EVERY SCHOOL DAY COUNTS November 18th 2022
MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Everyone has the right to be SAFE
Everyone has the right to be RESPECTED
Everyone has the right to LEARN
BUSY WEEK: As you read through this newsletter you will see some fabulous children’s work in many areas of the school curriculum. The grade 6 students have definitely put a lot of effort into their Natural Disaster projects which were presented to the rest of the students in the school.
1923-2023: Below my report is one of the entries from a grade 6 student that we got made into a large banner promoting our centenary year. 2023 is fast approaching so we are busy planning activities. If you have any suggestions for events we could hold next year please email me: melton.south.ps@education.vic.gov.au.
We would love to hear your ideas.
STAFFING: Staffing remains an issue for 2023 across all schools. We are still in the process of interviewing teachers for next year. Next year our Specialist subjects will be: Physical Education, French, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) and Performing Arts. We also hope to set up a 1923 classroom with desks, blackboards, inkwells so students not only learn about the history but actually get to experience it.
PREPS 2023: It was so good to welcome our future Prep students on Monday morning. There were some very excited children coming to the school for the first time. There are two more transition sessions. In the final session the students will meet their teacher for 2023, their classmates and know which classroom they will be in.
SAFETY: Please ensure that your children are using the school crossings coming to and from school. Last week there was an accident where a student was hit by a car after running across Exford Road and didn’t use the crossing. Both Police and ambulance were in attendance.
MESSAGE FROM MELTON CITY COUNCIL: Please be informed that it has been brought to our attention that unfortunately, some parents/guardians do not observe Road Rules on the school crossing.
Below are some example of breaches:
Failure to stop and remain stationary at children’s crossing.
Failure to stop at the stop line when a hand held stop sign is displayed, or a pedestrian is entering or on the crossing.
Proceeding after stopping when the handheld stop sign is still displayed.
Proceeding after stopping while a pedestrian is on or entering the crossing.
Passing a stopped vehicle at children’s crossing or pedestrian crossing.
Please remember the role of the School Crossing Supervisor is ensuring the safety of children and other pedestrians. Parents or guardians please encourage your children to use the correct procedures of safety at a children’s crossing, including the principles of Stop, Look, Listen, and Think as well as dismounting from bikes, skateboards or scooters to ensure safe passage.
A report has also been forwarded to Council’s Community Safety Officers to conduct active patrol.
STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS
| NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | ||
| PB | Sylvanus | For showing the school values and settling well into his new class. Welcome. | 3B | Jeremiah Annika | Writing a heartfelt Emotion Poem about loneliness. Designing a very artistic SunSmart door knob hanger. |
| 1C | Sudhiksha Rhyko | For making a fantastic animal habitat project. For making a fantastic animal habitat project. | 3D | Farin Alfred | Following our school value of ‘Respect’ by listening carefully and following instructions. Your consistent approach in completing weekly homework tasks. |
| 1D | Isaac Ansharah | For writing some fantastic facts about elephants in his homework. For writing some fantastic facts about cats in her homework. | 3E | Cheyenne Zoe | For writing an engaging cinquain poem. For working hard to make good spelling choices when writing her emotions poem. |
| 2C | Akshara Winny | For writing a fantastic poem about her family. For writing excellent letters to her teachers. | 4B | Renata Rocket | For using a growth mindset when completing worded money problems during mathematics. For being an active, respectful and valuable contributor in our class discussions. |
| 2A | Sina | Following our school value of ‘Respect’ by listening carefully and following instructions. | 4C | Jamirhis | For Settling into his new school at Melton South Primary. |
| 2B | Claire | For her awesome efforts to practise and improve her reading goal. | 4D | Henery | For giving effort in attempting money problems during maths. |
| 2D | Oraib | For following the procedure of writing an information text. Well done! | 4F | Logan | Writing some great Acrostic poems and including language choices that match the theme. |
| LOTE | Nigita 6A | For having all the correct answers on the French quiz, as well as using her communication strategies. | 5A | Dionte | For respectful behaviour during class discussions. |
| 5B | Iulia | For writing an excellent diamante poem about a dog. | |||
| STEAM | Tamrah and Eliza 6B | Consistently being helpful, kind and studious in class | 5C | Chester | For being able to order decimals in ascending or descending order. |
| PE | Samuel 5B Angela 6F | For his anticipation and defensive movements in volleyball. For her determination when playing in a badminton tournament. | 5E | Nathaniel Roda | For showing the school value of ‘Respect’ to all his peers both in the classroom and in the yard. For settling into school well and making friends. |
| 6D | Isabelle | For always demonstrating our school values. | 5F | Bodey | For always making an effort to do his best. |
| 6E | Kenshin | For making a positive social start at school with new friends and classmates | 6B | Savannah | For her detailed explanation on how a cloudburst forms during our Expo. |
Please return ALL Library books to school as we begin our Library stocktake.
