School Newsletter For Term 1 Week 2 Starting 6 Feb 2017Dates to Remember

February

7th - House captains elections9th - Swimming carnival (10:30 -

12:30pm)14th - Scripture/ethics commences14th - Parent Information evening

(6:00pm)28th - School photographs

March

1st - Year 4/5’s at Dulwich Hill HS VA - Artmonth Workshop

2nd - Clean up a school hour3rd - Young Leaders ‘Imagination’

Conference - Darling Harbour

Check the school app and website for a complete calendar.

Parent Information Evening - Meet the Teacher

Swimming Carnival

Library

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With the school year a week old, all of our classes are now settled, including our new kindy class which started full time on Thursday. The school has started the year with 90 students which is an overall growth of one student from the same time at the beginning of 2016. This is below the growth of previous 3 years which has been on average 11 students per year. Evidence shows that this is mostly due to the large numbers of students who left the school or significantly chose to go to other schools due to concerns over WestConnex. We respect the decisions of all parents to choose.

On Tuesday 14 February at 6pm the school will be holding a meet the teacher and parent information evening. We will start in the hall with a brief presentation by Mr Lavitt and then move into classrooms with your child’s classroom teacher. The aim of the evening is for you to get to meet your child’s teacher, see how your teacher has set up the class. How their learning program will be structured and ask questions. It will not be the best opportunity to discuss individual learning progress but it will be very informative. There will be parent interviews on Tuesday 4 April for this purpose.Acknowledging the need for parents to look after their children, Mr Lavitt will look after any children of school age who you wish to bring along. This cannot be extended to younger children as the schools facilities are not sufficient. We hope to see you all there.

On Thursday the schools annual swimming carnival will be held at Col Jones pool, Tempe. Notes are being returned and thank you for this. Please return the note if you haven’t already done so - students will not be allowed in the water at all without this note being returned. The carnival and the walk to it will be earlier this year. Any parents who can help out on the day would be fantastic as this will allow the carnival to run smoothly.

The school library as reported last year has been undergoing some remodelling. The first phase of this has almost been completed and library will be taught this year by Mr Lavitt. This will be on Wednesday’s and will commence next week.

The Week Ahead in Learning for Term 1 Week 2

Every week our teachers will provide you with a short summary of learning programs in their class. This is designed to allow you to perhaps talk to your child about their learning at school.

This Week in KoalasEnglish Mathematics Other KLAs RemindersOur focus this week will be shared reading with quality picture books.

Fine motor skills will be developed and correctly writing our names using appropriate pencil grips will also be a focus.

In Maths we will practise counting to 10 and beyond with songs and movement.

Work will continue on social skills including sharing, being a good friend and being a good listener. Class routines around unpacking bags and packing up at the end of the day will also continue.In Sport, we will be learning and practis-ing the skills of throwing and catching.

Please remember to label all lunch boxes and water bottles to help the children to be responsi-ble for their own belongings.

Please return signed Scripture notes with your preference marked.

Sports day is on Friday, please wear your sports uniform.

This Week in WombatsEnglish Mathematics Other KLAs RemindersWe will be forming reading groups throughout the week and learning the class reading group activities.Students will write a recount of their weekend or holiday experiences, with the writing focus being on sentence punctuation: Capital letter to start and a full stop to end each sentence.

Whole Number focus: counting for-wards and backwards with a focus on the teen numbers, and counting back over the decade.

We will also review the fractions - halves and quarters - and make Fraction Monsters for display in the classroom.

Sport: Got Game is on Thursday. Can students please wear their sports uniform.

Technology: Students will begin to use the desktop computers to publish their recounts

Please return signed Scripture Notes with your preference marked.

Sports day is on Friday, please wear your sports uniform.

Homework will begin in Week 3.

This Week in GoannasEnglish Mathematics Other KLAs RemindersYear 2 phonics will focus on short ‘e’ sounds and grammar will focus on pronouns.

Year three phonics will focus on ending consonants. Phonics will also focus on pronouns.

This week in maths 2/3G will begin work on whole numbers. We will be working on counting skills and place value.

Multiplication will also be introduced so we can begin our daily multiplication challenge.

Got Game is on Thursday. Can students please wear their sports uniform.

Work will continue to develop our skills on the notebooks, logging on, using the student portal and using G Suite (Google).

Sports day is on Friday, please wear your sports uniform.

Thursday is the swimming carnival. Can all students turning 8 and above please return their note and come prepared for the swimming carnival.

Homework begins this week.

This Week in DingosEnglish Mathematics Other KLAs RemindersThis week in English the 4/5/6 class will be writing and illustrating a short novel to welcome our new Kindy students to St. Peters.

Within this project the students will compose, edit and present well-struc-tured and coherent texts. Students will use digital technologies to produce their final works.

In Maths this coming week 4/5/6D will be working on Whole Number. Stu-dents will focus on developing skills to read, write and order numbers of any size and state the place value of digits in numbers of any size.

We will also look at entering data into excel spreadsheets and graphing the results.

Got Game is on Thursdays. Physical Education will be on Tuesdays and Fridays. Please wear sports uniform.

We will continue to work on develop-ing our computer skills and our use of Gsuite for collaborative work.

Please bring recorders to Music on Monday. Tuesday is House Captains Elections.Swimming carnival is on Thursday, can all 4/5/6 students please return their notes and come prepared with all necessary swimming gear.

Homework begins week 3.

This Week in MusicKoalas Wombats Goannas DingosWe will introduce ourselves, learning some”hello” songs We will explore “High” and “Low” sounds and move to the music

We will be learning to recognize crotchets and crotchet rests. We will learn to read and write simple rhythmic patterns with 4 beats per bar.

We will be learning how to use ukuleles with correct posture and strumming techniques and learn about tuning strings.

We will start learning the perfor-mance piece “Six Ribbons” on the recorder.We will also be revising strumming patterns and good posture on the ukuleles.

This Week in MandarinKoalas Wombats Goannas DingosWe will learn how to say “hello” and “thank you” in Chinese. We will learn about a story of Chinese Zodiac Animals. We are going to do some artwork based on the story.

We will do a recap lesson of the Chinese Zodiacs story. We are going to learn about the traditions of one of the Chi-nese traditional festivals - Lantern Festival. We are also going to play lantern riddles game as well.

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