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Cockatoo Primary School No 3535. Website – www.cockatoops.vic.edu.au

COCKATOO PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be! NO. 26 Friday October 18th 2019

Dates to Remember October

Monday 21st Life Ed

Tuesday 22nd Life Ed

Pre Prep Program

Wednesday 23rd Life Ed Visits

Friday 25th Grade 5 Soccer Day Excursion

Grade 4 Bike Ed

Tuesday 29th PFA Hot Chip Day

November

Friday 1st Grade 4 Bike Ed

Tuesday 5th CUP DAY – No School Today

Friday 8th Grade 4 Bike Ed

Tuesday 12th Grade 5/6 Skateboard Incursion

Friday 15th Grade 4 Bike Ed

Thursday 21st HPV Team Blazers depart

Monday 25th F-2 Scienceworks Excursion


Staffing It is with much sadness that I announce to our school community the resignation of our much loved canteen manager Judy Knight. Judy has worked diligently in the canteen for many years and maintained a very efficient level of service for our students. She was always keen to discuss new ideas that would create culinary delights for the children. We will miss her very much and wish her the very best in her new employment venture. Hannah Kelly, mother of Ryan, Jayde and Avery, will commence working in the canteen on Wednesday of next week. If there are any parents who would like to volunteer to help your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Please contact the office via email or telephone.

Key Dates for Term 4 We are currently on our second draft for setting of key dates for this term. After setting key dates we were informed of the date for the year 7 Information Night at Emerald Secondary College. Unfortunately, this clashed with the date we had set for our Concert Night. We have since gone back to the drawing board and the alternative date is just waiting for the final ‘tick off’ from staff. Once this has happened we will publicise all end of year key dates for you to mark on your calendars.

Colour Fun Run What a fantastic time was had by everyone at the Colour Fun Run last Tuesday. There was so much laughter and excitement from students and staff alike as navigations were made around the course to “avoid” the COLD splashes of water and the douses of coloured powder. Thank you to the HPV team for organising the event and to our parents who provided the clothes and dealt with the washing afterwards!


We would like to wish the following students a very

Happy Birthday.

Emily Keily

Kaelan Kruzicevic-King

Isabelle Fowler

Ayla Appleby

Maddy McLean

Nathan Anderson

Lucy Porter

Blake Brown

Jenny Revell

Ruby Watson

Jazzy Rule

Zoe Lyall

Noah Ally


THE

JLC

ROCKS!

PARENT INFORMATION BULLETIN – Term 4

Grades F, 1 & 2 – Week 3 Commencing: 21st– 25th of October, 2019

Numeracy Students will be finishing their data collection and graphing rotations and moving onto Time.

Students will be working on skip counting and multiplication this week. Foundations:

• Organising teddies into even groups and counting them

• Skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s Grade 1’s and 2’s:

• Skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s

• Problem solving using multiplication skills An activity to do at home is to walk around the house and find what items can be counted by 2s or 5s or 10s. Use multiplication skills to find out how many bricks in a wall or tiles on the floor etc.

Literacy Reading Writing Spelling Students will be working on a range of activities focusing on the development of word choice.

Reading: Students will be looking at information texts, they will be discussing the differences between fiction and non-fiction text. Students will look at the book “Window” and discuss the man-made and natural changes that has happened over time. A home activity you could do with your child is to read a variety of non-fiction texts and discuss interesting facts from the text. Writing: Students will be continuing to write their Science Journal. Tasks will be integrated through the inquiry topic of “Changes all around”. Students will be:

• Brainstorming environmental/natural changes • Discussing how these changes occur, writing words onto a

word wall

• Writing a science observation for natural changes that happen over a few hours, weeks and long term

A home activity you could do with your child this week could be asking your child to investigate what changes that have occurred around their home. These can be either man made or natural changes Foundation: Practice their sounds and writing sight words Grade 1 & 2: write a sentence and check they have used a capital letter at the start of a sentence and a full stop. Students can also try find errors error’s in their writing and circle them. With access allow students to use a dictionary / internet to check correct spelling. Spelling: Students will be practicing using stretchy snake to look at the different vowel sounds, rhyming words, sight words, initial blends, discussing base words and adding a prefix or suffix to change the meaning. Students will be tested on their sight words this week. A home activity you could do to support your child’s development would be to get your child to get them to spell sight words that appear in their reading book and read car number plates identifying the letters.

Inquiry Science, Technology, Humanities & Creative thinking

Students are looking at the science topic of “Changes all around.” This week students will be exploring the school ground and discussing changes that will occur over time. This might be within the school day, such as, a puddle drying up or a change that may require more time like leaves changing colour.

Japanese Rohan Buttenshaw

F - Days of the Week: Students practise writing in hiragana and use mnemonics to aid in the memory of kanji for each of the days of the week. 1-2 - Sea Life: Student create a mini dictionary of different sea life then match hiragana to recreate the vocabulary.

Visual Arts Leah Stephens

F - Students learn about clay and where it comes from. They have a play session where they learn to manipulate the clay with techniques that include rolling, cutting and moulding. 1-2 - Students learn to create their clay mask. They learn to plan for making their mask over two weeks, including how to store their creations so they don’t dry out.

Music Ash Bourke

Dance – learning and practising end of year Dance

P.E Ash Bourke

Fundamental Motor Skills Rotations (catching and trapping)

Personal, Social & Cultural Learning

Building friendships through circle time activities and building a learning environment with routine & rigor and engaging tasks. Students work in fluid, differentiated groups, exposing them to a range of peers. There will be a strong focus on Routine and Rigor with the students this week.

