Education News

Learning Tasks 

Three times a term Learning Tasks are uploaded to Compass as a part of on-going assessment. On-going assessments provides parents with the opportunity to have up to date insight into what students are learning and how they are going with their learning. It is important that families are engaging in conversations around the learning tasks giving students an opportunity to reflect on and explain their learning, building awareness of their learning and their metacognative abilities.

Some tips to help conversations around Learning Tasks:

• display learning task from Compass
• ask student questions- eg: What did you have to do? How do you think you went? What would you do differently next time?
• review teacher feedback together
• praise, praise, praise!

In Victoria, all schools must provide a language program for students from Foundation to Year 10. At CSPS, Spanish is the language tought. Miss Natalia Lopo Morales (Year 5 classroom teacher) overseas the whole school Spanish language delivery at CSPS.  

Weekly lessons are presented with a hybrid approach with Miss Natalia preparing Seesaw lessons, classroom teacher presenting and the use of the Education Perfect platform. 

All students from Foundation to Year 6 are learning Spanish.  The focus for Semester one has been greetings, colors and numbers. Adios amigos.

Year 1/2 News

Mathematics

In mathematics, Year 1 and 2 students have been working on identifying and labeling properties of 2D and 3D shapes. Our Week 3 Mathematics Learning Task showcases all of the new skills they have learned so far.

Reading

As part of our Guided Inquiry topic, we have been reading fiction texts during Reading Comprehension sessions focusing on the basic needs for living an non-living things. 

Writing

In writing, students have embarked on learning all about recounts and procedural texts. As part of this genre, students turned into scientists and undertook their own experiment, planting seeds and growing meal worms. Students have then had a chance to respond to this experience by writing a recount on the step by step process.

100 Days of School

Last Friday, Year 1 students celebrated Being 100 days smarter. All activities throughout the day were around the concept of 100. It was great to see so many students dressing up and being involved in this day.