Prep 

In Prep we have been exploring so many Julia Donaldson books and writing about the characters we like and don’t like. The children are learning to use the word “because” to support their ideas. In HASS we have been looking at how to care for places that are special to us. We have done lots of school exploration to look at how things are being cared for. We even talked about how to care for their bedroom - we hope you’ve noticed them having a go at this! 

Year 1 

We have read some very interesting adjectives this week when the students wrote Procedures on How to Make a Witches Brew!!!!  In Maths we have demonstrated our learning about collecting data and representing it in a Graph format.  We are working on developing our mental strategies in Mathematics e.g., Friends of 10, Doubles and Doubles +1 as well as adding 10 to a given number.   

Year 2 

Transformers...more than meets the eye! That got the children interested very quickly! Maths transformations didn’t sound like fun until then. Flips, Slides and Turns are the changes we make in year two. In English we are writing more procedures with some very interesting ingredients. Science and HaSS are both all about caring for a significant place and using our world’s resources efficiently. 

Year 3 

Year 3 have been immersing themselves in poems of all kinds in English, and flooding ourselves with multiplication facts and fractions in maths. In Science we are continuing to explore matter (solids / liquids) and the effects adding heat or cold has on matter – like wax, oil, milk and honey! In HaSS we are creating brilliant projects based around the five aspects of Health (physical, mental, spiritual, social and emotional). 

Year 4 

We are well into writing our persuasive texts and using sizzling starts to engage the reader.  Rhetorical questions, high modality, emotive language, and calls for action are some of the language features we are incorporating in our writing.  In Science, we are annotating force diagrams explaining how contact and non-contact pull and push forces are applied to everyday situations.  Maths and HASS are overlapped as we inquire and collect data on how we incorporate sustainability practices at school and begin to investigate how we can propose action plans for improvement.  It’s all happening in Year 4! 

Year 5 

Year 5 are super excited about our camp! It is finally here. This week we will be body boarding in the surf, caving in tunnels, having pool parties and rock climbing. Keep an eye out for photos on the Facebook page.  

Year 6 

In Year 6, we have started looking at ways to measure the perimeter and area of irregular shapes. We have been engaging in inquiries in Mathematics and improving our use of questioning to guide our thinking and understanding. In Science, we have identified variables that affect the survival of living things and are busy designing experiments that contain fair tests.