Colour Run

A huge thank you to Sarah for coordinating another successful Colour Run at the end of last term. Despite some fresh weather and soggy grass everyone had an amazing time, especially our younger students who were experiencing a Colour Run for the first time. Thank you to all our volunteers who came out to assist on the day.

Assemblies

This term, we are removing the booking system for assemblies. We ask that all visitors continue to social distance and do not come to the school if unwell.

2023 Friend Requests and Class Considerations

Every year, Ngunnawal School staff work hard to create classes for the following year. We encourage children to select friends they learn well with, allow parents the opportunity to provide input and work closely with classroom teachers to create cohesive classes.

This year we would like to collate all this information in one location. This Google Form will allow all families to have the opportunity to share their preferences for 2023.

We encourage you to talk with your child about who they learn best with and who they would like to be in a class with for the following year. We will guarantee that every child is with at least one of their chosen friends if not more. In addition to this, each child will be in a class with a number of students from their current class.

Please use the link below to indicated preferences by Friday 4 November. 

Class Placements for 2023 - Google Forms

K-6 Learning Journeys

Preschool to Kindergarten Transition Visits 

This term we continue on with our Preschool to Kindergarten transitions. For this term, we have staggered the transitions in to the Kindergarten classes over Weeks 4, 6 and 8. We have managed to stagger these times, so that the children have an opportunity to experience similar routines/activities/transitions to a morning, middle and afternoon session of a school day. We have also aimed to include an ‘eating time’ so students can practise eating in a set time frame as they will have to do next year. During Week 7 and Week 9, there will be the opportunity for children coming to our school from external education & care providers, preschools, ELCs etc to experience similar transitions and become more familiar with our school.

Term 4 Pupil Free Days 

Two staff planning days (pupil free) will again be in place in Term 4. The dates are Friday 28 October 2022 and Monday 28 November 2022. 

These planning days provide an important opportunity for our staff to undertake training, plan for the remainder of the term and the year ahead and finalise end of year student reporting which can’t be done during class time.

While students may wish to use these days to catch up on homework and / or assignments, no additional work will be allocated to them on these days. Families may like to use these as wellbeing days for their children.

Students who can’t stay at home will be able to attend school and be supervised while undertaking general learning activities. Please confirm attendance by emailing info@ngunnawalps.act.edu.au

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Principal

Writing

During writing last term we were focusing on writing sentences that included capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. In our sentences we worked on using our 5 senses to describe and add details. We looked at pictures and thought about what we might be able to see, smell, hear, feel or taste if we were there.

We also did some wonderful Monster Writing, where we designed our own scary monsters and wrote super sentences about what they looked like, smelt like and so on. 

Bounce Back

In Bounce Back we have been looking at relationships and learning how to make friends and include others and discussing what makes a good friend.

We created a friendship wall where we drew a friend and something we like doing with them to remind us of how special our friendships are. 

We also made a friendship wreath for our classroom. We all drew around our hands and decorated them with things about us and joined them together to show that altogether we can create something beautiful. 

Spelling

During spelling, we have been learning about short vowel letters and using this knowledge to spell CVC words by using the sounding out strategy. We have also explored digraphs, which are two letters put together to create a new sound.

Science

In Science, we have been learning about the seasons traditional to the First Nations people of Dharawal country. We enjoyed creating weather mini books with drawings of the types of weather we have learnt about in Science this semester. 

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