NEWSLETTER · 2020. 11. 25. · hard on moving at different speeds with the ball at their feet along with the kicking technique. The kicking technique involves students using their

NEWSLETTER Principal: Valerie Karaitiana

Assistant Principals: Mrs. Anne-Maree Grozdanoski & Mrs Ameera Hassanein

Telephone: 9309 1181 Website: www.dallasps.vic.edu.au

Email: [email protected]

Vision: “For our students to be literate, numerate, creative, safe and happy”

Term 4 Issue 3 2020

PRINCIPAL TEAM

NEWS PRINCIPAL TEAM COLUMN

Respect Pride Trust Perseverance

NAIDOC WEEK 2020

This week we have celebrated NAIDOC Week. NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders

Day Observance Committee’. This committee was once responsible for organising national activities during

NAIDOC Week and its acronym has since become the name of the week itself. Throughout NAIDOC week,

celebrations are held to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is-

lander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks

of life. This week at Dallas Brooks Community Primary School the students have engaged in a range of activi-

ties that support our local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

NAIDOC THEME 2020

Always Was. Always will Be. The 2020 National NAIDOC Week theme has been developed to shine a focus on

the length of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander occupation of Australia. In our narratives Aboriginal people

talk of continuous occupation of being here when time began, we are part of the Dreaming – past, present

and future. Anthropologists and archaeologists have dated our sites to being hundreds of thousands years

old, in fact recording some of these sites as being the oldest on this planet.

Additionally, the NAIDOC theme seeks to get teachers, students and community to explore and learn about,

and appreciate the wealth and breadth of Indigenous Nations, languages and knowledges of this continent.

Exploring and learning about Indigenous understandings of the environment, plants, animals, waters, land

use and protection.

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REMBRANCE DAY

This week the school community also remembered those who fought for our country to be the place it is

today. Every year at 11am on 11 November—the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh

month—we pause to remember those men and women who have died or suffered in all wars, conflicts and

peace operations.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. As the world welcomed peace,

thousands returned home to much fanfare, and their loved ones. Thousands more never made the journey

home.

Remembrance Day traditions

A minute of silence

Every year, nations around the globe fall silent for one minute at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month to remember those who have served their country during war.

This practice stems from King George V’s declaration on 6 November 1919 that people throughout the

Commonwealth should suspend their normal activities so that in “perfect stillness the thoughts of everyone

may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the Glorious Dead”.

A red poppy

The Flanders poppy was one of the first plants to grow on the blood-soaked battlefields of France and Bel-gium. In nineteenth century English poetry, poppies often symbolised sleep or oblivion. After WWI, silk pop-pies were sold on Armistice Day with proceeds going to a charity for French children and to the Returned Soldiers League (RSL).

A sprig of rosemary

Many people wear a sprig of rosemary on Remembrance Day and on ANZAC Day. Since ancient times this aromatic herb has been recognised as a sign of remembrance and loyalty. For Australians, rosemary is even more significant as this plant grows wild on the Gallipoli peninsula, serving as another reminder of the AN-ZAC troops who lost their lives there.

A flag at half-mast

On Remembrance Day, flags are flown at half-mast from 10.30am to 11.03am as a sign of mourning and re-spect. It is said that this tradition stems from sailing ships that lowered their sails at sea to honor an im-portant person or mark a death.

The Unknown Soldier

Have you heard of the Unknown Soldier? The Unknown Soldier is intended to represent all men killed dur-ing war, especially those with no known resting place. The original Unknown Soldier was entombed at West-minster Abbey in London on Remembrance Day 1920. On the same day, France entombed an Unknown Sol-dier below the Arc de Triomphe.

It was not until Remembrance Day 1993 that Australia laid to rest an Unknown Soldier in the Hall of

Memory at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. At his side was a bayonet and a golden sprig of wattle.

The soldier was buried in a coffin made from Tasmanian Blackwood which was scattered with soil from the

French battlefield, Pozières.

Have a great week

Principal Team


NEW ENROLMENTS

New enrolments welcome Foundation to Year 6 - Enrolments for 2020/2021 are now

being accepted. Please see office staff for details of enrolment.

