Fascinating tessellations
In Maths this week Fourth Class have begun a review of 2D shapes focusing on how shapes can be joined to create new shapes, reflecting, rotating and translating shapes, and identifying which shapes will tessellate. The children really enjoyed using software to manipulate shapes, use shapes to make different 2D shapes, and create tessellating patterns:
The week in 3rd Class
In English we practised reading fluency, focusing on using the tone of our voice to reflect characters’ emotions in dialogue. We also practised strategies to read long and unfamiliar words, including breaking them into syllables, applying our knowledge of affixes (prefixes and suffixes), letters, and sounds. We completed sentences and a quiz using vocabulary words. […]
The week in Second Class
What have we learnt this week? English- We have learning about Persuasive Writing. In pairs and groups students discuss a topic given to them and come up with whether they agree or disagree with the statement and come up with reasons for both. They then complete a persuasive writing piece. They also completed explicit spelling […]
An update from 3rd Class
In English this week 3C read The Peasant Prince several times and learned the meaning of ‘genre’. We discussed the way this autobiographical book also includes elements of narrative to frame Li Cunxin’s life story and that this makes it a ‘hybrid’ text. We began learning vocabulary words, and the children identified similarities and differences […]
Book Week in 2nd Class
English- This week we have started learning about Persuasive Writing. In pairs and groups students discuss a topic given to them and come up with whether they agree or disagree with the statement and come up with reasons for both. They then complete a persuasive writing piece. They also completed explicit spelling lessons learning about […]
And update from 3rd Class for Term 2, Week 2
This week 3rd class wrote their persuasive speeches for the Public Speaking Competition. The topic was ‘Why is Respect an Important Value for the World’. I was very impressed with the well-written speeches and after some practice and reviewing the criteria of good public speaking, the children delivered their speeches in class yesterday. I am […]
A recap of Term 2, Week 2 in Upper 1st
English: We are reading Are We There Yet, and we focused on the section about ‘The Top End’. To complement this we read the picture book, To the Top End by Roland Harvey. We focused on visual literacy and reading the pictures. The children wrote about a waterhole and a lake in writing this week. […]
This week in 3rd Class
Third class thoroughly enjoyed yesterday’s History excursion to West Head. We couldn’t have asked for better weather to spend a day outdoors enjoying the bush and learning about Aboriginal connections to Country. The children participated in a number of hands-on activities and learned many interesting facts about Aboriginal culture and traditions. The excursion also informed […]
Week 7 in 3rd Class
Yesterday we completed our final NAPLAN test and so we spent yesterday afternoon relaxing with a movie. In Maths this week, we revised Time by looking at half past, quarter to and quarter past. We also discussed analog and digital time. Next week we will extend our skills by working with five-minute and one-minute intervals. […]
Week 8 in Upper 1st
English: This week was our revision and assessment week of all of the phonemes that we have been focusing on this term: ai, ay, ie, igh, –y, -y, ee, ea, oa. We also read the story of The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl. We used this as inspiration for both our short burst and extended […]
This week in Year 1 (Upper 1st)
Our spelling and reading focus this week has been “oa”. We also learned about the “shwa” sound and how common it is in Australian accents. In short burst writing the children wrote about a ‘Staircase to the Moon’ and with the help of our wonderful parents, we wrote an informative description of a Thorny Devil. […]
Maths – Week 4 update from 3rd Class
In Maths, we started multiplicative strategies by looking at the relationship between multiplication and division, describing them as inverse operations. We looked at arrays and how we can use them to write fact families. We discussed ‘turnaround’ facts in multiplication (e.g. 2 x 4 and 4 x 2) and identified them in a multiplication grid. […]
Week 4: Just a normal busy week in Upper 1st (Year 1)
English: This week in spelling and reading, we have looked at two syllable words ending in y. The y makes a long e sound in these words. In grammar, we looked at the differencesbetween questions and statements. In short burst writing, the children wrote about camping. In parent writing we focused on using adjectives to […]
This week in 4N
In English this week we reviewed last week’s descriptions of setting and edited them. We continued reading Storm Boy and discussed vocabulary. Next week we will look at Characterisation and how writers invite emotional engagement with literature. In Maths we reviewed 2D shapes and their properties before investigating tessellations. We also looked at how we […]
Species Survival Science Week
We have had a great week in Third Class and the children have enjoyed some special activities for Science Week. The theme this year is ‘Species Survival – More than just sustainability’. The theme aims to highlight the importance of science and innovation in ensuring the survival and thriving of different species in an ever-changing […]
This week in 5th Class
Using their moon buggy research, our excited scientists planned their own individual moon buggy design then collaborated with their group to design one they will make together (starting next week!). Please keep collecting bottle caps at home as each group requires 8 of the same/similar cap to construct their moon buggy wheels. Small bottle caps […]
Welcome to our Open Day
Our Open Day is on Sunday 26th May, open to the public from 10 – 2pm. This is an official school day for all students, so attendance is compulsory. Please note, Monday 27th May is a pupil free day. This year’s Open Day theme is The Art of Science. We will hold our annual Cake […]