2024 School Captains

Congratulations to our year 6, 2024 student leaders:

External Learning Environment Grant

Our school has received an external learning environment grant, which will see our outdoor space adjacent to Wiradjuri and our Yarning Cirlce be upgraded. A temporary fence will be erected tomorrow morning and will close off pedestrian access to our school from Kanbi Place. All other pedestrian gates will remain open. 

World Teachers Day 

Thanks to the P&C for a delicious morning tea which was provided to our staff for World Teacher's Day on Friday 27th October. Our staff greatly appreciated the sweet treat and to our amazing staff, thank you for your continued dedication to our school community. 

Gala Days 

Our school has recently been involved in soccer and league tag gala days. Students represented our school with passion and sportsmanship. They should be proud of the way they conducted themselves and for their outstanding results.

Nominations 

ACT Public Education Awards recently took place. We would like to congratulate members of our staff who were nominated:

Catherine Beckett

Billy Duncan

Lisa Peacock

Last week the University of Canberra Faculty of Education recognised the commitment and partnership of ACT schools involved in facilitating placements for pre-service teachers. Ngunnawal Primary School was recognised for our long-time commitment in fostering the development of pre-service teachers and one of our amazing teachers Dan was nominated for a Mentor Teacher Award, by his pre-service teacher Harry Bannister. 

Staffing 

I am pleased to announce that I will be continuing in the principal position while Bec Turner is acting executive principal at Amaroo School. 

PBL

Emma Davidson

Acting Principal

Community Connections

Grandfriends Day was a special occasion to celebrate grandparents, grand-friends, relatives, and those who generally take on the role of a grandparent within their family or community. It was a beautiful time to celebrate these members of the family for all that they do, and they do so much.

Preschoolers enjoyed participating in some activities and having a picnic morning tea with their special friend.

Stem - Tadpole Inquiry

In preschool we are raising tadpoles. We are excited to watch our frogspawn go through their metamorphosis into little froglets. It is such an incredible experience for our students. We have been learning about their life cycle and the types of habitats frogs live in. Students have created habitats with playdough, created frog inspired artwork, made life cycle booklets and taken observations on their growth.

Kindergarten Transitions

Young children’s successful transition from preschool to kindergarten lays the groundwork for future success in school and life. Preschoolers have been visiting the primary school in a number of transitions to help familiarise themselves with the new settings, surroundings and teachers. We have had some experiences in specialist classes such as PE, art, Japanese and music. This term we will be continuing our transitions and spending time in the kindergarten classrooms.

Literacy - Catherine Nash

In literacy, preschoolers have been exploring the different ways in which we can communicate a story to an audience, to help us become better writers. Classes have been acting stories out using our bodies, props, drawing sequence illustrations and describing details in our drawings. The Balbo and Mundawari classes have enjoyed baking gingerbread related to their literacy focus on the story ‘The Gingerbread Man’.

Koori - Yarn and Tucker

Koori Preschooler hosted our first Yarn and Tucker for our families. Students helped to prepare some wattle seed and wild strawberry gum bush cookies for our gathering. Families came along and helped us to acknowledge our land, share our tucker, have a yarn and make some new connections. We were lucky enough to have our local artist Rebekah Lane drop in for a visit and share in some ideas for our school mural.

Writing 

During writing we have been writing to describe. We have been  focusing on writing sentences that include conventions such as capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. In our sentences we have been working on using our five senses to describe and add details. We thought about some of our experiences we have had and what we saw, smelt, heard, felt or tasted.

Some of the other thinking  strategies that we have been using during the writing process include visualisation, drawing pictures, labelling, partner talk and asking questions to add further detail. 

Excursion to Cockington Green

As part of our writing unit, we went to Cockington Green. We had a picnic lunch there, explored the gardens and went on a mini train ride. After our visit, we brainstormed our experience based on the senses and key words.  We then used the thinking strategies of drawing and labelling before writing our sentences. We shared our sentences during our writing partner chats, author circles or when we were conferencing with our teacher and this helped us get feedback to improve our writing.

Number and Strand

During our number sessions we have been consolidating numbers to 20. We have been focusing on number formation. We are also learning to count forward and back from twenty. We have also been learning about ordinal numbers. 

In our strand sessions, we have been learning about concepts of length, mass and capacity. We have been exploring how to measure objects around our class using informal units of measure such as unifix cubes and counters. 

Data

Kindergarten students have been learning about data. Students ask and respond to questions and record their data on a bar graph.

Reading

We are now consolidating our reading strategies such as  sounding  out, chunking , reading  on. We utilise a variety of texts including big books, readers, quality texts and electronic texts.

Health

We have been learning about healthy eating habits. We made anchor charts and posters about healthy everyday foods and foods that we eat only sometimes. During our health sessions we have been having discussions about foods that help us “Go” ”Glow” and "Grow”. These healthy foods such as whole grains provide energy, while fruit and vegetables provide extra nutrients. We are learning that proteins and dairy keep our bones and muscles healthy.    

