5H OLC

 W elcome to our short Week 8.  Hopefully, you enjoyed a relaxing and fun filled long, long weekend with your families.    INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMME ON GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT On Friday, the Archdiocesan agency Centre for Life, Marriage and Family Life Education team will be presenting an introductory programme on growth and development for our year 5 students via Zoom. The boys and girls will be involved in separate presentations (75 minutes long) so that they will engage in a programme specific to their needs in a safe and comfortable environment.   The ‘I Am Nature’s Greatest Miracle’ Session will provide your child with a gentle introduction to growth and development at puberty.  Another session will take place in Year 6. Year 5 Session Aims: ·        Explore concepts of physical, emotional, intellectual and social change at puberty. ·        Choose to develop a growth mindset to embrac...

S o r r y D a y We had a great week last week learning and discussing National Sorry Day. It was fabulous to see the respect and curiosity that the students demonstrated...it was topped off with an amazing experience, where the whole school came together to spell out the word sorry on our school oval.   I bet if you ask them they will be able to point out where they are in the photo!   Hopefully your child's Sorry Day “Chatterbox” made it home safely and your child was able to teach you some of what they learnt in class.      HOMEWORK WEEK 7 and 8 For the next fortnight, the children do not have Homework Grids to complete, as we have two short weeks (this week Thursday is the Winter Carnival and Friday is a Pupil Free Day and next week Monday is a public holiday and Tuesday is a Pupil Free Day!).     The only homework to complete during these two weeks is a choice of activity each night from the new Spelling Choice Grid in their homework ...

Hi 5H families, We survived NAPLAN and are back into our regular timetable of learning.   OUR LEARNING Last Monday the children in 5H passed over their golden tickets to receive their Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Book Bag!   It is full of all of the activities we will be completing as we read this fantastic Roald Dahl book as our class novel.   We will be working in our reading groups on many different Reading Comprehension Strategies, to make meaning from the text, and enjoy it to its fullest!  We began our reading group sessions today! Thank you to Jacob, Flynn, Esmerelda and Alexandra for being our class photographers. We have also concluded our Visual Art Programme focusing on "The Eye' and the Art Elements of Line, Space and Colour.  Our final activity was to weave God's Eyes... a great activity for mindfulness during our fortnight of NAPLAN testing.  The class have produced some amazing artwork and you are most welcome to pop in before or after...

  Term 2 Week 5 REMINDERS NAPLAN   The class were incredible during our first week of NAPLAN testing.  Growth Mindset Gurus! This week we conclude the tests with: Monday 17 th of May – Conventions of Language Tuesday 18 th of May – Numeracy HOME LEARNING GRID Being our second week of NAPLAN, this week’s home learning grid has many opportunities for wellbeing: Your child is invited to complete their APPRECIATION JOURNAL each day. Your child is invited to do a random act of kindness. Your child is invited to listen to calm music. Your child is invited to try a meditation app (eg: CALM) Your child is invited to take a daily walk. Your child is invited to play a game with their family. Your child is invited to complete physical activity via their Champion Life Login. Your child is invited to have a technology free night   They are also invited to share with you the daily timetable they made in class last week to help them become more inde...