Reading, Running and Merit Awards @ SRC Assembly

Photos by Saja

The Assembly was long because there were so many awards to give out.

The students who ran places in the school cross country received their ribbons from Ms Dongas.

There was a stage full of students receiving READ IT Awards. They have read more than 20 books for Home Reading with many of those students receiving both Silver and Bronze Certificates. That means some have read 40 books. WOW! 🙂

There were 26 Class merit Awards.

Mr Eyles and Mr Halliwell had to choose the Assembly Award Class. The K to 2 winners were S 1 Irwin.

From Week 6 the SRC will be organising the sport equipment for lunchtime use

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.

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

Assembly Awards

In our Performance Assemblies the class who is presenting the Assembly chooses 3 awards:

  • Classroom of the Week
  • Best Behaved Primary Class in the Assembly, and
  • Best Behaved Infants Class in the Assembly.

These girls had the hard job of choosing the best Assembly classes

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Congratulations to

  • 2 Preston and Ms Kaporis who won Classroom of the Week
  • Best Behaved in Assembly

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1 Wild

The class representatives were so quick to collect their awards they were a blurr across the stage.

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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S 3 Clark . . . Why we chose our class name.

Written by Mutu and Haley

Each class at Belmore South had to learn about 4 famous Australians and then choose one to be their class name. We had to choose between Graeme Clark, Marie Bashir, Deborah Mailman and Dick Smith.

It was a hard choice but we were only allowed to choose one. Graeme Clark and Dick Smith were very close. We had a bit of a debate about why people chose them. Some people changed their votes and Graeme Clark won. Most people chose him because of his great work for deaf people. We think he is a great role model and an inspiration to everyone.

For his great work he received some very prestigious awards.

Here is some information about Graeme Clark
Why is he a famous Australian?
Professor Graeme Clark invented the Bionic Ear with a team of scientists in the 1970s. They worked in Melbourne, Australia.
The Bionic Ear is worn by over 100,000 deaf people in over 80 countries.

How does the Bionic Ear work?
The Bionic Ear is properly called a cochlear implant. It is an artificial hearing tool. The Bionic Ear helps a deaf person to hear another person speak.

There are 2 parts to the Bionic Ear.
One part is placed under the skin behind a person’s ear. This is done in a hospital during an operation. The parts placed under the skin are the electronic equipment needed to control the flow of electricity into the ear and the equipment needed to change electrical signals into speech.

The second part is worn on the outside of the body. There is a microphone to pick up the voice of the person speaking, a speech processor which turns the voice sounds into electrical signals and a transmitting coil which sends the signals to the equipment inside the deaf person’s ear.

Why invent the Bionic Ear?
Professor Graeme Clark’s father had a hearing problem and didn’t have a very good hearing aid. Clark from young age liked conducting experiments and this interest led to him doing a degree in medicine. He entered into a partnership with a friend of his father’s, learning to be an expert nose and plastic surgeon.

However it still frustrated him seeing profoundly deaf people come and go realising that he couldn’t help them. But then he read an article by an American surgeon and was inspired to go and research electrically stimulating the hearing. He then decided to leave and go and live as a research student at the University of Sydney. Money and financial successes were unimportant to him. This began his research path to inventing the Bionic Ear.