Thursday, 28 August 2014
Premier's Reading Challenge Due Date
Hi Everyone,
The Premier's Reading Challenge is coming to a close. Please enter the books your child has read online by Monday 8th September. Please print the book list and sign it and return to Simone by Tuesday 9th September.
A teacher will then check that the requirements of 20 listed books and 10 choice books has been met and confirm that the student has met the challenge online. Certificates of participation will be awarded in Term 4.
Congratulations to all of the children who have been ready with enthusiasm :)
Thank you!
Monday, 18 August 2014
Book Week Parade
Hi Everyone,
Today we had our Bookweek Parade at Assembly and spent some time buddy reading with the year two students.
We have had a lovely day and want to share some photos with you.
Today we had our Bookweek Parade at Assembly and spent some time buddy reading with the year two students.
We have had a lovely day and want to share some photos with you.
Library open daily
The library will be open daily for borrowing before school from 8.45, and
lunchtimes from 11.10 to 11.40 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.
The Junior School Library books
will also be issued through the computer borrowing system. One computer is set
up for book returns whist the other is for borrowing. Leigh will be there for
the returns and borrowing.
It is important that all books are returned through the computer borrowing system.
Please come along enjoy looking at our display, browse, borrow or share a story with your children. Thank you to the parents for their help in the library.
It is important that all books are returned through the computer borrowing system.
Please come along enjoy looking at our display, browse, borrow or share a story with your children. Thank you to the parents for their help in the library.
Book week assemblies
·
On Tuesday 19th
August at 8:55am, there will be a Book Week Parade at assembly where
children can come dressed as their favourite book character.
· On Thursday 21st of August at 2:30pm, there will be a
whole school assembly in the gym celebrating the end of the Book Week Inquiry.
It will be during this assembly that each neighbourhood will share
their learning and where the collaborative story will finally be revealed.
· On Tuesday 26th August at 8:55am, Clubs
(Animation, Ukulele, Choir) will be the Assembly hosts.
·
Also on Tuesday 26th
August is a Prep -2 Book Week incursion performance beginning at 2:30pm.
Sunday, 17 August 2014
Book Week Parade
Dear Parents,
the children are invited to come to school dressed as a book character that they connect with Tuesday 19 August. Could they also bring along the book to talk about? The Preps, year 1 and year 2 children are asked to meet in their neighbourhoods by 8.45 as we will be entering the gym in a different way tomorrow. The children will be describing their chosen characters as well as interviewing each other. They will also create a book character profile throughout the week.
the children are invited to come to school dressed as a book character that they connect with Tuesday 19 August. Could they also bring along the book to talk about? The Preps, year 1 and year 2 children are asked to meet in their neighbourhoods by 8.45 as we will be entering the gym in a different way tomorrow. The children will be describing their chosen characters as well as interviewing each other. They will also create a book character profile throughout the week.
Swimming Groups and Sessions
Hi everyone,
Swimming starts this Monday 18th. Rita's roll group is split in half and go in session 1 and 2.
Session 1 students:
Henriette
Ames
Daniel
Sophie
Vincent
Miro
Astrid
Jemima
Angus
Session 2 students:
Finn
Zadie
Eric
Carlos
Elly
Bianca
Elliot
Rico
Stanley
Yannick
SWAPS FOR MONDAY 18TH DUE TO AUSTRALIAN GIRLS CHOIR
On Monday 18th there is a workshop for the Australian Girls Choir which certain children are attending. This clashes with swimming for the girls in session 3 and 4 so there will be some swaps for this day.
These girls from Session 4: Nina, Grace, Pearl, Kalyca, Isobel will attend Session 1 on Monday 18th.
These children from Session 1: Ames, Sophie, Jemima, Astrid and Miro will attend Session 4 on Monday 18th.
These children from Session 3: Anja, Zara M, and Amelia will attend Session 2 on Monday 18th.
These children from Session 2: Bianca, Rico and Stanley will attend Session 3 on Monday 18th.
These swaps are ONLY for Monday 18th.
Swimming starts this Monday 18th. Rita's roll group is split in half and go in session 1 and 2.
