Pre-Kindy

Our Pre-Kindy class is a very large class now with 18 children! The children are learning to share and cooperate with each other. Through play, the children learn valuable social skills as they learn to get along with others and manage their emotions. Having to share play materials and communicate with others can be really hard for 3-year olds but, every day, we learn to manage these skills.

At Pre-Kindy, we practise the value of excellence when we tidy up our room.  We talk about being organised and helping each other to ensure that things get put away in the right places and we help each other to make our room neat and tidy.

Mrs Taylor

Kindy

It’s Science Week! This week, in Kindy, we have been investigating the properties of water with a different experiment to try out each day. How many weights does the toy submarine need to sink to the bottom of the ocean floor? Which objects float and sink? Will the raft sink if you put objects on it? These are the types of questions we have put to the children and they have loved trying out these experiments.

In Kindy, we always ask the children to strive for excellence. When children are asked to do a task, we ask them to focus and think about what they are going to do and try their best. We talk to them about being proud of their work.

Mrs Fruvall and Mrs Taylor

Year 1

What a week it has been in Year One! We met Michael Mangan who came to our school to sing lots of his wonderful liturgical songs, which many of them we sing at Church.

On Tuesday, we had the Constable Care incursion where the Keeping Safe Program was reinforced through the puppet show called, Fun Scary. It included the following themes; the difference between fun and bad scary, our early warning signs, safe and unsafe secrets and the helping hand. Continue to talk to your child about these!

This week was Science Week and we caught up with our Year 4 buddy classes to complete a Rocket Challenge. It was a delight to see our school value of respect in action when the children were creating their rockets with their buddies. They shared materials, ideas and listened to each other as they made their fantastic rockets.

Mrs Noonan and Mrs Ravi

Year 3

During Week 4, the children in Year 3 learnt about the value of integrity by watching an entertaining incursion presented by the Constable Care puppets. They learnt the importance of feeling safe and that it is important to speak to a respected adult when they have a feeling that they have experienced a warning sign.

As this week is Science Week, students teamed up with their Pre-Primary buddies to construct Straw Rockets. The Year 3 students really enjoyed working with their little friends and it was great to see the rockets fly!

In Writing, the Year 3 students have been studying the information genre and writing interesting facts about the world around us. Stay tuned for their published reports!

Mrs Peters and Mrs Musca

Year 5

In Year 5, we have been learning, “What do we need to eat to be healthy?” In groups, we drew life size body outlines then we had to use fruit and vegetable flash cards, with important information, to attach labels to the appropriate part of the body.

Through Constable Care, we learnt how to be safe online. The students were able to see the value of compassion on display by having to take into consideration how what we post online can have consequences for other people’s feelings.

Ms Knight and Mr McIntyre