CHANGE OF DETAILS

Please inform the School Office if any personal details change. It is important that if telephone numbers

change that the school can contact parents and guardians. Likewise, if emergency contacts alter please in-

form us. If you want someone to pick up your child, please ensure you have informed the school in person

so that person can be added to the emergency list for picking up your child.

SECONDARY EDUCATION GUIDE

To assist your decision making in relation to your child's education for 2021 and beyond, please find below a

link to the November 2020 edition of the Secondary Education Guide.

CLICK HERE: https://victoriaschoolguides.starcommunity.com.au/secondary-education-november/

OFFICE NEWS

Friday November 20th 2020 - Curriculum Day - Pupil Free day. No school for students.

Friday December 18th 2020 - Last day of School for 2020.

https://victoriaschoolguides.starcommunity.com.au/secondary-education-november/


KINDERGARTEN NEWS

The kindergarten teachers are currently writing transition statements for each child who will be going to

school in 2021. These statements will provide your child’s school teacher with information about your child’s

learning and development at kindergarten and home so that strategies can be put in place to make sure your

child has a happy and successful transition to school. Parents will also be given a section to complete and we

ask you to please return these to kindergarten by the due date. If you need any help to complete your section

please let your child’s kindergarten teacher know – we would be more than happy to help.

Transition to school activities will be able to commence soon – this means that Foundation Class teachers will

be able to visit the Kindergarten and small groups of children will be able to visit the school where they are

enrolled for 2021. Families will receive further information about these activities.

Families at Dallas Kindergarten are invited to join our second online session about supporting your child’s

learning.

When – Wednesday 18th November

Time – 11am to 11.30am

Links to the session will be emailed to all families. If you need help to join the WeBex session or if you would

like support from an interpreter please let us know.

A reminder to all Upfield Kindergarten families to please return your child’s speech form.

A reminder to all families to please make sure your child brings a sunhat to each session. Please send

a hat that will cover your child’s face, neck and ears.

Please ensure your child brings a water bottle to each session. Please keep juice and flavoured milks

for home.

With warm regards from the Dallas and Upfield Kindergarten Teams.

PUPIL OF THE WEEK


WEEK 4 WEEK 5

FOUNDATION A: Omar Amir

FOUNDATION B: Awais Jazaiah

FOUNDATION C: Alina Mohammad

FOUNDATION D: Isla Aneesa

GRADE 1A: Zayd Waafa

GRADE 1B: Abdirahman Nadia

GRADE 1C: Issa Fayza

GRADE 1D: Yasan Maya

GRADE 2A: Sarah Leyla

GRADE 2B: Cyrine Ruby

GRADE 2C: Vanessa Mina

GRADE 3A: Mariam Walid

GRADE 3B: Marwa Maymoona

GRADE 3C: Malak Harun

GRADE 4A: Aiesha Ibrahim

GRADE 4B: Khaled Allaiza

GRADE 4C: Trisha Mohamed

GRADE 5A: Bilal Meysoun

GRADE 5B: Syreen Zain

GRADE 5C: Recardos Fatima

GRADE 6A:

GRADE 6B: Ghalia Sedra

SPEACIALIST STUDENT OF THE WEEK:

FOUNDATION: Selima Abdullahi

GRADE 1: Baneen Serhat

GRADE 2: Zain Hibbah

GRADE 3: Mohammad Marwa

GRADE 4: Hajarh Allaiza

GRADE 5: Fozia Bilal

GRADE 6: Alem Ghalia

SPORTS NEWS


Tip #6 – How much does your child sit and when is your child active?

Often parents think their child gets lots of activity. It’s important to know when your child is being active

and when they are sitting. Often, sitting is just a habit and we don’t give it any further thought.

Suggestions to get your child moving:

• Encourage them to walk or ride to school (or part way to school)

• Stop at a park on the way home from school

• Go outside with them

• Encourage them to play active games during recess or lunch and at home

Together with your child, make a list of their favourite active games- Keep this on the fridge so when

they get bored they can be reminded to do something active

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We are on a journey to develop the confidence and motivation of our

school community to lead active and healthy lives. This is a team effort so

each newsletter we will provide a new tip to increase our knowledge of

how we can achieve this together.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION NEWS


What have we been learning about in PE this week?

