Week 2, Term 3

School Photos Update ……

We have been informed that Academy School Photography has gone into liquidation and we are awaiting the outcome of parents/carers (ie. creditors) receiving school photographs ordered and paid for in Term 1.

We have been notified by the legal team of Heard Phillips Lieberenz (Liquidators) that there is virtually no chance of parents/carers (ie. creditors) receiving anything in return for payments.
(Ultimately, no one will receive school photos of any description).

The school has been approached by the company MSP Photography (Gary Baxter), who are offering to step in and to rectify this situation to a certain extent (at NO cost to parents/carers).
They are offering to retake school photos on Wednesday, 11th September.  They are able to offer to all families:
            1 – 5 x 7 cm Individual Photo
            1 – A4 Size Composite Grade photo (faces only)

They have also kindly offered a Grade 6 Graduation group photo (A4).

Unfortunately, they are not able to include in this complimentary offer a Family photo.
Parents/Carers wanting a Family photo will need to make their own private arrangements.

If there are questions regarding any matters in relation to Academy Photography, please contact Samantha Krznaric (Senior Accountant – Heard Phillips Lieberenz) OR Anthony Phillips Liquidator – Heard Phillips Lieberenz) (08) 7089 0011.

Term 3 has started off with a bang for the SRC! We welcomed Shirley Hardy-Rix, the Secretary for Mt Alexander Animal Welfare (MAAW), to our Monday assembly. She was thrilled to be invited and even more excited to be presented with a giant cheque! Cast your minds back to the end of term 2... students and teachers were looking a bit different to usual. The SRC hosted Crazy Hair Day and our school community came together to raise $406.85 for the Mt Alexander Animal Welfare shelter. Shirly shared how much it meant to have us choose the shelter and how the money would be used to keep the animals fed and happy – you may have even been asked about adopting a puppy, a cat or perhaps one of the goats they currently have available!  

The SRC are currently hard at work discussing and planning upcoming events for the term. Keep an eye out for more news and information to come.  

SRC Events Calendar 

Week 5  – Winter Warm Up  

Week 6 – Book Week and the Book Week Parade  

Week 9 – CNPS Neurodiversity Awareness Day  

Hello from the Golden Wattle Building! 

This week has been all about the Olympic Games as we began to tune in to our big question ‘What can we learn from the Olympics?’  Throughout our literacy lessons we have been identifying common nouns and proper nouns whilst learning about the history of the Olympic Games.  We found it interesting to learn that women were not able to compete in the Olympic Games when they first began!  In Spelling we have been learning about contractions and we got to find out more about our classmates, Sierra (1/2S), Xavier (1/2SB) and Taras (1/2W), during their Star of the Week presentations. 

In Maths we have been investigating place value by counting, ordering, recognising and modelling numbers in the 1000s.  We also explored patterns when we worked creatively to design our own Olympic flag with repeating patterns. 

In our STEAM Friday challenge, we learned about the significance of the Olympic flame.  We worked in small groups to design, then made a model, of how we could get a ‘flame’ from the ground to the top of the giant Olympic torch. 

In our Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships we have been discussing help seeking strategies as part of our wellbeing program. 

Next week we will be delving further into France and the Olympic Games throughout our literacy and BQT lessons.  In Maths we will investigate using efficient subtraction strategies and keep an eye out for some homework regarding the Olympics that your child will bring home next week. 

Have a lovely weekend! 

Wendy, Sarah, Bec and Sally 

What are the chances that the Grade 5/6 students would explore probability in Week 2 of Term 3? Likely? Possible? Certain? Turns out, the chances are pretty good. We’ve looked at subject specific vocabulary including sample space, outcomes, trials and likelihood as well as understanding that probability can be represented as a number between 0 and 1 and expressed as a fraction, decimal or percentage. Next week we will explore some impressive Olympic data to better understand exactly what the amazing athletes are actually capable of achieving. Wait… they can jump how far?! 

In Literacy this week we continued planning for a Big Write by exploring the features of non-fiction texts about the Olympics, taking notes and writing single paragraph outlines (SPOs). We put it all together in the Big Write to create structured and cohesive information reports. The students drew on the various aspects of learning we have done about this and did some really inspirational writing. It was great to see so many proud faces when we finished. Next week we will get creative and put the text together with other non-fiction features such as a glossary, side bars, sub-headings and images to publish our writing. Look out for these in the learning journals. 

Cide/cise has been our morphology focus for the week and we’ve explored words like concise, precise, decide, incision and herbicide. Can you guess what cide/cise means? It has a Latin origin and means to cut or strike. Next week we will explore Fy/Fect/Fact/Fice with words like ‘satisfy’, ‘perfect’, ‘manufacture’ and ‘suffice’. Hmmm…what might that mean? 

Monday of next week is the first of five Preparation for Puberty (P4P) sessions. On Tuesday we are heading in to Bendigo for a theatre performance as part of our Performing Arts program. A big thank you to Nicci Simirenko for organising this. If you have not yet returned the notes for these events, please do so at your earliest convenience as we cannot allow students to participate without permission. 

Prep E

Stella Watson - for the impressive way you are including finger spaces and sounding out words when writing. 

Digby Furze - for using your impressive subtraction strategies to rescue your animals in maths this week.  

Prep N

Florence Tanner - for the brave way you're sharing your thinking in maths and always trying your best. 

Isaac Sheedy - for the focus and persistence you put into your writing. 

1/2 S

Mahlee Chaplin - for the creativity you showed when making patterns in maths. 

Marlow Perry - for the enthusiastic way you shared your knowledge of the Olympic Games with your classmates.  

1/2 SB

Sonny Loomer - for the thought and care you put into writing about our Stars of the Week.  

Estelle Hobson - for the dedicated way you wrote out your big write while not even being at school! 

1/2 W

Delilah Box - for the wonder and thoughtfulness you showed to take your maths to the next level. 

Arthur Crowe - for taking your knowledge further and discovering beautiful patterns in maths.  

3/4 CN

Emilia Everett - for the passionate way you have been practising your learning at home. 

Eli Hovey - for the way you contributed and supported your teammates during our STEAM Challenge.  

3/4 H

Sidney Crowe - for helping your classmates understand how to play a maths game. 

Evie-Jean Connors - for looking out for others and making sure they're OK. 

3/4 L

Claude Vettori - for the way you used your time effectivly to finish your writing task. 

Luella Nunan - for the way you display pride in all your learning activities. 

3/4 PS

Thea Robinson - for your hard work and passion when working on your maths facts. 

Eddie Carson - for contributing your knowledge and wonderings with the class.  

5/6 HG

Johnny Hattam - for always being an exemplary student and taking on challenges.

Poppi Walters - for identifying what helps and communicating that to your teacher. 

5/6 R

Peyton Bright - for all your achievements and hard work in Semester One - well done! 

Max Manderson - for always participating in class activities in a positive way.  

5/6 J

Hamish Brown - for your eagerness to help in every possible way. 

Heidi Frederiksen - for such a great effort on your big write, even after being away

5/6 SL

Ted Cordy - for the maturity and honesty you displayed when dealing with a difficult situation. 

Atticus Hopkins - for the positive way you approached all learning tasks on Monday. 

Indonesian

Mary Challender - for your quick and accurate self-corrections during reading. Good job making the links from your speaking knowledge in Indonesian. Bagus