Prep 

Prep students have been very busy reading story books and sequencing the beginning, middle and end events in the story. They are also beginning to use their knowledge of sounds and words to write their own sentence about a story.  

Year 1 

When would you expect to see the stars? When would you expect to see the sun? Are there things you can see during day and night? Year 1 have been investigating the features of our environment we would see during the night or day and even during different seasons. Very soon we will begin designing our dioramas which will demonstrate what we have learned. 

Year 2 

Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Wolf? Is he really bad? If you ask him, he was just visiting the three little pigs to ask for a cup of sugar! In English we’ve been writing a preference for a character. In Mathematics we are diving deeper into the language of 2D shapes. Science has been interesting while we watch our plants grow. Under 8’s Day was a huge success.  

Year 3 

Year 3 students are beginning to write their narrative. Their task is to write the next chapter for Kumiko and the Dragon. There have been a lot of discussions around noun groups, vivid verbs, sizzling starts and 5 senses words. In Science, students have investigated what living and non-living things we have around our school and in Mathematics we are exploring 2D shapes.  

Year 3/4 

We have been busy finalising our assessments. This week we are concentrating on improving our narratives by adding descriptive language and editing for mistakes. In Art we will begin the ship drawing and looking at a famous Australian artist. Symmetry and mapping are the concepts for Mathematics and we are excited about using the Spheros to code.  

Year 4 

Year 4 students are investigating the absorbency of different materials in Science. We are also discussing the properties of materials and how these link to sustainability. In HaSS, we have been learning about the First Fleet and the Eora people of Sydney. We will also be reading historical sources and identifying relevant information in them.  

Year 5 

Year 5 have been busy writing a persuasive text on gala day. In Mathematics, we are working on 24-hour time and in HASS we have started learning about economics and the difference between needs and wants.  

Year 5/6 

The 5/6 classes have begun to write their collaborative constructions of their comparative essay on whether informative or narrative texts best portray author’s message. We’ve been surveying our school peers asking questions about the community problem we’ve identified as part of our Technologies project. In Science, we are about to conduct experiments into reversible and irreversible changes as well as evaporation and condensation. 

Year 6 

In the Year 6 classes we are learning how to convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity in Maths. We have completed our reading assessment in English and are starting to work on our writing assessment where we will compare the effectiveness of literary and informative texts on the same topic.