Assembly delights

Last week's final assembly we were entertained by several amazing performances. Firstly, our Ashy Out Loud Junior group, made up of Prep to Year 2 students gave us a rousing rendition of Roar complete with actions!

Next up we listened to Kiaan as he both sang and danced to Shotgun. What a beautiful voice he has!

Finally Aimee from Year 1 played the piano to "Always With Me" from Spirited Away

Last chance for Parent Opinion Survey

Your last chance to submit your responses as part of the Department of Education's annual Parent Opinion Survey closes tomorrow, Friday 19th September. You would have been emailed your unique PIN via email last month. 

Last day of term for student, but not for staff

Today at 2.30pm out students will be dismissed for Term 3, but our staff will be onsite tomorrow for professional development sessions before they can acquit owed time in lie accumulated during last week's Parent Teacher Conversations. 

Looking forward to next term

Term 4 is a loooong one, with 11 weeks. The swimming program will run in December for Preps to Year 4 students, our Year 5 students will engage in their leadership process, and we will farewell our Year 6 students at Graduation.

 We look forward to welcoming Miss Stewart back into 3B, as well as a range of other staff who have been on shorter duration leaves - Miss T, Miss Jespersen, Mrs Giannaris, Miss Whitehead and Mr Brisbane. 

On Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, students and families were invited to share Term 3's learning in classrooms. A special treat was a SMILE display in the conference room.

Visitors discovered more about our whole-school approach to Wellbeing and Behaviour, which included

✨ SWPBS (School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support)

✨ Respectful Relationships

✨ Visible Wellbeing

✨ Diversity and Inclusion

Year 2 have had a wonderful end to term 3! We have enjoyed finding out about different cultures and sharing with others our knowledge, research and discoveries about a chosen country. Expo was very enjoyable this week, students shared interesting facts, food, landmarks and more with their brochures and passports.

Year 2 have been working on:

• Phonemes /oo/ and /ou/
• Finalising our class novel ‘The Little Prince’, exploring characters, vocabulary and connections. 
• Exploring emotions within a whole class text.
• Publishing our Information Text on the country of our choice.
• Reading fractions written in numbers.
• Identifying an equal part of a whole. 
• Understanding that a fraction is an equal part of a whole. 
• Identifying halves, quarters, eighths and thirds.

We’ve been busy wrapping up our term in Year 4 - Here are some of the highlights!

Year 4  took part in a very special AuslanHub incursion with Kerrie, who shared her experiences as a deaf person. Students were fascinated to learn about the differences between cochlear implants and hearing aids, and learning some introductory Auslan signs. 

After weeks of brainstorming, drafting, and illustrating, they were very proud to share their finished pieces with the Year 2 students on Tuesday afternoon. The younger students enjoyed listening to the creative stories, while the Year 4’s took pride in reading aloud and showcasing the messages of inclusion woven through their work.

Students have been revisiting multiplicative thinking, with a focus on the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. They explored how understanding one operation can help solve the other and have been practising applying this knowledge to a range of problems. 

Important Dates:

Unlocking your Inner Leader (Incursion)

Group 1 - 2.00pm Tuesday 7th October

Group 2 - 2.00pm Wednesday 8th October

Murnong Gallery (Walking Excursion)

4A - 9.35am Wednesday 8th October

4C - 11.15am Friday 10th October

4B - 1.25pm Friday 10th October

Year 5 Newsletter 

The last few weeks of Term 3 have been jam-packed with visitors, incursions, athletics, and so much more!

Our Year 3 to 6 students had the chance to attend the Ashy Olympics at the Bill Sewart Athletics Track. We were lucky with beautiful weather, and it was fantastic to see everyone get involved. A special mention goes to our Year 5s, who showed wonderful teamwork and initiative by helping with events on the day. We are very proud of the students who made it through to division and even prouder of the way they celebrated their own achievements.

In the classroom, students have been busy preparing their own Poetry Slams. Linking with our Connected Learning topics, they chose from important global issues such as malnutrition, child labour, access to healthcare, education, and water and hygiene. Students brainstormed their ideas, wrote powerful poems, and performed them using expression, repetition, and passion. Their performances were both inspiring and moving.

We were also very fortunate to welcome John, a Year 5 parent, who visited to share about his role at World Vision. His presentation gave students an insight into how World Vision helps those in need around the world. The students were thoroughly engaged and inspired by his talk. We thank John again for his time and generosity.

It has been a busy and rewarding term for our Year 5s, and we are so proud of their efforts and achievements!

We can’t believe it’s already the end of Term 3 – Term 4 is just around the corner! The students are eager and excited for the upcoming school holidays to recharge, ready to return for their FINAL term of primary school. It’s been a big few weeks full of energy, creativity and achievement. Over the past two weeks, students have been:

• Exploring mean, median, mode and range through hands-on activities – including a fun Scrabble-based challenge! Students generated their own data sets and calculated each measure of central tendency.
   
• Practising and performing poetry in small groups, showcasing both their understanding of poetic devices and their performance skills. It’s been great to see their confidence grow on stage.
   
• Presenting their Call to Action projects, which they have been working on over the past fortnight. The final presentations were thoughtful, creative and inspiring to watch.
   
• Expanding their mathematical knowledge in multiplication, learning to solve problems using the grid method, lattice multiplication and the vertical algorithm.
   
• Doing an amazing job at the Ashy Olympics, showing great sportsmanship and team spirit. A number of students went on to compete at GIDSSA, with several making it through to the Division level – we wish them all the best for next term!
  
   

A huge thank you to all the families who came to our Expo this week – the students absolutely loved sharing their learning with you and showcasing what they’ve been working on.

From Brooke, Chloe & Kristen