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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.

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.

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!!!

Students recognised at this Week’s SRC Assembly

Congratulations to the following students and classes.

The Redback spiders were the team who won the Stage 2 Sporting Competition for Term 1 . They were presented with their ribbons by Mr Halliwell.

Congratulations:

To all those students who received class Merit Certificates and Sportsmanship Awards.

Angela Zhou, Ryan West and Diale Lebde who received this weeks special award for always doing great things.

Special class awards this week were presented to 1 Base, 2 Preston and 3 York.

Assembly Awards were decided by Ms Wilson, the Senior Award and Ms Dongas who chose the Junior Award.

The winners were :

Junior     1 Irwin

Senior      3 Clark

What animal is this?

What animal is that? from Gail Miller on Vimeo.

This year 3 reading group are practising listening to a story being read aloud.

Notice how clearly the teacher explains what the students need to listen and look for while the story is being read.

Our groups for reading are small and the activities personalised to suit the needs of the individual students.

We have reading groups in every stage for 45 minutes 4 times per week.

This time is sacrosanct, that is, never interrupted. All activities revolve around this time.