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HEADING 8 6th August, 2021
LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM
SENIOR SCHOOL
During our fourth Unit of Inquiry, students have been
looking at information about Earth and our Solar System
by relating it to our central idea, “Earth is a unique planet
within a complex solar system”. Students have been
working independently and in group situations.
Senior students have been enjoying investigating how and
why seasons occur, the relationship between the Sun,
Earth and the Moon and how day and night occur.
They have looked into the relationship between Earth and
celestial bodies in our solar system and the impacts of
Earth’s position and movement.
Students are currently working in collaborative
groups to design a display which demonstrates their
understanding of the central idea. Their display must
include something visual, written, mathematical and
tactical. Students will be self-reflecting on their social
and self-management skills after each session to
help them develop good practices for Exhibition next
term.
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Senior students have been enjoying watching
and talking about the Tokyo Olympics. As a
result, we have tied in the Maths unit of Data
Representation and Graphing using statistics
from the Tokyo games. Students have been
creating their own graphs to compare and
analyse swimming results from the Rio 2016
Olympics and Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
In class, students participated in their own class mini
Olympic Games. The events consisted of 100 metre
run, bean bag throw, skipping in 1 minute, shooting
hoops in 1 minute, and long jump. Students
thoroughly enjoyed this lesson and used the results
to create their own graph. 5/6D also awarded Gold,
Silver and Bronze medal positions.
During Reading sessions, Senior students have enjoyed reading from a
range of text about Earth and our Solar System. Whilst in lockdown,
students were able to explore a number of texts on Epic Reading and used
a variety of different resources to verify information.
Students have studied and evaluated how the design features of a non-fiction text help the reader
to understand the topic. They have gone a step further and started to critique how the author
explains the topic in terms of quality of writing, organisation and clarity.
Throughout this unit of inquiry, students will be focusing on writing an explanation text. Students
have done extensive research into Earth’s place in our Solar System, how and why we have day
and night, and seasons. Students have written an explanation text explaining the action and
process of events in a detailed manner about their chosen
topic. Many students added a labelled diagram or flow chart
to support their explanation text.
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MIDDLE SCHOOL
Middle school students have shown their resilience and
adaptability as we saw much of the last few weeks work being
undertaken in remote learning.
Some examples of the work students completed remotely are
show below.
As part of a unit on area and perimeter, students built a paddock
or a gaol and worked out how much fencing would be needed for
it.
We have also worked on capacity and volume and some
students chose to make a potion that equalled 600ml, with 6
ingredients but none could be 100ml exactly.
While back at school students worked on a poetry unit where they looked at haiku, limerick and
shape as well as other styles. Here are some student’s poems relating to our unit of inquiry on
celebrations.
Christmas by Maya Chinese New Year by Tong &
Kemi
Cold, Colourful
Exciting, noisy
Unwrapping, finding, playing
Giving away red envelopes
Spending time with family
Dragon
Santa
Easter (extract) by Amelia and Alyna
Here’s an egg behind the pot, and one up in the tree,
I gonna get that one in the bush! Oh no! My brother beat me.
I’m on egg number seven, but there’s still so many more.
I’ve go to beat my big brother, who’s now on twenty four!
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Wellbeing activities continued to be included in the remote planner, including tidying your sock
drawer and taking a photo of your favourite pair, creating some fruit art, and making a Lego model
of an explorer students wrote a biography on.
JUNIOR SCHOOL
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In writing, we have been learning how to write a persuasive
text. A persuasive texts purpose is to present a point of view
and seeks to persuade a reader. To introduce this, students
came back into the classroom with all their chairs stacked up.
There was confusion in the Juniors as the classroom chairs
went on strike due to the fact that they didn’t think the
children were treating them very well! The children soon
realised their mistakes and wrote letters back to the chairs to
persuade them to return to the classrooms so the children
could continue to use them.
The Junior school students enjoy reading and exploring books. Lately, we have been exploring
non-fiction texts and discussing the features that we expect to see and read in such books -
features such as real pictures, accurate facts and a content page.
We all share the new information we have read about and making connections to what we already
know about the topic.
As part of reading, we have been focusing on fluency. When reading any book aloud we are
practicing to read several words or sentences fluently. We aim to read these using our normal
speaking pace and not to sound like a robot. To help our reading sound fluent we also need to
pause at a comma and a take slightly longer pause for a breath at full stops.
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For our new Unit of Inquiry, Sharing the Planet, we
started with a provocation of creating messy
classrooms that represented polluted environments.
Students identified their feelings about being in such
an environment and tried to infer how different
animals would have fared if these were their habitats.
Students discussed different positive and negative
impacts people may have on habitats.
In Maths, the Junior school have been investigating and learning all about the different features
and values of the Australian coin. The students have identified and compared the sizes, shapes
and colours of the coins to learn more about the value that each hold and represent. During this
investigation, students were given a range of coins and asked to assist their teacher in co-
constructing a series of success criteria aimed at how to develop their abilities most effectively and
efficiently in counting, sorting and adding groups of coins. After the success criteria was
developed, students began organising the coins into like groups and deciding whether it was better
to stack or leave them in a loose pile. Students then begun
working on strategies on how to best count and add up the
total value of all their coins. Some counted and used their
books to keep track as they went, while others stacked their
coins into more manageable piles of dollars.
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FOUNDATION
During remote learning Foundation
students have continued to investigate
how they can use their imagination to help
them create, solve problems and see
things from other perspectives. Many
students created Max’s mask or a cave
from reading ‘Where the Wild Things Are’.
Other students were open-minded and had
a go at designing a dance that they shared
with their peers online. We watched rock
stars, contemporary dancers and
breakdancers. It was also lovely to see
some family members having a dance in
the background during our online session. Through music, students
created many different musical instruments using recycled materials. Students used their
imagination to develop guitars, shakers and drums. We are thrilled
to be back in the classroom to continue to create, think and express
ourselves using our imagination.
100 Days Foundation Celebration
On Monday 2nd August 2021, Foundation students celebrated 100
days of learning at school!!! As we opened the door in the morning to greet our students, we could
not believe our eyes! Our students had aged over the weekend. They were all 100 years old. We
found it hard to recognise them.
Our celebrations started straight away, making their 100 days smarter crowns, taking their time
and ensuring they thought carefully about their design. As part of their writing session, the students
described what they thought they would look like and be doing if they were 100 years old.
Next, the students participated in a parade in the gym. They walked around to music and showed
everyone how they had dressed up to portray themselves as 100 years old. We all completed an
exercise routine that had 100 moves eg 10 star jumps, 10 toe touches etc and then sat together in
the gym and ate our snack.
Each student was presented with a special certificate to congratulate them on reaching this
fantastic milestone.
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After recess, we watched ‘Jungle Beat’ while munching on
popcorn and enjoying an icy pole. After lunch, students
completed a 100 numeracy activity by adding 10 items, such
as 10 flowers, 10 stars to each part of their activity page.
They counted their groups by 10’s and gave a big cheer when
they got to 100. To finish off the great day, students
participated in their weekly PMP session.
Congratulations on completing 100 days at school. We are so
proud of you all and look forward to many more days of
learning together.
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