Sports Expo

Posted on November 20, 2015 by lisasporn

On Thursday we braved the heat to participate in our annual Sports Expo. We had a great day – as usual! We loved joining in with the different sports clinics and learned lots of new skills.

The sports we played were:

soccer
hockey
gymnastics
yoga
wheelie sports
cricket

We’d never played some of these sports before and this was a great chance to see what they were like. Not only did we need to learn the different sports and the skills needed to play a game but we had a strong focus on being a good sport too.

We’d like to say a huge ‘thank you’ to Mrs Pettman, our PE teacher, who co-ordinated the entire day. She had to make some last minute changes due to the heat and baseball being cancelled. We’re going to catch that session up in a couple of weeks.

What was your favourite part of Sports Expo?

Letters to Santa

Posted on November 18, 2015 by lisasporn

Today our whole class wrote letters to Santa.

We learned how to write a letter, how to set a letter out properly, we asked Santa a few questions and we also mentioned a couple of presents we’d like to receive for Christmas. We were very busy on our laptops and desktop computers typing the good copies of our letters. We should receive a letter from Santa around December the 18th – fingers crossed!!

Here we are busily typing!

What would you ask Santa for? How do you celebrate Christmas with your family?

Premier’s Reading Challenge & Premier’s Be Active Challenge

Posted on November 18, 2015 by lisasporn

CONGRATULATIONS!

Today our entire class received their certificates and medals to acknowledge their efforts in the Premier’s Reading Challenge and the Premier’s Be Active Challenge.

These photos show our whole class with their Reading Challenge certificates and medals. Each student read at least 12 books to receive their reward.

Toby and Bryce received certificates for their efforts.

Oz and Josh received bronze medals.

Kyah, Bella, Yaw, Riley, Zander, Lara, Matilda R, Ashlyn, Lauren, Imogen, Bel, Zoe and Fraser all received silver medals.

Jon, Keira, Reed, Matilda W, Coby, Nicholas, Harley, Harrison and Evan all received a gold medal!

We’d like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Langham for organising our Premier’s Reading Challenge medals.

We’d also like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Pettman for organising our Premier’s Be Active Challenge medals.

Gala Day

Posted on November 15, 2015 by lisasporn

Last Friday we had our annual Gala Day. This involves our Yr 3-7 students offering to run a stall of any kind. These stalls can be: selling cupcakes, popcorn, nail painting, soccer goal competition, bike rides, knocking skittles over, face painting, games of many kinds…..just to name a few. It’s a great enterprise opportunity for our students to work out how to run a stall and promote it around the school via posters.

The Reception to Year 2 students have the first chance to go shopping, play games or go on rides and then the Yr 3-7 students to have a turn.

We use the money raised to sponsor our school’s World Vision child in Africa.

Remembrance Day

Posted on November 11, 2015 by lisasporn

Today is Remembrance Day. This is a very important day in Australian history as it is a special memorial day for Australia and the Commonwealth Nations. At 11am on the 11th of November we pause to remember all of the soldiers who have fought and died for Australia.

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month represents the formal end to hostilities of the First World War and so we pause for a minute to remember all of the soldiers who have or are fighting to keep Australia a safe country for us to live in.

Many of our students made red poppies to wear for the day. The red poppies are a emblem from the poem In Flander’s Fields and the red also reminds us of the blood that has been spilled during war.

Our SLEG students hosted today’s very important assembly and did a wonderful job.

Student Awards

Posted on November 11, 2015 by lisasporn

We would like to say a huge congratulations to Matilda W, Reed, Toby, Coby, Lara, Oz, Yaw and Keira for receiving a student award at our last assembly on Monday. They’ve all worked really hard to earn their awards and should be very proud of their achievement.

Daily 5 Book Sale

Posted on November 1, 2015 by lisasporn

We recently held a book sale in our class. We LOVE a book sale as it gives every student in our class a chance to share 1 or more books that they think we might like to read.

As a part of each student’s presentation they need to include:

the title
the name of the author
a basic retell of the story (without giving away the ending!)
the format or style of the book
and most importantly – why it might appeal to us as a reader! What will we enjoy about the book?

This time we had Riley, Bel, Coby, Oz, Lauren, Harrison, Keira and Jon present books to us. Each of them did a wonderful job – they gave very detailed insights into the books they presented. Lots of class members were looking for them in our Library during our book borrowing session that afternoon.

Great job to Riley, Bel, Coby, Oz, Lauren, Harrison, Keira and Jon for getting us all interested in some new books.