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Haldon Street Success!

Dance group had an amazing time walking in the street parade, and performing, at the Haldon Street Festival in Lakemba on Saturday.
We arrived early, did our makeup, and put our walking shoes on to proudly represent our school.
During the street parade we handed out books, which were donated by our school library, to children along Haldon Street in order to spread the ‘reading bug’.
Straight after the parade we headed to the main stage to perform our story dance to our wonderful community.
Thank you to all the teachers, parents and students that turned up to cheer us on! We had an amazing time and could not have done it without you.
Check out some of the highlights of our day in the gallery below…

Now we eagerly await the final results for the Wakakirri prize….keep your fingers and toes crossed!

S1Matisse have x-ray vision…

This term S1Matisse have been learning all about Australian Animals. On our excursion to the Australian Museum we saw an exhibit of the skeletons of some Australian animals and we were very inspired.

When we got back to school we had a look at some x-rays of a children’s python, a Gould’s Wattled Bat, an Eastern Long-necked Turtle, a Platypus, The Kowari and a Giant Tree Frog.

We then created our own Easter Long-necked Turtle skeleton. We used cotton tips for the bones and cotton balls for our turtle eggs.

Check out our quality work!

Welcome to S1 Matisse!

S1 Matisse have had a very exciting term! Amongst all the wonderful learning opportunities in our school some highlights have included:

  • creating a variety of wonderful artworks inspired by Henri Matisse,
  • focusing on the theme of ‘Belonging’ and learning all about each other, our backgrounds and experiences,
  • taking Possum (our class mascot) home over the weekends and during the week,
  • celebrating all our hard work at our ‘marbelous’ party; and
  • going on a whole school excursion to ‘Sydney Park’.

Everyone has been working very hard and we have had a wonderful time.

Looking forward to a ‘MARBELOUS’ Term 2!

Stage One Done

Welcome to Stage 1 Done. Our class consists of 19 students. Our teacher is Miss Omeros. S1 Done have had a very busy term learning about and writing narratives, exploring the history of Australia in H.S.I.E, learning Zumba and singing along to our times tables with our favourite ‘times tables rap’. All students have been trying very hard and are doing fantastic work!!!

S1 Done are named after the Australian artist Ken Done. Done is a contemporary artist who uses lots of bright colours in his paintings. He often paints popular landmarks in his artworks such as the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

Students is S1 Done have enjoyed learning about this fantastic artist. They have loved experimenting with artistic techniques, similar to those used by Done, to create their own unique paintings. S1 Done have learnt that Ken Done likes using primary colours in his artwork and sometimes represents his ideas in an abstract form.

Below are some of our ‘Done’ inspired artworks. We know you will enjoy them as much as we do!!P1040433S1 Done artworks influenced by Done's 'Sydney Night 1984'

We are S1Picasso

Hello, we are S1Picasso, we are a stage 1 class our teachers are Mrs Fanggidae and Mrs Papadis.

Our class is named after Pablo Picasso who is one of the most important artists of the 1900s. He helped develop several new styles of art.  He began an art movement called Cubism. Picasso helped invent new art methods such as collage and assemblage.

Picasso’s experiments with art styles led to abstract art. People and objects often do not look lifelike, instead the artist gives an impression of people and objects in their creations.

In S1Picasso we are experimenting with Picasso’s art styles and making our own Picasso inspired creations. We hope you like them.

By: Samiha and Amanda

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.