Homework Reading and sight words Practice telling the time on both analogue and digital clocks with your child


PARENT INFORMATION BULLETIN:

Grades 5/6: Term 4, Week 3

Commencing: Monday, October 21st – Friday, October 25th Numeracy Students will be working on a range of activities based on their assessment data

Topic- Data and graphing Students will be consolidating their knowledge of data and graphing. In this they will be looking at tally marks, using ratios, interpreting and collating data and will be exposed to some unfamiliar graph and tables. A home activity you could do with your child is to keep a daily tally of events, chores or times a sibling asks a question and graph this data for the week.

Literacy Students will be working on a range of activities based on their assessment data

Reading: Students will be reading information about scientists and the discoveries they have made. They will be investigating important information and facts. A home activity your child could do is to research different ways

science is used at their house and who was responsible for making that discovery e.g. the light bulb Writing: Students will be writing a biography about a scientist of their

choice A home activity your child could do is to write a letter thanking a scientist for

their discovery.

Spelling: Students will be exploring the five spelling strategies and building their capacity and confidence. A home activity your child could do is to practice their common words to improve their visual memory

Inquiry

For our inquiry unit this week, students will be undertaking the bcyberwise program during Life Ed sessions. BCyberwise explores cybersafety through animation, vox pops of children, relevant scenarios, discussion and problem solving:

• Responsible and respectful behaviour when using communication technology

• Skills for building positive relationships with friends

• Keeping personal information safe online

• Strategies to deal with bullying and cyberbullying

• Exploring the role of bystanders

An activity your Child could do at home this week could be to complete an inventory of programs that use the internet and share their personal details double checking that the program is not sharing too much personal information.

Japanese Rohan Buttenshaw

Japanese House: Students learn to make statements about items that are and are not in their bedroom.

Visual Arts Leah Stephens

Students learn to create their clay mask. They consider how to cut, join and engrave using tools and joining methods. They learn how to properly store the clay for the following week.

Music Ash Bourke


PP..EE

Ash Bourke Soccer

PPeerrssoonnaall,, SSoocciiaall && CCuullttuurraall LLeeaarrnniinngg

Students will be participating in the House Challenge activities, School Garden project and the Bike Ed program. This term, every Monday students will participate, as levels in the GEM program. GEM stands for gratitude, empathy and mindfulness and, throughout the term, the students will be exploring these concepts, developing behaviours and building strategies within themselves. Huge thanks to Sarah Johnson for developing the program and running it at our School.

HHoommeewwoorrkk Students choose an internet program like Tik Tok and make a poster about how to use it safely.

SPECIAL EVENTS: 23rd Life Ed Program

25th EDEC Grade 5 Soccer Day- Good luck to Kobie, Harry and Darcy who have been selected by Ash to play on this day LOOKING AHEAD

29th PFA Hot Chip Day 15-16th of November Ride For Rick memorial

ride- Grade Four students

If anyone has any spare wool or knitting needles we would love if they could be donated for us to use during an activity this term.


PARENT INFORMATION BULLETIN:

Grades 5/6: Term 4, Week 3

Commencing: Monday, October 21st – Friday, October 25th

Numeracy

Angles

Students will be investigating angles, classifying them as acute, obtuse, right, straight and reflex.

They will be investigating angles in real life and calculating angles in two dimensional

shapes/geometric star. Students will also be writing their names in block letters on gridpaper and

measuring the angles in each letter

Literacy

Reading- Students will be recreating the entire periodic table as a level. Each student is given a

text extract on an element from the class text “Periodic Table” Students will summarise and make

connections from the original text, including computer research and recreate an A4 size poster

depicting their element with their research, and summary on the back. These will then be made

into a class display of a giant periodic table for students ongoing reference during the term.

Spelling- Fact and opinion and subjective and objective language. Students will be experimenting

with descriptions of themselves using different kinds of language and words.

Writing- Writing a report on experiment conducted in class “ Keeping water separate” Students

will be goal setting with rubrics.

Inquiry

Japanese

Rohan Buttenshaw

Hiragana Recognition: Students play matching games to practice recognition of the Japanese

alphabet.

Visual Arts

Leah Stephenson

Students learn to create their clay mask. They consider how to cut, join and engrave using tools and

joining methods. They learn how to plan for making their mask over two weeks including attention

to detail and composition.

Performing Arts

Ash Bourke


P.E

Ash Bourke

Soccer

Personal, Social & Cultural

Learning

Ramingining speeches from the delegation detailing their experiences on the trip to the NT last

term.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Tuesday October 22nd Life Ed 5/6T and 5/6E

Friday October 25th Life Ed 5/6R

Grade 5 Soccer Day Friday October 25th


FREE

st luke’s church, cockatoo.

thursdays 3.30 - 5.30.

MORE INFO:

[email protected]

rg.au or 5968 8459

Motion

Forms can be collected from the Cockatoo

Primary School office and brought along to

the program. You can register any time.

KMOTION MOKMOTION is an afterschool

program for Foundation to

Grade 6 children.

It includes games, craft,

stories & afternoon tea.

Each week is run by a HCSI

Staff member & a team of

trained volunteers. All

adults have current

Working With Children

Checks and Police Checks.

KMOTION has behaviour

guidelines & expectations

to ensure all children have

a safe and enjoyable time.

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