From the Assistant Principal's Desk
TRASH FREE TUESDAY Term 2 Week 1 Winners
Reporting from the St Brigid's SRC news desk is SRC Chair person Natalia:
'Congratulations to all our students on their efforts in bringing in 'trash free' lunch boxes on Tuesday, the results for Week 2 are:
Kinder - 27%
Year one - 42%
Year two - 56%
Year 3 - 43%
Year 4 - 67%
Year 5 - 71%
Year 6 - 79%
Well done Year 6, your efforts are most appreciated by our environment.
The 'TRASH FREE TUESDAY' Champions for Term 1 are Year 4 and 5 they will now enjoy a TRASH FREE PICNIC and extra play on Monday 3 May. They will eat their lunch at the oval together and sample some fresh produce from our school garden (lettuce, tomatoes, basil and capsicum) and then enjoy some extra play added to their lunch time. CONGRATULATIONS Year 4 and Year 5!
NAPLAN 2021
Equating Study
A reminder that on Thursday 6 May, Year 3 and Year 5 will sit the NAPLAN Equating test which is a paper based Numeracy test. Schools are randomly chosen to partcipate in the Equating study. This test is completed one week before the actual NAPLAN ONLINE test. No results will be reported on or sent home. For more information about the Equating study, please read the attached information.
How can you support you child with NAPLAN?
The NAPLAN 2021 online assessments will take place on Tuesday 11 May: Writing, Wednesday 12 May: Reading and Conventions of Language and Thursday 13 May: Numeracy. Please ensure your child brings their iPad fully charged to school on these days and a working pair of ear phones. Teachers will provide opportunities for the students to practice NAPLAN style questions in the online format at school. If you would like to work with your child at home then you can access NAPLAN style questions using the public demonstration site by clicking on this link.
NAPLAN Public Demonstration Site
Improving Writing at St Brigid's
We are creating a Writer's Community at St Brigid's where teachers are focussing on improving the way they teach writing in order to see greater growth in student learning. Teachers have been engaged in collaborative inquiry processes throughout Term 1, which involved: analysing current and trend student learning data; gathering evidence of student learning and then spending a day learning together last Monday, working on new writing pedagogies and teaching strategies. So far the Year 1 and Year 2 teachers have engaged in a co-teaching cycle with myself as the Instructional Coach to implement some of these strategies. The students have been the beneficiaries of this work and we are starting to see some growth in student learning. Each teacher will have an opportunity to engage in a co-teaching cycle, where they co-plan, co-teach and co-evaluate their writing lesson with me. Check out some of the Year 1 and Year 2 writing samples. Well done writers!
Year 1 writing like authors, experimenting with statements, questions and exclamations.
Year 2 have been exploring how authors write compound sentences and experimenting with writing their own.
