Year 5/6 Netball

Congratulations to our Year 5/6 netball team who participated in a round robin competition at the Canberra Netball Association Courts in Lyneham. The girls won 4 out of their five games and showed amazing sportsmanship and encouragement towards their peers and opponents.

NAPLAN Assessment Schedule - Year 3 and 5

Ngunnawal oval upgrade community pop-up

Some exciting news for Gungahlin residents! Design work is underway to upgrade the Ngunnawal Neighbourhood Oval behind the Ngunnawal Primary School.

Key features of the upgrade include:

• asphalt carpark on Yumba Avenue to formalise the existing parking arrangements
• new unisex, accessible toilet
• improvements to the existing irrigation
• new LED sportsground lighting.

Want to know more?

Members of the project team will be available to discuss the upgrades at a community pop-up.

What: Ngunnawal Neighbourhood Oval Community pop-up

Where: Ngunnawal Neighbourhood Oval

When: Tuesday 21 March, 3.30 pm to 6 pm

If you’re unable to attend the pop-up, you can contact the project team via email at communityengagement@act.gov.au 

The new carpark design is expected to be finalised in the coming months with construction expected later this year.

Once the upgrades are complete, the Ngunnawal Neighbourhood Oval will be added to the ACT Government sportsground booking system. The accessible toilet and LED sportsground lighting will only be available to those with bookings for the oval.

For more info visit: https://www.cityservices.act.gov.au/Infrastructure-Projects/programs/sportsground-improvements

Years 3-6 Meninga/Daley Legends Rugby League Gala Day

Students from years 3/4 and 5/6 participated in the Rugby League Gala Day that consisted of 4 round robin games per team. All students played well and enjoyed a great day out playing with friends.

Positive Behaviours for Learning - Tier 2 Approaches

• Check In, Check Out
• Social Skills Instructional Groups
• Self Monitoring
• Response to Need (RTN) for learning

Rebecca Turner

Principal

Reading

Reader’s Workshop is part of our daily routine. We have established expectations around what makes a good reader and what a ‘good-fit’ book is for each of us. We also looked at strategies to build our reading stamina so students could engage in 20 minutes of independent reading each day. The primary reading strategy we have focused on has been retelling a text after reading. Retelling helps readers recall what has happened in a story, develop their sense of story structure and demonstrate their understanding of the text's characters, setting and events.

Writing

This term, we have been learning how to write narrative texts. We have learnt about the structure of the narrative arc. We have used descriptive language to develop interesting characters and settings, and they have learned to correctly use quotation marks to demonstrate speech. We illustrate our knowledge through deconstructing texts in our  ‘Bump it up’ lessons. We collaborated and used a rubric to grade and order the texts. Writing samples and marking rubrics have been displayed in the classroom to support us in bumping up our writing.

Maths

Our first number unit for the year is complete. This unit required students to investigate several key features of whole numbers. Learning tasks engaged students in how to identify ‘odd’ and ‘even’ numbers; represent, recognise and order numbers up to five digits; partition numbers into their place value and expanded notation; and compare numbers using greater than and less than symbols. 

Our strand unit has focused on chance and probability with students identifying the language of chance and engaging in various chance experiments by formally recording their findings using tally marks, etc.

Student learning tasks included whole class, small group, paired, and independent activities that offered support and extension.

HASS

We commenced the year looking at rules and laws in Civics and Citizenship. We discussed rules and why we have them, which supported the development of our class expectations and the review of the school's Positive Behaviours for Learning (PBL) expectations. Our further investigations focused on democracy and voting. Each class puts this theory into practice by nominating and voting for their class representatives in the Student Leadership Team.

We also began our year-long History unit which will examine several celebrations throughout the year. Our first celebration was to investigate the perspectives of Australia Day and identify the difference between a celebration and a commemoration.

Science

We recently started our Science unit on heat. Students identified several heat sources around the classroom and classified them as either heat producers or heated by something else. Then we observed how electricity creates thermal energy, friction and chemical reactions in numerous real-life objects. We are currently discussing the transfer and conductivity of heat in different materials

Let’s put a face to the name!

Check out the next newsletter where you’ll meet our wonderful canteen and Secondhand Uniform Shop staff and volunteers.

The P&C are always looking for volunteers and people to fill other roles. If you’d like to be involved, please get in touch.

The next P&C meeting is on Monday 27 March at 6pm in the school staffroom. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Book Club

Issue 2 is available and has a due date of Thursday 23rd March.

The Book Club program allows the P&C to contribute 100’s of books to the school library every year.

Secondhand School Uniform Shop

This week the Secondhand Uniform shop is open on Wednesday from 9am - 10am. Pop by the canteen and ask for Kat. Items are $1 - $5 and card or cash payments are accepted. Follow us on Facebook for regular updates.

We happily accept donations of secondhand uniforms in good condition. We cannot accept clothing that is marked, discoloured, broken buttons/zips, or items that are not Ngunnawal colours.

School Canteen

Use the flexischools app to check the menu and order your lunch orders.

Remember: Wednesday is Sushi day. Orders must be submitted by Monday 3pm.

Dry Goods Drive

The Dry Goods Drive is well underway with lots of items being donated. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed so far.

As of Friday March 10, the talley board is *drum roll*

KTM - 10 points

5GH - 13 points

4MO - 20 points

KLP - 36 points

1NI - 48 points

3BG - 93 points

And the class in first place at the moment with a whopping 465 points is 1AS!

The class that comes in second will also receive a prize this year - class icy poles!

It’s not too late, donations close this Friday.

The Dry Goods Drive helps replenish some canteen items which in turn helps the P&C keep prices affordable. The school canteen is a not-for-profit service funded by the P&C.

Gungahlin Bunnings BBQ

On Sunday 26 March, Bunnings Gungahlin will have the best sausage sandwiches in town. The P&C will be hosting their first fundraising activity of the year. Please pop by and grab yourself a sausage sandwich and help raise funds for the School.

Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to help. We still have some spots that need filling. If you are able to spare an hour to help cook a snag, please get in touch.

Easter Egg Guessing Competition

2023 Events

The P&C are working on a number of fun and exciting events for 2023, with the aim to bring together the school and the community, and to raise funds for the school.

Here are the confirmed events so far. Keep an eye out as more events will be added as they are confirmed.

Contact Us

You can contact us by email: ngunnawalpandc@gmail.com

And stay up to date by following us on Facebook or Instagram.

The ACT Education Directorate is seeking Homestay hosts for international students planning to study at an ACT public high school or college. International students participating in the Homestay program are aged 16 years or above.

Homestay is more than providing a room and meals. You’ll welcome a young person into your family and support their growth as they gain new perspectives, confidence, English fluency and academic and essential life skills.

If you can offer a place in your home, have the time to support a student’s social wellbeing and academic endeavours and have an interest in other cultures, we would love to hear from you.

A weekly payment is provided to help cover the costs of living expenses.

Please contact the International Education team via email at: ieu@act.gov.au or by phone on (02) 6205 9194. To find out more visit