LSUEB

We came back in week 4 ready to learn, and we haven’t stopped since! We have worked really hard on establishing and following our learning routines and this has supported our engagement in learning.

Our highlights this term include our HASS learning, exploring and writing about our favourite celebrations and learning about new ones. We even learnt about Chinese New Year and Holi, sharing our personal experiences of different celebrations with each other.

We have enjoyed our design challenges, beginning with designing a haunted house, and then exploring animals and their habitats.  We researched interesting facts about animals and used this information to create our own unique creatures and home for them. We used the design process of researching, planning and making. We also  discussed changes we could make to our designs to improve them.

LSUSG

Everybody was very happy to return to face to face learning this term after a long period of remote learning.

In literacy students worked on comprehension and understanding the text. This has been done through asking questions, group and individual discussions and reflections about books we have read. Students have been working on increasing their reading stamina through independent reading time. Students spend time either reading to themselves or to one of the educators in the class. Everyone enjoys engaging in stories being read to them, this is an activity we do every day.

In maths students have developed their understanding of place value and the value of tens and ones in two-digit numbers. They have also focused on numeral sequencing, addition and subtraction.

As a class we have been working on our design challenge. The students have really enjoyed creating houses and robots with various construction equipment. This has been a fun activity that requires the students to work as part of a team and practise their sharing and negotiation skills.

LSUMA

It was lovely to see the students return to school eager to be back after remote learning. Everybody was excited to see their peers and get back into learning routines.

During our literacy sessions, students worked on the reading strategies of predicting, questioning, and clarifying texts. Learning experiences ranged from modelling the strategies, group work, individual tasks, and one on one instruction.

During our maths sessions students have been enjoying engaging in authentic number skill development through explicit teaching and maths games. For our maths strand this term students had a lot of fun learning about coordinates and creating maps of treasure islands. Some lucky students even got a principal’s award.

A high point for our students this term was participating in the Ngunnawal School Design Challenge. Students created beautiful dioramas based on their favourite books and characters using the design process of researching, planning, and making. Students also had the wonderful opportunity to participate in art classes with our Deputy Principal Arianna. Students produced outstanding works of art during these lessons.