District Cross Country Attention all parent helpers. We would love to have some helping hands on Thursday afternoon to assist Jared and Kate and the 60-odd competitors. The event commences at Princes Park at 1:45pm, so we will be leaving the school grounds at 1pm. Please speak to Kate if you are interested in assisting […]
The 2016 Challenge is now open! Interested students have already received consent forms to include their names in the online honour roll; however, it’s not too late to sign up! The Premiers’ Reading Challenge encourages children in 3/4 to read 15 books (between March and 9th September) and record their efforts online. It’s a great way
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This past friday one of the guitars from 3/4 Neighbourhood Two went missing. Would those parents with children presently enrolled in guitar lessons please check to see that they haven’t inadvertently picked up the wrong one by mistake. Thanks in advance!
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This week we will be delving deeper into our inquiry exploring the relationships between the parts in a system and how systems work with, against and within other systems. We will look at particular systems and use diagrams and labels to explain how different systems work. Some of the different systems we are investigating are
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If your child has not yet shared their item that brings them happiness, please bring ensure that it is brought to school this week. We would like all to be presented by the end of this week so that we can continue to build on our happiness inquiry.
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MONDAY Workshops to support engagement in provocations Projects and provocations Happiness Presentations TUESDAY Projects and Provocations Specialist classes: Blue Group: Visual Art and Italian Green Group: Phys Ed and Visual Art Red Group: Italian and Phys Ed. Buddy time – The buddies will be supporting the bug research groups. Each grade 5 student has researched a particular
We have all made a great start to Term 2 and have been extremely productive and engaged in exploring various geometry and statistics mathematical learning. All students used many different forms of expression to investigate the properties of 2D shapes and 3D solids. We began to wonder where
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The first week back was a long one for all of us, climatising to being back in the school setting. More than three quarters of the students admitted to being glad to be back excited by learning and the socialising opportunities reinforcing that it’s nice to be a part of a community a few shared
To help improve your child’s reading and writing, we are trying to build their knowledge of the letter combinations that create various sounds by becoming Word Watchers! Encouraging them to be aware of language through observation will allow them to be able to recognise and spell an abundance of new words with ease. After looking through all of
We have been approached by a few parents asking about part of a documentary we showed the students on the last day of term. It was looking at the science behind how the earth was created. The kids loved it and are keen to keep watching. We often run out of time during the week, so we are
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