Term 3 [Dianella]

Literacy In literacy, students have been exploring free verse poetry. They have mastered the structure and understand the purpose of writing this type of poetry. Students have enjoyed examining poetic devices and analysing why these are used in poetry. We have also been exploring procedural writing which ties in with our Science. The Year 6 students used procedural writing to make their own bread. Recipes included sweet milk bread and delicious damper. Mathematics This term in Maths, students have been working very hard to achieve great results. Along with our daily Math warmups, students have been [...]

Math Mathematics is an integral part of everyday life. Through explicit instruction and daily Maths warm-ups, the year 5’s have been learning about estimation and rounding off numbers, multiplying 3digit by 2 digit numbers and division in Term 3. We also learned how to calculate Volume of 3D shapes, Area of regular shapes and calculating elapsed time. Part of our everyday math lessons are our warm-ups where we revise the key concepts and basic facts taught. Students are presented with a variety of questions of the same concepts on a PowerPoint and are challenged to show their understanding on mini [...]

It has been another busy term for the year four cohort with many more interesting activities to come. We have been working extremely hard to improve our writing skills through both our literacy block and our genre writing. We have made chatterboxes and fruit salad and written a matching procedural text. We are continuing to develop our narrative writing skills and the students are sharing some wonderful original ideas to write about. Maths The students are making great leaps in understanding the relationship between mathematics taught in the classroom and that used in the everyday world. Through explicit instruction, the [...]

The Year 3 classes have been very busy, engaged and immersed in learning this term. WOW! What a productive term. We have dived into literature, creating texts, speaking, listening, working mathematically, problem solving, conducting Science investigations, participating in higher order thinking topics, working on our STEM projects and developing our lateral thinking skills. Book week was an exciting event with the theme: "Old Worlds, New Worlds and Other Worlds". The character parade was a fantastic event which saw children dressing up as their favourite fictional book character. Literacy We have immersed the children in literature, encouraging [...]

We started Term 3 off with Acer testing in Maths and Reading MathsIn maths, we started learning addition & subtraction of 2 digit numbers using MAB blocks, jump strategy and split strategy with and without trading, then moved on to learning about fractions, sharing and 2d shapes.WritingFor writing, we have focussed on persuasive texts. We wrote on a fair few topics and the most popular one among the students was "Is being famous the best thing in the world?"ScienceIn science, we have been learning about biological sciences. We have learnt about how humans, animals and plants change as they grow. [...]