Primary News

Mary Mackillop Award Recipients

Our weekly Mary Mackillop Award is designed to reflect the Christian values of our school and of Mary Mackillop. Students who receive this award have seen someone in need and have done something to help.  

KJ: Hayden Amos,

KW: Shaylyn Smith

1/2R: William Drogemuller (W3) Hamish Coleman (W4)

1/2F: Akeena-Rose Eade,  Sophie Slater

1/2JD: Roger Vickery, 

1/2MD: Shae Brazel (W3), Kirby Conroy (W4)

3/4W: Isabel Schweitzer (W3), Zalia Hobday,

3/4S: Jenovah Joseph (W3), Matilda Morse,

3/4F:Jace Swan, Tayte Duncan-Tighe

3/4G:Dom McGrady, Emily Doyle

5/6O’N: Angus Reardon and Addison Swan

5/6O’D: Cody Burley and Meg Corey

5/6G: Charlie Mudge, Jack Haddad

5/6M: Charlie Rogers, Camille Maunder

Key Learning Overviews

Key Learning Overviews will be emailed to all families this week. These are a great way for you to stay up to date on what and when your child is learning. Keep your eye out!

Seven Steps to Writing Success

by Nerida Finlayson

WRITING TIPS

Step 2: Sizzling Starts

Think of the Seven Steps as the building blocks to great writing. Isolating writing skills into individual steps ensures students don’t get ‘bogged down’ with writing a whole story, recount or persuasive text. Students gain confidence in each building block, then take the next step and the next. Finally, they pull it all together to become creative and engaging writers.

Students have continued to work on Step 2: Sizzling Starts throughout the past week. They have have been consolidating their understanding of beginning their piece of writing at the “moment of change”. It is important that students continue to work on each step until they gain full understanding of how to implement it in their writing effectively.

Attached is further information which contains activities you can do with your children at home to support their understanding of Step 2: Sizzling Starts.

Reading Log

Stage 1 - Stage 3

Last week, all students in Stage 1 - Stage 3 were issued with their home reading log. This is to be used to support and monitor your child’s reading at home.

Whilst reading skills and strategies are introduced, taught and consolidated at school, an important role for families is to support this at home with independent reading. You may choose to sit and listen to your child read, you may choose to read to your child or you may choose to allow your child time to sit alone and read independently. All of these activities are beneficial in supporting growth in reading, comprehension and vocabulary.

We are excited to bring families on our learning journey and we appreciate your efforts to read with your child/ren at home regularly. Please use the reading log that has been sent home with your child to record and monitor their reading.

Want further tips on how to engage in reading with your child? Download the attached PDF which provides some great questions you can ask while your child is reading in order to enhance their comprehension skills.

If you have misplaced your reading log, it has also been attached below should you need to print a new copy.