Kinder News

Year 1/2 News

Last Friday, 23rd October saw the Year 5/6 students participate in a celebration of NAIDOC by marching down Foster Street and finished the march at the new Murrin Bridge Aboriginal Lands Council Office to participate in the celebration of the official opening.

Changes to School Communication

We are implementing some changes to the way we communicate information to our families. Our newsletters are moving to a new format as we utilise the services of Schoolzine, the company we work with for our website, more effectively.

Mrs Nicole Wood is working closely with Schoolzine and our school community to improve our communication to families this year. Nicole will work in the office each Friday, so our newsletter day will change to Fridays. Nicole is also working with the Schoolzine app which will have many functions to improve communication including sending notifications and reminders out and returning notes including absentee notes.

The newsletter will be emailed this week to families requesting this service. Newsletters can also be accessed through the website and the app from now on. Please let us know if you still require a paper copy or would prefer to save paper by accessing the newsletter via the app or website. 

Feedback is appreciated to either myself, Mrs Morris or Nicole Wood.

The next newsletter will be published on Friday 3rd April, 2020.

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

There is a lot of varied information being presented about COVID-19, the attachments today and any information we provide to you is informed by the Canberra Goulburn Catholic Education Office and NSW Health. They work closely with the Australian Government to inform their decisions.

During the past fortnight students have been learning many new skills. Students have learned how to use Spelling City and email. Understanding why we use email instead of writing letters is very important. Also NAPLAN often has questions that relates to emails.

Students can see how Visual Literacy is a powerful tool and students are looking more closely and critically at certain illustrations in picture books. Questioning students about what they can see, what is actually happening in pictures increases student’s confidence and vocabulary. It is important for students to be able to observe and describe from the whole picture to the smallest part and look for the clues that the illustrator has used to develop meaning in the story.

This process is also a great thinking tool for students to develop as it encourages students to think up questions as well.

In history students in Year 3-6 did a ‘peel the fruit’ thinking activity. This activity encourages students to think beyond what is in front of them. They will continue to keep adding the questions and thoughts as they work through a history unit.

Mrs. Shaw

Year 3 - 6 have been working on problem solving in Science. We have been using everyday projects to build bridges and towers. We then evaluated and discuss how to make them taller or stronger.

We were lucky enough last week to have Leonie Ansley, Numeracy Consultant, working with our staff collaborating on our Maths programming. Leonie also worked with the children in the classroom withf Maths games. Both teachers and students enjoyed learning new strategys with Leonie and are very thankful for her time and expertise.

Following on from our Maths consultant visit, K/1/2 students have been working on improving their fluency in counting by 2’s, 4’s, 5’s and 10’s.

The majority of our students were rewarded last week for achieving 95% or more attendance for the first 5 weeks of the term. We visited the park and enjoyed a Zooper Dooper. Looking forward to seeing our students' attendance rate improving this year!

Friday Recess Canteen Roster

27th March - Erika Bartholomew, Nicolle Clarke

3rd April - Terese Stenhouse

Interagency Meetings (2nd Tuesday of each Month)

14th April - Sharna Hayward

12th May - Kristy Brooks

9th June - Anna Wojecik

sandwiches to be dropped off at school by 10am please.

Menu for Friday Lunch Canteen

Pizza - Cheese & Bacon or Cheese, Ham & Pinapple $4.00

Sandwich or Roll (White, Wholemeal or Grain Bread Available)

Ham, Chicken, Roast Beef, Silverside, Egg, Cheese, Vegemite $3.50

Add salad- lettuce, tomato, beetrot, cheese (eg Meat & Salad) $4.00

Sweet Chilli Wrap (1x tender & salad) $5.00

Hot Food

Chicken & Corn Roll $4.00

3 x Yummie Drummies $3.50

6 x Chicken Nuggets $3.50

4 x Chicken Breast Wedges $3.50

6 x Chicken Goujons $3.50

Hotdog $3.50

Plain Pie $3.50

Sausage Roll $3.50

Sauce 50c

Drinks

Fruit Juice $2.50

Fruit Box $2.50