Session 1 students:
Henriette
Ames
Daniel
Sophie
Vincent
Miro
Astrid
Jemima
Angus
Session 2 students:
Finn
Zadie
Eric
Carlos
Elly
Bianca
Elliot
Rico
Stanley
Yannick
SWAPS FOR MONDAY 18TH DUE TO AUSTRALIAN GIRLS CHOIR
On Monday 18th there is a workshop for the Australian Girls Choir which certain children are attending. This clashes with swimming for the girls in session 3 and 4 so there will be some swaps for this day.
These girls from Session 4: Nina, Grace, Pearl, Kalyca, Isobel will attend Session 1 on Monday 18th.
These children from Session 1: Ames, Sophie, Jemima, Astrid and Miro will attend Session 4 on Monday 18th.
These children from Session 3: Anja, Zara M, and Amelia will attend Session 2 on Monday 18th.
These children from Session 2: Bianca, Rico and Stanley will attend Session 3 on Monday 18th.
These swaps are ONLY for Monday 18th.
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Current Timetable Term 3 Week 5
Dear Parents,
Here is our current timetable for week 5 of term 3. We invite parents to book at time with us to come and share your favourite childhood story with the children one day at 9.15am or 2.30pm.
T3W5 timetable.docx
Please note that specialists are now on Thursdays in the middle session and Tuesday afternoon due to a change of the teacher planning timetable across the school.
Our learning agreement is currently a mixture of provocations related to our Inquiry and our mini Inquiry for Book Week. Our Change inquiry is investigating how we can create positive change through volunteering, with a current focus on discovering what is important to us which in turn helps us identify aspects of our community that we might like to volunteer to support.
Our book week Inquiry is focused on making connections to reading, book reviews, turning yourself into a book character and being interviewed, publishing and illustrating their own stories, and responding to texts in different ways. We have especially loved watching Michael Rosen videos (We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Chocolate Cake) with his great facial and voice expression - he's a great storyteller.
The purple time throughout the week is a rotating workshop that includes a workshop on TIME (interpreting and creating timetables and personal calendars), a workshop on shared reading and writing (currently responding to the emotional connections we make with texts), and a workshop on sharing our reader's and writer's notebook, home readers and borrowing from the main school library.
Fridays are unique and see the children engaging in a maths inquiry into different aspects of time (telling the time, drawing clocks, estimating and measuring the duration of everyday events) with Mark and Kylie and an afternoon of learning agreement, Year One has Talent and time with their Year 6 Buddies.
Here is our current timetable for week 5 of term 3. We invite parents to book at time with us to come and share your favourite childhood story with the children one day at 9.15am or 2.30pm.
T3W5 timetable.docx
Please note that specialists are now on Thursdays in the middle session and Tuesday afternoon due to a change of the teacher planning timetable across the school.
Our learning agreement is currently a mixture of provocations related to our Inquiry and our mini Inquiry for Book Week. Our Change inquiry is investigating how we can create positive change through volunteering, with a current focus on discovering what is important to us which in turn helps us identify aspects of our community that we might like to volunteer to support.
Our book week Inquiry is focused on making connections to reading, book reviews, turning yourself into a book character and being interviewed, publishing and illustrating their own stories, and responding to texts in different ways. We have especially loved watching Michael Rosen videos (We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Chocolate Cake) with his great facial and voice expression - he's a great storyteller.
The purple time throughout the week is a rotating workshop that includes a workshop on TIME (interpreting and creating timetables and personal calendars), a workshop on shared reading and writing (currently responding to the emotional connections we make with texts), and a workshop on sharing our reader's and writer's notebook, home readers and borrowing from the main school library.
Fridays are unique and see the children engaging in a maths inquiry into different aspects of time (telling the time, drawing clocks, estimating and measuring the duration of everyday events) with Mark and Kylie and an afternoon of learning agreement, Year One has Talent and time with their Year 6 Buddies.
Seeking volunteers for Swimming
Hi everyone,
Could you please consider volunteering for one session or several sessions of our swimming program? You should have received the times that your child's roll group are going and we would love to have you come with us on the bus and then to help the children get changed and find their belongings etc. Only one teacher will be going with each prep/year one group so the more parent helpers we have the better.
