Term 4 Week 2
Principal's Report
Batten down the hatches, the flood water is coming! We might need an ark. We will have to get Noah on the job!
Yesterday and today we are expecting quite a lot of rain. The T20 blast cricket day has been cancelled tomorrow.
Our show display is up at the footy pavillion and we encourage you to go and have a look at the great work your children and grandchildren have produced. (If the show goes ahead!)
Samantha Meerbach, our teaching and learning education officer, will be here on the 18th to work on curriculum planning for next year.
Next Thursday, 20th October we have our third and last Come and Try day for prospective students in 2023.
Stay safe.
Information
T20 Blast. Has been cancelled.
Lions Eye Health Checks. The Lions Club will be coming on Monday to perform eye checks on the children. Apparently last time they came (quite a few years ago), they discovered that one in 5 children needed further testing by an optometrist. It is a free service that we can all utilise. If you would like your child to have the eye test, please return the permission form before Monday. (There are spare forms in the office if needed.) They DO NOT recommend children who are already under the care of an optometrist to have their eyes tested.
Prep/1/2 Class News
It’s great to be back in Term 4 and to have everyone working hard in class on their learning goals. This week in the junior classroom, we’ve been busy working on new learning topics for the term including Measurement in our Numeracy sessions where the students have been learning about volume, capacity and mass. When learning about volume, it’s been interesting to experiment with different sized containers, particularly ones that aren’t easy to determine which would hold the most and to measure the liquid that each would hold to figure out which had a bigger volume.
In Literacy we’ve been working on Informative Texts and learning about the different features of an informative text type, this week particularly focusing on language styles. We’ve also been reading fiction story books in Shared Reading, this week exploring a story called ‘Keys to the Castle’ which follows a king who left his keys inside the castle and does everything he can think of to try to get back indoors, with lots of problems and hilarious accidents happening along the way. The students have been enjoying the story and exploring the rhyming words, syllables in tricky vocabulary and practicing breaking up words from the text into onset and rime as well as into individual phonemes and graphemes. Great work everyone!
In our extra-curricular subjects, we have begun an inquiry in Geography around ‘My Place in our Community’ which so far, we’ve thought about where we live, what our house looks like, who lives with us and the features of our homes. This week we’ve started to look at our school within the Charlton community and the spaces within and around our location in town. The students enjoyed using Google Maps to locate the school and some of their homes and discussing the differences between when the satellite and Google car images were taken and now. Finally, the students have been busy embracing their creative sides through Art over the last semester and have collated a number of pieces this week to display at the local Charlton Show ranging from 3D art, to sketches and paintings. If you’re around on the weekend, be sure to pop into the new building at the showgrounds to see our school’s lovely art display!
3/4/5/6 Class News
This week the students have been reading about a natural wonder of the world- Mount Everest. Students have been learning about where Mount Everest is located and how it is continuing to grow a few inches each year. Using their reading comprehension skills students have been identifying what the environment of Mount Everest is like and the associated dangers with this type of climate and terrain. In writing students have been working on a narrative text set in a cold and arctic climate. They have been working on paragraphing, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation and using appropriate grammar. Students are also consolidating their reporting skills and are researching different mountains found around the world. They are collecting facts and information to then write a report on this for their peers.
Students have completed Pat Maths and Pat Reading assessments this week in test conditions. In class, students have worked on their knowledge and recall of multiplication and division facts, focused on x8. Students have continued to practice their mental maths skills and work on understanding problem solving and applying appropriate strategies to solve these. The students have also continued to work on graphing this week through posing questions, collecting data, graphing data in a variety of ways and interpreting this data.
Students have started a unit on natural disasters in Science. They have been learning about the different layers of the Earth and facts about the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core.
Contract 29 homework and spelling words are due this Friday please.
The only students at school today!
Community News
Humour
Jack had been catching the train to work from the local station for 20 years, and during that time, the same toilet attendant has always been on duty. So one day , Jack says to him, “You’re always here! Do you realise you are entitled to holidays? You should see your boss about holidays.”
The next week, Jack visits the toilet and the attendant is there dressed in a floral shirt sitting on a deck chair with the radio to his ear. Jack asks: “Well, did you ask your boss about holidays?” The attendant replies: “Yes, and he told me to take them at my convenience.”