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Channel 10 Visit with Kate Freebairn

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Tonight our class was a part of the Channel 10 weather presentations with Kate Freebairn. We met Kate in the Library with Mrs Freebairn’s Year 4 class and made some weather pictures – sunny and rainy. We used these signs to help Kate present the weather.

It was lovely to meet Kate – she also knew some of the parents of children in our class through their jobs at Channel 10. Kate talked to us about her job and all of the responsibilities she has when she’s presenting the weather. It was a really fun, exciting and interesting day!!!

Here’s some photos of our weather presentations with Kate.
Channel 10 weather with Kate on PhotoPeach

What did you think of our presentation on the weather tonight?
Tell us what were the highlights of your day.
 

Safety Assist Visit

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Today we had Rona from Safety Assist visit our school as a part of our Safety unit of inquiry. She talked to us and explained how Safety Assist houses/ places in our community can help to keep us safe. Safety Assist used to be known as Safety Houses.

Rona explained that Safety Assist places always show the red and yellow signs in their windows, on  letterboxes or on street signs, there is a smily face on the signs. Rona also explained that if you are feeling unsafe, feel threatened, are lost or need help for some reason you can go into a Safety Assist place and they will help you.

Places that offer Safety Assist help can be:

  • Fire stations
  • Police stations
  • houses
  • shops
  • schools
  • Public Libraries
  • Australia Post Offices
  • businesses
  • Surf Life Saving patrol bases
  • Banks

These places will get help for you straight away and make sure you are safe very quickly.

What message did you learn from today’s Safety Assist visit?

 

 

A Question for our Parents

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At Craigburn Primary School we are very lucky to have access to lots of different types of technology to support us in our learning.

In our class we have:

  • laptops
  • Apple computers (that we can flip into Windows if needed)
  • iPads
  • iPods
  • iPhones
  • iPad minis
  • Interactive Whiteboards
  • digital cameras

We use these devices for research, publishing our work, communicating with others around the world, downloading music and movies, practising skills and for fun!! We also love our class blog that shares our learning with the whole world!

Lots of our class members have devices and computers at home too – these can help with their school learning and be used for fun too.

When Miss Sporn went to school there were no computers at schools and only 6 electronic typewriters to share with a whole class.

Here is what an electronic typewriter looks like.

Miss Sporn learned to type on a manual typewriter – here’s a picture of one.

There have been huge changes since those days!!!

We’d like to invite our parents, grandparent,family friends to post their comments about how technology has changed for them over time. What did you use as a child or adult compared to now? Perhaps you had turntables, Commodore 64 computers, polaroid cameras or something else – we may need pictures so we can see what they look like.

We’re really looking forward to hearing from you about your experience with technology.

 

Student Led Conferences

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This week we began our student led conferences. This is a special time when we share our learning with the families in our class. Each student has prepared a recording sheet that reflects their learning using the You Can Do It – Program Achieve titles of:

  • Confidence
  • Persistence
  • Getting Along and
  • Organisation.
We used our books to show examples of our learning in these areas. We needed to choose our work samples very  carefully to make sure they match what we’ve been talking about.
The children have had to be very brave and work hard to complete this task. It is a big task to run a meeting with parents and teachers there and talk about your learning, achievements and set goals for the future.
So far the students who have presented have done an amazing job – congratualtions!!!
We’re sure the rest of the student led conferences will go really well too.
Here are some photos of us planning our work to share.