100 Days of Kindergarten

Congratulations to our Kindergarten 2021 cohort for making it through 100 days of learning. What a great start to many more years of school.

Rostrum Quarter Finals

Congratulations to Emily C who represented our school at the Rostrum Quarter Finals on Thursday of last week. Emily did an outstanding job and won! She will be progressing to the semi finals. Good luck Emily!

8 Ways of Learning

Our teachers have been working on incorporating the 8 Ways of Learning into lessons this year. This is a pedagogy framework that allows teachers to include Aboriginal perspectives by using Aboriginal learning techniques. This way, focus can remain on core curriculum content while embedding Aboriginal perspectives in every lesson. You may begin to notice some of the symbols being used in Seesaw posts or around classrooms to show where one of the 8 ways of Learning was a focus strategy. Below is a description of each of the strategies.

Boys Basketball

Congratulations to our boys basketball team who represented our school last Tuesday. The boys did a magnificent job and had a couple of wins. Thank you to Ahmed for coaching the team.

Mobile Dental Clinic

The Mobile Dental Clinic will arrive at our school on 20 August. Parents and carers will receive information about the program this week. The clinic offers check ups, x-rays and a variety of preventative treatments such as cleaning, fluoride or fissure sealants. Notes are due back by 9 August.

Rebecca Turner

Principal

Writing

Students have been looking at different types of procedures and the key language features needed to write a procedure. Classes brainstormed action verbs and adverbs that can be used when baking a cake. They also got to write a procedure for the teachers to follow, where we had lots of fun making fairy bread!

Science

Students are planting their broad bean seeds this week. We will be looking after them and measuring them daily, to help learn the life cycle of a plant.

Garden buddies is also going really well, with each class sending their buddy home to visit students gardens every couple of days.

Maths

We have followed our work on fractions last term and moved into decimals. We have been discussing how many areas of our life involve using decimals; these include measurements such as height, weight, speed, distance and time. We’ve also worked on visually representing decimals, both by showing them on grids of 10 or 100 and placing them on a number line.

We have spent time understanding and comparing the area of 2D shapes.  We have used informal units such as Lego, dominoes, post-it notes and paper to measure the area of shapes and are beginning to investigate how standard units of measurement are used.

Geography

In Geography, we are focused on Africa and South America. We have talked about connections that we have to these areas. Some of the students have impressed us with their ability to find a number of countries on the map.

Respectful 

Responsible Learner 

Safe

Responsible Learner 

Do you feel left in the dark with what your kids are up to online? We recommend downloading Beacon Cyber Safety App to keep you up to date with trusted, tailored information, to help keep your kids safe online. This App is a one-stop-shop for reliable information about the online world. It arms parents and carers with the knowledge they need to confidently help navigate their children’s digital behaviour and reduce harms we know are associated with being online. There are articles and videos backed by the latest research; tailored content and alerts, unique to your family needs; you can create your own family agreement; and be informed about help and services that are available to you and your family.

Another good resource to check out is the eSafety Commissioner website: https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/big-issues/cyberbullying

Come and BUILD YOURSELF at Two Sheds Workshop, Woodwork for Women and Kids.

Places still available in Kids classes on in Wanniassa. 

Build your own projects and build skills for life. 

GO TO www.twoshedsworkshops.com.au/workshops-and-classes/