School Newsletter
For
Term 4 Week 2
Starting
16 October
Dates to Remember October 18th - UOD Marrickville Network Public Speaking Competition 19th - Parent Teacher Meeting Day 19th - Goannas Library 20th - 1:2:1 Continues 20th - Koalas, Wombats and Dingoes library 25th - Nadia Wheatley returns to St Peters 26th - First Kindy Orientation Session
November 2nd - - Second Kindy Orientation Session and Check the school app and website for a complete calendar.
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Parent Teacher Interviews
A final reminder that this Thursday 19 October from 2pm to 6:30pm there will be parent teacher interviews. If you haven’t already booked your interviews there are still some slots available through the parent portal. Call the school if you need some help with this. Our teacher look forward to meeting you on Thursday to discuss your child’s learning.
Semester 2 Fees
Apologies from Mrs Ross for the delay in the Semester 2 fee students activity statement. There were some problems with the system used to generate the statements. They will be sent home tomorrow (Monday) assuming all goes to plan.
Marrickville Network Public Speaking
This Wednesday St Peters will be hosting the network final of the public speaking competition for 2017. Ten schools from across the network will be competing in four competitions. Our finalists Billie, Archie, Marlow and Asher will be representing St Peters and we wish them all the very best of luck. The competition will take place in the school hall and library and besides an adjustment to lunch which will be held in the playground and Mr Park’s class who will move to Room 7 on this day, there will be no disruption to school services. Some of the year 5 and 6 students will be helping out with the competition to ensure that it runs smoothly.
Chess
There has been a very good response to the chess expression of interest and as a result we will be contacting Sydney Academy of Chess to organise the program. As soon as we have arrangements a note will be sent out. It is not too late to submit an EOI. We will continue to accept notes all this week while we organise the program.
Touch Football Gala Day
On 25 October Mr Park will be taking students to a Touch Football gala day where schools across the South Sydney PSSA zone will be competing. This event has been organised by Mr Park and is part of our intention to increase opportunities for students at St Peters to compete in sport.
The Week Ahead in Learning for Term 4 Week 2 Library this week - Thursday Goannas; Friday Dingoes, Koalas and Wombats This Week in Koalas
English
Mathematics
Other KLAs
Reminders
Every sentence has a capital letter, finger spaces, a full stop, and needs to make sense!! This is what we will continue to practise during the week in writing. Phonics work will continue, concentrating on the phonemes sh, th, ch, wh for the final week. In talking and listening, we will begin our News program, where every child will have a special day to talk to the class around a set topic.
In maths this week, we will revise addition of two single digit numbers. We will learn our Friends of 10 (two numbers that add together to make 10) and play games and activities to revise these skills using the 10’s frame and two sided counters.
Got Game this term will continue on Thursday with gymnastics.
Please check the timetable for News days (yellow note handed out on Friday) and prepare your child for the news topic of the week.
This Week in Wombats
In PDHPE, students will continue with their topic on Sun and Water Safety. We will discuss why shade is important and conduct a small experiment with ice cubes outside.
I look forward to meeting with you at the Parent/Teacher interviews on Thursday.
English
Mathematics
Other KLAs
Reminders
Students will be working at various stages of editing and publishing their writing from Week 1. As a class, we will begin looking at Persuasive texts - their purpose and their structure, starting with For and Against facts. Reading will include a variety of Persuasive texts. Students will continue Guided and Independent reading groups as per the class schedule. Phonics focus is: ir, er, ur, or, as in: bird, her, surf, work.
Students will continue to work on division and grouping.
Got Game will continue on Thursday with gymnastics.
Library continues to be on Friday. Please remind your child to bring their book and library bag.
Students will complete their learning on PDHPE - Students continue their Measurement - Time learning of the unit: ‘There is Only One ME’. Creative Arts - Students will continue their Drama unit; Exploring Emotions and Character
Homework will continue this week with a spelling list connected to the phonics focus and some maths work associated with current or past learning.
This Week in Goannas
English
Mathematics
Other KLAs
Reminders
The phonics focus for the Goannas this week will be prefixes. Our grammar focus will be on synonyms and antonyms
Students will begin their work on 3D objects. Students will be identifying different 3D objects, discussing the difference between 2D shapes and 3D objects, discuss and identify the properties of different 3D objects, draw 3D objects and create 3D objects from nets.
Got Game- Gymnastics will continue on Thursday.
Library- Will continue on Thursday. Can all students please bring their library bag with them.
English
Mathematics
Other KLAs
Reminders
This week in Literacy we will be continuing to develop our editing skills. Students will work both individually and in small groups to decode short passages of text.
This week students will conclude their unit on data and begin a unit of chance. This unit will focus on the language of chance and will include hands on experiments.
Got Game- Gymnastics will continue on Thursday.
Dingoes will be leading assembly on Monday. 2:30pm in the school hall.
Writing we will cover creative writing. Students will review and move forward with their knowledge of narratives. We will review the structure of narratives and grammatical features that help to make a great story.
PDHPE- We will continue our unit on water safety with students investigating water safety at home.
This Week in Dingoes
Students will also be continuing on This week students will also be with their GeoCity build with many writing a recount of their first day in students near completion of their conkindergarten. Students will be con- struction phase. verting these recounts into short scripts to be performed in drama.
Drama - Students will begin writing a script based on their first day of kindergarten.
Library will continue on Friday this week. Please remember to bring your books and book bags. PSSA training is on Wednesday morning with Mr Park.
This Week in Mandarin
Koalas
Wombats
Goannas
This week we will start a new topic of clothing items. We are going to learn to say clothes, pants and shoes in Mandarin. We are also going to learn how to hold chopsticks properly.
This week we are going to revise the vocabulary we have learnt in the past three terms and to create our own zhongwen (Mandarin) vocabulary bag.
We will continue learning 2 new songs involving part singing and call and response techniques. We will continue progressing with repertoire on the ukuleles. Goannas & Dingoes will also start learning some new recorder repertoire.
This Week in Music
Dingoes
Koalas
Wombats
Goannas
We will continue singing new songs and choreograph movements to match. We will encourage student conductors to lead our choir ensembles.
We will continue to use recorders playing melodic patterns using the note “A, B & G , with particular attention to crotchets, crotchet rests, and “stopping” the notes. We will rehearse our ensemble and encourage student conductors to lead.
We will continue learning 2 new songs involving part singing and call and response techniques. We will continue progressing with repertoire on the ukuleles. Goannas & Dingoes will also start learning some new recorder repertoire.
This Week in Stage Groups
Dingoes
Kindergarten
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Kindergarten will learn about some games that children played in the olden days. They will make their own cup and ball toy to play with.
Stage 1 will commence our science unit on ‘material world’. Students will discuss and discover all the different materials that make up their world.
Stage 2 will begin their term 4 unit titled “what’s the matter?” Where we will explore solids, liquids and gases.
Students will be experimenting with different variables of balls bouncing affect the end result using the scientific method.
