If you would like to have a chat with your children’s teachers regarding their learning or their wellbeing, you can arrange a meeting after school at 3:40-3:55 or in the morning at 8:30-8:45. Teachers will not be available during certain days due to meetings and prior engagements.
Dear Parents, A word list has been sent home today. As beginner readers, the Preps are encouraged to build their word recognition of commonly used words. The word list outlines the 12 most common words that children will encounter when reading. It is important that the children learn these words in a meaningful context, as this supports
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On Tuesday, the Prep Neighbourhood were organised into some new groups for Buddy time. The 3 groups are Stars, Moons and Planets. The Preps participated in an activity that will rotate each week. Reading response: Buddies help the preps select a book and then read through it with them. Afterwards, they work on a response for their Readers’
On Monday last week, we had our Chinese New Year mini inquiry. The children had the opportunity to explore and engage with provocations that focused on this event. Tomo read the story of the Chinese Zodiac to the Neighbourhood and we watched an interesting animation of the great race where the animals were actually Chinese
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Dear 5/6 Families, We are running a Bike Club again this year, weather permitting, with interested children from grade 5/6. We will start off discussing bike maintenance, riding safely, etiquette amongst cyclists and other path or road users and then start heading outside of the school around Princes Park and along the local bike paths.
In numeracy this week, the students were asked to use a timetable to help organise a life event. They were given the choice of attending one of the following events happening in Melbourne this Saturday: Pop-up Illustration Station at the Kids Big Book Spectacular at The State Library on Sat 13th Feb, 11:30am http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/kids-big-book-spectacular OR
Literacy In our Literacy workshops this week the students viewed the graphic novel “The Arrival” by Shaun Tan and considered the connections they make with a text. These connections may be between the text and their lives, the text and others texts and the text and the world. The students also considered how the text
The inter-house swimming carnival will occur next Thursday (18/02) so all students are reminded to bring in their blue permission forms. The 5/6 Team
7:30 Report – Australian teenagers control NASA operations on International Space Station The Space industry in Silicon Valley draws the best and brightest Australian programmers who dream of the stars and top flight tech careers. But few get the chance to control operations in outer-space like this group of Australian teenage boys. http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4405015.htm
Young ICT Explorers Competition 2016 If you haven’t yet heard about the Young ICT Explorers Competition, where have you been!? This competition is free for students to enter from years 3 to 12. To be eligible to enter students are required to create their best Information, Communications and Technology project. Full guidelines, venues and dates