TERM 4, 2017 .  

 

 

Welcome back to Term 4! We hope that everyone had a                     

fantastic and restful break. Term 4 is once again looking like                     

another busy term for the Senior School with a range of                     

events and activities taking place to satisfy the many                 

interests and needs of our students.

 

Literacy 

In Term 4 student will continued to develop their                 

understanding of the 6 Traits of Writing through a range of                     

genres, culminating in our major task for the term - a ‘Multi                       

Genre’ project. Year 6 students will be creating a scrapbook                   

of their primary school life, as a keepsake of their 7 years of                         

schooling. A different genre of writing will be developed for                   

each year. The year 5’s will also be completed a variety of                       

writing genre pieces, but will instead be based around                 

something they are passionate about.  

Reading activities will focus on consolidating students’ skills               

involving the concepts of sequencing, think aloud, making               

inferences and predictions, visualising and summarising.           

Students will continue to be exposed to a range of quality                     

literature to support their learning.  

Numeracy 

In Term 4, students will be supported to discover and                   

explore strategies to solve open-ended problems in different               

ways, and make connections between their learning in the                 

classroom and using maths in everyday life. Targeted maths                 

groups will support classroom learning, and areas of focus                 

will include: 

- Statistics and Probability 

- Problem Solving 

 

Rotations 

Rotations will continue this term with a new range of                   

subjects. This day provides students the opportunity to               

learn from a range of teachers, giving them an insight to                     

Secondary School. The three rotations will continue to take                 

place on Tuesday. 

 

Government: Mr Tate & Mrs Ridley 

Revues/Filming: Mr Halstead & Mr Dixon 

Leadership & Transition: Mr Den Elzen & Miss Fraser 

 

Transition 

In Term 3, the Year 6 students received confirmation of                   

their 2018 placements into Secondary School. Year 5               

students should be beginning to attend transition sessions,               

school tours and orientations regarding their 2019             

placements.  

On Tuesday 12th December the students attending             

Government Secondary Schools will be attending their Year               

7 Orientation Day. If you have any questions or concerns,                   

please do not hesitate to contact Kali Fraser at                 

fraser.kali.k@edumail.vic.gov.au.  

iPads

Students are not allowed to use their iPads during recess                   

and lunchtimes when there is a weather timetable. Students                 

are being encouraged to be more sociable with their friends                   

and take part in games and other activities. 

Last year we found that most of the damage and ‘accidents’                     

occurred to iPads in the second part of the year as students                       

became more complacent about their device. Now is a good                   

time to discuss again with your child about how to care for                       

their iPad. 

● Please ensure that the iPads are charged and ready for                   

school each day 

● The floor is not a good place to leave iPads  

● Ensure Apps are updated regularly 

● No messaging apps 

● Return home screen and lock screen to the owner’s                 

photo 

 

Year 5 Coonawarra Adventure Camp 

Year 5 Camp to Coonawarra Farm Resort is fast approaching                   

and will take place in Week 6 from 13th - 17th November. 

We appreciate the prompt return of Camp forms to assist                   

with our organisation. The Year 5 students and teachers are                   

looking forward to an exciting week away! 

Important dates this term:

Monday 16th October: Year 6 Graduation Parent Helper               

Meeting 

Friday 20th October: T-20 Cricket / Museum & IMAX                 

Excursion / General Assembly 

Monday 23rd October: Art Show 

Monday 30th October: Transition through the school 

Tuesday 31st October: iPad information evening 

Wednesday 1st November: Hooptime Regional Finals 

Thursday 2nd November: Count Us In 

Friday 3rd November: Presentation Assembly 

Monday 6th November: Curriculum day (students do not               

come to school) 

Tuesday 7th November: Cup day (students do not come to                   

school) 

Friday 10th November: Mahroondah Youth Voice for Peace 

Monday 13th November - Friday 17th: Year 5 Camp                 

Coonawarra 

Friday 17th November: General Assembly 

Friday 1st December: Presentation Assembly 

Tuesday 12th December: Year 7 Orientation Day 

Wednesday 13th December: Parent helpers morning tea 

Friday 15th December: Meet 2017 teacher 

Friday 15th December: General Assembly 

Tuesday 19th December: Year 6 Graduation 

Friday 22nd December: Last day of the year 

Friday 22nd December: General Assembly 

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Homework 

Continue to support your child to consolidate effective               

homework routines, including time management and           

personal organisation, in readiness for Secondary School.  

Set homework will continue this term and can always be                   

found on the Senior School site:           

http://bit.ly/chpshomework 

Please keep in mind the all homework tasks can be                   

completed offline. If you have any queries about               

homework please see your child’s teacher. 

