NO. 9 Friday March 20th 2018 Dates to Remember · Luka Kill Jessica Hamilton . Cockatoo Primary School No 3535. Website – 2018 Monday cooking Tuesday Wednesday sport Thursday Friday

Cockatoo Primary School No 3535. Website – www.cockatoops.vic.edu.au

COCKATOO PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

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NO. 9 Friday March 20th 2018

Dates to Remember

April

Tuesday 24th Curriculum Day – No school today

Wednesday 25th ANZAC Day – No school today

May

Tuesday 1st Grade 5/6 Camp Forest Lodge Depart

PFA Hot Chip Day

Friday 4th Grade 5/6 Camp Forest Lodge Return

Monday 7th Ramo meeting 7:30pm

Thursday 10th Mother’s day stall

Tuesday 15th NAPLAN – Language conventions & Writing

Wednesday 16th NAPLAN – Reading

Thursday 17th NAPLAN - Numeracy


Welcome Back! As only Melbourne can turn on, we have had a mixture of weather for the holiday break – stunning and sunny to wintry, cold bristly days during the last weekend. I hope that everyone had an enjoyable change from the routines of the school day that the holidays bring. The students have returned fresh and ready to begin a new term of learning!

Handyman The school hasn’t yet found a replacement handyman. If you know of any family member who would be suitable for this role, please call the school.

Grade 5/6 Camp On Tuesday May 1st, our senior students will travel to Forest Lodge, Yarram for a four-day camping experience. Forest Lodge is an adventure camp which provides the students with many ‘thrill seeking’ activities. The favourite is the giant swing which really gets the adrenaline rushing as you free fall through the air before the slack is taken up…. certainly a favourite of mine! Other activities include the ropes courses, canoeing, bush cooking, flying fox, night hike, swimming and archery. The camp provides fully qualified staff to supervise the adventure activities. Everyone will have a wonderful time! Please keep your fingers crossed that the beautiful weather that we have had for most of this week will follow the students to Yarram!

K Motion and OSHC K Motion commences on Thursday 3rd May for a six-week block. If any students are booked into OSHC but attend K Motion, please advise OSHC staff or the office. It causes heart rates to soar in the OSHC staff when they expect students for the After School Care program and they don’t arrive because they have gone to K Motion. Your support with this would be appreciated.

Curriculum Day Just a reminder that there will be a Curriculum Day on Tuesday April 24th 2018. Students are not required at school on this day. The staff will be listening focussed on the area of Mathematics, Other curriculum days planned for the remainder of the year will be on 8th June 2018 and 20th July 2018.

ANZAC Day As there is a public holiday on Wednesday 25th April 2018 there will be no school. Enjoy the extra day away from school and work and please stay safe! As reported in the last newsletter, Sarah Abraham and I fly to Nepal on Anzac Day for approximately one month’s leave. Janelle Dale will be teaching Sarah’s grade and Meredith Smith will be the Acting Principal during my absence.


We would like to wish the following students a very Happy

Birthday.

Connor Prescott

Jasmine Anderson

Fiona Griffiths

Carroline Saukuru

Darcy taylor

Zander Flint

Owen Griffiths

Louisse Africa

Ivy Lougheed

Amy Hand

Lora Blackwell

Darcy Wyley

Jayden Kruzicevic-King

Michael Wyley

Cooper West

Bianca Camm

Byron Jeans

Fintan Hunter

Amelie Prescott

Zoe Prescott

Charli Emmott

Eva South

Brooklyn Young

Hailey Eyers

Sarah Chawkley

Luka Kill

Jessica Hamilton


2018 Monday

cooking Tuesday

Wednesday

sport Thursday

Friday

computers

craft

examples

week 2

23/4-27/4

ANZAC

Biscuits

CURRICULUM

DAY ANZAC DAY recycle craft computers

To Contact O.S.H.C. call the School Office

on 5968 8017 between 8.30am and 4.30pm or ring 0408 566 957or 5968 0256

at all other times. Enrolment Forms

For 2018 are available at the office or Out of School Hours Care

* Please let OSHC staff know if your child will be attending KMOTION.

Thank you

Just a reminder that the canteen is open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

NOTNOTNOTNOT Monday & Tuesday.

Unavailable – Slushies

If would like to help in the Canteen between 10.30am and 2.00pm please leave your details with the

office staff and Judy will get back to you.

Amanda Flint will be the coordinator of book club. I would like to thank you all for your continued

support of me and the scholastic book club. Chris Rounds

This edition of book club is due: Monday 7th May


This week we read

Lester and Clyde.

Livi’s favourite

character was Clyde

because he is calm.

Grace said that Lester

and Clyde lived in a

beautiful pond.

Amelie knew that the

pond changed colour

because there was

rubbish in it. On Tuesday I took

the bucket into the

chook pen and fed

the chickens our

scraps. I tried to

pat the black one

but it ran away.

Ruby

The chooks are

eating our scraps.

Their favourite was

the bread crusts.

Avery

We have three school

chooks and they live

in the chook pen.

Yasmin

We did tally marks to

count our food scraps

and our rubbish.

