IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES

Important school dates to remember:

TarraWarra Museum of Art – Postponed to Friday 20th August

Prep swimming program – Monday September 6th – Friday September 10th

Grade 1/2 swimming program – Monday 30th August – September 3rd

Grade 3/4 swimming program – Monday August 23rd – Friday August 27th

Grade 5/6 Aussie sports expo – Postponed until Term 3 or 4 (Date to be confirmed)

Whole School Assembly: Online (in person if possible) Friday 23rd July

Grade 5/6 Ski trip – Postponed until further notice

Welcome back everyone! What a great relief it is to be back at school again. As we have just returned from remote learning, I have only had the pleasure of working with our grade 3/4 cohort and one class from our grade 5/6 group this week.

Our grade 3/4’s worked diligently to finish off their paintings inspired by Australian artist Hayley Mischief Lord and boy do they look great!

The grade 5/6 class worked on their self-portraits and are coming very close to completing them. I can’t wait to share the results with you next week.

In the gallery this week, I thought I’d share some finished work from a range of classes that I haven’t had the chance to show you yet. We have some really talented artists here at Badger Creek Primary School. I’m so proud of the beautiful work that they have produced.

Have a great week.

Vanessa Imberger

Art Teacher

Music News

Dear Parents and Friends,

Welcome back to onsite music. We have all had to become so much more adaptable haven’t we? This week some of our grade 3/4 students recorded their performances that we were planning for assembly and they did a really wonderful job! Well done to those children. It took a lot of persistence and concentration.  I am really proud to be their teacher.  The recordings will be included in next week’s newsletter.

The senior school will be learning to record and compose music on the ipad app, Garage Band. We are starting with the 12 bar blues. Over the coming weeks we will be adding lyrics and melodies to our compositions. We are also leaning about the origin of the Blues and its influence of modern music styles.

I have included a video of Vedra playing along with the body percussion for Hit the Road Jack with her mum. They aced it! I have also included an original song written by Pearl and Edie that was recorded during lockdown using the Garage Band App. Enjoy!

Vedra’s Body Percussion

Pearl and Edie’s Song

The Preps have reentered school with hearts full of gratitude. It’s been so wonderful to watch each of the children slide straight back into their routines. And what’s better than that? Their learning has reached new lengths as they carried in with them all the knowledge that was developed during remote learning and built upon these understandings  together as a team.

But of course, we’re not surprised about any of this as today we reached 100 days of Prep.

We are absolutely feeling 100 days brighter and braver. Just take a look at us…

We are so excited to be back at school! Thank you to the whole 1/2 community for your wonderful efforts during remote learning 5.0.

We have been working on becoming fluent readers and we would like all our students to practice at home.  Remember you can use Sunshine Online to record your reading- www.sunshineonline.com.au

Here are some tips to help you out!

Good luck 1/2’s 😊

3/4s have shown resilience like we wouldn’t believe, we had so much fun creating our passion projects on remote learning and now in class we are delving deep into Fractions and Inferring. Our Writing is going to be fascinating as we continue our journey through fictional recounts (a story that happens in real life to you, that you make fantastical)

A few special people have shared with us some of the key learning that they have been doing during remote learning, including making CUPCAKES and watching the Olympics. Our students will have an opportunity to share their passion project with the class in the coming week.

Great job 3/4s for your incredible growth mindset whilst on Remote Learning, it shows being back in the classroom  and switched on!

Hello to all our Amazing Families,

It’s been a whirlwind of a week as students have quickly adjusted to moving from remote learning to being back in the classroom with such minimal notice between both. It’s such a pleasure to see everyone again in our classrooms, rather than online and we are incredibly excited to work with students as they explore the concepts introduced to them whilst away as a large group of peers. As always, we’re so proud of the resiliency and determination shown by our senior school leaders in adapting to so many changes with such focus and courage.

In reading this week, we’ve been focusing on delving deeper into inferring what’s occurring in texts, by linking the evidence student’s find in these to their pre-existing knowledge to help them form a stronger understanding of their reasons behind their inferences.

In writing, students are continuing to experiment with conjunctions and adverbial phrases as they develop their writing through both compound and complex sentences. This focus allows students to not only link ideas together, but also build their audience’s interest through exploring dependent and independent ideas within their writing.

For maths, we have continued to support students individual needs in their various PONT groups, with each group focusing on different areas and strategies to utilise addition.

In inquiry, we are looking at the three different levels of government, the roles and responsibilities of each, and the impact each has on our every day lives through independent research with creative ways to demonstrate their understanding and learning.

Well done to all our students, and families who have worked tirelessly to support each other over the past few weeks.

Regards

The Grade Five and Six Teaching Team

One of our amazing students here at Badger Creek was lucky enough to find a 5 leaf clover.

I have been told that 4 leaf clovers are rare and lucky, but to find a 5 leaf brings the finder extra luck.

Make sure you keep an eye out around your homes and school to see what you can find.

Well done Riley on your amazing find!

Last chance for Book Club

Issue 5 of book club will be closing this coming Monday 2nd August. 

Please have all orders in by this coming Monday.

Due to recent restrictions announced by the Victorian Government, plus many weeks in lockdown, we have made the decision to temporarily postpone our production of The Little Mermaid Jr.

Once restrictions have been eased we will announce the new performance dates. We are hoping these dates will be in 2021.

Any tickets that have already been purchased will be fully refunded within 5 days.