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Cockatoo Primary School No 3535. Website – www.cockatoops.vic.edu.au

COCKATOO PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be! NO. 28 Friday November 1st 2019

Dates to Remember November

Friday 1st Grade 4 Bike Ed

Tuesday 5th CUP DAY – No School Today

Friday 8th Grade 4 Bike Ed

Tuesday 12th Grade 5/6 Skateboard Incursion

Friday 15th Grade 4 Bike Ed

Thursday 21st HPV Team Blazers depart

Monday 25th F-2 Scienceworks Excursion

Tuesday 26th PFA Hot Chip Day

Prep Information Night

Friday 29th Grade 6 Graduation Photo 9am

December

Friday 6th JLC Sleepover

Wednesday 11th Christmas Carol Concert

Wednesday 18th Grade 6 Graduation

Friday 20th Final Day 2019 – 1:30pm dismissal


In Harper’s Honour Please see the flyer contained in this letter regarding the screening of a PG rated movie about Sea Shepherd. This was a cause that captured Harper’s heart due to his passions for animal welfare and conservation of our environment. Money raised from this screening will be donated to Sea Shepherd in memory of Harper. I will look forward to sharing this experience with families from our wonderful school community.

Transition The school is abuzz with the patter of little feet each Monday morning as the preschool children attend ‘class’ at our school as part of the transition program. The school has employed Darlene Elder and Justine Wardel to work with these children in a replicated classroom environment to assist in the preparing these children for life at Cockatoo Primary School. As part of our transition program, the children will visit prep classrooms, participate in art sessions and practice the routine of dealing with a lunch order from the canteen. It is this extensive transition program that lays the foundation for a smooth entry to primary school life. Our program is exceptionally detailed and commences in May of each year and has been endorsed by Kay Margetts, a senior lecturer at Melbourne University within the area of early Childhood Education as ‘one of the best she has ever seen.”. The program is definitely a success and this is confirmed at the commencement of each new school year when the children cruise into school life as happy as can be! If you know of any preschool children who will be attending our school and are not part of this program please ask them to contact the school.

Emerald and District Rotary Primary Schools Speech Contest On Tuesday 22nd of October two grade six students represented our school in the Emerald and District Rotary Primary Schools Speech Contest. From the list of topics provided by Rotary, Ayla Appleby nominated “The Most Amazing Person I Know” and Brodie Hone selected “If I Could Talk to Animals”. Both students displayed confidence, enthusiasm, clarity of speech, excellent diction, great use of non verbal body language, spoke without notes and peppered their presentations with humour. Ayla spoke about Harper Wilson which brought not only tears to many eyes, but laughter at the happy memories. Congratulations to both students on an outstanding job!

Emerald Secondary College Year 7 Scholarship Recipients For the 2020 school year Emerald Secondary College has awarded five scholarships. I am very proud to announce that our school was the recipient of two, very hotly contested scholarships! Massive congratulations to Eva Lushch who was successful in securing the Art Scholarship. . Zara Clearihan deservingly received the Performing Arts Scholarship.


We would like to wish the following students a very

Happy Birthday.

Cooper Day

Coen Byrne

Maddison Cummins

Mollie Harmer

Indi Young Annie-Rose Eyssens

Purdie Jackson Cooper wade-Moran

Ava Leinkauf Brody Taylor

Henry Duff Lachlan Starostecki-Dyer

Xavier Garsed Coup Harmer

Harley Dean Caiden Brinsdon

Josh Nichols Darcy Visser

Byron Tainton Jasper Hartshorn

Kekoa Porter Jack Anderson

Liam Jarman

Liam winters

Zara Clearihan Levi Bestenbreur


THE

JLC

ROCKS!

PARENT INFORMATION BULLETIN – Term 4

Grades F, 1 & 2 – Week 5 Commencing: 4th– 8th of November, 2019

Numeracy Students will be finishing their data collection and graphing rotations and moving onto Time.

Students will be working on skip counting and multiplication this week. Foundations:

• Organising teddies into even groups and counting them

• Skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s Grade 1’s and 2’s:

• Skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s

• Problem solving using multiplication skills

• Using DRAGS to solve problems (doubling, repeated addition, arrays, groups of, skip counting) An activity to do at home is to walk around the house and find what items can be counted by 2s or 5s or 10s. Use multiplication skills to find out how many bricks in a wall or tiles on the floor etc.

Literacy Reading Writing Spelling Students will be working on a range of activities focusing on the development of word choice.

Reading: Students will be looking at information texts, they will be discussing the differences between fiction and non-fiction text. Students will look at the book “Window” and discuss the man-made and natural changes that has happened over time. A home activity you could do with your child is to read a variety of non-fiction texts and discuss interesting facts from the text. Writing: Students will be continuing to write their Science Journal. Tasks will be integrated through the inquiry topic of “Changes all around”. Students will be:

• Watching time laps videos’ and discussing the changes

• Draw the changes over time (from the videos’), before the change and after the change

• Write the description of the before change and the after change

• Describing and writing about “what” has changed and “how” it has changed A home activity you could do with your child this week could be asking your child to investigate what changes that have occurred around their home. These can be either man made or natural changes and why these changes have happened. Foundation: Practice their sounds and writing sight words Grade 1 & 2: write a sentence and check they have used a capital letter at the start of a sentence and a full stop. Students can also try find errors error’s in their writing and circle them. With access allow students to use a dictionary / internet to check correct spelling. Spelling: Students will be practicing using stretchy snake to look at the different vowel sounds, rhyming words, sight words, initial blends, discussing base words and adding a prefix or suffix to change the meaning. Students will be tested on their sight words this week. A home activity you could do to support your child’s development would be to get your child to get them to spell sight words that appear in their reading book and read car number plates identifying the letters.

