International Parents' meeting, Tuesday 11 March

Ten parents and five preschoolers met with Mrs Anthony and Mr Richardson to discuss our ACS Learning model (the tree) last Tuesday.  Click here HERE for a pdf of the senior learning model.

Discussion included how parents might build on this model at home.  Suggestions were made by the parents.  These included having the poster on the fridge and referring to it as appropriate with your children.  We are interested to hear other ways that families are using this model, so please add a comment here if you have used this in your home.  Your ideas will most certainly benefit other families.

Editing our writing

We are learning to edit our writing.  This means that we check our spelling carefully and make sure that our sentences make sense.

Saying of the week

Thanks to those of you who posted on last week's saying which was "What's good for the goose is good for the gander".  This means "if it is good enough for me, it is good enough for you".

This week's saying is as follows: "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing".  Post your ideas below.

International Newsletter March

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Learning about prepositions

Alana is practising the prepositions "in" and "on" by playing a matching game.

She is getting really good at them!

Recount Writing

Primary students are learning to write recounts.  Recounts are written in the past tense about an event that has already happened.  Children are learning to sequence ideas and link these ideas with time words, such as "next", "then", "after that" and so on.

Here are some children from Room E writing a recount about a boy eating a banana.

Swimming Sports

Our Year 4-10 students recently participated in our school swimming sports at Halswell Pool.  Students raced in competitive and fun events,  Many parents were involved as spectators and helpers.
Winners from these swimming races go on to compete in local events against other schools.