Congratulations Year 6!

Well done Year 6 on an outstanding Market Day. The school had a wonderful day of shopping and experiences. Good luck counting all of your profits! Thank you to our community for supporting our students with their market ideas. 

Semester 2 Student Leaders

Congratulations to the students who have been elected by their peers to lead our student led iniatives for semester 2. We look forward to seeing what you achieve together!

Cultural Connection Day

As part of Aborignal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Week our school provided an opportunity for our indigenous students and their families to connect on country. This is part of our strategy to build a culturally safe school community. All NPS students regularly participate in opportunities to connect with culture. We had a buddies celebration back at school also on this day where classes connected through exploring indigenous texts.

Representative Sport

Congratulations to Jack in Year 6 who competed in the ACT Schoolboys U 12's rugby league side that played in Townsville this past week. The coach commended Jack on how he represented not only the ACT but Ngunnawal Primary School as well. All week off the field he was respectful and on the field he played committed, tough and fair football and showed exemplary sportsmanship. Congratulations Jack!

Congratulations to Olivia in Year 5 and Amber in Year 6 who competed in the ACT Schoolgirls 12 and under Hockey Championships in Hobart this past week. Olivia and Amber showed tremendous improvement in their skills in the training session leading up to the championships and across the six games. Congratulations Olivia and Amber!

Congratulations to Ruben in Year 6 for representing the ACT in the under 12's School Sport for AFL in Albury last week.

Well done Ruben. 

Maths:

This term in the number strand we have been doing a multiplication unit. Students have focused on the 2, 3, 5, and 10 times tables. They have been learning about the strategies used to show or represent multiplication, such as making groups, skip counting, repeated addition and making arrays.

We have also been studying length in the measurement strand. This involved students sharing their prior knowledge before investigating using informal and metric units of measurement for length, such as millimetres, centimetres and metres. Students also compared the length of different objects and completed the assessment for length. 

Literacy:

Students have been practising a variety of strategies during the daily Reader’s Workshop sessions, such as making connections, expanding vocabulary and  students have participated in daily shared and independent reading sessions, as well as teacher conferences to guide them through specific strategies to assist their reading development.

In Writer’s Workshop students are focusing on Writing to Describe as a purpose for writing. They have investigated different types of informative writing and the features of non-fiction texts. We have now turned our writing focus to the specific text type of information reports. We have begun examining the structure and language features of an information report, and students will use their research from science to write a report.

Science:

Our Science unit focuses on Day and Night. We identified what ideas we already had about what makes day and night, and investigated stories from other cultures which explain what we see from Earth. We also investigated the interactions between the Earth, Moon and Sun from a scientific perspective, and explored light and shadow to explain how and why shadows change throughout the day. Students conducted an investigation of the effect of time of day on length and direction of shadows.  We discussed how to conduct a fair scientific test to answer the question, ‘What happens to the length and direction of shadows during the day?’ Students recorded their  observations and reflected on why they believe their shadows changed during the day.

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