ST BRIGID'S CELEBRATES STUDENTS RETURNING TO FACE TO FACE LEARNING

The students have returned to school very settled and READY to learn. The learning started straight away along with restablishing routines and relationships. In my travels to each of the classrooms, I have been so impressed with the students' level of engagement in their learning and the quality of their writing. The teachers have continued to build their knowledge and skills in writing instruction and have implemented some of their learning in the classroom, and the students have responded amazingly well. Students across the school have been learning about the ANVA strategy where they identify the parts of speech in sentences and then write them. ANVA stands for Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb. Below are some examples of the ANVA stratgey being used by Year 1 and Year 4 students.

Year 1

Ruby using ANVA in her writing about  Mother Crow

Year 4

Kindgergarten wrote great stories about their Teddy Bear's Picnic

TRASH FREE TUESDAY

Trash Free Tuesday is BACK! We did get off to a shaky start though. Natalia, our SRC representative reports on this weeks statistics below:

Natalia reporting here: This Tuesday was our first trash free Tuesday for a while and everybody did great. Make sure to keep up the good work until the end of the term.

• In kindergarten 68 percent.
  
• In year 1 43 percent.
• In year 2 75 percent.
• In year 3 48 percent.
• In year 4 52 percent.
• In year 5 27 percent.
• In year 6 35 percent.
  
• Congratulations to year 2! Make sure to bring a trash free lunch again next Tuesday.

So please encourage a WASTE FREE lunchbox each Tuesday as the class who wins, gets to keep the St Brigid's Peace Lily for a week and the class who are the Waste Warriors at the end of the term receive a special 'fresh food' picnic and free play treat.