Five tally marks make

one bundle.

Tahlia

We should have less

rubbish so we don’t

get pollution

everywhere. Lester

and Clyde couldn’t

survive with pollution.

Marija

Harrison likes to write

about dogs.

Zak likes to write about

cats

Written by Jaylee

Doswell

FS SRC Captain




NEW CLASSES – Term 2!

Ballet Glee Club

Private singing lessons (Tuesdays with Alanna Oliver)

Thursday Ballet 5-7 yrs (RAD based) 4:00-5:00pm

Ballet 8-10 yrs (RAD based) 5:00-6:00pm

Glee Club 10-13 yrs 6:00-7:00pm

Tiny Tots / Glee Club – Jrs / Glee Club Adults / Adults Jazz/ Kids HIP HOP / Teens HIP HOP / Ballet / Private singing

WEB - emeraldcityschoolofdance.com

MB - Katherine 0413 507 696

EMAIL - [email protected]


FREE

st luke’s church, cockatoo.

thursdays 3.30 - 5.30.

MORE INFO:

[email protected]

rg.au or 5968 8459

Motion

Forms can be collected from the Cockatoo

Primary School office and brought along to

the program. You can register any time.

KMOTION MOKMOTION is an afterschool

program for Foundation to

Grade 6 children.

It includes games, craft,

stories & afternoon tea.

Each week is run by a HCSI

Staff member & a team of

trained volunteers. All

adults have current

Working With Children

Checks and Police Checks.

KMOTION has behaviour

guidelines & expectations

to ensure all children have

a safe and enjoyable time.

TERM 2

DATES


PARENT INFORMATION BULLETIN – Term 2

Grades F, 1 & 2 – Week 2 Commencing – Monday 23rd of April

Numeracy Below are a variety of learning tasks that will be explicitly taught this week. Students will be making a column graph identifying their favorite fruit. Collate data using tally marks. Record this in a table and using icy pole sticks. Discussing the data as what has more, what has the least? Students will be converting raw data, from a table. Students have to total the amount and create a column graph. Students will then be make statements about the data. Students will be using multiple columns to represent combined data A home activity you could do this week could be to make a column graph of chores completed in the home. For example;

0

10

20

30

40

50

Monday Wednesday

Mum

Dad

Joe

This could be displayed on the fridge and added to as each chore is completed Classes will continue to collect classroom data about how much rubbish and recyclable waste we create in a day. During week one the students were fascinated about how quickly the rubbish accumulated and that they could change the weight of the rubbish buy eating more of their fruit or other foods.

Literacy Reading Writing Spelling

Reading: Students will be reading a variety of nonfiction (factual) texts integrating the Unit topic of Sustainability.

• Identify the topic of a book/ page based on the picture clue given

• Identifying the initial phoneme (sound) in words and matching that to the grapheme (written letter) in a word

• Make meaning of an unfamiliar text, topic or vocabulary within a text. When a student is reading and comes to an unfamiliar word that the picture or phonemes (sounds) do not help to decode they read on, to increase their meaning and understanding of the sentence and to identify the unfamiliar word successfully

• Identifying facts that support the main idea V’s facts to engage readers

• Identifying the main idea and find evidence in the text to support that main idea

• Identifying the topic sentence within a paragraph and the content that supports that statement

All JLC classes will be reading about Australian frogs this week. A home activity you could do to support your child’s leaning would be to research, read or investigate the topic of Australian frogs.

Writing: Students will be writing persuasive pieces to encourage people to recycle more Students may be expected to;

• Write from left to right

• Begin each sentence with a capital letter

• End each sentence with a full stop

• Sound out unfamiliar words using their spelling strategies- For example; phonetic (sound), visual, morphemic, connecting and etymology

• Read back their own writing to another person to add meaning

• Use some learnt/ known factual information to persuade their audience

• Include some emotive language to influence readers

This is an ongoing task and will be a focus for week two and three. A home activity you could do to support your child’s learning is to ask them to convince you to allow them for a special treat, to take them to the park or watch a movie together.


Spelling: Students will be extending their knowledge of phonemes (sounds) and graphs (written letters) that make them Students will be;

• Spelling words with the same ending- -at words. For example, hop, mop, cop, bop and pop

• Spelling words with the same ending- -ay. For example, hay, say, play, day and may

• Spelling words with the same ending- -ed, -s and –ing. For example, played, plays and playing

• Spelling words with the same initial digraph- sh- and ch-. For example, sheep, shop, chair and chop

• Spelling words with the same medial phoneme- -ou- and –ow-. For example, out, owl, mouth, cloud and glow

A home activity you could do to support your child’s development would be to identify phonemes and/ or digraphs when completing daily home reading.

Inquiry Science, Technology, Humanities & Creative thinking

ANZAC Day- Students will make design a poppy to demonstrate their knowledge and feelings towards ANZAC Day. Please, if you have time pop up to school and see our display on the front fence. Students will be learning about the life of a box and beginning to look at recycling and reusing items.