In Foundation, students have been introduced to the concept of forehand striking. The forehand striking

skill is used in sports like tennis. Students have been learning to position themselves beside the ball when

striking towards a partner. Students have also continued to develop control over different movements such

as skipping, jumping, hopping & galloping.

Grade 1-2 students are continuing to develop their knowledge of ball control. Students have been working

hard on moving at different speeds with the ball at their feet along with the kicking technique. The kicking

technique involves students using their shoe laces as a guide to where they should be striking the ball to

avoid using their toes. They were then able to combine both of these skills in our game of ‘minute to win it’.

Grade 3-6 students have continued their unit on invasion sports. Invasions sport are sports, such as basket-

ball, netball, soccer, AFL etc. Students have participated in these sports through non-contact small sided

games. We have been focusing on expanding their knowledge of offensive strategies through questions like,

when should you pass the ball? Where should you run when you don’t have the ball? and what can you do

when you don’t have a passing option?

It has been great to see that there has been an improvement in the amount of students who are coming to

PE with their hat and water bottle with them each session. The school hat provides important protection to

the face, back of the neck, eyes and ears. Students should continue to develop the habit of checking their

bag each morning for these items before coming to school. Please ensure that the hat is clearly labelled

with their name.

For literacy, students have been working hard to decode the words in stories and write short words inde-

pendently. They are stretching words and saying them out loud to help them identify the sounds. Students

have enjoyed the new listening posts in the classroom that let students read along with their own book.

For numeracy, students have been working on learning their numbers 0-20 and beyond. They have been sing-

ing songs, playing counting games and using numbers in real world situations. Students are working hard to

increase their number knowledge to become fluent counters. Students have also been working on creating

their own patterns using many different materials.

Our big question for Inquiry in Term 4 is “How does the weather affect us?” Students have been learning about

the weather through different science experiments. This week students got to experiment by making their own

rainbows with milk and food dye and using torches to make shadows that they can trace. Students have loved

discovering new things about how the weather affects us. Students also participated in our inquiry program

and created some amazing crafts based around the weather.

FOUNDATION


LITERACY

NUMERACY

INQUIRY

We continue to explore narratives in our reading and writing sessions, using familiar fairy tales such as Hansel

and Gretel and Snow white and the seven dwarfs. In reading we have explored the concept of cause and effect

and students have been able to link the idea to the stories that we read. Students are becoming more confi-

dent in writing narratives by exploring their creativity in characters, settings, the problem and the solution.

In numeracy we are exploring addition by using different strategies like counting on from the larger number,

the jump strategy and the split strategy Students continue to explore 3D objects such as a cube, cylinder and

cone. They have a better understanding that a 3D object has features (sides, corners and edges). Students are

learning to compare and measure the mass of different objects through hefting and a balance scale.

The grade ones have been very busy exploring simple machines around the school. We have looked at simple

machines such as the wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane and lever. Students are beginning to appreciate

how important simple machines are in our everyday life. We have explored how simple machines work and are

beginning to create our own.

YEAR ONE


LITERACY

INQUIRY

NUMERACY

In literacy, the grade 2 students have been exploring different types of nouns such as, concrete, abstract, com-mon and proper. We have also begun exploring adjectives. In writing students have been working on develop-ing a character and designing a setting of where the story will take place. Students have been enjoying creating their narratives and thinking of awesome titles for their stories. They can’t wait to get to next stage of publish-ing.

In Maths the students have been investigating multiplication. The students have been learning about different strategies such as, arrays, groups of and repeated addition. When we moved in to our division unit the stu-dents began using fact families to show the connection between multiplication and division.

In inquiry the student have been investigating simple machines and how they play a role in the world around us. The students enjoy experimenting and investigating different types of machines and forces. The students had fun creating their very own Rube Goldberg Machine, they had to create this out of the resources that are in the classroom. We also explored buoyancy and tested objects to see if they would sink or float. The students had to make a prediction about what they thought would happen, then test it out and write down what actual-ly happened.

YEAR TWO


LITERACY

INQUIRY

NUMERACY

Our grade 3 students enjoyed dressing up for book week and sharing their favourite books and characters, the students also enjoyed watching the book week performance which showcased some of the best children's sto-ry books. The students were highly engaged in the book week performance and our grade 3 cohort book week parade. In reading and writing our students have been busy learning about the elements and structure of pro-cedural texts. They wrote a procedure about “how to make fairy bread” using the correct structure and includ-ed verbs and adverbs to make their writing more meaningful, to celebrate their success in their writing the stu-dents made fairy bread following their individual procedure.

