Dear Parents/Caregivers, Welcome to an incredibly busy Term 3. Once again, we trust all families have had a relaxing and enjoyable school holiday break. The students of Room 26 have hit the ground running and we have to commend the enthusiasm they have brought with them. Heading into the second half of the year, we hope all parents can see as much progression in your child’s learning as we can whilst they are in the classroom. Their efforts must be acknowledged, as all students have made leaps and bounds in their academic studies. Term 3 holds some very important and exciting events for your child, as they participate in the 2019 PAT Testing and Bookweek 2019. Year 5, 6 & 7 students will also begin their participation in the ShineSA program, focusing on Growth and Development. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that it is extremely important for your child to arrive at school on time each day. If your child is late to arrive, they must go to the front office to get a late pass. You will otherwise receive an SMS that your child is absent and you will need to respond as soon as possible. Acceptable absences are family or illness. If travelling you will need to apply for an exemption.

ShineSA Next term’s Health program will include the topic of Relationships and Sexual Health. This particular program is compulsory for all students from Year 5 in South Australia. Participation in the lessons aim to improve your child’s ability to develop respectful relationships, be confident and happy within themselves and their bodies, and make well informed and safe decisions regarding their body and their relationships. Homework and Reading As with last term, students are expected to complete a weekly homework and reading contract. Every Monday students will receive their contract which may be completed from Monday to Thursday. Homework must be at school, completed and ready for marking every Friday.

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What’s on this term This term assemblies are

held on Thursdays at 9am in the Hall in weeks

2, 4, 6, 8, 10

Week 4 SCIENCE WEEK

Friday 16th August Forensic Science incursion

Week 5

Bookweek Thursday 22nd August

No Pen Day

Week 6 Thursday 29th August Bookweek Assembly

Friday 30th August School Closure Day

Week 7

Monday 2nd September Pupil Free Day

Week 9

Parent teacher interviews

Week 10 Wednesday 25th September

Casual Day with gold coin donation Friday 27th September

2:00pm Dismissal

Term 4 commences Monday 14th October

Room 26 Newsletter

Term 3 2019

impact it had on the Indigenous Peoples. Some questions we will be inquiring include:

What do we know about the lives of people in Australia’s colonial past and how do we know?

How did an Australian colony develop over time and why?

How did colonial settlement change the environment?

What were the significant events and who were the significant people that shaped Australian colonies?

STEM This term students will be looking into the chemical science strand, examining the various states of matter. Through exploration they will be answering questions including: What is the difference between a solid

liquid and gas? Can the states of matter be changed? Can we mix different states of matter?

Music and Drama with Miss Yates This term in music, students will continue their work with ukulele, expanding their knowledge of chords and strumming patterns. They will begin to explore moving to and playing music in compound time. Students will use xylophones to learn about major scales. In drama, the focus will be on scripts. Students will spend some time early in the term working with pre-existing scripts and exploring how they are written and why. They will then begin creating their own scripts to perform for the class.

Health and Physical Education with Mr. Cuconits Fitness components - Students will participate in a number of different fitness tests. This will give students the opportunity to improve their own fitness which will help them now and in future years. Sports Day Practise – Students will practise all of the sports day events in which they will be competing to ensure that they are prepared for the day in term four. The lunchtime basketball competition for students in years 5-7 will also continue to run. It has been an extremely successful and competitive competition so far. Looking forward to Term 3 Frank Liemareff

Maths Numeracy concepts for this term will be explored through group and individual problem solving as well as explicit teaching. We will be drawing on research based programs such as Natural Maths, Quick Smart and Big Ideas in Number to progress your children.

Our focus will be on: fractions and

decimals financial maths shape – 2D and 3D representations, nets,

names, attributes, angles and classifications.

As a class we will continue our focus on the four processes; addition , subtraction, multiplication and division. Note that it is not always about finding the answer, rather, how do we find the answer. We will explore the processes using a games-based approach which promotes positive attitudes towards mathematics. The games are carefully selected to target student needs and encourage very important conversations about mental problem solving strategies. We will also continue to complete our daily mental maths routine. These tests have proven to be a great success, improving student confidence and highlighting learning needs.

English English this term will have a Procedural Text focus, with students examining how to present information in a logical sequence of events and steps. Students will have the opportunity to apply their writing skills across many different learning areas including science, the arts and design and technologies. We will also continue to look at specific ways of improving our Narrative and Persuasive writing by using the school-wide Brightpath learning tool. The class novel that Room 26 will be reading is the Australian novel Nanberry. “It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in. With his white brother, Andrew, he witnesses the struggles of the colonists to keep their precarious grip on a hostile wilderness. And yet he is haunted by the memories of the Cadigal warriors who will one day come to claim him as one of their own”.

HASS This term we will be learning about the settlement of Australia by the early British Colonies and the