ANZAC Day Commemoration

Thank you to the NPS families, students and staff who led our ANZAC Day assembly today. A special thank you to Shane Jenkins who Acknowledged Country, Bernadette Odzierejko who recited On this Hallowed Day, Russell Smidt who played The Last Post and The Rouse and Sheridan McLeod who recited The Ode.  In our first whole school assembly of the year students reflected on the time all Australians have been given on 25 April each year to remember those who have served and continue to contribute to our wonderful country.

Best Wishes Karrina

Many of you will know Karrina, our Business Manager who has been a huge part of our school community for a number of years. This week Karrina has commenced in a new Business Manager position. NPS thanks Karrina for her many years of dedication to our school and we wish her well with her career progression.

Commencing in week 3, we welcome Di Champion to Ngunnawal Primary School. Di has worked in ACT schools for many years and will be a wonderful addition to our administration team. 

School Vision

During term 1 our staff have been working together to develop a shared understanding of key terminology in our school vison statement. These desirable attributes have shaped the development of our collective commitments which describe the collaborative tasks and interpersonal skills we bring to working as a team to ensure all students succeed.

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2024 Enrolments

Enrolments for the 2024 school year for students transitioning schools or starting at a school open 6am on Wednesday 26 April. Families can apply online. Information about the school in your child’s Priority Enrolment Area can be found on the Education Directorate website. During the school holidays a list of school information sessions for prospective students will be published. Alternately you can visit school websites to find out more about your child’s school.

Who needs to submit an enrolment:

Preschool 2024 Children turning 4 on or before 30 April 2024.	Yes, all new preschoolers for 2024 need to enrol.
Kindergarten 2024 Children turning 5 on or before 30 April 2024.	No, if 2023 Ngunnawal Preschool and in Ngunnawal PEA. Yes, if not attending Ngunnawal Preschool in 2023. Yes, if attending Ngunnawal Preschool and Ngunnawal is not your PEA school.
Year 7 2024	Yes, to your PEA high school. For most Ngunnawal residents the PEA school is Gold Creek School. From 2024 Kurrama Close, Margany Close and Jaru place are in the PEA for Harrison School.
K-6 new to Ngunnawal in 2024	Yes
Continuing Kindergarten - Year 5 2023 at Ngunnawal	No, enrolment will continue.

Cultural Integrity

Cultural_Integrity_at_NPS_2023.pdf

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Rebecca Turner

Principal

Writing

Last term, Year 1 focused on creating timelines. They constructed timelines about their own personal lives and objects and items from the past, such as toys. Students focused on different language features, such as nouns, verbs and adjectives to make their sentences interesting. Throughout the term, students used the bump it up wall to reflect on their work and edit their writing using checklists to independently improve their work.

Reading

During Term One, in Reader’s Workshop, we focused on the reading strategies of sounding out, chunking and retelling. Students were learning to be word noticers and find the meaningful parts of words to help them decode and understand unknown words. We are developing a love of reading anywhere and anytime! Students have been enjoying reading just-right books to help them become independent readers.

Don’t forget to read every day and fill in your reading log - one book per day!

Spelling

This term year 1 have been focusing on a variety of strategies including the sound strategy and the checking strategy. Students have learned about the sound /m/ /c/ /s/ and /f/ and the graphemes that can be used to represent these sounds e.g. /c/ and ‘ck’. To support students in reading and writing each class has focused on high frequency words. Students have engaged in a range of activities to support their knowledge of these words.

Maths - Number

Last term, Year 1 students were learning about place value and number lines. Students participated in hands-on learning activities using materials, such as dice, playing cards and MAB blocks. These activities enhanced students’ understanding of numbers from 0-100, including identifying the numbers before and after a given number. 

Maths - Shapes

Last term, Year 1 learnt about two dimensional shapes and three dimensional objects. They focused on recognising and describing a variety of two dimensional shapes, such as square, circle and rectangle using edges and vertices. They also learnt to recognise and identify a variety of three dimensional objects, such as a cube, rectangular prism and square based pyramid using edges, vertices and faces. Students made various three dimensional objects using matchsticks and playdough. We discussed the vertices, edges and faces of the three dimensional shapes that we made.

Inquiry - History

During our inquiry unit, Year 1 students were learning to identify and describe changes in their own lives. Students created a personal timeline that demonstrated a sequence of events in order using photos over the course of their lives. They also interviewed relatives including parents, carers and grandparents to compare some aspects of daily life that have changed over recent times while others have remained the same. They also observed objects from the past, such as, landline telephones, cassette tapes, portable CD players and polaroid cameras. They enjoyed observing these objects and investigating their use in decades past.

 

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