Congratulations to Thomas for achieving 50 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Cayden for achieving 50 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Rehmat for achieving 75 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Yuona for achieving 100 nights of reading! Well done!

Reconciliation week- This week we celebrated National Reconciliation Week, a time to learn about and reflect on the importance of respectful relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and all Australians. As part of our learning, the children traced and decorated their own hands to express messages of support, unity, and respect. Together as a whole school, we created a beautiful Sea of Hands display in the garden near the Kiss and Drop area. We invite you to take a moment to visit and view the display with your child — it’s a colourful and meaningful symbol of our shared journey towards reconciliation.

Technologies- This week in technologies, we spoke about a bird’s eye view. The students then drew their own maps showing a bird’s eye view:

Congratulations to Owen for achieving 75 nights of reading! Well done!

Science- This week in science, students are learning how to plant a seed and explore how it grows. Each student has planted a broad bean seed in a cup using cotton wool and water. They are learning about the parts of a plant and the stages of its life cycle—from seed to mature plant. Students will observe their bean plants over the next three weeks and record their findings and predictions in their plant journals. This hands-on activity helps them understand what plants need to grow and how living things change over time.

Art- This week in Visual Arts, students are exploring the element of line by looking at how different types of lines—such as curly, wavy, and zig-zag—are used in famous artworks to show movement and direction. After studying pieces by artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Hokusai, Matisse, and Makinti Napanangka, students are creating their own line-focused artwork. Using a photo of their teacher as a starting point, they are drawing expressive lines from their heads outward and filling the space with colourful patterns and designs to create ‘crazy hair’. This creative activity helps students understand how lines can be used to express ideas, emotions, and energy in art.

Technologies– This week in technologies, the students created their masks that they designed the week before. Here is what they came up with:

Congratulations to Rynell for achieving 50 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Ridham for achieving 25 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Ewan for achieving 50 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Anina for achieving 50 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Gurnaaz for achieving 50 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Yuona for achieving 75 nights of reading! Well done!

HASS- This week in HASS, we’ve been learning about what life was like in the past and how people did things without modern technology. The children interviewed their parents or grandparents to learn about their childhood and talked about how things were different back then. We watched videos about daily life in the early 1900s and compared it to our lives today.

To experience the past, we made our own butter by shaking cream in a jar—just like people used to do! The children loved seeing the cream turn into butter and enjoyed tasting it on bread.

Maths- In Maths, we’ve started exploring addition and subtraction. This lesson, we focused on what happens when we add or subtract zero. We learned that adding or taking away zero doesn’t change the number—it stays the same!
We watched Numberblocks: Zero the Hero and used real objects to show this idea. The children then played a fun game in pairs where they rolled dice, added or subtracted zero, and wrote number sentences to match. This helped them understand the concept in a hands-on and engaging way. We’re excited to keep building on our addition and subtraction skills in the coming weeks!

Religion- In religion lessons, we have been learning about Mary. This week we watched the story of the Visitation, where Mary visited her cousin, Elizabeth. The students then had to draw and write about what happened in the story.

Technologies- This week, the students designed their own mask, which they will make next week:

Technologies- This week in technologies, the students used their plan to create their emoji masks. They tried to make it as similar as they could to their design.

This was the create part of the design process.

Here are their creations:

We welcomed back the students to school on Tuesday. They came with great enthusiasm and were ready to learn. We hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday, and a joyous Easter.

Technologies- We started talking about the different steps in the design process.

The students were asked to design their own emoji mask. They started the imagine and and planning phases of the design process. They drew their design and labelled the materials that they will need to make their masks.