Archive | October 2018

What’s happening in Week 2!

Monday 22nd October

-Assembly 11.40am hosted by 4S

-Creative Writing Workshops begin 8am

-Robo Club begins after school

Tuesday 23rd October

-Scripture/Ethics

 

Thursday 18th October 

-Bandfest

-Senior Choir 8.15am

-Code Club begins 3pm

Friday 19th October

-CEP DMF filming day: bring your costumes!

-Sport

-Art Cave

Term 4 overview

Welcome to Term 4! Below is an overview of some of the opportunities and learning programs students will be involved in. Remember to visit the OC Events page, as I will be updating it throughout the term when dates and information become available.

CEP Outdoor Digital Media Festival

This annual event showcases short films from all 17 schools in our local cluster. Tickets will be on sale later this term for this great event, held on Thursday 29th November. There’s lots of entertainment, food, drink and a performance from our aerobics team. Don’t miss the premiere of our entry ‘The Most Awesome Film Ever’. We are going to begin filming this Friday, so remember to bring your costume. Make sure you visit our fundraising stall where we will be selling popcorn and slushies.

Thinkfest

Students have begun working on their Thinkfest projects for this term. Thinkfest is an OC event where students work in groups on a problem from a key learning area. For each problem, students have to write and perform a skit, create a backdrop, design a key prop, maintain a visual process diary and film a short trailer.

In Week 7, Jewells PS is hosting this year’s Thinkfest event, with OCs from around the region attending. A note will be sent home later this term once the details are finalised.

 

Homework

Homework for students begins this week (Week 2). Included in our homework menu this term, students will have the option to work on their Thinkfest project for additional points.  This term’s speaking and listening task is free choice and has also been sent home (due in Week 4).

Mastery Core Value

This term students have the opportunity to earn mastery ribbons for all 3 core values – Respect, Responsibility and Quality. Our Hall of Fame assembly will be on Monday Week 9. Students who have achieved Hall of Fame in all 3 core values this year will also be invited to a special end of year reward day.

Reading

This term students will be taking part in Literature Circle using the texts Holes, When You Reach Me, Z for Zachariah and Taronga.

Our whole class novel study this term is A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.

Students will also be completing a personal reading project this term based on a novel of their choosing. Can’t wait to share with you what we create!

As we’re approaching the end of the year, it’s a great time for students to think about completing their OC Reading Challenge.

Well done to everyone who took part in this year’s Premier’s Reading Challenge. Our certificates will be arriving soon and I will present these at our weekly assembly.

OC Book Club

A note will be sent home this week about our end of year book- a beautiful story by Katherine Applegate called The One and Only Ivan.

Well done to everyone who read our last novel, How to Bee.

Writing

This term students have the opportunity to take part in NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month – which kicks off in November. Students have the opportunity to set a word count goal and write their very own original novel. Can’t wait to see all the exciting ideas!

Mathematics

One of our major projects this term is to create a poster for the Statistical Society of Australia National Poster competition. We started this project last term and students have been busy working in groups, writing surveys and collecting data. Once the research and data collection is complete, students will create a poster to present their findings and hopefully prove their hypothesis.

Well done to everyone for their fantastic efforts in the APSMO Maths Games and Olympiads last term. Our final results have been sent in and we should be receiving our awards and trophies soon!

Other content we will be looking at later this term includes area, chance, patterns and algebra and time.

Geography

Mrs Derricott will be teaching our Geography unit this term – A Diverse and Connected World: Trade.

Science

This term our unit is Evolution and Adaptation. During this unit students will be exploring the science of evolution by way of Natural Selection. They will have the opportunity to investigate genetics and learn how species have evolved to develop specific traits specific to their niche (environment).

 

Events

There are lots of events and excursions taking place this term!

We have the P&C Fete taking place on Friday 9th November and it’s shaping up to be amazing!

We are organising a special end of year reward day for all Stage 3 to the movies and Revolution on Monday 17th December

Year 5 students will be participating in our student leadership program later this term in preparation for the selection of our 2019 student leaders. Parents and families are invited to watch their leadership speeches on Thursday 6th December.

Our class will be hosting our weekly assembly in Week 6 as well as sharing some work. All welcome to attend!

Our annual Carols evening will take place on Thursday 6th December.

Presentation Day will be held at the new Grainery Church on Tuesday 11th December.

Our Year 5/6 students will receive their invitations in the coming weeks for the Year 6 Farewell, which will also be held at the Grainery on Thursday 13th  December. (Year 6 – please bring in your kindy photo so we can scan it for our farewell presentation)

Finally, well done to all the students who have had a terrific start to the term and for their excellent effort and commitment to all the projects we’ve got taking place.

ICAS English

What a great way to start off Term 4 with lots of amazing ICAS English results. Well done, everyone!

Participation: Hamish Ma, Zali, Ellen and Amie

Credits: Noah (top 20%), Hamish Mo (top 34%), William (top 16%), Jules (top 13%), Mika (top 13%), Fin (top 20%), Grayson (top 34%), Julian (top 35%), Sam (top 24%), Annabelle (top 15%), Henry (top 24%) and Norah (top 19%)

Distinctions: Callum (top 5%), Coco (top 3%), Amira (top 3%), Luisa (top 3%), Emma (top 2%), Raquel (top 7%), Chelsea (top 5%)

High Distinction: Rowan (top 1%) and recipient of the Principal’s Award

What’s happening in Week 1!

Monday 15th October

*Welcome back for Term 4!

-Assembly 11.40am hosted by 3S

Tuesday 16th October

-Scripture/Ethics

Wednesday 17th October

– Band Day workshop

-Merewether High School Challenge Day

Thursday 18th October

Friday 19th October

-Sport

-Art Cave

Lots of notes going home today, including Creative Writing Workshops, Robo Club, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Musical and Stage 3 Term 4 Newsletter.