School NewSletter For term 2 week 10 starting 2 July 2018 DateS to remember

July2nd - Koalas Assembly3rd - Chess Club at 11am4th - Optus Digital Smarts Y4&54th - Chess Club at 11am4th - Debate vs Rainbow Street5th - Athletics Carnival 6th - Final Day of Term 26th - Reports go Home23rd - School Development Day24th - All students return for Term 324th - Scripture and Ethics restart25th - Chess club restarts

August1st - OC Class Test6th - Start of Education week8th - School Open Day

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This week is the last week of Term 2 and thus Semester 1. Some of you have taken the opportunity to go overseas or north to warmer locations and we hope that you have a marvellous time away. The school office will be closed from 3:30pm this holiday and will not reopen until Monday 23 July on the school development day. All students return on the day after, which is Tuesday 24 July. All our learning programs recommence then and your child will be required to attend.

This Thursday will be our fantastic General Assistant, Mr Campbell’s (Glenn’s) last day at St Peters. He already has another position at another school which he shares with us and wishes to reduce his total work hours to pursue other opportunities. It is very sad to see him go but we are extremely pleased to see Mr Bird joining our team. He has been shadowing Glenn for the past few weeks and will be working a 3 day fortnight at the school to help maintain our grounds.Additionally, Mrs Ross will be going on leave for 4 weeks from the start of Term 3. She will be replaced by Mrs Finnan who is the ex School Admin Office of Canterbury Public School. She has agreed to help us out while Mrs Ross is away and we thank her. Finally, Ms McSpadden will be away on Long Service Leave for the first 2 weeks of Term 2 and will return on 3 August. The Echidnas will be taught during this time by Ms Plummer.

Students from years 4 and 5 will this Wednesday be travelling by bus to the Optus headquarters in Ryde where they will enjoy a day learning about digital citizenship. Being a child venturing into the world of online safety is a big issue and this workshop will help these children start to learn these skills.

The school’s annual Open Day will be held on Wednesday 8 August. All carers, parents, and other family/friends are welcome to attend our assembly and later classroom visits. All prospective Kindergarten parents for 2019 are invited and will enjoy a school tour. The event culminates in a BBQ in our courtyard for lunch.

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This Week in Koalas - Year K

English Mathematics Other KLAs RemindersGuided Reading - students will learn early reading skills in small groups supported by the teacher.Phonics: the phonemes are v, w, y, z, j, n, k, eSight Words: revision of all Term 2 wordsNews Topic: Free ChoiceWriting: We will write about the up-coming holidays and consolidate our information report writing.

Patterns and Algebra: students will make repeating patterns using blocks and shapes. They will use the iPads to represent repeating patterns.Position: students will play games and will explore a maze to consolidate their knowledge of position.

Science- students will finalise the science unit by creating a poster to represent something students have learnt about living things during the term.Personal Development -students will role play various scenarios exploring ways they can help their friends if they are hurt.PE - Class sport is on Tuesday and Got Game will be replaced by the Athletics carnival on Thursday.

Home Reading:Please continue encouraging Home Reading. Remind your child to bring their folder in each day so books can be changed.Library is on Wednesday, so please remember to return library books and bring in your library bag on the day.Athletics Carnival - is on Thurs-day if the weather is kind to us. Please wear sports clothes on the day.Assembly Item - please come and join us on Monday at 2.30pm when Kindergarten present a small item at the Assembly.

This Week in Echidnas - Year K/1 English Mathematics Other KLAs RemindersGuided Reading Groups daily.Focus: word families-ent, -illShared Reading and SpellingK: Term 2 focus phonemes: v, w, y, z, j, n, k, e. Students will continue to read and write words through the shared reading of stories and texts. Sight Words: Revision of all Term 2 sight wordsYear 1: Wks 9-10 phonics is revision of Term 2 phonics.Sight Words: our, said, with, must, make.Handwriting: the letter ‘w’.Writing & Speaking and Listening: Students will participate in drama activities to develop their writing. They will complete publishing their stories with illustrations which go into the class book.News Topic: Free Choice!You may want to bring in a toy, or talk about something you’re excited about for your school holiday.

Whole Number: Addition and SubtractionStudents will solve addition and subtraction by working out the missing number.Measurement & Geometry:Position: Students will play games to practise the positional terms of ‘left’ and ‘right’.Statistics and Probability:Chance: Students will talk about the data display they created last week and talk about why data displays are useful.

PDHPE: Class Sport is on Tuesday every weekGot Game (Athletics) is on Thursday. PD: Students will continue to learn about safe living in the home.

Science - Students will complete their living things unit by creating an artwork of an animal they have learnt about this term.

Athletics Carnival - Thursday 5 July. Sausage Sizzle lunch. Most notes and sausage orders have been made. Please remember water bottles and hats for the day.Crazy Hair Day -All students loved it! We raised over $180 for Cystic Fibrosis foun-dation. A great effort!News Program continuesSee the News Program for further information.Sports uniform - Tuesday and Thursday Library - Wednesday. Please bring library bag with book to be returned.Home Reading continues every day.

