Dear Elise, We would like to thank you for helping us to build a character and inspire us to write stories. Essentially, we learnt that starting with a simple character and adding interesting details is a great way to build a character and a story. We learnt to draw characters in a simple way using …
Elise Hurst (Illustrator)- Illustrating Character Development Read More »
Welcome back to term four. We hope you had a holiday filled with time well spent and we can’t wait to bring energy, hard work and lots of thinking and learning into this final term. Our term is kicking off with lots of ACTION as our project action groups begin to make changes around the …
Over the last couple of weeks, the students of 3/4 have been invited to create a teaching resource for another student on the correct use of mathematical language. We began our investigation into the many words we use when using multiplication and division. Students discussed the key words and then selected a word to investigate. …
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Blog post by Esmae, Yvette, Xena, Alex, Edward and Flynn. The sensory garden opened last Friday, the 23 of August. The sensory garden was built next to 5/6 playground, next to the big oval, and it has been crowded ever since. The garden includes a shell pit, instead of the sandpit we have in the …
Book week 2019 is off to a super start! This week the theme is ‘Reading is my super power’ and on Friday August 16th students and teachers dressed up and got into character to celebrate their favorite books. This week (week 6) we have a whole range of invitations celebrating all things literature. We are …
Our wellbeing focus for this term has been the capability of ‘collaboration.’ Students have been exploring this capability and the value that collaboration adds to our thinking and learning. We understand that much of learning is social but the skills and attributes that are required to be a good collaborator are sometimes a bit tricky! …
Performing hits close to the hearts of all our 3/4 students. We enjoy exploring our ideas through performance and presentation each week and are working to build our understanding of the different ways to express our ideas, creations and calls to action. This term we have been lucky enough to have had two fantastic performances …
Welcome back! We hope you had a safe and restful holiday. We have loved hearing all about the exciting things our 3/4’s saw, ate, explored, learnt and did. Here are the key learning focus’ for this week. Project groups: working together to investigate a problem around the school we would like to change. STEM challenge: …
Welcome to week 9! This week our year fours are setting off on camp from Wednesday so our learning focus is for the next two weeks. While the year 4’s are away, our year 3’s will be taking part in a few special workshops and a slightly altered program. Project Groups: Projects groups are now …
On Friday morning we came together and some students had the opportunity to share some of their fantastic learning this week. We love to celebrate the hard work of students in 3/4! We celebrated Hugo B’s fantastic work preparing for his SLC. Hugo is now an expert for the other 3/4’s who can go to …