As we embrace the final stretch of the year, Term 4 marks a pivotal period for our students to consolidate their learning achievements. This term serves as a platform for students to reinforce concepts covered, fostering a deep understanding of the subjects they’ve explored throughout the year. As we observe the culmination of their efforts, it’s a chance for us to celebrate the resilience and commitment to continuous growth demonstrated by our students.

PAT Testing

Students have just completed end of year PAT testing. These assessments provide a snapshot of individual student progress across key learning areas. By evaluating students' knowledge and skills, the tests not only measure academic growth over the year but also identify areas where additional support or enrichment may be needed. This information is used with other assessments collected throughout the year, along with informal evidence collected by the teacher to inform your child’s assessment rating for their EOY Report. As always, if you would like to discuss your child’s results, please make contact as we are always happy to discuss this further with you.

At this point in the year, we are also busily planning for 2024. This information serves as a valuable resource for us, offering insights into curriculum effectiveness and helping tailor instructional strategies. This information, in turn, contributes to informed decision-making for curriculum development, resource allocation, and personalised learning plans, ensuring a targeted and effective educational experience for every student.

Kinder- Grade 2 Swimming

Our Kinder to Grade 2 students will be participating in swimming in week 6.  Building water awareness and safety in our children is essential, particularly given the environment we live in.  Our community is surrounded with dams, rivers, creeks and the coastline – these lessons assist our students in being safe within our community. We are fortunate to be able to offer this additional program in our school pool with AustSwim Qualified Instructors. Parents are most welcome to come and spectate if they wish, however, please be mindful not to take any photos while the children are in the pool.

Basketball Systems

If you've visited the playground lately, you've likely observed the recent installation of our new basketball systems, which are now bringing daily enjoyment to our students. These systems are fully adjustable, enabling all students to practise their shooting skills from different heights. What makes them especially exciting is their design, specifically built to accommodate slam dunks. A big thank you to the dads that assisted in their installation, we are extremely fortunate to have such a connected school community willing to share their expertise and equipment.

Assemblies

Our Mid-Term Assembly will be held this Thursday, 16^th November at 9:15am. This will be a whole-school assembly with students from Kinder to Grade 6 attending.  Assemblies are a fantastic opportunity to showcase learning and celebrate student achievements. We hope to see you there!

Our End of Year Celebration and Leavers Assemblies will be held on Friday, 15^th December. The Kinder to Grade 2 assembly will take place in the morning at 9:15am, followed by the Grade 3 to 5 students and our Grade 6 Leavers at 11:15am. We look forward to celebrating a wonderful year of learning and growth with you, as well as farewelling our leaders of the school, our Grade 6s.

Pre-Kinder

Pre-Kinder has started, and it's truly exciting to witness the enthusiastic children and so many families attend each session. The Pre-Kinder program serves as a valuable opportunity for our 2024 Kinders to familiarise themselves with their teacher and the classroom setting, facilitating a smoother transition to school next year. Additionally, it provides a platform for the children to develop friendships and practice separating from their parents or caregivers. If you know any children in our school community that were born in 2019 and the family is yet to make contact with the school, please encourage them to do so or come and discuss with us how we can best support the enrolment. We want to give every child the opportunity to access Pre-Kinder!

Welcome back Mr Brown!

At the beginning of week 6, we look forward to welcoming Mr Brown back to school and I will resume my role as AST. Mr. Brown is excited to reunite with everyone, eager to catch up on student learning and progress that occurred during his absence. We're eagerly anticipating the return of Mr Brown to school…even his bad dad jokes!

During our Physical Sciences inquiry, we have explored the forces of push and pull and other ways objects can move such as rolling and sliding. We made our own racetracks and pushed balls of different sizes so they rolled from start to finish. Then, Mrs Baker posed a question… 

Mrs B - “What happens if you don’t push the ball?” 

F - “It doesn’t move. We need to push it.” 

Mrs B - “Do you think there is a way to get your ball to move without you pushing it?” 

J - “A hill!” 

A - “It needs an angle!” 

O - “A slide or a ramp!” 

A - “The object needs to be circular though.” 

T – “Yeah, because flat things don’t roll.” 

Out we went to investigate all the ramps, slides and hills we could find before proceeding to create our very own by putting pieces together and creating pathways. This was an exciting way to share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with our classmates! 

In 1-2LE, we have been discussing how time is relevant in our daily activities. Time is clock, using calendars to mark special events, the language of time for morning, afternoon and night and the order of seasons, weeks, and months. We have played several games to help understand time, playing charades to demonstrate our understanding of events and the time of day. We realise that time helps us to be organised.

Term 4 has been busy so far. We have been learning lots of new things so far but one of our favourite topics has been learning about money. We have been using class cash as a reward system to help us practise counting money and develop our financial awareness. We earn some money each week and then pay rent for classroom items. We can earn rewards or bonuses by doing things such as helping, using manners and being a good friend and can get fined for things like being disrespectful, calling out or being silly. We have been playing games and sorting coins and notes to learn more about the features of Australian currency and to practise adding and subtracting amounts and we have solved some word problems about money. 

In 1-2CE to start this term we have been looking at Shapes in Maths. We made some 3D shapes using plasticine, match sticks and paddle pop sticks to make them. We had to make sure our shapes had the right number of faces, vertices, and edges. We have also been looking at symmetry and have made some symmetrical shapes with our friends.  

Pre-Kinder 

What a wonderful start to Pre-Kinder we’ve had this term! We have had the opportunity to meet with so many of our new students and their families and begin that important transition into school life. We are three weeks into our program, and are looking forward to six more fun-filled sessions that allow us to start building those very valuable relationships with peers, teachers and parents. It’s also a wonderful opportunity for the children to become familiar with the Kinder routines and environment.  

Pre-Kinder runs each Wednesday morning, from 9am- 10:40am in the Kinder building. If you would like more information, please contact the school office. 

Christmas Raffle donations are still being accepted if you would like to support the P&F.

Tickets go on sale Monday 13th November :)

Turning up matters

Welcome back to Term 4! We hope you enjoyed school holidays, and are ready for another exciting term.

We all want the best for our children – for their futures to be as bright as possible. Showing up every day to school really matters. It gives your child every chance to learn, grow and find their interests.

This last stretch of the school year can sometimes be tricky. Keep it up, because each day is another chance to:

• be around friends
• learn new things
• find interests
• create dream futures (whatever that may be!).

If you’re looking for tips on how to create better attendance habits, visit the Anything can happen website.

Please always talk to us if you’re having trouble getting your child to school. We’re here to help.

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