Learning Focus

“Catching on Early” Here is a copy of the note we are giving all students to take home today:   Dear Parent(s)/Carer(s) In term 4, the 5/6 Neighbourhood will be undertaking a unit of sexuality education. We will be using “Catching on Early” as the basis of the program. You can access Catching on Early […]

Term four is upon us but there is still plenty of electricity in the air following last term’s wonderful performance! We are in the early stages of developing a new inquiry into respectful relationships and have also begun to unpack possibilities for a creative maths project. Today we started exploring MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE and RANGE

Juicy Maths Celebration Today was the final juicy maths session for 2018. Over the course of the last two terms, 37 students from Years 4-6 have participated in the Australian Mathematics Trust Enrichment Challenge. Their dedication and hard work has been truly impressive. Today was a day for celebration. First we enjoyed a maths games

Happy Monday everyone! Welcome to the last week of term 3! Sent home on Friday was an invitation to the year 5/6 learning performance this Thursday (20th) evening at 6pm in the gymnasium. Due to the production being this week a lot of the learning time is dedicated to fine tuning the show. The week

Welcome to (the middle of) Week 8! There is a lot on in the 5/6 Neighbourhood this week. Here are some of the highlights: Inquiry The groups for our upcoming presentation are in full swing. Our debaters/actors/orators are refining their scripts, building their props and starting to rehearse. Our animators are exploring different types of

Today was a day full of focus and determination! Students across the neighbourhood came together in their designated groups to prepare for our upcoming end of term extravaganza! More details on that will follow, but at the moment we’re aiming for Thursday evening in the last week of term. The animators were animating, the actors

Hello everyone This week we celebrate Book Week through lots of reading opportunities in the neighbourhood and different ways to reflect on what the kids are reading. ‘No Guns For Asmir’ is a book the entire neighbourhood is reading together and through this experience the teachers will be modelling different strategies for comprehension and analytical

This past Friday some of the year 5/6 students had the opportunity to share what they’ve been working on in Performing Arts with Tim. The drama activity they presented to the school was called ‘Hot Seating’ and involved a number of students taking on specific roles and answering questions in character. It was a lot

Welcome to Week 3 For this week’s learning focus, we would like to showcase four of the provocations we have in the Neighbourhood at the moment. The Art of the Weave “How can you create something that tells a story?” The learning intention here is to understand how to communicate a story through a woven

Welcome to Term 3 We hope you all had an enjoyable and relaxing holiday. Week 1 has flown by. Here are some of the highlights: English Continuing with our theme of global and local issues, students are now writing a narrative related to the issue they researched in term 2. This week it was all