Hi Families,

I am sorry you did not hear from me last week. I just wasn’t in the classroom. I was at work, but I was doing my own learning and finding ways of improving my practice, so that I can be a better teacher for your children.

Sadly, I missed out on our class Mass, but thankfully the teacher filling in for me took some photos of our three ‘super star’ readers.

Thank you, Matilda, Aria and Kevin.

This week we have been working hard in Maths, learning about Place Value. We have been practicing partitioning big numbers into their groups of hundreds, tens and units using blocks and also using a place value table.

In Science we have continued our investigations about water, water usage within the school, water access points within the school and where water comes from.

Today’s Friday assembly was a little different to our usual assembly arrangement. We met in the hall to sing the National Anthem, acknowledged the Kuana land we are on and engaged in whole school prayer, but after that the year 5/6 students split up and taught the other students in the school a lesson with a focus on outdoor learning.

Our class was taught by Mason and Zara in Year Five. Their lesson focused on using nature to learn. The children created portraits using materials from the environment, including dirt, leaves and sticks.

Have a look at what they created.