thank you, families, for all your efforts during remote

Learning, Growing, Achieving Together Newsletter: Issue 15 Issue Date: 3rd September 2021

News Thank you, families, for all your efforts during remote learning LOCKDOWN 6

We really appreciate your focus on supporting your children to finish and upload o Reading o Writing o Maths o PE Art and Music

Thank you too, for supporting your children in attending WebEx sessions.

GO FAIRHILLS!

ROUTINE, ROUTINE, ROUTINE is SUPER IMPORTANT because routine gives us a sense of predictability and security so…..let’s look at some routines around eating together. Being at home together is giving us lots of opportunities to eat well together. Sometimes though, mealtimes can feel like a battle when children do not eat or behave well. Sitting at a table and eating meals with others is an important skill to have. If you are having challenges with mealtimes, the following tips might be useful:

• have regular mealtimes

• get everything ready beforehand o have three main meals and a morning and afternoon snack at regular times o set a time limit for the meal o explain the rules

• sit at the table until you are excused

• eat with a spoon or fork

• finish your mouthful before you speak o praise and reward your child for eating well o ignore minor problem behaviour o for behaviour you cannot ignore tell your child what to do o use quiet time or time-out to back up your instruction

Good luck


News Parenting gets easier when we can do these 3 hard things:

1. regulate our own emotions 2. stay connected with our child/ren 3. COACH instead of CONTROL IT’S ABOUT MANAGING OURSELVES…..how we respond, sets the tone for how they behave.

NAPLAN

Given the circumstances, the 2021 NAPLAN results are something we should celebrate. NAPLAN does not measure ALL success, however it is worth saying how EXTRAORDINARY the job

everyone is doing really is! Let’s see where the FPS 2021 NAPLAN results can take us in our ‘next step’

learning growing and achieving journeys Keep safe and well

Take care Moi

Attendance Expectations in Remote Learning While we are Remote Learning from home, this is still school. With that comes normal school expectations. We have had a range of attendance and engagement from students throughout each week, from 100% engagement in WebEx sessions and submission of Learning tasks, to 0% in both, which is of significant concern. We are extremely motivated for our students to continue in their learning regardless. At a very basic level, the Department of Education requires us to mark daily attendance. As Remote Learning is school, we have now raised the expectations regarding marking your child’s daily attendance. We want to see and hear from your child each day of school. Attendance for each school day will be confirmed when both of the following has been achieved:

• Attending at least 1 full WebEx Session

• Submitting at least 1 quality piece of work on Compass by 3.30pm We understand that this could be challenging for some and some will need to significantly lift their current engagement. But this is school and we need every child to be learning every day, just like normal. Parents/Guardians, this is where we really need your support and help. We will be regularly tracking attendance and asking for an explanation when required. Please get in contact with us if you need further support or have any concerns as we’d be happy to speak with you.


News Extra Support We understand lock down can be really tough. You might like to consider accessing any of the following:

• Free Food Boxes from our Office. Please call and request one.

• Request a Wellbeing Phone Call/WebEx from one of our Wellbeing Team members. Chat and share.

• Partners In Wellbeing offers free support and advice to improve your wellbeing during Covid/Lock down and beyond. Get some help with stress, anxiety and improve your wellbeing. For some people, this might be just what you need. Check out the attached flyer and website. https://www.partnersinwellbeing.org.au/

• RL Routine Revival- request a phone call or WebEx meeting to discuss your family’s current Remote Learning routine and explore some tips and tricks in a friendly chat with a member of the School Leadership Team.

• Tech Support- if technology is not your friend and it has become a nightmare, call/email our Office team and we’ll happily help you.

DID You Know? When children participate in regular physical activity, it boosts their physical and mental health and improves their academic performance. Physical activity throughout the day also improves concentration, and the ability to retain information and solve problems. There are many benefits to being active and getting your move on, but a lot of children aren’t moving enough, particularly while learning from home. 15 minutes 4 times a day is all it takes. To help support children to stay active while learning from home, families can access a range of free COVID Safe ideas to stay active and use games through Get Active Victoria. Families should remember that whatever gets children moving, gets them active. https://www.getactive.vic.gov.au/

https://www.partnersinwellbeing.org.au/

https://www.getactive.vic.gov.au/


News Junior News

Reading: In Prep, we have continued to learn about our new reading strategies. We have been focusing on Skippy Frog and Chunky Monkey. Skippy Frog helps us to skip the word, hop back and read again. Chunky Monkey reminds us to chunk words into parts you know. The Preps are encouraged to use these reading strategies at home to help them continue to develop their reading skills.

