you,’ through doing 5 star listening. Odette H - For ‘treating others as you would like them to treat you,’ by using manners and caring for others.

FD	Kent W - For ‘treating others as you would like them to treat you,’ by using manners and caring for others. Blake S - for pursuing his personal best in all he does. What a brilliant return to school. Billi E - For being so brave and enthusiastic about returning to school.

FR	Leni S- for bouncing back and doing her best to settle into school routines again. Violet H - for her amazing effort during Writer’ Workshop

FW	Ayathi M - for pursuing her personal best in all she does. What a brilliant return to school. Sepanta H - for wonderful reading in our reading groups.

Year 1

1L

Flynn R - for her helpful, mature and caring attitude towards her class members, her own learning and classroom operations.

Milla C - THRASS legend and growing in her understanding and knowledge of her THRASS chart, phonemes and graphemes.

Brooke - for her excellent writer’s workshop attitude, working hard to display and publish her writing piece.

Celeste - for her focus and commitment to doing her personal best since being back to school.

1T	Mason G - For settling back into school with a positive attitude to learning. Yeona K - for getting very creative and making an olden days outfit with lots of accurate detail.

1RD	Josh A - For returning to school with a positive attitude to learning and giving all tasks a go. Rory J - For amazing reading and giving all activities a go when returning to school.

Year 2

2R	Hamish S - For always being a warm and caring member of the class. You are always positive and kind. Ty O - For your positive attitude and great suggestions during our modelled writing sessions.

2G	Leo B - For his exceptional reading over the last few weeks. Great job! Teagan O - For always being kind and caring to everyone in the class. Eziah J - For returning to school with a positive attitude and being inclusive at recess and lunch times.

2K

Willow - For returning to school with a positive attitude and smile on your face.

Genevieve - For including others at lunchtime. It is wonderful to see you put a smile on someone else’s face.

Scarlett - For including others at lunchtime. It is wonderful to see you put a smile on someone else’s face.

2D	Landon B - For finishing a piece of writing and sharing it in Author’s Seat, reading with great expression. You should be very proud! Liam P - For his clear and composed reading in Author’s Seat!

Year 3

3KB	Gemma D - For your amazing work on your alliteration poem. Ashton B - For your detailed non-fiction report on Possums. Keep it up! Adeline - For your amazing behaviour during class webex chats.

3AT

Marli - for always trying her best with her work and joining in with our class Webex in a positive way!

Riley - For continuing to work hard during our Remote Learning

Shaurya- For being brave enough to share his writing during a class Webex

Ashly - for always being such a friendly and positive classmate, even during Remote Learning!

3SB	Ella M - For her excellent work with fiction vs non-fiction texts. Asher M - For his commitment to his learning while onsite. Harrison R - - For his excellent narrative piece. Josh T - For his excellent information report on his Karariki Parrot.

Year 4

4S

Archie TS - For his enthusiasm in our weekly reading groups and whole class Webex chats.

Lucy B - For always doing that little bit extra in her work in maths. You are very creative.

Bailey H - For joining in our class Webex meetings and participating with a smile.

Belle W - For joining in all our class Webex meetings and participating with a smile.

4B	Emily L - For her amazing advertisements! Laura F - For her continual commitment to submitting quality work into Google Classroom. Hudson R - For his amazing advertisements! Mitch T - Improving in his handwriting and use of punctuation in his written pieces.

4C

Charlotte G - For working so hard during remote learning, you have shown great persistence tackling challenges.

Billie - For always contributing so positively in Webex meetings, you read so beautifully this week.

Zac - For great participation and enthusiasm in our small group meetings.

Willow - For great maths work designing a menu and calculating money problems.

4T (Mrs Doyle)

Jordan C - For solving the Coin Challenge and sharing your strategy with the class via video.

AJ - For having a successful and productive week of learning at Kalinda.

Zac M - for enthusiastically sharing all required learning tasks with me this week. Your print ad was my favourite as it was highly persuasive!

Sophie P - for consistently uploading all required tasks onto Google Classroom each week. I especially liked reading your information report,

Birds.

Year 5

5DW

Alex - Her limerick, did just the trick! Her writing is so electric.

Harry - For always being at all web ex meetings ready to learn.

Grace - For her massive improvement in writing a narrative! Having a clear beginning and intrigue made for a great story.

Jonty - For his excellent work in finding angles within his home and labelling them with such attention and great presentation.

5H	Samantha C - for always displaying work of neat and high standard. Madison G - for always working to your personal best! Alyssa S - for your wonderful writing pieces! Mitchell McE - for always entertaining us with your jokes and trivia questions via WebEx!

5L	Len C - for contributing to the Foundation buddy video. Great work! Garv N - for proactively searching out extension work. Well done! Lily P - for her wonderful effort finding angles within her home. Jasca D - for participating in our small group and class webex meetings.

Year 6

6A

Reed D - For all his hard work during remote learning. You have really improved your independent learning skill!

James B - For his clever responses to our question of the day. Your responses are always entertaining!

Hamish L - For showing incredible resilience during remote learning and working hard, even with a broken arm!

Eleanor W - For not letting the online world stop her from engaging with her peers and teacher, and always using Google Classroom appropriately.

6T

Harry C - For persevering with a challenging Maths task, applying logical thinking and various strategies to solve it.

Lucy B - For bringing a new energy to remote learning this week and using it as an opportunity to bring her family together.

Free G - For digging deeper into the way characters are portrayed in stories.

Ben E - For his well thought out and humorous response to the “Back to the Superlative Future” activity.

6B

Bailey B - for noticeably putting more effort into her work.

Alex S - Consistently producing outstanding work and clear communication.

Seth LB - For outstanding communication with his teacher. Clarifying what expectations are for his tasks.

Millie GJ - For outstanding effort shown in her Maths work.

Specialists

Visual Arts

Rory G (5DW) - For his creative Compost Creature

Physical Education

Logan E (6B) - For consistently completing the online Physical Education lessons, demonstrating excellent skills and great effort.

Japanese

Flynn T (2G) - For your inspiring kanji work after school at home!

Performing Arts

Gabe (3AT) for using his prior knowledge of dynamics, rhythms and chords, and including these elements in his pentatonic composition.

Financial assistance

Please see information below regarding the Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund. We can submit applications as a school until the end of term 2, please contact us if you have any queries.