English During the past 2 weeks, the Year 5 students have continued to hone their persuasive writing skills. We have looked at the use of emotive language and how to brainstorm our ideas and select our strongest arguments. Students have been reading each other’s writing and breaking down their own writing using 2 acronyms, WWW (What Went Well) and EBI […Read more]
Week 4 News An incredibly busy couple of weeks in Year 6 as Term Two has started with a flurry. This fortnight has seen the start of our Peer Support Program, a highly successful and enjoyable excursion to the Hong Kong Heritage Museum as well as the start of our Australian Stories project. Term 2 Week 5-6 Diary Dates Week […Read more]
Ocean Park Excursion Year 2 had a wonderful time at Ocean Park on Tuesday. It was a hot day, but that didn’t stop us from finding a variety of different examples of animals, vehicles and objects that move through water, air and on land. Thank you to all our brave parent volunteers who came out and spent the day investigating […Read more]
TERM 2 REMINDERS As we settle into the term, the Year 1 team would like to gently remind families to take note of the following grade procedures and expectations: Morning drop off – all children to be dropped on Level 1 before 7:55am. Only when the bell rings, can they come upstairs to their classes. All children should be in […Read more]
Welcome Back Reception Parents We have had a great few weeks in Reception counting down the days until our superstar mums visited us and spent time with us in our classroom. Thank you for making a necklace, painting, doing some collage and reading with us, we hope you liked our singing and dancing. Our Learning Our Mums Are Superstars! We […Read more]
Can you believe we are moving into Week 5 already and that we are a halfway through Term 2! The Prep students had a busy week 4 with their first ever Peer Support session with all the other year levels, their last swimming lessons for the year and their Mother’s Day pampering afternoon! It was a lovely afternoon for all. […Read more]
English This week we continued exploring various strategies to expand our writing. We brainstormed a range of heroes, villains, settings and problems as a whole class. We have also used a thesaurus to find a wider and more diverse range of descriptive ‘wow’ words. Next week we will continue with various planning and writing strategies and move onto dynamic dialogue […Read more]
English This term, in English we are inquiring into persuasive writing. We are learning how to use emotive words to enhance our writing to persuade. We will be reading and analysing our classmates’ persuasive texts and also viewing commercials to see how we can be persuaded through media. Maths We are learning about fractions, patterns and general rules, perimeter of […Read more]
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