St Brigid's Catholic Parish Primary School Gwynneville eNewsletter

FROM THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL'S DESK

SPOTLIGHT ON LEARNING PRESENTS YEAR 1

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CLASS PROFILE: Year 1

TEACHERS: Claire Shrimpton and Nichole Benoit
SSOs: Yvonne Tasker and Lisa Paton
STUDENTS: A bubbly, charismatic group of bright and enthusiastic learners who love to learn new skills and concepts and can tell you all you need to know about bees.
Year 6 REPORTERS: Tayah, Isobel, Oliver and Luke
Year 6 CAMERA/VIDEO CREW: Tayah, Isobel, Oliver and Luke

Stay tuned for SPOTLIGHT ON LEARNING in the next Brigid Bulletin edition in Term 3 Week 2, where we will showcase YEAR 2.

Class	Term	Week
Year 2	3	2
Kindergarten	3	5

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BUSY BEES LEARNING

Year 1 have been BUSY BEES learning all about how beneficial bees are to our environment and the ecosystem. They did a remarkable job convincing me not to squash a bee that landed on my arm while weeding the garden. FUN FACT: Did you know if it wasn't for bees, we wouldn't have ice cream? Year 1 can tell you all about this.

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BEE WAGGLE DANCE

GYMNASTICS FUN IN YEAR 1

Year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed their Friday fun sessions at gynmastics. They have learnt a variety of skills from balancing, rolling, landing, jumping and much more. Check out these jolly gymnasts.

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SEMESTER ONE ACADEMIC REPORTS

At the end of Week 9 the student academic reports for Years 1-6 will be made available via Compass. The reports will outline achievement in all Key Learning Areas using the A-E common Grade Scale. Teachers make professional, on-balance judgements by considering all evidence available about a student's learning in a particular Key Learning Area to determine the grade that it currently represents, considering the Outcomes appropriate to that Stage. According to the Common Grade Scale, a 'C' grade is considered Sound. That is, if awarded a C grade in any Key Learning Area, the student has demonstrated that they have gained the knowledge, skills and understanding expected of them at that point in time. Teachers will also provide comments in English, Mathematics and Religious Education and a General Comment.

Parent/Teacher Interviews will be offered for all grades including Kindergarten. These will take place during Week 10 and will be either via teleconference or face-to-face. Bookings for the interviews can be made via Compass and will go live soon.

HUMPTY DUMPTY CRIME SOLVED - CASE CLOSED!

Kindergarten have been busy investigating the great unsolved crime of who broke Humpty Dumpty's egg. They have spent weeks gathering evidence and dusting it for fingerprints. They have also identified 7 Year 6 suspects who were seen by two worthy witnesses in the Kindergarten classroom at the time the crime was commited and narrowed these suspects down to two; a tall boy with blonde hair and a girl with brown hair and blue eyes.

The investigtion reached a crescendo on Wednesday when the 7 suspects agreed to go into a line up and the witnesses identified the 2 perpetrators: Sophie and Flynn. To everyone's surprise, there was an eighth suspect involved...a teacher who happened to be the Grand Egg Master. The two perpetrators revealed that the Grand Egg Master was none other than Mrs Roche. Mrs Roche was then interrogated and so revealed that she did indeed ask Flynn and Sophie to go into the Kindergarten classroom to take Humpty because she wanted his egg to bake a giant golden cake to share with everyone and poor Flynn and Sophie in their haste, accidentally dropped humpty and that was how his shell broke into pieces.

The Grand Egg Master apologised for her poor choices and asked for forgiveness from the Kindergarten students and promised to repair Humpty's shell and place him back on his wall where he rightly belongs. So ladies and gentlemen, the Great Humpty Dumpty Crime is now solved and the case is closed!

Please enjoy the video of the final stage of the investigation.

RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS AT ST BRIGID'S

This year we are focussing on Respectful Relationships and exactly what they look like in 'peer to peer' interactions. We launched our focus on this in Term 1 with the Bullying No Way! Day and all the fun activities associated with learning what bullying is and how to create and promote a Kindness Culture. This term we have started gathering data from our students about what they believe a safe and respectful school looks like, sounds like and feels like. We surveyed a cross section of students from Kindergarten to Year 6 to hear their voice on how safe and respected they currently feel at St Brigid's.

This valuable data will be analaysed by our PB4L team and brought to the whole staff for discussion. We will then form a student consultation group to design a 'peer to peer' repsect layer for our whole school expected behaviour matrix. The respectful behaviours that the students come up with will then be explicitly taught by teachers and there will be a weekly focus on one behaviour which will be announced at the Friday assembly by our Year 6 leaders. We will continue to work on our Kindness Cutlure at St Brigid's with a Bullying No Way! session in Term 3 with the focus being on respect during games. More to come about this later so stay tuned.