There will be a sign up sheet on the neighbourhood pin board outside the art studio for you to indicate any possible times you could spare.
Thank you so much!
The Year One team
Could you please consider volunteering for one session or several sessions of our swimming program? You should have received the times that your child's roll group are going and we would love to have you come with us on the bus and then to help the children get changed and find their belongings etc. Only one teacher will be going with each prep/year one group so the more parent helpers we have the better.
There will be a sign up sheet on the neighbourhood pin board outside the art studio for you to indicate any possible times you could spare.
Thank you so much!
The Year One team
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
SWIMMING PAYMENTS
Hi everyone,
Thank you to those who have returned their swimming notices already. Many swimming notices are being returned without an indication of how payment is being made. The cost is $90 for the program. Payment can be made through Maree in the office using cash, bpay, credit, debit etc. You can give cash to your neighbourhood teacher in a sealed envelope with your child's name if you have already handed in your form.
Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any further queries about this.
Thank you!
The Year One Team
Thank you to those who have returned their swimming notices already. Many swimming notices are being returned without an indication of how payment is being made. The cost is $90 for the program. Payment can be made through Maree in the office using cash, bpay, credit, debit etc. You can give cash to your neighbourhood teacher in a sealed envelope with your child's name if you have already handed in your form.
Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any further queries about this.
Thank you!
The Year One Team
Monday, 4 August 2014
Austalian Girls Choir Assessment Workshop
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the
Australian Girls Choir an assessment workshop will be held at Princes Hill
Primary School on Monday, 18th August. Interested girls from years
1-6 are invited to participate in a group workshop. A parent permission form
can be obtained from Anne-Maree (please return to the office ASAP).
Thank you,
Anne-Maree Seccull
Sunday, 3 August 2014
Book Week
As part of Book Week the students will be participating in a whole school mini inquiry., commencing on Monday the 11th of August and concluding with a special 2.30 pm assembly on Thursday 21st of August. A big part of the inquiry will be to investigate, through book talk, how readers connect to the stories they read, and the kinds of personal, social, cultural and literary assumptions the writer is making about their reader. A reader’s prior knowledge and experiences support readers in responding to the meanings of the texts they read. Book talk not only encourages students to engage in and respond to the books they are reading, but by listening to the varied experiences of their peers, also enriches their own experience of the text. As a community of readers, we would like to extend an invitation for parents to come into the neighbourhood of their child and share a book that resonated with them at a similar age. Please let your child’s teachers know if you would like to participate in sharing your experience with the children by arranging a suitable time for this to occur.
Tim Aris
Student learning
Saturday, 2 August 2014
Swimming begins Monday August 18
Hi everyone,
Swimming is coming; the dates are:
Monday 18th August
Wednesday 20th August
Friday 22nd August
Monday 25th August
Wednesday 27th August
Friday 28th August.
Swimming is coming; the dates are:
Monday 18th August
Wednesday 20th August
Friday 22nd August
Monday 25th August
Wednesday 27th August
Friday 28th August.
Connect to Reading Reading to Connect
A whole school mini inquiry is being planned around connecting to reading and reading to connect for weeks 5 and 6.
This week the Year 1 children will be designing and creating a flag depicting a book, character or scene from a book they connect with. These connections will be shared and displayed in our library.
In writing the children will be writing letters to authors commenting on their stories and asking questions.
The children will be selecting a part from their own narratives and will use collage to create an illustration. We have been inspired by Jeanie Baker.
Both the Action Group and Dance/Drama groups are off on excursions to further inquire into volunteering at the zoo and the Arts Centre. We can't change anything until we know what is important to us? The children are sharing their thoughts about what is important to them in their lives? They are also being asked to show the communities they belong to using a mind map.
How can parents help?
Read and talk about favourite stories and how you connect with them.
Think about text to text connections. Text to self connections. Text to the world connections.
See Kylie if you would like to help with the zoo excursion.
This week the Year 1 children will be designing and creating a flag depicting a book, character or scene from a book they connect with. These connections will be shared and displayed in our library.