What are the students currently learning?
Prep: Investigation Unit – Moving and Grooving
Students will learn… to participate in dance and drama through movement, sound and performance.
Grade 1: Investigation Unit – Poetry
Students will learn… about the purpose of poetry and some different structures. The students will explore colour and free verse poetry in the classroom. They will become aware of the impact of poetry on the mood or emotions of the readers.
Students will write…colour and free verse poems using the formats studied in the classroom.
Grade 2: Investigation Unit – Express Yourself – Poetry
Students will learn… to analyse and appreciate poetry as a form of expression that evokes an awareness or emotional response to an experience through the language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. They will learn how poets use words to create imagery and effect. They will learn that poets use sentence structure, grammar and punctuation for impact.
Students will write… Free verse, Alphabet poems and Concrete poems.They will learn to choose language for effect, to move words and phrases and to consider alternative punctuation and engage in the processes of drafting, editing and improving their work.
Grade 3: Investigation Unit – Poetry
Students will learn… to analyse and appreciate poetry as a form of expression that evokes an awareness or emotional response to an experience through the language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. They will learn how poets use words and literary devices to create imagery and effect. They will learn that poets use sentence structure, grammar and punctuation for impact.
Students will write… Free verse, Emotion and Cinquain poetry. They will learn to choose language for effect, to move words and phrases and to consider alternative punctuation and engage in the processes of drafting, editing and improving their work. This is particularly important when writing poetry with syllable rules such as Haiku, Cinquain, and Tanka.
Grade 4: Investigation Unit – Poetry
Students will learn… to analyse and appreciate poetry as a form of expression that evokes an awareness or emotional response to an experience through the language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. They will learn how poets use words and literary devices to create imagery and effect. They will learn that poets use sentence structure, grammar and punctuation for impact.
Students will write… Free Verse, Haiku and Acrostic poetry.They will learn to choose language for effect, to move words and phrases and to consider alternative punctuation and engage in the processes of drafting, editing and improving their work. This is particularly important when writing poetry with syllable rules such as Haiku, Cinquain, and Tanka.
Grade 5: Investigation Unit – Poetry
Students will… to analyse and appreciate poetry as a form of expression that evokes an awareness or emotional response to an experience through the language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. They will learn how poets use words and literary devices to create imagery and effect. They will learn that poets use sentence structure, grammar and punctuation for impact.
Students will write… Free verse and Diamante poetry.They will learn to choose language for effect, to move words and phrases and to consider alternative punctuation and engage in the processes of drafting, editing and improving their work.
Grade 6: Investigation Unit – Australian Poetry
Students will learn… that the bush ballad, bush song or bush poem is a style of poetry and folk music that depicts the life, character and scenery of the Australian bush. They will study the works from the old masters such as Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson. The students will learn about some of Australia’s modern Australian poets such as Col Wilson. They will learn that Bush ballads usually have a simple rhyme structure. They can be funny or sad. The words used are colourful, colloquial and Australian. They tell stories of action and adventure about bushranging, droving, droughts, floods, life on the frontier, and relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Students will write…responses to literature.