In Grade 1 and 2, we are focusing on Iggy Iguana and Tempo Turtle. Iggy Iguana reminds us to use clues in the text and your own thinking to make inferences. Tempo Turtle reminds us to adjust your speed to match the purpose of reading. The Grade 1/2s are encouraged to use these reading strategies at home to help them further develop their reading skills.


News Writing:

The Preps have focused on the Jolly phonics sound /ay/ like the words play or tray. Also, the sound /oy/ in the words like toy and enjoy.

The Preps have also continued to learn about procedural writing. Procedural writing tells how to do something. We have been writing about short and simple procedures like, ‘How to make pancakes’ or ‘How to wash your hands.’


News The Grade 1 and 2s, have been continuing procedural writing. Writing about procedures like, ‘How to make a Jam sandwich’ or ‘How to make pancakes.’ This week we are focusing on Ban the Boring! When we create a procedure, we only want to keep the most interesting and important parts in our final copy.

Mathematics:

Maths: In Prep, we have been focusing on understanding the purpose of instructions. Instructions are something we follow to help us find something, make something or move to another place. They are usually given in small steps that help us get to an end point by doing a series of little tasks. You might need instructions to: build Lego, bake cupcakes or go to a new park. The Preps have also been focusing on Location and using direction words like LEFT and RIGHT to help tell exactly where someone needs to go. We can use special words to describe the position of something in relation to another object.


News For example:

Lennox and Zac are IN FRONT of the cupboard. Jett and Nala are UNDER the table.

Jhett and Mitchell are ON TOP of the table.

The Preps have also been learning about division and sharing items into equal groups. We use division when we need to find out how we can share a group into equal or fair parts. In addition to this we have been focusing on 3D shapes.

The Grade 1 and 2s have been focusing on addition and subtraction and using mental strategies like fact families. We have also been focusing on mass by directly comparing common objects in mass and using appropriate language like heavier or lighter.


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Grade 1/2s have also been reviewing skip counting, specifically working on skip counting by 2s and 3s. Skip counting is when we count in a pattern that skips some numbers. Skip counting is useful for counting larger groups or collections, more quickly. In addition, we have been revising our knowledge of months of the year and how to read a calendar.


News Inquiry: The focus for the Junior school for Inquiry has been ‘History All Around Us.’ In Prep, we are focusing on the questions - ‘What is my history and how do I know?’ This week we are focused on who is in our family and what is our family heritage.

In Grade 1/2, we are focusing on the question - ‘How are our Uniforms different now to what they used to be like?’

Reminders:

→ Assistance and support- we understand it is a very difficult time during the period of remote learning for everyone. If you need support for your child with their learning or help accessing anything, please contact your classroom teacher or the school office.

→ Timetable changes- Thank you for your understanding and flexibility with new timetable changes.

→ Important information - Please make sure you check your Compass and emails as communications and information are regularly shared through these platforms.

Celebrations:

❖ Thank you for getting involved with our Book Week celebrations and our Pyjama Day Assembly last week! We hope you all enjoyed dressing up and having some fun!

❖ Your teachers are so impressed with the wonderful work you are doing during remote

learning! Keep uploading so we can celebrate your great achievements! Keep up the fantastic effort everyone! Miss Hayes, Mrs Minas, Miss Morrison and Miss Robinson


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Calendar Dates School Information

September 17th- Last day of School for Term 3 Footy Colours Day

October 4th-Term 4 Starts

Principal: Moi Beaurain Leading Teacher: Stuart Beever School Council President: Bev Shaw Parents and Friends (PFA) President: Alycia Mitchell Phone: 9758 3007 Email: [email protected] Absence notification: via Compass Parent portal or by phone. (This must occur prior to 9.30am on the day of a child’s absence) Office Hours: for communication, payments and enquiries. Monday: 8.30am-4.00pm Tuesday: 8.30am-3.00pm Wednesday: 8.30am-3.00pm Thursday: 8.30am-3.00pm Friday: 8.30am-4.00pm

Footy Colours Day! Join in the fun and wear your favourite footy/sport colours. Friday 17th September

mailto:[email protected]


News Senior News

Reading: In Reading, our senior students have been working on identifying text features while they are reading. The Grade 3/4s started by looking at the text features found in non-fiction texts before looking at fiction. They then compared the text features that had been found in their fiction and non-fiction texts before looking at how these differ to a procedural text. The Grade 5/6 students have been creating mini books to display the fiction, non-fiction and procedural text features that they found. Our students have also been learning to use their prior knowledge to connect with the texts that they are reading. The 5/6 students created Dot-to Dots using key words and connecting the dots using their prior knowledge. The 3/4 students used their visualisation skills to help them show their prior knowledge and updated their visualisations after they had completed reading their texts.


