News from around the school
NEW - Year 6 Leadership Roles
Students in Year 6 are known as school leaders. Leadership at St Mel’s is about promoting independence, confidence, self-esteem, organisation and building on our learning assets as self-managers, communicators, researchers, thinkers, and collaborators.
Throughout the year each student will participate in leadership activities including, leading school assemblies and liturgies, activities with their Prep buddy and House Team events.
On top of that, each student has a leadership job. These jobs are ‘on call’. When required, their staff leader will organise a day/time to meet to work on a particular project. Some jobs have designated days and times each week.
Our Year 6 Leaders have received their Leadership Roles for the year, after applying for them at the end of last year. Each student received a certificate when roles were announced and will receive a special badge when we can have our Opening School Mass.
We will have a special feature of each 'job' in the newsletters from next week.
Members from our year 6 Admin Team did an amazing job counting all the donations for Shrove Tuesdays pancakes. The monies raised will be donated to Caritas
NEW - School Photos
A reminder that our school photo day is Tuesday 15th March.
The photo envelopes should have come home with your child/ren please check their bags.
Family photos envelopes are available, please contact the school office to have on sent home or pick one up from the office.
UPDATED - Maths Assessment Interviews
second day to be held Friday March 11th - (Pupil Free Day)
Sign up links are listed below.
MAI ~ Summary
Background (the Early Numeracy Research Project)
The Mathematics Assessment Interview (MAI) was developed as part of the Early Numeracy Research Project (1999-2001). The interview consists of hands-on assessment tasks where students demonstrate Mathematical understanding and preferred strategies for solving increasingly complex tasks.
What
- It is a one to one interview held with each child, with the aim of finding out where their Maths learning is at, in the form of ‘growth points’.
- Growth points are the key stages of a child’s mathematical understanding.
- MAI is based on sound research.
Why
- MAI gives growth points under different areas. At our school we complete the four areas of number -counting, place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division.
- In contrast to the traditional pen and paper test, a carefully-constructed one to one interview can provide greater insights into what children know and can do. Children’s strategies are recorded in detail on the interview record sheet.
- Provides our school with excellent summative data which helps track student progress.
- As teachers, we value the MAI as it helps us get to know our learners and where to move to next in their learning
Classroom Sign Up Links below
NEW - Happenings from the Early Years
1/2 LEARNING REPORT- BY TOBY AND ARYA
SPIDERS
We are learning about spiders. We found out where spiders live and went looking for some. We made a habitat and some of us are making book about spiders.
BOOKMAKING
Some people have been making interesting books. In bookmaking our noise level should always be on a 1, 2 or a 3. NEVER EVER be on a 4 or 5. Some people have been making Pokémon books.
In bookmaking some people have been using the iPad to help them learn with their spellings. In bookmaking some people have been making chapter books. In bookmaking some people have been making new books.
INVESTIGATIONS
In Investigations we have been making so many puppet shows and a lot of slime. In Investigations some people have been using their iPad with two-day tokens inside a pot. In Investigations some people have been playing with the dress ups and some people have been playing with the blocks.
COUNTING
In Counting we have been skip counting. In Counting we have been playing a game called BUZZ. In Counting we have been doing Rainbow to Ten.
MEDITATION & RELIGION
In Meditation we have been praying to heaven with Luisa. But it has changed to be Meditating outside with the whole school.
In Religion we do Prayer Journaling with Danae and we draw what we felt in our Prayer Journal. In Meditation we also make Heaven Prayers.
STORY TIME WITH CATHERINE
In Story Time with Catherine we read a different story with one different Language each week. In story time with Catherine we take pictures of the students that the story’s language meant and they have their photo taken because they speak that language. In Storytime with Catherine we have been reading different language books translated into English.
Scholastic Bookclub
Issue 2 has been sent home with the students.
All orders must be completed online and returned by Friday March 25th.
Order via scholastic.com.au/loop or download the Loop app.
Follow the instructions and your order will be electronically linked to the rest of the school's orders.
Your order will be delivered to the school and distributed to your children.
HAPPY READING !!