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!

We walked away with the Easter Eggs!!

Sajar Nachar was an amazing photographer for the blog on Crazy Hat ‘n Hair Day.

Here are some more of her shots of individuals who won eggs on the day.

Just some of our Easter Eggs

Photographs by Sajar Nachar

Thanks to all our families we had 100’s of Easter eggs which we had to give as prizes in our Easter Competition.

We had well over 120 parents and family friends join us as we had fun today. The staff are to be thanked for their enthusiam and leadership in organising such a successful day.

Any money raised will go towards purchasing more books for our home reading READ IT! program.

Crowd shots on Crazy Hat’n Day

Photographer for the day: Sajar Nachar

Our school celebrates the Festival of Easter and Harmony Day in our own unique multicultural way.

Our school has families from over 50 different nationalities and a multitude of faiths.

Harmony Day is of significance to us all as we live in an amazing melting pot where respect for diversity is pivotal to our daily lives and welfare.

Orange is the colour of harmony so as well as having crazy hair styles and hats we wore orange mufti.

Many of our community recognise the significance of Easter and the rest just love chocolate.

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.

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.

Crazy Hat’n Hair Day on Thursday . . .

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Don’t forget to be prepared for all the fun of the Hat’n Hair Parade. The Parade will be at 2.15 pm under the COLA

When: Thursday April 1 . . . April Fools’ Day.

Who: All our community are invited to attend, students, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, sisters and even teachers.

Why: to celebrate a the end of a terrific term 1, Harmony Day and to try and raise money for our Readt IT Program.

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Things you will need to pay for:
Wear Orange Mufti $1
Pay for a Hair Spray $1
Frozen orange delicacies 0.50c
Tickets for the chocolate raffle $ 2 buys 3 tickets
There are 17 fantastic chocolate prizes to be won . . . .  so buy those tickets!!!

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.