News Writing: Our seniors have continued to develop their ability to write procedural texts. The students were asked to write a procedural text that was then shared with the rest of the class during a Class WebEx Session to try and teach them a new skill or trick. It was fun trying to follow along! The teachers gave the students the challenge of following procedural texts that were missing key text features or pieces of information. Once they were able to identify the missing elements, the students had to try and up level the procedural text, by including all the missing parts. The 3/4 students were also given the task to write a procedural text to teach their teacher how to draw or make something. Needless to say, some of the results gave the students a good laugh!


News Maths: In Maths, our 3/4 students looked at patterns using repeated addition and subtraction. They had to find the pattern, continue it and estimate what the pattern would look like once they reached 100, 1,000 or 10,000! They also developed mathematical strategies such as the split strategy to help them with addition and subtraction and the CUBES strategy to help them answer worded problems. In measurement, our Grade 3/4s used their grid reference knowledge to find places and describe places on a map and used directional language to guide people around to different locations. The Grade 5/6 students continued to expand on their knowledge of fractions by looking at how we can add them to find a whole. They also tested their knowledge on balanced equations, by trying to determine if given equations were actually balanced before attempting to find the missing number in incomplete balanced equations. In measurement, our Grade 5/6 students were working on trying to find the area of rectangles and irregular shapes. Using this knowledge they were then able to work on finding the area of parallelograms where the opposite sides of a four sided shape are parallel with one another.


News Reminders: Please make sure that you have checked for your child/ren’s updated WebEx timetable. If you are unsure of your child/ren’s WebEx times, please email their teacher via Compass.

Celebrations: Thank you to everyone who participated in our Book Week celebrations! It was great to see so many people getting dressed up and having some fun in our whole school WebEx. Congratulations to everyone who got their name into the raffle draw, we can’t wait to find out what the prizes are! Premiers’ Reading Challenge There are only 14 days left before the end of the Premiers’ Reading Challenge! 1/2M is still in the lead. Can another class take the top position? The current leader board is: 1/2M in 1st 1/2R in 2nd 3/4J in 3rd Please remember to keep logging all your books onto the Premiers’ Reading Challenge. We are getting close to the end when we will reveal the final class and individual winners!

Happy reading!


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Student of the week awards- Congratulations to all our achievers

27th August 3rd September

Prep H Jett For working hard to improve his ability to identify sounds and blend them together. Sensational work Jett!

Prep H Eve For showing consistent improvement in her ability to identify the sounds in words and then blend them together to read the word. Sensational effort Eve!

Prep M Jhett What an awesome effort this week Jhett! Your work has been completed to a high standard and you are enthusiastically contributing in all sessions - well done!

Prep M Blair For using his CAFE strategies, sound knowledge, Tricky Word knowledge and persistence when reading - great work Blair.

1/2M

Savannah For working exceptionally hard to complete all of her learning throughout Remote Learning. Wonderful effort Savannah, keep it up!

1/2M Jai For using his strategies to read beautifully during his 1:1 session. Excellent effort Jai, keep reading!

1/2R Nathan For a fantastic effort with all his learning tasks, for sharing his ideas and for a positive attitude towards his learning! Keep it up Nathan!

1/2R

Lucca For showing great teamwork and working hard on his learning tasks. You produced some great Procedural writing and tryied the Maths challenges! Super work Lucca, keep it up!


News 3/4J

Lily For her fantastic efforts reconnecting with her Remote Learning, attending her WebEx sessions and uploading her work. You are a star Lily!

3/4J Hunter For displaying the STARR Value of Achievement and getting all of his work completed and uploaded onto Compass. Keep up the hard work Hunter!

3/4S

Claire For her fabulous effort putting her inquiry task on Australian Citizenship together. Absolutely fabulous Claire!

3/4S Ally For using feedback to improve the quality and standard of her work. Great persistence Ally, well done!

5/6H

Trinity For being a rock star when it comes to worded problems! Keep up the amazing maths skills!

5/6H Seraphina For some fantastic procedural writing with clear instructions and detail that made it easy to follow along. Great work!

5/6L Leroy For his super efforts in completing his work during remote learning, you are achieving a high standard Leroy. Keep it up!

5/6L Ryder For regularly contributing to our WebEx classes and sharing his work and ideas. Super efforts Ryder!

Arts Payton For putting in a fantastic effort in your art learning task and paying careful attention to detail. Well done Payton!

Arts Mia For always putting an excellent effort into her artwork. Keep up the hard work!

P.E.

Kailey For a fantastic effort in the online fun run and for also being a very friendly person. Well done Kailey!

P.E. Rylan For a fantastic effort in this week’s PE Learning Task and completing the most exercise out of all the students in the school. Keep up the good work Rylan!


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