We have an abundance of lost property.

On Monday 14^th February all items will be outside on the Sanctuary side of school.

Any unclaimed items will be donated to charity.

THANK YOU!

IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES

Important school dates to remember:

18/2 – Grade 3-6 District Swimming

21/2 – Welcome Morning Tea

21/2 – 3 Way Interviews (Information to be available soon)

23/2 – Grade 5 / 6 kayaking

24/2 – Prep Body Safety Parent session

1/3 – Prep Body safety incursion

3/3 – 9.30am – Assembly

14/3 – Labour Day public holiday

24/3 – 9.30am – Assembly

28/3 – School curriculum Day

8/4 – 1.30pm – Assembly

8/4 – Last day of term 1 – School concludes at 2.30pm

3 Way Interviews

3 Way interviews will be held via webex on Monday 21st February.

Interview times will go live from today (Friday 11/2) and can be booked through the Compass portal.

Booking availability will be from 3:45pm – 8.30pm

If you have any issues organising a booking time, please do not hesitate to contact the office.

CSEF Application

Badger Creek PS is now taking CSEF applications for 2022.

CSEF is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families with camps, sports and excursions.

If you have previously received CSEF last year, you do not need to apply again as we will complete this on your behalf.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the office.

What another fantastic week in Prep! This week, the preps were so excited to spend some time with their Grade 5 buddies. It was wonderful to see the relationships being built between the two cohorts. The grade 5’s have been an excellent support to the preps as they settle into the school routine.

We had some special visitors join us this week for a picnic, our teddies! In phonics, one of the letters/sounds we investigated this week was the letter ‘T’. To support the children’s learning, we invited our teddies along to school with us. After each sound. During reading, we have been using our magnifying glasses to search for our specific focus sounds in texts.

In math’s, we have been working on counting to 20, our number recognition and being able to order numbers in correct sequence. In writing, we have been focusing on our writing moving from left to right across our page while using our phonics sound charts as support to identify the starting sounds of words.

This week, we sent home the children’s learning folders with them. Inside the learning folders, you will find take home books, a reading log and our Smart Spelling words. Please support your child by ensuring they bring their learning folders with them every Monday to swap over their books for the week 😊

Reminders:  

• Could you please ensure that you have returned your child’s School Nursing forms. The Nurse will be visiting us on Monday 28^th February and Tuesday 1^st March.
• Body Safe Parent/Carer Workshop Thursday, 24^th February, 6.30-8.30pm.

Love Mrs. C, Miss H. and Miss V.

What a fantastic week we’ve had! We’ve begun ‘Take Home Reading’ and children are showing pride and care for their books, diaries and satchels. Thank you to all our families for helping our students pack their satchel. This week also saw the beginning of SPECIALIST CLASSES!! YAY! Our children merrily joined in with Music, Art and P.E. Thanks to our wonderful Specialist teachers for making our first classes so special!

A ‘heads up’ that our Library sessions start in W3 and will be on Thursday (Miss Demanuele and Ms Krueger) and Friday (Ms Saffin, Mrs Riley & Mrs A). Please assist your child to pack their library bag and any books they may still have from 2021. 🙂

This week in Reading, we have been focusing on Read to Self, Read to Someone and Listen to Reading. We also had the opportunity to work with iPads and to utilise our CAFE Book Boxes that hold our carefully selected, ‘Good Fit Books’. Next week, we are focusing on introducing our Reader’s Notebook, helping us to show evidence of our learning, as well as exploring critical reading strategies including ‘Check For Understanding’ and ‘Cross-Checking’. 

In Writing, we collaborated to create our Welcome to Country (see our photos for some 1/2D drafts and our published copy). We also gathered Writing inspiration including pictures from magazines and hit the ground running with Smart Spelling – our favourite!! Next week, we are focusing on building our wrist strength and improving our pencil grip, as well as exploring the Writing Process including planning, drafting and editing. We kindly ask that students bring in an artefact from home next Monday, as inspiration for Writing! 🙂

In Maths, we’ve been exploring Place Value with varied materials including blocks, dice and cards. We learnt a fun Maths game called BUST – ask your children to teach it to you! Next week, we are working on ‘Time’ including calendars, duration and sequencing events.

In Inquiry, we are beginning a unit of work on ‘History’ through our topic ‘Identity’ that explores our local history and community. We are giving our students the opportunity to voice what they already know and what they’d like to know, and will base our planning of these findings.

We can’t wait for an exciting Week 3 and wish everyone a safe and happy weekend!

Thank you to all our 3/4 students for making it such a terrific start to 2022.

Over the past two weeks, students have shown just how adaptable they are when it comes to learning. We have thrown them into new routines and rigorous learning and feel such pride in how they have stepped up. Setting expectations has been our priority as we develop workshops for Reading, Writing and Maths.

Next week, we look forward to beginning our curriculum, including the following:

SMART Spelling –  /se/ as in horse

Reading – Schema i.e. Making connections to your own experiences (Text to self.)

Writing – Ideas. Creating and sprouting ideas to write about.

Maths – Place Value to 3,4,5 digits and beyond.

Check out some of our learning recently

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3/4 Team

What a start the Grade 5/6’s have had to 2022!

It has been a busy two weeks getting back into the swing of learning and revisiting our school and classroom expectations.

We have focused on being respectful, showing acts of service, working collaboratively and recognising other people’s emotions. We have learnt about empathy and how we can respond when people need help.

In literacy, we have been setting up our Reader’s and Writer’s workshops, choosing books that challenge us and bring in artifacts that are special to us to inspire our writing.

In numeracy, we have been exploring the Mathematicians Tool Shed, choosing the most efficient strategy for a problem.