Deputy's News
Dear Families and Friends
TRANSITIONS – HIGH SCHOOL
Do you have a student currently in Yr. 6? Have you enrolled your student in high school for 2023? You may not be aware but In Term 4, we start hosting visiting teachers from our local high schools who enjoy meeting and seeing how our students are progressing. At a recent cluster meeting with local high schools and primary schools we discussed important issues around ensuring successful transitions for our Yr. 6 students. We discussed the importance of regular attendance and the links to engaged, successful learners. Students who attend regularly in primary school tend to have more successful starts in high school. As we say in primary school “Every day counts!!” and this is certainly true for high school as well. At the cluster meeting, we also recognised how important it is to tailor support and interventions for families who may have significant barriers to access high schools such as distance and financial difficulties. Students who are first in their family to attend high school may also need a more considered transition as this will be the whole family’s first experience of high school. If you or your Yr 6 student would like more information about high school and next steps, please reach out to our Y., 6 Transition Team consisting of the Yr. 6 teachers, our Hoc and myself and we would be happy to support you in any way we can.
LEARNING P-2 ENGLISH -WRITING GOALS
PREP
This term Preps have been learning how to recognise and create rhymes. This week they have been making up their own rhyming pairs and adding them to an existing rhyme. By the end of this unit they will be writing their own rhymes. Amazing!!
YEAR 1
The focus for Yr 1 in English this term has been retelling a cultural story. Why? Because retelling stories from our past how to keep cultures, memories and important events alive. The Yr. 1’s have been learning how to write interesting retells about a variety of cultural stories such as How the Birds Got their colours (Dreaming story), The Two Bullies (A legend from Japan) and Handa's Surprise (an African tale).
Right now, they are learning to retell a story in a logical sequence with main ideas and characters to add interest. Ask your Yr. 1 student what their writing goal is.
YEAR 2
Year 2 are learning what makes a story interesting by looking closely at the events and plots of stories. They are learning how to write and add in another event to an imaginative story. They have been reading and analysing books like Little Cat and the Big Red Bus and Toy Boat in preparation for their writing task.
SCIENCE NEWS
Year 2 are learning about living things and what they need to survive. They have been growing bean seeds and grass heads and setting up favourable and non-favourable conditions for their plants to grow. Learning through experimentation and inquiry enhances our students understanding of the natural world and allows them to ask the question - WHY? One of the most powerful words to promote learning and understanding.
IMPORTANT PBL NEWS!
Our Awards are: Be Kind, Be positive, Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Proud and Be Tolerant. The Principal’s Award is also given out each week.
We did not have our usual awards in Week 5. But teachers will be on the look out for worthy recipients this week for next week, Week 6.
Every week we also have 4 students who receive GOTCHA awards. These students are spotted by other teachers in the playgrounds and classrooms and rewarded for doing the right thing with a GOTCHA award. They then go into the draw box where very week 4 students names are pulled out of the box. The winners receive a prize from the Prize Box and an ice block voucher.
We will draw the Gotchas in Week 6. week’s GOTCHA award winners.
Thank you from Mrs Ryan
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