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World Maths Day in S3 Clark

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Written by Farah, Angela and Kim

On Wednesday we had our own world maths day. On this day there were lots of maths stations set up around the room. These stations were:
– Computers: We logged onto Mathletics and competed in the World Maths Day Challenge. We were helping to break the world record.
– Hidden Symbols: where you draw a picture and you have to include as many maths symbols in it as you can so people can’t find it. Then you get someone to try and spot the symbols in your picture.
– Maths is all around us: we had to find anything to do with maths in the newspapers. We could also write and draw other things we new were to do with maths. We put these on 2 posters.
– Maths board games: there were lots of different maths games we could play.
– Problem solving: here there was lots of problem solving puzzles to do with number and time.
We had a lot of fun and want to do it again next year.

Caught . . . totally engaged

It’s great to walk around the school . . . everyone so goal oriented and on task whether in the Infants or Primary classes.
Here are some of our students caught in the act of learning.

World Maths Day . . . a challenge for all

Our days are so full doing Literacy Groups, reading, writing and numeracy activities. We all wanted to participate in this great event. To be successful World Maths Day had to be organised so all students had the best opportunity possible to get onto the site and compete.

First of all any problems with the computers had to fixed and then we could compete. As all primary classrooms have at least four laptops in them the teachers had to carefully timetable the day and organise a variety of Maths Activities.

World Maths Day . . .

We are taking part in World Maths Day on March 3.

When we go online and do our sums we will be joining with other students from all of the following countries and more:
New Zealand
Australia
Japan
China
India
Iraq
Russia
South Africa
Finland
Cameroon
France
United Kingdom
Brazil
Canada
United States
Mexico
Samoa

So far, there are 1,588,649 students registered, from 43,424 schools, representing 227 countries.

We are the Wild Class . . .

Welcome to S1Wild . . .

S1E has now become S1Wild. We are named after Australian children’s author Margaret Wild. After learning about four famous Australians during the first four weeks of school, the students of S1E had to vote for their favourite. Margaret Wild was the winner. The students of S1Wild have been devouring the stories from this renowned author. The current class favourite is ‘Nighty Night’.

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Mathematics

During recent weeks students have been learning about whole number. They have leant about place value through games such as ‘Guess that number’. This is a game where students need to ask a series of number questions which the class answer with a ‘’yes” or “no”. The winner is the student who guesses the number using the least amount of questions. This is a fun way to learn number facts.

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Literacy

In addition to stage 1 reading groups, handwriting and journal writing,  one of the writing activities students in S1Wild created a picture of their ‘Thinking Hat’ and wrote about the way their ‘thinking Hat’ helped them to learn at school. Once the first step in the writing process was finished students then published their work using the bank of computers in our classroom. Students have also written about their ‘Moshi Monster’, if you or child is a member please click on the link below to visit S1Wild’s Moshi Monster, its name is LexiLou.

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What has S3 Fred Hollows been doing this week?

Hello everyone! Have a read of what S3Fred has been doing this week!!

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.

Once we had decided on our name we could get down to real work!

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!!

We explored Bloom’s Taxonomy tasks, the levels are remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating! They are from low to high thinking skills.

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Also we did our reading tasks, we picked a book to of which we had to read chapters 1 and 2 and then choose to do some 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!!

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S3Fred have been studying for NAPLAN. Last week we did a math test to see what things we need to learn and we set our goals from what we didn’t know. Miss York set us some work that matched our goals. We do worksheets and play Mathletics to help us achieve our goals.

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We have been negotiating and writing our narrative quality criteria. These are expectations that make a good narrative. Hers are some of our criteria: complex sentences, orientation, complication, resolution, who, what, where, when and why. We have also been learning about writing interesting 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. Thinking through our senses helps us write a better 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.

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Our Teachers planning in teams


Every week teachers in their stage teams work and plan together. They work out their Literacy and Numeracy teaching strategies.

They develop assessment tasks to help diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of their students. This information is then used to developed Individual Learning Plans for the students.

With intensive teaching programs in small literacy groups there should be steady development in areas of focus.

Our students are assessed regularly

Our students are assessed on a regular basis. This week our students are being assessed individually by their teacher and then in groups. These assessments are designed to benchmark what learning outcomes our students are working towards.

These asessments give the teachers the chance to diagnose students’ weaknesses and work together with the students to develop their personal learning goals.

The teachers will develop learning programs to support their students’ needs.

Interim assessments are scheduled on a 4 weekly cycle throughout the year.

Reports and Parent interviews will be in Term 2 Week 3 and at the end of Term 3.

Best Start Assessment for Kindies

Our Kindergarten teachers have already got wonderful corners and spaces which are aimed at encouraging our students to start reading and enjoying books as early as possible.

Next week our Kindergarten students will be assessed by their teachers as part of the BEST START Program.

These assessments will provide an inventory of the skills the student already has upon entry to school. The results will form an excellent basis to begin tracking the student’s progress as they move through their school years.