Japanese Rohan Buttenshaw

Colour: Students practice saying the different colours and use the words to colour the image as prescribed.

Visual Arts Leah Stephens

Music Ash Bourke

Drama

P.E Ash Bourke

Bouncing

Personal, Social & Cultural Learning

Students will be reading books that discuss wars- For example, Anzac Ted to extend their knowledge of war as a time in Australia’s history. Students will complete their individual poppy that will be displayed on the front school fence

Homework Reading and sight words SPECIAL EVENTS:

Tuesday the 24th- Whole School Curriculum day. On this day we will be focusing on our math planning, outcomes and how to achieve better results for all students.

Wednesday the 25th- ANZAC Day. We are encouraging all students to participate in local activities to commemorate the armistice of World War One.

Good luck to Students attending the GATEWAYS program on Monday the 23rd of April. We are so proud of you and cannot wait to hear about your learning.

Could all Parents please make sure that all uniform is named and suitable for the predicted weather for the day. Jumpers are easy to add or take off during the day.


PARENT INFORMATION BULLETIN – Term 2 Grades 3/4 – Week 2

Commencing – Monday 23rd of April

Numeracy Students will be working on a range of activities based on their assessment data

Topic-Division Students will be able to:

• Recognise and represent division as grouping into equal sets and solve simple problems using these representations

• Recall multiplication facts of two, three, five and ten and related division facts

• Develop strategies to work out division problems and use calculators to check answers where there is no remainder

• Solve problems involving division by a one digit number, including those that result in a remainder

Daily automaticity activities according to student’s needs related to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You can support your child at home by helping them practise their times tables. This will help them with division this week and multiplication, area and fractions later this year.

Literacy Students will be working on a range of activities based on their assessment data Reading Writing Spelling

This week students are working on developing their ability to identify fact and opinion within a sustainability text, with some students presenting their information in a variety of graphic organizers. Eg Lotus diagrams. Students will be developing their craft as a writer when writing persuasive pieces. This may include sentence structures, work choice, editing and the use of rhetorical questions. This week’s persuasive writing topic is ‘You should grow your own vegetables’. Students can argue for or against this. An activity that you could do at home with your child this week is to discuss the suitability and practicality of having a vegetable patch at your house. This week students will be working through a range of spelling tasks that may include contractions, suffixes, mnemonics and word families. Feel free to discuss and reinforce these ideas with your child through the use of home texts and home reading.


Students are producing a poster or Powerpoint on the use of palm oil in various products and the effects of palm oil cultivation on orangutans’ habitat. Look at the power of advertising while watching TV. Discuss which is more powerful and why.


Connections: Students make connections between Japanese and Australian culture and plot on a VENN diagram.


Music Ash Bourke

Rhythm

P.E Ash Bourke

Netball & Cricket


Gratitude

Homework Reading at least 4 times a week – reading diary needs to be signed by a parent or guardian and returned to school each Friday. Multiplication activity based on work completed last week. Practise times tables.

SPECIAL EVENTS: WEEK 2

Mon 23rd GATEWAYS for selected students (Good luck to you all. We can’t wait to hear about your learning) Tues 24th Curriculum Day (Teachers will be learning about challenging math tasks)

Wed 25th ANZAC Day


PARENT INFORMATION BULLETIN – Term 2

Grades 5/6 – Week 2 Commencing – Monday 23rd of April

Numeracy Students will be working on a range of activities based on their assessment data

Topic-Time Continued and assessment task completed

• Converting between units of time e.g. Minutes to hours, hours to days etc.

• Use am and pm notation and solve simple time problems

• Compare 12 and 24 hour time systems and convert between them

• Interpret and use bus and train timetables

• Measure, calculate and compare elapsed time

• Solve problems involving time duration, including using 12 and 24 hour time within multiple time zones

Daily automaticity activities according to student’s needs related to times tables

Literacy Students will be working on a range of activities based on their assessment data Reading Writing Spelling

This week students are working on developing their ability to look for the fact and opinion within sustainability text, discussing the differences with language used for fact and opinion and presenting their information in a variety of graphic organizers. Students will continue to work on persuasive writing pieces their structure and language. This week’s writing topic is Should plastic bags be banned?

This week students are working on contractions and word origins. Using words from a brainstorm for the sustainability topic, look at the word origins and explain their meaning


Global warming – Look at what contributes to it. Give students a range of causes of global warming and get students to rank them in order of severity. Each grade to dig 2 holes and put a paper bag and plastic bag in them. The outcomes of this will be discussed later on.


I Like/Dislike: Students learn the grammar and practice saying “I like…” or “I dislike…”.


Music Ash Bourke

Rhythm

P.E Ash Bourke

Football


Homework Reading at least 4 times a week – this needs to be noted in their diary, signed by a parent and returned to school each Friday. Time activity based on work completed

SPECIAL EVENTS: WEEK 2

Mon 23rd GATEWAYS for selected students Mon 23rd 7:00pm RACV Meeting

Tues 24th Curriculum Day Wed 25th ANZAC Day & Megan’s Birthday

WEEK 3 Tues 1st to Fri 4th May School camp

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