Student Work

Assembly Awards

Congratulations to our recent assembly award winners:

Mia, Phoenix, Mac, Mirra, Emma and Ruby

K-1-2

Mrs Hodgson missed the class so much while she was on her holiday in Bali, and the students especially loved seeing photos of her spending time with her favourite animal—the elephant!

This term, our budding designers have been absolutely thrilled with our new intentional play areas focused on creating marble runs! Students explored different ways to engineer their own tracks, using a variety of manipulatives. Some followed a set track and experimented with magnets, while others had the opportunity to design their own marble run from scratch using playdough and straws. Their creativity shone as some wanted to build a second story for their tracks! It’s been wonderful to see their problem-solving skills and imagination in action.

Learning in 3-6

Recently, in the primary class, we were discussing the correct pronunciation of the word 'Uranus'.

Interestingly, Mrs Bowen, Port Stephens Director of Educational Leadership, entered the classroom just in time to overhear. Unfortunately, she was lacking a little context!

Luckily for Mrs Burns, we've moved on from that. Now, linking to our writing unit on informative texts, we've begun the first stage of The Writing Process by getting our ideas onto paper for an informative text about Jupiter.

See future newsletters for updates.

PS...for future reference, the correct pronunciation is 'YOOR-uh-nuss'.😀

By Ella (Primary Class)

Maths Challenge for YOU

You have almost certainly heard of Sudoku puzzles and most likely tried at least one or two, but have you ever heard of TAPE SUDOKUS?

Here's a fun challenge Ella and Mrs Baxter have been working on during maths groups recently. Have a go for yourself. (We've put an easy one here to start, and a slightly more challenging one. Stay tuned for future newsletters where we'll add a tricky one. 😀)

TAPE SUDOKU

Place the numbers 1-6 in the cells, each appearing exactly 3 times. No two neighbouring cells may contain the same digit or consecutive digits.

Easy

Medium

Literacy Challenge for YOU

LETTER HUNT - Choose a random letter from the alphabet. How many words can your family find that start with that letter? Make a list. See how many you can collect over a week.

Variations:

How many 6 or more letter words can you find starting with that letter?
How many words can you find where that letter is the final one in the word?
How many words can you find where that letter is the exact middle letter?

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