NAPLAN Results show amazing growth!!

Click on the following links to see our Student Growth in the 2011 NAPLAN.

Our school is the green bar.

In all areas our student growth is above state average.

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The results are amazing and a tribute to the focus, the analysis, the training, the passion and the persistance of teachers and students working together towards improving learning for all.

Our Literacy groups and all of our teacher professional learning are showing results and those results centre on our students and seeing them grow as learners.

 

Kindergarten kids have fun with numbers

We have been enjoying learning about numbers in kindergarten this year. We learn to count and recognise numbers by playing lots of different types of number games. Bingo and the Tower game are two games we have learnt to play with Ms Hionis. The Tower game requires us to roll the dice and collect the number of cubes shown on the dice. Once we’ve done this we can begin building our tower. Each person gets a turn. After several turns the person with the highest tower is the winner. When we play this game, we learn to recognise dot patterns, we practice counting and we compare the lengths of the towers we made. Playing Bingo is fun too!

In this game we need to recognise numbers on the number cards. The person with all the correct numbers on their card is the winner. When we finish playing our number games we write about what we did in our books.

iWiggles

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K Wiggles are fast becoming experts in using the ipod touch to enhance our literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills. We use ipod touch applications daily as part of our independent reading, writing and number group activities. We find them extremely engaging, friendly to use and adaptable to student learning and their abilities.

Throughout term 2 Kwiggles have participate in daily literacy lessons where each child receives systematic and explicit instruction in reading and writing within small groups of three or four students.

Here are some photos displaying our engagement in learning.

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Kindergarten getting the Best Start

Here are our Kindergarten teachers working with individuals and small groups of students.

There are students working on their Reading.

There is one teacher working on Numeracy with her student.

The rest of the class is busy practising their reading skills in small groups with the teacher’s aide to help them.

S1 Irwin Explores Area in Mathematics

S1 Irwin have been exploring Area in Mathematics.

We have learnt that AREA is the size of a surface. We have had lots of fun using informal units to estimate, measure and compare different areas. We discovered that we need to cover the entire surface without leaving any gaps and that tessellating shapes are best for measuring area. We also used tangrams and discovered that the area remains the same when the pieces are rearranged.

We used our imagination to create some great pictures!

3 Fred report . . .

What S3 Fred has been doing!!
Hello everyone! Have a read of what S3Fred has been doing !!

Our class had to decide on a class name. We voted for Fred Hollows out of Nancy Bird, Ned Kelly and Pemulwuy. We voted for him because he was very intelligent and he gave back eyesight to people. He worked with indigenous people to build a medical centre to treat eye disease. He then went to work in Africa in a place called Eritrea. He created a lens factory and trained other people to treat the eye disease. He died in 2008 from cancer but his wife created the Fred Hollows foundation to continue his work.

Well, we did some contract work, we had to choose what activities we wanted to do and when we wanted to do them. That was a lot of fun!! What S3Fred has been doing this week!!
Hello everyone! Have a read of what S3Fred has been doing this week!!

We also looked at Bloom’s Taxonomy tasks, the levels are remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating! They are from low to high thinking skills.
Also we did reading tasks, we picked a book to read chapters 1 and 2 and choose from different tasks. A few examples are draw your favourite character from the book and 5 questions you would ask the author and there were more activities to choose from. That was really an amazing thing to do!!

S3 Fred have been working out strategies to help us with the NAPLAN Tests. Last week we did a math test to see what things we need to learn and made goals from what we didn’t know. Miss York set us some work that matches our goals. We do worksheets and play Mathletics to achieve our goals.

We have also been writing our narrative quality criteria, it means things that make a good narrative these were some of our answers complex sentences, orientation, complication, resolution, who, what, where, when and why. We have also been learning about descriptions for our narrative. We had to use our imagination and think about different settings. We were playing a game called the circle game, whoever had the ball had to say something that is shiny some of our answers were gold, earrings, necklace, diamond and a gold key. For NAPLAN we have been learning about our senses to put into our narrative we had to think about our five senses and pretend that we were in a setting eg shopping centre, cemetery, hospital, jungle, desert, and forest.

Welcome to 1Base

We are named after Graeme Base. He is a famous Australian author, artist and illustrator. We like lots of the books he has written and our favourite so far is Jungle Drums. It is important to have Australians authors in this job to make reading fun, have our voice heard and so life isn’t boring.

We have been doing lots of learning in mathematics about numbers, addition and time. Our favourite game is Around the World. We have also started using Matheletics in the classroom and some of us have been using it at home. We like this because you can compete with people from around the world.

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We have reading groups from Monday to Thursday and we like them a lot.

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In science we have been learning about the weather, seasons and how to dress appropriately.

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During Golden Time we have had a lot of fun making a Chinese Dragon, building towers out of sticky tape, straws and newspaper and cleaning up Belmore South Public School. We are working on our own class blog and will let you know when it is ready to see.

We have a Moshi Monster and her name is Lilly. She has purple and red fluffy skin. She has big, green eyes and long ears. Her tail is as fluffy as a fox. Lilly has two pointy teeth and a tiny brown nose. We like our Moshi Monster.

Ms Dyer and Mrs Pericles present at a conference for teachers

Inspire, innovate leading digital education 2010 is a conference that was held at NSW Department of Education and Training Technology Conference held at Acer Arena on the Olympic site at Homebush Bay.

Both Ms Dyer and Mrs Pericles were asked to present at this conference. They were very honoured as they were speaking along with a number of distinguished national and international speakers.

The two international speakers were Dr Stephen Heppell from the UK and David Warlick from the USA. They were also fortunate to hear Westley Fields from Sydney.

Ms Dyer spoke about how to get teachers using technology effectively in schools and Mrs Pericles presented a workshop on digital games based learning.

From the feedback from participants at the conference they felt both of Ms Dyer and Mrs Pericles had helped them with their developing deeper understanding of ways to use technology.

Maths in action in Stage 3

Our Maths Program is personalised to suit each student’s personal needs. All the Stage 3 classes have done a diagnostic Maths Test.

The students and their teacher analysed the results of this test. They worked together to determine individual strengths and weaknesses and the where to next for the student.

Armed with this knowledge the students set their own Maths goals for the term.