2013 MacBook Information

1 to 1 MacBook information session

A reminder to parents of year 2 students that there will be a 1 to 1 MacBook information session this Thursday 1st of November. The session will provide information about the school's 1 to 1 program, lease details and indicative costs, security and supervision strategies and the educational benefits of the program.
The session will run from 6-7pm Thursday 1st of November and an information booklet will be available to parents on the night.

Kind Regards

Keith McNeill
ICT coordinator

BOOK TALK

We have been sharing fiction books and exploring the differences between picture story books and fiction writing. Thank you to our wonderful parents and grandparents.

Establishment of a Parents Gardening Club

School Council Facilities committee has recommended that a gardening group be officially formed in order to more effectively coordinate the gardening plots in the school. Members of the Facilities Committee and school staff will be in attendance. We wish to invite all interested parents to attend this meeting on Wednesday 7th November at 5.00pm in the meeting room opposite the school office.

RESEARCH PROJECT ON ASSESSMENT

A letter is being sent home with the children this week. It outlines a research project that some teachers are involved in over the next 6 months with Professor Marilyn Fleer at Monash University.

The letter outlines the project “Assessment beyond borders: Potentive assessment in Primary School”. The project is looking at varied ways to assess children both at school and at home.

It also includes consent forms for you to fill out and return to school as soon as possible.

We would appreciate your support in this research project.

TABLOID SPORTS

The Transition Program which includes Tabloid Sports for Prep-2 will be taking place on November the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th.

This is a junior school initiative to enable children to work together across the junior levels.

We will require parent helpers from 9-11am on these dates. If you can help please add your name to the list at the front of the neighbourhood.

Thank you

DECOUPAGE

Jude shared her achievements with decoupage with us and told us about plants and their meanings. We were all very inspired.
The children discussed can certain achievements be rated as better than others?

EXCURSIONS

Two excursions have been booked to further our inquiry into achievement.
They are to be on Wednesday 7th November and Wednesday 28th November and they will be for the whole neighbourhood.
Parents are welcome to join us.
We will tell you more as soon as we receive confirmation.
Please stay tuned.

Guest Speaker

Thank you very much to Pat for a fascinating and excellent talk and interview about your achievements with Earthwatch digs.
It was so exciting to hear all the stories that you told us about and how you started. You bought in interesting books, pictures and images to help us understand about Earthwatch.
You are a quiet achiever making a difference around the world.

http://www.earthwatch.org/australia/

 

Year Two in Fast Forward

Watch this clip for a glimpse of what can happen over the span of thirty minutes in the Year Two Neighbourhood.  To create the effect 300 individual photos were taken at intervals of 6 seconds and then assembled into a short video.  Blink and you just might miss something!

Shaiha's Achievements, Freya's and Luke's Travel Journals