Great Schools ‘Show Off’!

This year Belmore South Public School has entered the ‘Great Schools Show Off’ competition.  This exciting new project engages students in telling their community, and the wider world, about the many positive and exciting aspects of their school through the use of digital media.

Throughout Term 2 our new film club ‘Short Cuts’ will be working with Miss Pleasance to create a 3 minute film that will promote our great school.  Creating this film will involve many different aspects of development including storyboarding, creating scenes and shots, directing, producing, filming, editing and acting (just to name a few!).

Panasonic will be providing the following prizes for regional and state winners:

Regional Winners will each receive a: Digital still tough camera – valued at $499

State winners will each receive a: High Definition Camcorder – valued at $1,499 and 42″ High Definition Plasma TV – valued at $1,099

Stay tuned for regular updates, photos and eventually our Great Film!

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Friday Performance Assembly

This week Stage I Bird ran the school assembly and entertained us with Music and Poetry.

During the week a couple of their students chose the best learning environment in the school. They chose Kindergarten Fox.

Some students from 1 Bird had to choose an Assembly Class of the Week.  They chose S2 Preston from the Primary and 1 Base were the best from K to 2.

Great work you did everything so well.

Today was the BEST day as our teachers celebrated Term 1

The achievements of the teachers at our school are amazing. At the end of each term we have a celebration of our achievements. This term we had a Cafe themed for Easter.

We celebrated the Quality Teaching that is happening in all our classrooms. Our focus for today was on sharing something we have done this term that we are proud of. The context was Reading and Writing.

We have such a wonderful mix of youth and experience and it is so exciting to be able to share and learn from each other. Every teacher in our school is a leader.

The ideas, the creativity, the innovation around the Cafe today reassured that learning in this school is engaging and exciting and the teachers are of the highest quality.

Games based learning in 3 Baz

Our school uses digital games as part of our students’ learning programs. The Telegraph newspaper found out about this and wanted to include some information and photos about what we do in the paper, especially how we use the Wii as part of our PD / Health / PE program.

Here are some photos of the photo shoot in our school today.
3 Baz and Mrs Pericles showed the Newspaper photographer how they played Wii Tennis.

Ms Dyer and Mrs Pericles photographed the photographer. The audience and the players were enthusiastic and we all enjoyed sharing our expertise, experience and uniqueness.

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.

Kindergarten Group Learning Time

KWiggles and KFox have been hard at work during group time.

The teachers have used “Best Start” results to put together a learning program that caters for the different needs of each child. The focus is on Literacy and Numeracy activities. The children are enjoying learning many new concepts.

During week 8 Kindergarten parents will be meeting with kindergarten teachers regarding their child’s Best Start results as well as some information on how to help at home.

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Awards in SRC Assembly

Our SRC Assemblies are in the hands of the students and the Assemblies have never been better run or the students better behaved as an audience.

The Leaders run this Assembly. It is an assembly to celebrate our students’ achievements for the fortnight.

We have awards from teachers to students in their classes both K to 2 and 3 to 6.

We have special awards for good writing.

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On our sports days our teachers choose the best sportsperson in our intra class competitions.

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Then there are those special awards to classes and two special people, one K to 2 and one 3 to 6,. who are “caught doing something good”.

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This week our leaders also received some fancy certificates from our Federal Member of Parliament for Watson Mr Tony Burke, for recognition of their leadership within the school.

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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.