FROM THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL'S DESK
SPOTLIGHT ON LEARNING PRESENTS YEAR 3
CLASS PROFILE: Year 3
- TEACHERS: Mr Cervonaro
- SSOs: Mrs Lisa Paton
- STUDENTS: An amazing group of charismatic, kind, compassionate and engaged students who love to learn together.
- Year 6 REPORTERS: Evie, Georgia
- Year 6 CAMERA/VIDEO CREW: Audrey, Vincent
Stay tuned for SPOTLIGHT ON LEARNING in the next Brigid Bulletin edition in Term 3 Week 5, where we will showcase Kindergarten in Week 5.
DO YOU WANT TO SEE A LEARNING TASK THAT YOUR CHILD HAS ENGAGED IN THROUGH THE COMPASS PORTAL?
In Week 5 you will be able to see an assessment task that your child has completed on COMPASS. You will see a learning intention, success criteria and a grade next to each success criteria from the classroom teacher. The learning intention comes from the NSW syllabus and the success criteria outlines how students can be successful with the task. Teachers will assign either Working Towards, Working At or Working Beyond for each success criteria. Your child will show you their completed assessment task on either Seesaw (K-2) or Google Classroom (3-6). This is another way we would like to engage you in what your child has been learning.
Please also note when your child's class Guided Learning Walk is happening, this is an excellent way to be engaged with your child in the learning space. Your child will guide you through the learning process in their classroom. I will send out a compass notification in Week 5 when your child's assessment task becomes available.
BULLYING NO WAY DAY - RESPECT IN GAMES
We are continuing to focus on RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS at St Brigid's and part of the student engagement is a second Bullying No Way Day! This time we are working on Respect in Games.
Students can come to school wearing BLUE MUFTI CLOTHES + sports shoes on Friday 5 August 2022 (Week 3) to celebrate respect in games. They will learn about how to play fairly, the qualities of a 'GOOD SPORT', what a sore loser is and what a gracious winner is. They will also engage in fun and physical activities to learn about respect in games. That is why they will also need to bring a hat and sports shoes on this day.
NUDE FOOD - GET ON BOARD TO REDUCE SINGLE USE PACKAGING
This term we are launching NUDE FOOD at St Brigid's. This means we are encouraging all students to bring plastic free lunch and snacks to school each day. Our SRC, Stewardship and Justice Leaders will be leading this initiative. This will begin in Week 4 after our SRC and leaders have visited all classrooms to teach them about what nude food is and why it is important to limit the amount of plastic waste we have each day. The SRC members from each class will tally up the amount of nude food lunch boxes brought to school on a random day during the week. There will be incentives for the classes who bring the most bring nude food lunches to school and these are:
- Each week the class that has the most nude food will be announced on assembly and will be awarded with the St Brigid's Peace Lily for their classroom for the week.
- During Weeks 3, 6 and 9 there will be bonus 'House points' awarded and the winning house will receive 20 tokens.
- During Weeks 3,6,9 the students who bring Nude Food in will receive a raffle ticket to go into the draw to win a special NUDE FOOD lunchbox. What a COOL prize.
- The class that has brought Nude Food to school the most throughout Term 3 will receive a reward of extra play and sampling some fresh produce from our school garden.
Please talk to your child/children about what nude food is and ask them to help prepare a nude food lunchbox. Some ideas are in the handout below. Our SRC will be showing the students examples of Nude Food lunch boxes. We thank you kindly for your support as we work together to care for our common home ... this beautiful planet.
RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS - STUDENT VOICE
Last term we continued our exploration of what a Safe and Respectful School looks like, sounds like and feels like. We consulted our students in the form of a survey to gather their thoughts and opinions on how safe and respected they felt at school. The teachers analysed this data last week and have come up with a plan for this term. All classes have started this term with defining what DISRESPECTFUL WORDS and BEHAVIOURS are and we will further explore the concept of respect as a non-negotiable during our Bullying No Way Day- Respect in Games. An outline of the plan for this term is as follows:
- A student consultation group to develop 'peer-to-peer relationships' expectations that will be explicitly taught to the whole school.
- A weekly focus of RESPECT to be announced by the Year 6 leaders at the assembly and this focus will then be taught through role play during the week and students who display this focus will be affirmed and awarded.