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KINDERGARTEN, YEAR 1 AND YEAR 2 MATHEMATICS IMPROVEMENT
Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 teachers have been enaging in some exciting new learning in the area of Mathematics. Mathematical Reasoning is when students justify, explain and prove how they solve problems in maths. It involves lots of talk and interaction, drawing and the use of objects and concrete materials to help solve problems. The teachers have started this new new learning and this will be put into practice in the classroom this term in small group instruction, whole class teaching and roving student teacher conferences. We expect that the students will love learning Mathematics with this new contemporary and research based approach to learning mathematics.
NUDE FOOD SUCCESS - TERM 4 WEEK 1 UPDATE. GET ON BOARD TO REDUCE SINGLE USE PACKAGING
We continue with our NUDE FOOD initiative this term. This means we are encouraging all students to bring plastic free lunch and snacks to school 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 3,6,9 the students who bring Nude Food in will receive a raffle ticket to go into the draw to win a special NUDE FOOD lunch-box. 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.
WEEK 1 NUDE FOOD RESULTS
Our SRC Chairperson, Cameron has analysed the data from Week 1 and here are the results:
- Kindergarten - 77%
- Year 1 - 75%
- Year 2 - 43%
- Year 3 - 67%
- Year 4 - 48%
- Year 5 - 33%
- Year 6 - 43%
CONGRATULATIONS KINDERGARTEN! You will receive the St Brigid's Peace Lily. Best of luck to all classes for Week 2. Week 3,6,and 9 are the MAGIC rounds, where all students who bring nude food to school will receive a raffle ticket to go into the draw to win an awesome nude food lunch box.
Please talk to your child/children about what nude food is and ask them to help prepare a nude food lunch-box. 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.
RESPECT FOCUS WEEK 2 AND 3: It's NOT a Joke!
Each week, a new respect focus will be announced at the assembly and then this will be taught in classrooms everyday. Students learn what the respect focus is and is not and use scripts and role play to help them understand. I thank the Respectful Relationships Student Advisory group for leading this very important initiative and having a confident voice to speak up for respectful relationships.
It's NOT a Joke is:
- Owning up when you have said unkind or disrespectful words to someone
- Accepting that you have been disrespectful in your words or actions
- Understanding that when I am disrespectful, it is NEVER a joke
It's NOT a Joke is not:
- Saying unkind words to or about someone and when you get into trouble, saying ‘It was just a joke.’
- Saying “we were just having fun, I didn’t mean it.”
- Saying “everyone else was doing it too.”
Weekly Respect Focus - Term 4
- Week 2-3 - It's NOT a Joke!
- Week 4 - Consent
- Week 5 - Respect at the toilets
- Week 6 - Keep your hands, feet and objects to yourself
- Week 7 - Healthy Relationships
- Week 8 - Disagreeing Respectfully
- Week 9 - Saying Sorry
LIDS FOR KIDS UPDATE
At the end of Term 3, our Stewardship Leader, Raen presented to the school an update on how many lids for kids the community donated. Please see Raen's report below:
Thank you for your wonderful efforts in helping to make prosthetic limbs for people who need them. A gude thank you to Raen and her family who have taken on this intiative, sorting and donating the lids on our behalf. What an amazing missionary effort from the St Brigid's community. Please continue to bring in the lids, cleaning them first.