Term 3 Week 5 2022
Principal's Report
Regional Arts Victoria are putting on a show - Junklandia - on Friday morning at 9:10. As the REX theatre is still being renovated, the performance will be held in the Charlon College stadium. The cost of the performance is being subsidised by Regional Arts Victoria and the school will pay the rest of the cost. Can parents who drive their children to school please take them to Charlton College no earlier than 8:40 on Friday morning. St Joseph's staff will be waiting for them at the front of the stadium. Bus children, please get off the buses at Charlton College.
I will be away next Monday and Tuesday at an IEU Principals meeting in Daylesford. I will be back on deck Wednesday morning.
Please remember the weekend of Friday the 19th and Monday 22nd is our circuit breaker long weekend. There will be NO school on these days.
This morning we had our first of 3 Come and Try mornings for the 2023 Foundation students. The next 2 Come and Try mornings will be the 8th September and the 20th October. We will then hold our orientation days towards the end of November/early December.
Information
Camp Covid Requirements.
It is our duty to inform you that if a confirmed or probable COVID case is present at the camp while infectious, others attending the camp may be identified as household-like contacts. Household-like contacts are still permitted to participate in camp as long as they wear a mask when indoors (if aged 8 and above or have a valid exemption) and complete 5 rapid antigen tests within the 7 day period that would have been their quarantine period. A household-like contact attending camp during this period must notify the educational facility they are attending under these requirements. Primary school children should test at home on the morning of the camp. If a child or staff member becomes positive at camp they will need to be collected from camp by a family member.
Fr Gerry's 70th birthday celebration. Fr Gerry turned 70 last week. The Parish will be celebrating with a lunch at the Cricket Club Hotel on Sunday 28th Augus after 10:30 Mass. Please let Sandra Patton (0407 320 633) know if you will be attending as meals will be pre-ordered.
100 years of the Presbytery. The St Joseph's Presbytery was built 100 years ago this year. There will be a celebration and tour of the presbytery in October.
100 Days of School. On Friday 5th August, the Foundation students reached a once in a life time milestone – 100 days of school for the very first time! To celebrate this very special day, this Friday the students will participate in many different and fun learning activities that relate to the number 100. We will also be attending a special musical performance at the college in the morning and sharing some hot chips for morning recess as well as playing some olden day games with the senior class to celebrate this milestone!
Congratulations and well done Foundation!
Prep/1/2 Class News
This week in the junior classroom we’ve been working hard on our learning goals and I’m very proud of everyone’s efforts with their home reading and daily practice to learn to recognise their MAGIC words (200 of the most commonly used words). Well done! Keep practicing each night with an adult and once you’ve been able to read the word 3 times successfully at school, we will tick this off in your booklet! During our daily literacy rotations, the students are immersed in activities that work on phonological awareness, sight word recognition, decoding difficult vocabulary and learning to understand and comprehend non-fiction information texts. This week we’ve started a new text ‘Cooking and Change’ and the students have begun learning about different types of foods and how things like cooking and heat can change how food tastes and feels. The student’s learnt that ‘raw’ means fresh or uncooked and we explored which foods can be eaten raw and which foods need to be cooked. Leading on from last week’s text ‘Bread’, the students have been making connections with how food goes through processes before it ends up in the shops for sale and we looked at whether these are processes that might take place in a factory, in nature or in your home kitchen (or any other place you can think of!) and how these processes usually involve the food changing in some way or another, i.e., popcorn, pancakes, icy poles, etc. In the case of our bread recipe, the students had to measure the ingredients, mix them all together and then knead their dough and roll it into the shape of a bread roll before we baked them in the oven. The yeast that we used in our recipe led to direct changes in the food’s appearance and taste (the yeast made the bread rise and become light and fluffy for eating).
The students have been learning about chance and data in Maths with Mrs Winslade and have been participating in a range of activities which encourage the students to explore possibilities, i.e.likely, certain, impossible, 50/50 as well as collecting data and looking for ways to display the collected data in appealing and clear to understand/interpret ways (picture graphs, column graphs, etc). I’ve been impressed with the students’ abilities to choose an event and determine the likeliness of this taking place, i.e. ‘I will ride a horse to school’ – unlikely, ‘I will fly to the moon next week’ –impossible, ‘I will play footy on Saturday’ – certain. In Humanities the students have been finishing up their unit of work on ‘Then and Now’ where we’ve looked at lots of differences between life in the olden days versus life in the present day before we’ll be moving onto our unit on ‘Community’ which will explore each student’s individual connection to their home, school and town that they live in or around.
100 Days of School. On Friday 5th August, the Foundation students reached a once in a life time milestone – 100 days of school for the very first time! To celebrate this very special day, this Friday the students will participate in many different and fun learning activities that relate to the number 100. We will also be attending a special musical performance at the college in the morning and sharing some hot chips for morning recess as well as playing some olden day games with the senior class to celebrate this milestone!
Congratulations and well done Foundation!
3/4/5/6 Class News
We are continuing our learning on farm safety, with a focus on machinery safety on the farm. Students have been reading about the prevalence of hearing loss in farmers and ways that we can measure the extent of the damage and prevent damage from occurring in the first place. Students were asked to write a short summary of this text, focusing on the main idea of each paragraph. This week, students have focused on understanding, identifying components of, and writing complex sentences. Students were asked to revise their knowledge of nouns, verbs, tense, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and clauses in the context of a complex sentence. Students have also been working on their writing projects consisting of a video presentation on farm safety and a comic about farm safety. Students have begun brainstorming and discussing their ideas, determining what they will plan out further and suggesting places that they can get video footage or resources from.
In Maths this week we have been continuing our work on money and beginning a unit on Mass. In our money unit, students have watched an episode of ‘Teenage Boss’ which looks at family budgets and realistic spending habits within Australian households. This was a great talking point for all students regarding budgeting, with a particular focus on Year 5 students who are working on these skills in Maths. Year 6 students are working on money exchange rates between different currencies. Year 4 students are working on decimal currency and work on spreadsheets from a bank balance. Year 3 students are consolidating calculating change, creating values using notes and coins and have begun apply this knowledge to real world money Maths through exploration of fake catalogues and creating shopping lists.
In Mass, Year 6 students are working on converting units of mass to answer problem solving questions. Year 3 students are working on understanding kilograms. Year 5 students are working on grams and kilograms. Year 4 students are working on understanding kilograms and estimating mass.
In Science, students are learning about producers, consumers and decomposers and which plants and animals fall into these categories. Students have begun to learn about and discuss classifications of animals and are identifying different animals under the categories of invertebrates, mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians.
Contract 23 is due this week with spelling homework please.
Come and Try Day 1
Community News
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