In writing the children will be writing letters to authors commenting on their stories and asking questions.
Both the Action Group and Dance/Drama groups are off on excursions to further inquire into volunteering at the zoo and the Arts Centre. We can't change anything until we know what is important to us? The children are sharing their thoughts about what is important to them in their lives? They are also being asked to show the communities they belong to using a mind map.
How can parents help?
Read and talk about favourite stories and how you connect with them.
Think about text to text connections. Text to self connections. Text to the world connections.
See Kylie if you would like to help with the zoo excursion.
Connect to Reading Reading to Connect Book Week ~ Saturday 16 August - Friday 22 August
http://cbca.org.au/default.aspx?contentID=580
Each year, schools and public libraries across Australia spend a week celebrating books and Australian authors and illustrators. Classroom teachers, teacher librarians and public librarians develop activities, offer competitions and tell stories relating to a theme to highlight the importance of reading.
The CBCA encourage the, not for profit, use of the Book Week artwork by schools and libraries. In 2014, some of the best activities relating to bookweek can be found on these sites.
Bookweek for Beginners is a Creative Commons licenced Wiki created by teacher librarians.
The Book Chook is the blog of writer Susan Stephenson and each year gives good information on using the shortlisted books in the classroom.
Mrs Mac's Library is the web page of Sharon McGuinness. It links to teaching notes for the shortlisted books, as well as providing teaching ideas and activities
Each year, schools and public libraries across Australia spend a week celebrating books and Australian authors and illustrators. Classroom teachers, teacher librarians and public librarians develop activities, offer competitions and tell stories relating to a theme to highlight the importance of reading.
The CBCA encourage the, not for profit, use of the Book Week artwork by schools and libraries. In 2014, some of the best activities relating to bookweek can be found on these sites.
Bookweek for Beginners is a Creative Commons licenced Wiki created by teacher librarians.
The Book Chook is the blog of writer Susan Stephenson and each year gives good information on using the shortlisted books in the classroom.
Mrs Mac's Library is the web page of Sharon McGuinness. It links to teaching notes for the shortlisted books, as well as providing teaching ideas and activities
"The Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly" next week! 7/8/2014
Please return your signed blue excursion forms.
From Hannah at the Arts Centre
The performance is 75 minutes in length, including a Q&A. There is no interval.
The performance will be held at the Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne (under the Spire).
School lunches may be eaten on the lawn area between the Theatres Building and Hamer Hall or in the Queen Victoria Gardens opposite Arts Centre Melbourne. In case of rain students may eat lunches in the theatre foyers (subject to available space!).
From Hannah at the Arts Centre
I hope
you are looking forward to attending The Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly next
week! This email contains further information about your excursion.
The performance is 75 minutes in length, including a Q&A. There is no interval.
The performance will be held at the Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne (under the Spire).
School lunches may be eaten on the lawn area between the Theatres Building and Hamer Hall or in the Queen Victoria Gardens opposite Arts Centre Melbourne. In case of rain students may eat lunches in the theatre foyers (subject to available space!).
THEATRE ETIQUETTE
We ask that you discuss appropriate theatre etiquette with your students
before attending the show to ensure that everyone can enjoy the performance.
Information on theatre etiquette can be found on page 4 of the teacher’s resourcesDance and Drama Group
Thank you very much to all the parents for their support of our performance of our Happy Machine. A special thank you to Gabi, Kerri, Kate, Aleshia, Justine and to all the parents for their work to make this a most memorable learning process for the children. We are all very proud of the children's achievements. A special thank you to Nicola for supporting the children in their composition of "Happiness is".
The group will be continuing their inquiry by a visit and tour of the Victorian Arts Centre on Thursday 7 August accompanied by Aleshia, Gabi,Justine, Rita and Maria. We will focus on telling a story through drama.
http://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/education-primary/the-girl-who-forgot-to-sing-badly
The group will be continuing their inquiry by a visit and tour of the Victorian Arts Centre on Thursday 7 August accompanied by Aleshia, Gabi,Justine, Rita and Maria. We will focus on telling a story through drama.
http://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/education-primary/the-girl-who-forgot-to-sing-badly
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