Tambo Upper Primary School

890 Tambo Upper Rd Tambo Upper 3885

Phone: 5156-4327 Mobile: 0427564327 E-mail: tambo.upper.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Principal: Simon Blake School Council President: Jeanette Seignior

School Council

Jeanette Seignior, Sharon Mehlert, Rosie Broughton, Bron McMahon, Troy Waddell, Dave Butler, Jim Peachey, Sharon Gilbert, Eric Cerda, Tiana Felmingham and Robyn Wayside

Tambo Upper Primary School Strategic Goals

Improve Literacy and Numeracy for all students

Develop self-motivated, responsible and curious learners

Students will have the capacity and confidence to successfully interact with peers and the

community

Congratulations to Paige Mitchell for being

awarded the Golden Frame Award last week.

She has put a lot of hard work into her Art-

work and the improvement has been amazing.

Reading in our modern world is more important than ever. When your kids see you reading and writing in everyday life – reading for pleasure, sharing a story with them, using a recipe, making a shopping list, writing a birthday card, reading street signs, or reading and writing emails – it teaches them that reading and writing are useful skills.

Reading with your child at home will help

them in all learning areas at school. Often

teachers will ask you to listen to your child

read at home. This is a good way to support

your child's reading.

Happy Reading!.

Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Cross Country at Nagle College last week.

Also, well done to all the students in Grade 3 and 5 who participated in the NAPLAN testing process last week. It is quite a stressful and demanding time and the

students got through the week in a great manner.

As the term quickly flies by this term, it is timely reminder of the importance of reading at home.

where to go next’. In the next few weeks, each teacher will be provided a day out of the classroom to facilitate 1:1 conferenc-ing with every child. This will further strengthen our ability to meet the needs of all the students.

Thank-you to Dave B, Jim and Troy for the work they have done at the back of the school in preparation for the arrival of the new building.

Principal’s Message

Cross Country...

Highlights...

Division Cross Country

NAPLAN

PDP

B’Day Surprise

Tambo Upper Primary School

T A R G E T I N G U N I Q U E P E R S O N A L S T R E N G T H S

2018

May 22nd

Winter District Sports

Fri 25th May

Reconciliation Day

Presentation

(Purple Room)

Fri

1st

June

Queen’s

Birthday

Mon

11th

Last Day of Term 2 (2:15pm finish)

Fri 29th June

First Day of Term 3 Mon 16th June

Calendar

Last Friday Jack, Rose, Tara, David,

Will, Jarvah, Campbell, Sharna, Clay,

Sophie and Alex went to compete at

Nagle College for the Division Cross

Country. They all did a very good job,

the top ten made it through to the

next round. Rose came 2nd and made

it through to the next round and

Sharna came 8th and made it through

to the next round. Everybody tried

their best. Also a big thank you to

Riveena for taking us to Nagle col-

lage.

By Tara

I encourage all parents to read with their child every night. It is a great way to support your child with their learning.

At Tambo Upper Primary School, one of our main areas of strength is the fact that staff are always assessing student progress. This allows the teacher to teach the students at the ‘point of need’. As a staff, we are very confident at where your child ‘is at’ with their learning and

5B’s

Be a Learner

Be Respectful

Be a Friend

Be Responsible

Be Safe

Purple Room’s Top 5 Lessons of the Week

By Jasmine

1. Taking portraits in photography with Just Jo.

2. Comparing the relationship between fractions and decimals such as 0.5 = ½.

3. Learning about the Muslim Sharia Law in Cultural Studies with Miss Wally.

4. Debating subjects like :-

- Android tablets are better than iPads.

- Children should NOT be allowed to drink energy drinks.

5. Practising netball, soccer, football and T-ball for the upcoming winter sports.

Green room is focusing on TIME over the next two weeks. We are

learning how to use analogue and digital clocks. On Monday we created

our very own clocks. We had to make sure we had all twelve numbers

in the right places and that our hour hand was shorter than our minute

hand.

In Science our topic this term is ‘Feathers, Fur or Leaves’. We read the Stickman story which inspired us to create our very own Stick and Leaf men using natural materials. We are currently creating stories about our Leaf men using iMovie on the iPads.

Red News...

Purple News...

Green News...

This term, students in the Red Room have been studying ‘Desert Survivors’ as part of their Science Unit. They have been conducting experiments involving absorption, condensation and desiccation. We have continued to explore different writing styles and focussed on using a wider range of words to enhance our writing.

We have worked on improving our automatic recall of the multiplication facts with Abi showcasing her expertise in this area. We have consolidated the use of the four mathematical operations to ensure that we are able to use them with confidence and accuracy. The students have also enjoyed wood burning in Visual Arts and thoroughly enjoyed their work in Cultural Studies where they have been translating English to Arabic.

During PE sessions the students have been honing their skills in basketball and playing various strategy games.

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We have had an exciting few weeks in Blue Room. In maths, we have been working on time and shapes! We are also practicing our addition and subtraction by playing Maths Tiggy!

Miss Kennedy is calling us all ‘Reading Stars’ this week! We are all trying our best with our reading, We are focusing on sounding out our words properly, understanding the story and reading with expression! There has been lots of fantastic progress made- well done Blue Room superstars!

Our Science unit this term is called ‘Watch It Grow!’ We have been ob-serving worms and learning about their life cycles! Some of our worms have shed their skin and one has also become a beetle!

This term, we are also teaching our brains to have a Growth Mindset, focusing on saying ‘I can’ instead of ‘I can’t’! We have also learnt about the power of ‘yet’! We are looking forward to another brilliant week in Blue Room!

Yellow News...

Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Safe, Be a Friend and Be a Learner

This week in Yellow Room we started a program called ‘Resilience,

Rights and Respectful Relationships’. Students have been exploring

emotions and playing games to understand what different emotions feel

like to us, and look like to others.

Students have been learning about Shapes and Number Patterns in

Maths and we are exploring the phonemes (sounds) that ’b’ and ’z’

make.

Here are some learning activities that Yellow Room students particularly

enjoy... “I love writing my weekend recount.” (Billie) - “I love doing

yoga and building Target words.” (Nina) - “I love learning to read the

Golden words.” (Deagan) “I like learning about shapes.” (Jesse)

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Blue News...

Bee Cards Students who have been recognised for demonstrating the behaviours that represent the school values are:

Krystal Jasmine Noah Shannon Riley G Paige Olive Keara

Jayden Reagan Lyla Wyld Rosalie Isla B Jamie Lilly P

Nash Bella Emily Nina