In numeracy the grade 3 students have been busy learning to identify and represent fractions. They used pattern blocks to explore equivalent fractions. The grade 3 students have also been learning about volume and capacity. They identified, measured and compared different volume of shapes. Students estimated how many cups they need to fill the 2L jar. Then they experimented and recorded their answers.

In inquiry, the grade 3 students have been developing their lines of inquiry using a range of thin and thick ques-tions based around our whole class topic on “what keeps us warm?”. Students have been watching a range of videos and working on investigating their thin and thick questions about heat and exploring their wonderings.

YEAR THREE


LITERACY

INQUIRY

NUMERACY

In reading students have been introduced to the concept of analysing both Fiction and Non- Fiction texts,

starting with a focus on characters. This includes identifying the character traits, feelings, actions, motives. Stu-

dents are been learning to also refresh their inference skills by analysing characters through their actions and

dialogue rather than literal information.

In writing students have moved on from learning about poetry into the concept of persuasive text. Writing a

persuasive text involves deep and critical thinking about topics and forming an argument for or against the top-

ic. Students will be looking at this concept for the rest of the term, breaking down its features. Students will be

looking at its correct structure such as introduction, three arguments and a conclusion. Students will look at

using vocabulary and research to project a opinion

During numeracy students have been focusing on multiplication and strategy of partitioning to break down 2

digit by 1 digit numbers, 2 digit by 2 digit numbers and even 3 digit by 1 digit numbers. This strategy also in-

cludes using repeated addition in order to solve large multiplication equations. In applied numeracy students

have been introduced to the concept of Flip, slide, turn. This is the concept of transformation to create

patterns.

In inquiry our students have started to come up with their big questions and start to research how heat is pro-

duced and how heat transfers from one object to another. Students have enjoyed expanding their knowledge

and vocabulary to understand concepts such as conductors and insulators. This topic of heat and its production

is ongoing for the term.

YEAR FOUR


LITERACY

INQUIRY

NUMERACY

In reading, the 5/6’s have been focusing on summarising text and improving their researching skills. They are reading through articles that relate to the Inquiry topic and highlighting key points and topic vocabulary words. They are using their summarising skills to read through text, and put their understandings of the text into a summary of their own words. We encourage the students to continue reading at home to improve this skill. In writing, the grade 5/6 students have typed out their ‘Discussion Text’ in Word and they are re drafting this text to make sure that it makes sense, has correct punctuation and demonstrates the correct structure.

In mathematics the grade 5/6 students have been working on Fractions with a focus on the three types of frac-tions; proper, improper and mixed. They have then applied these skills to add and subtract fractions. Across the cohort we have many great successes, from the beginning of the unit “I don’t like fractions” to “Oh wow! I love fractions now” and “oh I get fractions now” They have also commenced a new topic on Probability and Statistics and finding out the likelihood of an event occurring.

In grade 5/6 we are continuing our topic on “Government – Why do we need them and how do they govern ?” The students are learning about how the Australian government works and they are answering their own lines of Inquiry through research..

YEAR FIVE/SIX


LITERACY

INQUIRY

NUMERACY

COMMUNITY HUB


We are happy to be able to offer Breakfast club and Contactless Toy Library on site.

Playgroups: Unfortunately, we are still unable to run playgroups this Term. We are taking enrolments for Term

One 2021. Please fill in an enrolment form at the hub (fee: $10 per child per Term. $0 for children under 12

months) Please contact Susan or Fatima on 0419 475 047 if you have any queries.

Conversational English Classes: All English classes will continue to be run Via Zoom until further notice.

Breakfast Club: Now Open every day from 8.00am-8.45am

Toy Library: We have a new contactless system in place. All existing members will be contacted and will be able

to choose their toys online.

Year 6 MCFC program

Free: Homework and Soccer /sports program.

When: Every Wednesday starting from 11/11/20 - end of Term.

Time: 330-430pm

Space: 5/6 Room

Thank you

Please stay well and safe,

Susan & Fatima

Email: [email protected] & [email protected]

Hub Mobile: 0419 475 047

mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

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