 

Physical Education

PE in the Senior school in term 4 is a mixture of lots of fun                             

and major games including Cricket and Volleyball. The T20                 

Blast School Competition is on again in October for bot boys                     

and girls. Students will be taking part in Fitness Testing with                     

the traditional Beep Test as well as Sit Ups and a standing                       

horizontal jump. These tests were conducted in Term 1 and                   

will be done again in Term 4 for a comparison. In general,                       

our students are pretty fit as they are involved in after                     

school sports clubs as well as our school community being                   

active within their families. 

 

Noreen McMenaman 

Science

This term in the Senior school, the students will be studying                     

a Biological Science unit called ‘Marvellous           

Micro-organisms’. During this unit, the students will be               

exploring how micro-organisms affect everyone. They will             

discuss that some are helpful, while others are harmful and                   

also the impact this has on their daily lives. This unit                     

provides opportunities for students to develop an             

understanding of the role of micro-organisms in food and                 

medicine. Students investigate the conditions         

micro-organisms need to grow, learn about yeast and the                 

bread-making process, and research the development of             

penicillin.  

 

Laura Kitching 

Visual Arts

This term students will have the opportunity to work with                   

visiting artist Rhonda Nadasdy. Students will follow             

Rhonda’s creative process to develop a house, tree and bird                   

using the 3D medium of clay. Students will also learn the                     

difference between glaze application and painting to             

complete their work. All students will have one piece of                   

artwork in the biennial Art Show, Monday 23rd October. The                   

Art Show will begin at 6:30pm till 8pm. Students will be                     

encouraged to discuss and respond about their creations,               

using arts language in the process. Art Academy program                 

will be running again on Tuesday lunchtime. Exciting times                 

for our Year 6 students, as they will be working on our                       

Graduation Project, which will be revealed on Graduation               

night. Student will have the opportunity to create artworks                 

based on Christmas. 

Claudia Michielin 

 

Performing Arts 

Classroom Music 

Students will continue to create music using their voices,                 

ukuleles, xylophones, un-tuned percussion and the other             

many and varied classroom instruments. They will dance,               

play games, listen to and discuss various styles of music and                     

continue to learn to read and write notation. We will be                     

continuing to learn about film music and this term and                   

students will compose a film score for a short movie clip                     

using Garageband and iMovie. Students will be rehearsing               

Christmas songs ready for the end of year concert on                   

Wednesday the 13th of December. 

 

Music Count Us In 

All students will take part in this initiative, whereby around                   

500,000 students from Australia and Australasia sing the               

same song, at the same time, on the same day. The song is                         

‘Shine Together’ written and recorded by Australian             

students, the time is 12:00 and the day is Thursday 2rd of                       

November. The event is live-streamed from 12 noon and you                   

can tune in from wherever you are to watch and listen.                     

Here is a link so that you can listen to this year’s 

song and practise at home: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSTKn0E2Q5o 

 

Choir 

Choir will continue to rehearse on Wednesday lunchtimes               

and Thursdays at 8 a.m. We have an enthusiastic and                   

committed group of choir members this year and families                 

have been fabulous at letting me know about absences. It’s                   

important to keep this level of commitment going right up                   

until the last rehearsal/performance. Students are expected             

to participate in the Christmas Concert on Tuesday 13th of                   

December and at our annual Yarrunga performance, (date               

TBA). I’m also hoping to organise an end-of-year               

breakup/performance at Croydon Centro followed by a             

movie at the Croydon Cinema. 

 

iMUS Band (iPad / Marimba / Ukulele / Steel Drum) 

This will start up again Thursday lunchtime in the second                   

week. We will be working on a song to perform in an                       

assembly this term (date TBA). Everyone is welcome. 

 

Amana Temple 

 

Indonesian 

This term the Senior students will be using Indonesian to                   

talk about personal characteristics, using colours and a               

range of adjectives to talk about eyes, ears, noses, hair etc.                     

The learning intention of this unit is to enable the students                     

to play a game of the board game “Guess Who?” in                     

Indonesian. Google classroom and various iPad apps             

including Languages on Line are an important part of every                   

lesson and it is essential that students have their iPads                   

charged and complete with headphones for every lesson.               

For students in Year 6 who may not be continuing their                     

Indonesian at Secondary school, the learning strategies that               

we use, and skills such as the use of bilingual dictionaries                     

are good preparation for next year and transferable to your                   

next language. You know you can learn a language now, so                     

the next one will be even easier. 

 

Libby Browning 

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Looking back on Term 3

Wakakirri, House Athletics, District Athletics, Local Landscapes, Speech competition, DCT expo, Hooptime, 

Girls Football Gala Day, Norwood Production, AFL Roadshow, Boys Netball Day, Schools Tree Day, Studies of 

Asia day, Tournament of Minds, First Aid in Schools. 

 

 

 

 

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