This Week in Wombats Year 1/2English Mathematics Other KLAs RemindersStudents will revise phonics from term 2. Students will continue to learn about time connectives, conjunctions and direct speech. They are starting to use direct speech in their own writing which is great to see.In writing students will continue informa-tion reports about frogs as part of their sci-ence unit. Students have enjoyed learning about a few types of poetry this term, and will revise limericks, haiku and acrostic poems, and write a class ballad. In public speaking ‘Talk Time in Wombats’ students are to persuade the audience to adopt their point of view on a topic of their choice - see reminders.Daily focus on handwriting continues with attention to posture, pencil grip and letter formation.

Students will continue to solve word problems using number sentences as well as continuing given number patterns in number and algebra. They will start to learn their 4x times tables in their daily maths challenge. Students will identify an object in a location using grid coordinates in measurement and geometry. In statistics and probability students will create a graph of winter holiday activities.Students will continue to use known facts, objects and diagrams to develop math fluency.

PDHPE: The Athletics Carnival will be on Thursday.In class sport students will play team ball games as part of preparing for the Carnival.The class will continue to discuss how to make new students welcome and create a welcome kit each.Science : In ‘Schoolyard Safari’ stu-dents will learn about frogs.Creative and Practical Arts: Students will make a poster of ways to make new students feel welcome.

News ‘Talk Time in Wombats’: This week students have a ‘free choice’ of topic. There are also suggestions on the news infor-mation sheet sent home earlier: ‘Winter Holidays’, ‘Favourite Things to do at School’ and ‘What I like to do on the Weekend’. Or students may choose another topic. We prepared for this week’s talk in class last week, as always. It is great to see so many students bringing in extra ideas from home discussion: thank you for your support.Home Reading: Please continue encouraging Home Reading. Remind your child to bring their folder in each day.Holidays: Wishing everyone a safe and fabulous holiday! See you next term.

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This Week in Goannas Year 3/4

English Mathematics Other KLAs RemindersSpelling this week will be a review of words from the past term that students found tricky. The list for each student will be individualised and generated through Spelling City to target words they need some more practice on.Writing- Students will continue working on informative texts. Students have cho-sen their topic and will work on planning their report using the class planning sheet. Once planned and edited stu-dents will publish their report.Reading groups- Students will continue in their reciprocal reading groups with our first group presenting their drama of a scene from their novel.

This week students will be learning about angles. Students will determine what constitutes an angle and what are the different types of angles. Students will continue to work outside and think while moving in maths. They will participate in activities relating to angles as well as skip counting back-wards and forwards.Students will also review all topics cov-ered over the past five weeks before completing their block 4 test.

Paper Plane Activity- Students are going to be flying their planes this week, with their cargo on board. Students will also complete a reflection of their work on the project.School garden project- After planting our seed students will be creating their own template to record the growth of the plants over the coming weeks.Geography project- Students will be finalising and presenting their first milestone to the class. This will be in the form of a Google Slide indicating the current tourist activities offered at Mount Kosciuszko and ideas students have to draw more tourists to the Kosciuszko in the summertime.

Library- I encourage all students to bring their library bags and books this Tuesday to ensure they can borrow books for the school holidays.School holidays- I wish everyone a safe and relaxing winter holi-days. Take some time to rest up and rejuvenate. But remember to keep on reading, writing and practising your maths. See you in term 3!

This Week in Dingoes Year 5/6

English Mathematics Other KLAs RemindersThe main effort this week will be the completion of the script and story-board for the Natural Disaster News Report. After students have practised the scenes that they plan to film they will be learning about how to film us-ing the iPads and then how to use the software iMovie to create the News Reports themselves.The debating team will be once more debating with this week a debate against Rainbow Street Public School.The last reading group meeting will be this week and the groups will be working on a short scene from the book that they will plan rehearse and present to the class.

The students will be finishing off some work on patterns and algebra as well as focusing on measuring in cubic centime-tres and metres in volume and capacity.The Dingoes will also review all topics covered over the past five weeks before completing their block 4 test.

School garden project- The Dingoes are a touch behind the Goannas in the garden project and will be planting our seeds this week so our plants have a chance to start growing over the holi-days. They will also create a template to record the growth of the plants over the coming weeks.Visual arts: A few students need to finish off their crazy hair line artwork and we will further explore the use of colour in art.Health and PE: We are continuing our growth and development unit which will carrying over to the first couple of weeks of next term. This week we are research-ing coronary heart disease.

Monday - Music and assembly Tuesday - Reading Group Meet-ing Wednesday - Library visit Thursday - Athletics Carnival

This Week in MusicKoalas Echidnas Wombats Goannas Dingoes

Today, the Koalas will be preparing for their “Peter and the Wolf” Assembly presentation later today.

Echidnas will have fun today singing songs about colour. We will learn to sing different parts with different expression

Wombats will be using their recorders today to rehearse a new piece using both a vocal and instrumental melody with accompaniment.

Goannas will continue with their recorder repertoire, revising songs learnt over the term and performing for their peers.

Dingoes will be exploring the com-position process learning about rhythmic ostinatos.

This Week in MandarinKoalas Echidnas Wombats Goannas Dingoes

This week we will quickly revise the number by counting tens. We are going to learn to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Mandarin. We will continue watch the Chinese pro-gramme - Journey to the West.

This week we will have a quick revision of the learnt vocabulary of school subjects and the sentences. Next we are going to learn to say yes and no in Chinese, they are actually quite complicated terms in Chinese language. We will then work in pairs to create Chinese characters themed artworks.

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