Nerae Preece Acting Principal
From the Principal
From the Principal’s seat…
Hi everyone,
If you are reading this, you are visiting our brand new website! It has taken a lot of time and care to put together by our dedicated Communication team, led by Jenny Legg. I would like to thank all of those involved in making it happen. You will find it is a one stop shop to find out all the information you will need to help your kids with their school learning, with links to our calendar, our newsletter and links to Qkr, as well updated pictures from learning experiences that our students are enjoying.
Transition 2 Remote Learning (T2RL)
As you will be aware, we are collating activities and work for your learner to ensure that they are ready to continue learning in the event of school closing. You can access the Badger Creek T2RL site here.
Assembly in a different mode
This week we will be hosting our assembly in a very different way this week. We will be recording and broadcasting our assembly in classrooms. For a bit of fun and something a little bit different. Mr Clingin is producing the broadcast with our media leaders Clancy and Jett. We can’t wait to see it!
That’s it for this week… Till next week, be kind.
Nerae Preece
This Week at Badger Creek
Art at Badger Creek
This year we are delighted to welcome Vanessa Imberger as our Art teacher at Badger Creek. Vanessa is trained in fine and textile arts. She also runs her own screen printing business, making hand designed and printed homewares. She has a passion for teaching, you will start to see the beautiful results popping up around the school in the work of the children. Please see the Q& A session with Vanessa below:
Q: What is something you enjoy about teaching?
A: I love having the opportunity to share my skillset and offer a range of mediums and methods to the students. It gives me great pleasure to see the students engrossed in the art making as they engage with the creative process.
Q: What is one of your favourite artistic activities?
A: My favourite activity is screen printing fabric lengths. I love creating new patterns.
Q: What do you like to di in your spare time?
A: Gardening and screen-printing make me happy.
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Music News
If you missed assembly last week, you missed two gorgeous performances by our grade 3/4 students. Grade 3/4 A performed Better Than by John Butter. I was so proud of the students as it had rather as tricky instrumental past that was played on the pianos and xylophones. While we were learning this song, students rotated around the instruments and microphones. We had a great time.
The second performance was a very heartfelt and moving rendition of Count on Me by Bruno Mars. I was so happy when the audience joined in on the choruses of this performance. We do love to sing at Badger. It strikes at the heart of what I love about teaching music, to see students and communities singing together. May this last their whole lives.
Instrumental Music lessons and Women’s Choir
In an effort to protect our community, it has been decided to suspend all music lessons and Women’s Choir Rehearsals for rest of the term. We will reassess the situation as it develops in term two. We are a bit sad about this but it will not be forever and we will get back to it as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.
@ The Bush Hut
As part of our partnership with the Healesville Sanctuary, Badger Creek Primary School have been given a unique opportunity to have the use of an off-campus learning space at the Sanctuary Bush Hut. Here we will be able to have back stage access to the Sanctuary staff and grounds. We will participate in unique and exciting learning activities in a very special place.
Grade 1/2 B were lucky enough to be one of the first grades to visit the bush hut at the Healesville Sanctuary and we had an amazing time. It was a sunny and beautiful day and we felt so special to go beyond usual public spaces and to connect to the Sanctuary in a different way.
Here are some of the interesting things we did:
- Measuring, observing and identifying animal scat
- Listening to and identifying the sounds of the bush
- Texture rubbings of different surfaces
One of the highlights was a visit to the animal hospital where we watched a kookaburra wake up from an anaesthetic. We felt like VIPs!
Kath Douglas
Grade 1/2 teacher