100 Days of Kindergarten

We celebrated 100 Days Brighter on Friday 28th July. Students came dressed to school as if they were 100 years old or in bright clothes.

Writing- Poetry

We have been exploring the elements of poetry in our Writer’s Workshop, including structure, rhyme, rhythm and sound devices. The students began the unit by writing simile and personification poems. During Outdoor Education Day we took the opportunity to use the Australian bushland as inspiration to write our Haiku poems.

Birds chirp in the sun

The grass is yellow and green

The gum trees are tall.

By Olivia M

Science

During our Science rotation, the students have been learning about the different states of matter (liquids, solids and gases). They have had fun exploring the observable properties by participating in investigations and experiments.

Charlotte- My favourite thing that we did in Science was the liquid and gas experiments because we got to see how it would work.

Bernie- Some of my favourite things were when we got to do our own experiments on some solids. We got to feel, observe and do our own test on the solids.

Coding 

In our Coding unit, the students have been using the Scratch program to code games and stories. They experimented with a range of coding commands including movement, sound and speech to name a few. Then we have enjoyed the challenge of trying to create successful coding algorithms that achieve the desired outcome.

Civics and Citizenship

In our Civics and Citizenship unit, we have been looking at democracy and representational democracy in Australia, including facts about voting and the referendum. We have learnt about laws and regulations and explored how they are created and enforced. The last area we have covered is civic engagement where we are looking at how members of the community can volunteer to make our community a better place. Students have used many research and problem-solving strategies whilst public speaking in front of the class to share their opinions.  

Outdoor Education Day

On Thursday 2 November, Ngunnawal School held Outdoor Education Day. We had a lot of fun taking our learning outside. In 5GH, they explored nature and used this as inspiration for their Haiku poems. In 5TB and 5BD, they enjoyed a morning of reading outside. Classes also had a go at orienteering, using our map-reading skills to navigate around the school and find checkpoints.

PE- Oz Tag

Year 5 GH and 5TB have begun our focus on OzTag during our PE lessons. We have been playing a variety of tag games and practising throwing a football along a line, making sure our passes are going backwards. 

RAINBOW AWARDS 

Responsible Learner 

Respectful 

Safe

Responsible Learner

Jaden R	Dion L	Eleanor M	Ellie K
Ava S	Husain I	Elijah M	Kundrol M
Max H	Blake B

Respectful

Joshua T	Luca V	Zoe B	Evelyn B
Ezana A	Nina K	Liam M	Arlo B
Eli S	Zoe B	Laksh S	Tia N
Archer C	Temperance T	Mikaere EP	Harrison S
William N	Levi B	Dion L	Ava S
Chloe W	Atticis T	Marco V	Elise P
Chase S	Saharsh S	Addison B	Elisha C
Charli E	Nathan H	Jack H	Andy K
Llly A	Annie L	Zara M	Ella L
Eliza M	Alexis M	Mack M	Lillian W
Avneet K	Malak M

Safe 

Heidi G	Jaida F	Hayley C	Jonathan F
Makayla G	KAthaleeya C	Parker HB	Mysie C
Addison N	Maxwell T	Alex O	Piper A
William N	Moon N	Mia E	Zoe I
Twisha S	Jessica T	Grace Mc	Jana L
William M	Isaac B	Liam B	Luke M
Angadveer S	Tupou F	Aveya P	Oscar O
Annie L	Marco V	Elise P	Mack M
Malak M	Lillian W

Safe 

Sebastian F	Ckobe C	Isla A	Husain I
Chloe W	Sianna S	Kundrol M	Tashan F
Theo E

Respectful 

Responsible Learner 

Three-year-old preschool list of partner providers for 2024

Universal access to quality early childhood education for three-year-old children is a key initiative under Set Up for Success: An Early Childhood Strategy for the ACT. From the start of 2024, free three-year-old preschool will be available to all Canberra families for 300 hours per year. The three-year-old preschool program will be delivered through participating Early Childhood Education and Care services (long day care and non-government school settings). Over 130 services across the ACT have partnered to deliver three-year-old preschool in 2024.

A list of partner provider services is now available on the Education Directorate website, along with Frequently Asked Questions and further information for families.

Please share the website link and three-year-old preschool flyer with your school community for further information.

Attachments:

• Three-year-old preschool flyer (617 kb PNG)

Contact Katherine Walsh-Smith on 02 620 74681 or three-year-oldpreschool@act.gov.au

Welcome to Fundamental Coaching,

This indicates there are 10 weeks left of 2023.

10 weeks of fun activities in: 

✅ Agility

✅ Balance

✅ Coordination

✅ Speed

✅ Passing

✅ Dribbling

✅ Shooting

✅Observation using peripheral vision

Term 4 begins from Saturday 14 October to Saturday 16 December 2023

All sessions are held at Holt Oval 2, pitch 204