Moonee Ponds West Primary School

Education News 

Science Incursion Day

Last Thursday June 1st all the grade 3 /4 students were involved in a Science Rotation Day. Students worked in all five of the 3 /4 classrooms and were involved in further learnings linked to the Inquiry topic ‘earth Science’. The lessons and experiments covered:

  • Tectonic plates – Earthquakes
  • Chemical weathering- Acid rain
  • Polar Ice Caps- Global Warming
  • Physical Weathering- Erosion
  • Glaciers

Here are some of the student reflections of the day.

Borrow Box

Dear Parents/Carers

 

Accompanying this note is information regarding Borrow Box. It is an initiative by libraries to have audio books accessible to borrow at home.

If you are a member of any Moonee Valley Library, then you and your child are able to access Borrow Box. Please read the information.

 

Borrow Box is a free app, and a great way to have children read a book along with someone who is modelling fantastic fluency, intonation, phrasing and most important of all, enjoyment when reading.

Students need a membership card and you will need to go with them to any Moonee Valley library to set up a 4 digit pin, this will allow them to make use of the Borrow Box app.

 

If your child already has a library card and a 4 digit pin, then they might like to discuss downloading the Borrow Box app at school with their classroom teacher.

 

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Kind Regards

The English PLT

Proposed Papunya visit update

Yesterday I received an email from the principal of Papunya School, NT, notifying me that he is unable to proceed with the proposed trip, due to staffing issues. (This involved a group of four students and their teachers coming to Melbourne and spending time with us here at Moonee Ponds West.) This is very disappointing as the funding for the trip had been received and all of the documentation had been approved by the Northern Territory Education Department. (And the four children were eager and excited at the prospect of coming to Melbourne and spending time with us here at MPW.)

I am so disappointed at this news but appreciate the complexities of life in remote communities and how we take for granted the ease in which we go about our lives here.

I have stressed to the principal of Papunya School that I am committed to the concept of developing an ongoing relationship with Papunya School and that I hope the second group we had planned for later in the year can still go ahead.

I would like to thank the staff and community members who had offered their support with this trip and I can assure you that I am determined to make it happen!

I will keep you informed.

Jenny Irvine