Leadership Centre
Curriculum
The second full week of Term 1 and the holidays seem a long time ago! We’ve been busy in the Leadership Centre with many events like the Swimming Carnival, STEM Challenges, SRC Speeches and more hot weather!
On Monday, the Year 3 to 6 students headed to Aquarena in Doncaster for the annual Swimming Carnival! All students participated with enthusiasm and showed encouragement for their house and team mates. Congratulations to Eugenia for winning the overall event. A big thank you to all the parent volunteers that helped with scoring, timing and organising students before they raced, the day wouldn't have been so successful without you! Good luck to the students who made it through to District and are competing this Friday.
In Mathematics sessions, students continue to explore Place Value through a range of games that require them to identify features of a number or rounding to the nearest place. A popular activity from last week was ‘Yahtzee’ students rolled dice to match the criteria on their page. In the following session students created their own game using criteria like ‘A number with 5 in the tens place’ or ‘two digits add up to 12’.
In Reading rotations, students moved into their second Book Club roles and have been making text to self and text to text connections with the Indigenous story ‘Stolen Girl’. It has been interesting listening to students access their prior knowledge and how parts of the story have reminded them of other events or similar emotions. In Writing, students brainstormed exciting endings for three scenarios and created a Ban the Boring Bits poster to be displayed in the class room. This will be referred to again this week when students complete their first Narrative Talk Homework and Big Write.
On Thursday we completed our first STEM Challenge and we had perfect, sunny weather for it too! Students created their own Sundial and recorded the changes in the shadow over time. While students waited for their Sundial to change, they made different poses and had a partner draw their outline! Students were able to make many observations such as, which way was North, how the outlines were all facing the same way and were ‘short’ and how to read the time (roughly) using the Sundial.
To end our week, we spent more time with our Buddies! The Grade 6’s and their Year 1 buddies sang their hearts out in the hall with Mr Shaw and the Year 5’s helped their Foundation Buddies by measuring them with string as the Foundation students begin to explore length this week.
Have a wonderful week! Mr Andrew Shaw, Miss Ros Walker, Mr Hamish Burrill and Miss Megan Campbell.
Student Voice
"My buddy is so cute!"- Emma H 5/6C
"I enjoyed making the Sundials" - Justine 5/6C
Reminder
Please ensure that your child’s hat is at school. Hats needs to be worn between September-April
It would be very much appreciated if your child could bring in a box of tissues
Please ensure that you sign your child’s diary each week
Please ensure you and your child have read and signed the Digital Technologies User Agreement as these need to be returned back to school as soon as possible
Information Packs have been sent home and these will need to be signed and returned to school as soon as possible
Leadership day Thursday 20th
District Swimming this Friday 21st
I.C.E notices must be returned, students will find out their activities this week.
5/6C is running the Senior Assembly this week.
Pupil of the Week
5/6B: Megan E -
For showing great sportsmanship when competing at house swimming. Your efforts in competing in all the 50m races and congratulating all your opponents was fantastic.
5/6C: Kaleb W -
For having an excellent start to the year. Well done on managing your time effectively to complete tasks and joining into all classroom discussions. Keep it up Kaleb!
5/6SB: Jonathan X -
For displaying a love of learning during all Mathematic sessions. Well done Jonathan on maintaining focus and for challenging yourself at all times. Keep it up!
5/6W: Aarav D -
For challenging yourself to record your mathematical thinking when solving word problems. You did well to highlighted the steps you took to find the answer. Well done, Aarav!