Classroom News
Prep
Welcome Back to Prep! We hope you had a wonderful, relaxing holiday. We have a very busy but short term as we prepare for Year 1.
Have you got your detective hats on? Apparently some Fairy Godmothers have been overtaking Prep. I hope the Prep Detectives are ready. This term we are Fairytale Detectives as we look for clues in our Fairytales. Where has Cinderella’s slipper gone? What will Jack do with his magic beans? Who is creating the big winds that are blowing down the houses and why does my grandmother have big ears? Stay tuned.
Over the next few weeks we will continue to revise, revise, revise as we extend our reading and writing capabilities. Please remember to practise sight words and read readers nightly. This is extremely important as we progress to Year 1.
This Term in Maths, we are continuing to focus on our understanding of numbers to 20. Please discuss and encourage the use of numbers in everyday activities.
In Science we are learning about the way things move. In Geography we explore “Our Special Place” and in Religion we examine the Traits of Jesus.
Next week we celebrate Health and Wellbeing Week. Over the course of the week we will be learning about how to keep ourselves safe and healthy. During the activities over the week we will have a visit from Toothbrush Land, a Police visit and we will learn about our safety hand and adults we can talk to if we are feeling scared or unsafe, a visit from Nurses, Mr and Mrs Vanderplassche, healthy foods and the importance to slip, slop, slap. Activities are occurring daily. Please take the time to discuss this learning with your child.
We also venture to the Empire Theatre next week to watch the production of The Gruffalo’s Child. We are looking forward to this excursion.
We are also looking forward to the Ball Games and Cross Country carnivals.
Ball Games – Tuesday 20th October – 9-1 – Lourdes Hall
Cross Country – Friday 30th October – 8:30 – 1:00 – Newtown Park
Please also remember that the whole school book week dress up is on Monday 2nd November.
The weather has certainly warmed up. Please ensure your child has a waterbottle and hat EVERY DAY. Please also make sure they are clearly named.
We look forward to a busy and exciting term ahead, where our detectives become even better readers and writers.
Liz and Melita
Prep Gymnastics Photos
Year 1
Welcome to Term 4!
We have another busy term ahead of us but as the children are becoming quite the Lourdes Learners there is no doubt that they will rise to every challenge.
In English, we are learning how to write a procedure. We will read the story called ‘The Potato People’ by Pamela Allen. Each student will need 1 large potato to decorate and turn into their own Potato Person. Please send this potato in by the end of this week. Students will write a procedure on how to decorate a potato person.
In Maths last week we learnt about probability, chance and describing the outcomes of an event happening.
In Religion, we are learning all about Mary. Our unit this term is called 'Who is Mary and Why is she Important?' Students have already shared their own understanding of why she is important – Mary is the Mother of Jesus, she was loving and kind, compassionate and she lived a long time ago. We will read stories from the bible with Mary in them and draw a portrait of Mary on canvas.
Our History unit this term is called ‘How Time Flies’. Students will be engaged in some fun inquisitive lessons. Later in this unit, students will be completing a timeline of their life. They will need four small photos of special events (baptism, birthday, Christmas, first day of school, meeting a new baby etc). No enlarged photos please, they will need no larger than a 4x6 sized photo.
In Science, our unit this term is called 'Light and Sound Sensations'. This will be a very interactive unit as students will have the opportunity to dress up as a scientist for a day on Monday 26th October. This Science day will be an all-day event where students from 1B & 1M come together and explore light and sound.
Have a great week!
Jen and Ange
Year 2
Welcome to Term 4! What an exciting term we have ahead of us! In Science we will are exploring the life cycles of different living things. We are currently enjoying looking after and observing our mealworms and silkworms each day. They certainly eat a lot and grow very quickly. Over the next few weeks we will see some amazing changes, as they go through the different stages of their life cycles. We ask that every child bring in a shoebox with a lid so that we can create our own habitat for an animal.
In HASS we are learning about the life of Angela Merici. She is an Italian Saint who was born in 1474, and started the Ursuline order of nuns. We will learn about her very interesting life, and gain an understanding of how we can bring her message to Our Lady of Lourdes.
In English we are exploring persuasive writing, learning how to express our opinions and how to structure our arguments.
In Maths this week we look at how to flip, slide and turn a shape. Next week we will be revising fact families where we relate addition facts to their corresponding subtraction facts.
Next week we will be running our Personal Development lessons. Please return permission notes if you haven’t already done so.
Don’t forget dress up day on the 2nd of November where we will be dressing up as a curious creature. Make sure the creature is from a book!