Inquiry Science, Technology, Humanities & Creative thinking

Students are looking at the science topic of “Changes all around.” Students will be watching various time laps videos to see the changes over time. Discussions will be held with the students, before, during and after watching the video. Students will be discussing if the change is a natural or man-made change.

Music Ash Bourke

Dance – learning and practising end of year Dance

P.E Ash Bourke

Kickball – following on from technique kicking

Personal, Social & Cultural Learning Building friendships through circle time activities and building a learning environment with routine & rigor and engaging tasks. Students work in fluid, differentiated groups, exposing them to a range of peers. There will be a strong focus on Routine and Rigor with the students this week.

Homework Reading and sight words Practice telling the time on both analogue and digital clocks with your child

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Tuesday 5th November- Cup Day Thursday 14th November- Science Day

Monday 25th November- Science Works Excursion


PARENT INFORMATION BULLETIN – Term 4 Grades 3/4 – Week 5 Commencing – Monday the 4th of November, 2019

Numeracy Students will be working on a range of activities based on their assessment data

Topic- Data and graphing Students will be exploring chance and data this week. They will explicitly be investigating appropriate vocabulary, visual ratio representations, different ways to represent data and answering and writing appropriate questions using data. A home activity you could do with your child is to use language to describe the likelihood of events during daily tasks. For example, We are having chicken for dinner. What is the likelihood that you will be having sausages? likely, unlikely,

impossible, certain?

Literacy Students will be working on a range of activities based on their assessment data

Reading: Students will be continuing to read information about scientists and the discoveries they have made. They will be investigating important information and facts.

A home activity your child could do is to research different ways science is used at their house and who was responsible for making that discovery e.g. the light bulb Writing: Students will be writing a biography about a scientist

of their choice A home activity your child could do is to write a letter thanking a

scientist for their discovery.

Spelling: Students will be exploring the five spelling strategies and building their capacity and confidence. A home activity your child could do is to practice their common words to improve their visual memory

Inquiry

For our inquiry unit this week, students will be undertaking the bcyberwise program during Life Ed sessions. BCyberwise explores cybersafety through animation, vox pops of children, relevant scenarios, discussion and problem solving:

• Responsible and respectful behaviour when using communication technology

• Skills for building positive relationships with friends

• Keeping personal information safe online

• Strategies to deal with bullying and cyberbullying

• Exploring the role of bystanders

An activity your Child could do at home this week could be to complete an inventory of programs that use the internet and share their personal details double checking that the program is not sharing too much personal information.

Music Ash Bourke


P.E Ash Bourke

Soccer

Personal, Social & Cultural Learning

Students will be participating in the House Challenge activities, School Garden project and the Bike Ed program. We have been very proud of our students this term. They have demonstrated wonderful team working skills and representation of their morals and ethics during daily tasks.

Homework SPECIAL EVENTS:

November – 15th-16th Grade 4 Ride for Rick memorial ride If anybody has some spare wool or knitting needles, we would really love them for an activity we are doing this term


PARENT INFORMATION BULLETIN:

Grades 5/6: Term 4, Week 5

Commencing: Monday, November 4th – Friday, November 8th

Numeracy

Perimeter –

Students are working on perimeter and depending on their level will be investigating calculating the

perimeter of rectangles, finding the perimeter of irregular shapes and investigating pi in finding the

circumference of a circle.

Literacy

Science Reports -

This week students will be completing their assessment task; there are Reading, Writing and Inquiry

components which combine to make one task.

Reading: Students will be reading a procedural text (science experiment) on how to grow crystals. This will

complete the Reading component of their assessment task.

Writing: Once students have completed the crystal experiment, they are to write it up using the correct

Science Report structure, focusing on the 6 writing traits (Voice, Conventions, Ideas, Organisation, Word

Choice and Sentence Fluency). Students are then to complete a self-assessment with the rubric provided.

Spelling: Students are focusing on science topic-specific words which can be used within their writing

assessment task. Whilst spelling, students are identifying which of the spelling strategies they are most

comfortable using and building their understanding with those they are not. (Sound, Visual, Meaning,

Linking and Inquiry strategies).

Inquiry

Chemical Science -

Inquiry work will be integrated with the Literacy assessment task this week with students completing hands

on experiments growing crystals with Epsom salts and Alum. They will be focusing on the Science Inquiry

skills such as: Questioning and Predicting, Planning and Conducting, Recording and Processing, Analsying

and Evaluating and Communicating.

Performing Arts

Ash Bourke


P.E

Ash Bourke

Inventing sport games

Personal, Social

& Cultural

Learning

Grade 5’s are participating in the GEM program (Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness) building on their

personal and social awareness.

Grade 6’s are preparing for graduation; this week students will be writing and practicing their speeches.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

November

5th: Melbourne Cup Day – Public Holiday

12th: Grade 6 Skateboard Incursion

14th: Science Day

21-24th: HPV at Maryborough (team only)

26th: Hot Chip Day

29th: Grade 6 Graduation Photos










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