Upper Lansdowne News€¦ · Well, everyone deserves a “pat on the back” for making it through this very tricky term!! Our COVID journey has made our term interesting, but together

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Semester 1 Break Well, everyone deserves a “pat on the back” for making it through this very tricky term!! Our COVID journey has made our term interesting, but together we made it!! Well done!!! School will finish this Friday 3 July 2020 and it is “out of uniform”! Students return to school on Tuesday 21 July 2020. I would like to wish everyone a very safe and relaxing holiday, so we are all ready to go in Term 3! Contact details - Please phone, text, email me if you need to.

Reports Reports were sent home at the end of week 8. Parents who still would like a Parent/Teacher Interview during week 10, please contact me as soon as possible as time is running out. For parents who work, phone interviews are still available.

Staff Development Day - Monday 20 July 2020 On Monday 20th, Mrs Powell, Mrs Drury and myself will undertake professional learning on the new Schools Excellence Framework which is the Department’s planning tool for the development of our School Plan for 2021-2025. Port Macquarie Koala Hospital Yesterday “Beckie” from the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital visited us and gave us copies of their “Gum Tips” magazine. You will recall in Term 1, we raised money to assist the koalas and we planned on visiting the hospital, but COVID prevented this. Next term when we visit the hospital, Beckie will give us a guided tour.

Upper Lansdowne News “Friendship and Learning”

Principal - Shellie Tancred

Term 2 - Week 10 - 2020

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Learning with Miss T In week 9, my students revised persuasive writing, watched a clip on “symbols, connotation and imagery” and focussed on “age” and “our” words. In science, we discussed how animals adapt to survive, plus read about and discussed Australian animals. In maths, we used the “Jungle Money” app to build our understanding of how to correctly give change. The “Jungle Geometry” app helped us revise angle types and how to measure them. To build our understanding of perimeter and area, we used our MAB blocks to create shapes with specific areas and perimeters. We also revised multiplication and completed problem and mental activities. In art we studied the art of Sandra Silezerburg and created our own abstract portraits using chalk pastels on black cardboard. On Friday, Sam and Noah made yummy chocolate crackles.

Reading Australian animals

Animal adaptions discussions

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Sandra Silezerburg Art

Learning with Mrs Drury Throughout Term 2 students have been involved in a series of targeted NAPLAN lessons. Each week students work one on one with Mrs Drury to develop areas in reading and mathematics. Everyone has been thoroughly excited about the sessions and have been working extremely well!! Well done everyone!

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Our fierce New Guinea masks

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Waffles with Samuel - Week 8

Crackles with Sam & Noah - W9

Rocky Road with Brooke & Montana - W10

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Learning with Mrs Powell Week 10 Book Study: We are studying the text All Through the Year, a timeless account of a year in the life of an Australian family. This story links with themes of a year, treasuring each day, seasons and months of the year.

Week 9 Book Study: We studied the Text Why I Love Australia, which is a story about celebrating Australia in children’s own words. The students learnt concepts of celebrating Australia’s landmarks, animals and culture.

Week 9 Writing: The students created a guided Acrostic poem of Australia, opinion writing about why we love Australia and also used informative facts about natural and built features.

We are focusing on targeted vocabulary which we use from our rich texts. In writing, the students are using words such as “sacred”, “famous” “outback” and “indigenous culture”.

Week 9 writing samples Why I Love Australia:

Archie: The best part of Australia is lots of sports. It has lots of different places.

Kelsie: I love Australia because the beaches are the best. Australia has yummy food.

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Learning with Mrs Powell Arlo: In Australia we have natural features and built features. The most famous natural fea-tures are sandy beaches, scared Uluru, a colourful reef, a busy harbour and green rainforests. The amazing built features are the tall harbour bridge, pointy opera house, the big banana statue, fun parks with rollercoasters and full sport stadiums. Australia has so much beauty to see. Green and yellow are our colours to show our scenery.

Week 9 and 10 Kindy Maths: The students are revising all concepts learnt this term. We are focusing on sequencing numbers before and after 1-20, ready to start working on numbers 1-30 next term.

Week 9 and 10 Year 1 Maths: The students are revising all concepts learnt this term. We are focusing on sequencing numbers before and after up to 50, ready to start working on numbers 1-100 next term.

Science Living World: The students have been learning about how living things meet our needs and products we can get from different living things eg. food (from animals and plants), clothing (wool) and shelter (houses from wood).

History Past and Present family life: The students have been sequencing their life with photos of themselves, they identified which ones were in the past (baby photos) and which ones are in the present (photos of them now). The students have also been identifying old and new things and compared them to what they know. Thank you to the parents for your co-operation in providing the family photos for your child.

Week 9 awards from Mrs Powell:

Arlo: Great writing on Natural and Built features of Australia

Archie: Reader of the week

Kelsie: Student of the week

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Learning with Mrs Powell

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Learning with Mrs Powell Week 10 art: The beach Students created a step by step guided drawing of a beach scene which links in with our rich texts themes of Australian features and seasons. After they drew their beach picture, they used water colour paints to paint their scene.