This week the students have started learning about narratives. The students will read lots of narratives over the term to explore the features of these texts. This week students have explored how a narrative is structured into three main stages. We talked about the introduction or orientation stage where the author introduces the characters and […]
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Bronwyn, the school’s social worker, has been conducting wellbeing sessions with the children. She started the session with a teamwork game involving straws. The children formed pairs and were required to move around the room while balancing 2 straws between their fingers or hands. The activity was extended when they were asked to form a larger group with another pair. Bronwyn
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This term students will be exploring the concept of culture. What is culture and what does it mean to be part of a culture? As a way into the inquiry, students were asked to consider the communities they are part of outside of school. These varied from sporting, to dancing, to horse riding clubs. They
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Dear Parents/Carers, All swimming notices need to be back by Monday 24th July. If you have not received or lost your notice, please let your child’s teacher know so we can issue a replacement.
Today the students reflected on the neighbourhood buddy program. Students were placed into their buddy groups and were each given a question to answer about the buddy program. After spending some time brainstorming ideas, they then came back onto the meeting room floor and shared their group’s responses to their allocated question. These were then documented on the reflection board.
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On the second last Friday of term, the year 2 children presented their camping production at assembly. The children have been working on the production for some time with Deb and Tim as part of their music program. The children have been thinking about special places as part of their inquiry and the stories that connect us to places. Going
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The students reflected on our inquiry into the concept of place. We brainstormed and documented what we had learnt from our projects and the workshops the children participated in. The children were then asked to come up with some overarching statements that reflected their developing understandings. The question that was put to them was: From all
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Last week the children made the short trek across the road to Railway House. Before leaving the children were asked to identify some of the services the Railway House provides the local community and that they have personally experienced. The children spoke about such things as having picnics and birthday parties there (Odessa & Olivia), walking their dog (Myki), attending Italian School (Eleonora) and weekly
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Last week the children were asked to think about a favourite book they had read or had been read to them and identify a connection they had made with the book. They also were required to write a short burb about what their book was about and give their book a rating out five. The children’s
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Last week, Amanda (James’ mum) came into our neighbourhood and spoke about her time as a trainee doctor on Mornington Island, situated in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Amanda spoke about the changing landscape as it transitions from the wet to dry season. She showed the children pictures of the some of the variety of animal
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