Welcome to Week 2. A big thank you to the parents who were able to attend our ‘Information Evening’ on Monday, we appreciate your time! If you were unable to attend please note the following information in regards to parent volunteers.

There are numerous opportunities where parents can become involved in the school including the following…

• As a member of the School Board;
• Helping in the canteen
• Assisting in the reading program by hearing children read
• Going on excursions

In order to do one of the above listed activities you must complete a ’Working With Children Check’ and undertake an induction including online child protection training. The cost will be covered by the school, see office for more information if interested.  If you already have a current Working With Children Check through another organisation, this can be used at our location. Please note that the application process for the Working With Children Check can take a number of weeks but the WWCC is valid for 5 years.

This week we began our new topic for Maths: learning all about numbers! We practised our number formation and engaged in a range of Numeracy investigations. The students have particularly enjoyed singing our ‘Big Numbers Song’. You may like to listen along at home…

This term in English we are investigating sounds and digraphs. Throughout word study we will be looking at letter formation, sounding out, identifying/locating sounds in words, high frequency words and their origins, spelling, sentence formation and picture/word association. Check out the students ‘Bumping Up’ their phonics work this week to include sentences!

 

 

On Thursday in our first HASS lesson, we set up a gallery walk – to set the scene of our terms history topic.

Students explored images from the past (with no prior context) and made observations about what the images were and how they were used. We returned as a class and reviewed the images that sparked the students interests and discussed what they thought each was. We asked the students to share what they will be exploring in HASS this unit?

Religion- This week in religion we watched the story from Luke’s Gospel, ‘Jesus Blesses Little Children’.

We also discussed Jesus’ commandment about treating others the way you want to be treated. For this task, the students were asked to choose another person and write a positive message about their character.

Friday we celebrated Vietnamese / Chinese New Year – it is the year of the Dragon. We made our own Chinese dragons.

A lot of fun and learning to be had in 1SA and 1PN this week 🙂