Please let us know if you have any queries or concerns!
Dannielle, Allyson, Sarah, Aleisha and Megan
Year 3
Welcome back to another term – it is hard to believe this is our last one! Well done to the students on their efforts in our standardised testing last week; it was great to see everybody making such a great effort and really thinking about their work. This week we begin our research on a neighbouring country in HASS and will be looking at symmetry and shapes in Maths. In Science, we have been looking at the transfer of heat through conduction and which materials are good conductors or insulators of heat. We are continuing our work on procedural texts and are looking at how we can ‘bump up’ our writing.
We have also been reading the books for the Readers Cup, which will be held on Monday the 2nd November. This day is also the Book Week dress up day, with the theme being ‘Curious Creatures, Wild Minds’.
Next week, we will be running our personal development lessons – please ensure that any outstanding notes are returned as soon as possible. We are also looking forward to the school Ball Games Carnival next Tuesday.
Have a great week!
Angela, Annie, Damian and Janice
Year 4
Welcome back to the beginning of another busy term. In Week 1 the children have already completed a set of Standardised Tests in Spelling, Reading and Mathematics and need to be congratulated for their great efforts.
Just a few reminders regarding notes to be returned. Please send in both PCYC Cycle Safety and Personal Development notes as soon as possible. Upcoming events this term include the Ball Games Carnival next Tuesday and the Cross Country on Friday 30th October (training at Newtown Park has begun on Monday and Wednesday mornings). Year 4 will also compete against other Catholic Schools in a Gala T-Ball carnival in Week 8. Book Week and Reader’s Cup will be held in early November.
A note of thanks to Mrs Fisher for her wonderful efforts in teaching the children some very energetic line dances. Last term and this the children and teachers have thoroughly enjoyed their Friday dance afternoons. All in all, a busy time ahead and of course in that time lots of learning and end of year reports!
Suzanne, Toni and Garry
Year 5
Welcome back to Term 4. It’s all systems go in Year 5. This term we will be looking at Narratives in English, Solids, Liquids and Gases in Science, revising our Maths operations, Charity Commandment of Jesus and writing and presenting our speeches for Leadership positions. Please note that not all students need to present a speech if they don’t want to nominate for a captaincy position for 2020. Students should really think about the roles of captains and whether they would be willing to do what they are expected to do. All Year 6 students are considered leaders of the school and next year will receive a badge to reflect this role. We will also be introducing a new unit of Civics, which looks at the election process.
Notes about Personal Development and Sexual Education will be sent home in the coming weeks. Please return the slip indicating whether or not your child will be participating in these lessons.
Please remember that camp is coming up and it is a good idea to start getting things ready, a note went home last week detailing what is required.
Book Week celebrations kick off November 2nd, it is a great week with dress ups and the Reader’s Cup. We have a busy term ahead, but if we can keep on top of our work then we will finish with flying colours. Enjoy your week!
Tim, Steve and Emily
Year 6
What a fantastic camp! Lots of cool memories were created. All the students were terrific and did the school proud. Looking forward now to knuckling down and powering through the remainder of the year.
This will be an extremely busy Term for Year 6, especially with their leadership responsibilities. Please try and ensure that your child is at school, on time (by 8:25 am) as often as possible so they don’t miss out on their learning opportunities.
Students commenced Week Two by presenting their Renewable Energy models and delivering brief explanations regarding their choices. Overall, the quality of the models was outstanding.
Spelling, Reading and Mathematics whole school testing for Year 6 was held yesterday and today. Most of the testing was completed online.
Thank you to those families who have forwarded the Prep/Year One photo. Please forward to Kylie.McKenzie@twb.catholic.edu.au or Larry.Lee@twb.catholic.edu.au as soon as possible, if you haven’t done so.
Graduation Assembly: Thursday Nov 19th @ 2.00pm in the school hall (formal uniform worn)
Graduation Mass: Tuesday 1st December. Venue – to be confirmed. Time - 6.30pm (Formal School uniform worn)
Library: Library borrowing will resume tomorrow for 6M and on Thursday for 6L. Please ensure that your child has a library bag.
Parent Teacher Interviews: These interviews will take place over Weeks 3, 4 and 5. Notes will be forwarded home mid-week for those parents who wish to catch up. Interviews will be 10 – 15 minutes each.
Enjoy some photos of camp and the model presentations.
Larry and Kylie
Camp Photos
Renewable Energy Models
German
We are talking about holidays this week and next week we will be having a test on the work done last term.
Christine Fisher