STEAM FUN!
Our STEAM team is very proud of our talented Grade 6 students who were demonstrating their robotic engineering skills. This week they were building rubbish grabbing inventions! Many of these students have been frequenting the STEAM room at lunchtimes. It is heart-warming as teachers, to witness their enthusiasm.
Danait, Eliza, Tejas, Pascal, Rama, Prince, Emma, Maddie, Aarav, Long, Danny, Samar and Elisese
| GRADE 6 NATURAL DISASTERS EXPO Last week, over the 9th and 10th of November, the Grade 6s presented their engaging projects on a variety of Natural Disasters to display their learning in Investigations for the first half of the term. Many students worked extremely hard on researching their chosen disaster- creating posters, dioramas and interactive displays as a major homework assignment. Grade 6 students also wrote several explanation texts during class time about how natural disasters such as Heatwaves, Avalanches and Volcanoes occur to support themselves in their speaking presentations. Grades ranging from Prep to Grade 5 booked in times to visit one of the six grades and the feedback both on the day and afterwards was extremely positive. Students asked a variety of questions to the Grade 6s and the environment of sharing learning and celebrating hard work was wonderful to see across all of our Grade 6 classrooms. The Grade 6 teachers would like to thank all of the grades and staff who visited, our families who supported their students in completing their homework and to our Grade 6s themselves for all their hard work. Landslides By Taniesha Student Feedback: “I loved Diamond’s volcano because he could make it explode!” – Diamond “I loved all of the presentations because they were all beautiful and colourful” – Sommer “I really liked all of the volcanoes because they really looked cool and they had lava” – Wyatt “JJ’s presentation about earthquakes looked beautiful” – Sam “I liked all of the tornadoes presentations because they had a loot of detail and knowledge” – Sera “I liked James’ work about volcanoes because he had a lot of features and detail” – Raiden Earthquake model showed how bad the disaster can be” – Jasper I liked it because it told us about Tsunamis and had lots of details” – Paige “I liked the tornado farm because there were pigs in it” – Kayleigh “I liked the volcano with the little bugs on it.” – Levi “I really liked the sinkhole where the car was about to fall. There was lots of detail” – Rose “I liked the one with the avalanche made out of cotton balls with miniature trees covered in snow” – Sajida “I liked the blizzard it was beautiful” – Saggu “The student who made the sinkhole was able to answer my really tricky questions like how are sinkholes formed – it was to do with limestone and water.” Connor The erupting volcano was really cool. It was really cool to see what happens to the volcano. – Inara I liked to see what happens to the water in our environment. – Maddison The bushfires looked so real. – Rylan Teacher Feedback: Tylers’ Earthquake – Had lots of detail in his diorama and was very informative” – Mrs Honey “It was good to meet the Grade 6 students. The students loved seeing the hard work. It was nice to see so many students take pride in their work” – Mr Tandurella “Students were excited and motivated to share their work. Grade 2 found presentations engaging and informative. You could feel the sense of pride in their work” – Mr Redmayne “It was great to see all of the hard work and thought that went into these projects. The cyclone and Volcano were particularly impressive. We liked seeing the different presentation methods” – Miss Theodorou |
| Grade 3B EMOTION POEMS Grade 3 are analysing different types of poetry and creating their own poetry. Last week we wrote some Emotion Poems using the structures and features of this type of poetry. |
| Grade 3/4 Cricket Gala Day On Friday the 11th of November, a select group of students headed over to Arnolds Creek Reserve, to take on the best cricketers in the district, in an action packed, day of Super Eights cricket. Our students ranged in experience, with a few of the girls not knowing what cricket actually was a week earlier. But wowee, once the games started the reverse sweeps, leg breaks and run outs started to flow. Despite a rain delay and an apprehensive Wanda McDonald (not sure she knew much about cricket before Friday) both the mixed team and the girls team came away from the day as district champions. Well done on your achievements Melton South Primary School cricketers, you have set a high standard for the basketballers to emulate this Friday. |