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2021
Term 1 Week 8IMPORTANT DATES
Parent Teacher Interviews
Week 10 Mon , Tue, Wed (29th, 30th, 31st)
Week 11 Tue, Wed (6th, 7th)
Pupil Free Days Term 2, Week 1 Tuesday 27th April
Term 2, Week 7 Wednesday 9th June
Public Holidays Good Friday 2nd April Easter Monday 5th April
Anzac Day Holiday Monday 26th April
Easter Thursday 1st April Early Dismissal 2:15
Last day of term Friday 9th April Early Dismissal 2:15
School Resumes Wednesday 28th of
April
Dear Families,
It is hard to believe that we are in week eight of what has proven to be a successful start to the school year. It has been good to get back to some of our regular
activities and events. We were very happy to see families at our assemblies and our family Centre offering a range of programmes and activities including
playgroups, English Classes, Read Together family workshops and sewing.
We are committed to delivering high quality education and care to each student.
Working together with our families will give us the best chance of supporting our students and resolving any problems or issues that may arise.
If you have any concerns regarding your child’s learning or classroom routines, make a time to speak with your child’s teacher.
Parent/Teacher Interviews are a great opportunity to check on progress and set goals for the rest of the year. We will be holding interviews from the 29th of March to the 8th of April. Interview notes will be sent home with students over the next 2 weeks. Please contact your child’s teacher if you require a longer or different time to those offered.
If you are not satisfied after speaking with the teacher or your concerns are in regard to school processes, policies and procedures or about a particular member of staff you may choose to follow-up the complaint with me or another member of the leadership team. To do this, you can either write to us or phone the office to make a time to meet. The leadership team aims to respond to your concerns within two days and resolve your concern within 15 working days.
If you have a complaint about another student or family, contact a member of the leadership team. Please do not approach families and students.
If you believe your complaint or issue has still not been resolved then you may choose to contact the Customer Feedback Unit on 1800677435 for further information or advice.
NAPLAN
The NAPLAN tests are scheduled from Tuesday 11/5 until Friday 21/5. The NAPLAN tests are administered simultaneously to all years 3, 5 and 7 students across Australia.
Students are assessed in all areas of literacy and numeracy. The tests are another way of finding out what students can and cannot do, so that support can be provided. The NAPLAN student reports are expected to be ready for distribution to parents during term two.
If you are concerned about your child taking the tests please contact Leah Draper or myself.
Regards Carol Scerri Principal
In our class we have been learning how to write descriptions. Ms. Newband bought Gilda the flamingo into our class to help us with our writing.
We wrote sentences describing Gilda’s colour, size, shape, texture, doing and number. Here are some
examples of our work and illustrations of Gilda
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3B started our year talking about how mathematics is all around us. We created our artwork to show
numbers that are important in our lives.
Please enjoy “Our lives in numbers”.
This term, 4/5s have been focussing on narrative writing. As part of our sentence writing, we looked at action and reaction sequences. We noticed that the picture book, “The Bear’s Lunch”, uses these sentences. We created
our own picture books and read them to our buddy class 1/2KH.
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Year 1/2s have been demonstrating the elements of music. Tempo, Pitch and
Dynamics by moving, dancing and playing instruments.
Reception students have been exploring the elements of music. They move, dance and
play percussion instruments together.
Year 3s are investigating how sound is made by playing instruments.
They have started to make their own junk instruments ready to be
played in an orchestra.
3/7S Have been learning how to play the xylophone /chime bars and compose their own
music.
Year 4/5s have been learning how to drum on buckets and trays. They have
been learning about dynamics– forte, piano and composing their own
rhythms.
Year 6/7s have been learning
about pitch through playing a
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Friday morning is Kaleidoscope Playgroup in the Hub. We love to get outside and explore nature, as well as make craft, enjoy sensory
activities, and sing and read stories together. Recently we had a session all about bugs. The kids had a great time searching for bugs in
the garden, and looking at them closely through magnifying glasses.
It is wonderful to see children and parents from lots of different cultural backgrounds playing together and getting to know each other. We have
also started a new activity called Bi-Lingual Story Time. A parent reads a story in English and their first language, and we all get to share in the
richness of each other's cultures. All families with children 0-5 are
welcome to attend. We hope to see you soon!
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