IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES

Important school dates to remember:

8/4 – 1.30pm – Assembly

8/4 – Last day of term 1 – School concludes at 2.30pm – School bus will be running one hour earlier

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What a wonderful term we have had in the BCPS art room! The students have all been focusing on printmaking and drawing and have used a range of different techniques including monoprinting, foam relief-printing and Gelli plates to create beautiful artworks. The artwork is on display in the office and the hallway outside the art room. Please come and have a look and celebrate the achievements of our very talented students.

Next term we will be focussing on painting and drawing across all year levels and I will be introducing the students to a range of new painting techniques.

Enjoy your holidays and we look forward to another term of creating and making.

Vanessa Imberger

Art Teacher

As our Preps like to sing: “It’s Friday then, it’s Saturday Sunday – WHAT….”

….What, holidays already?!

We have tried our absolute best to squeeze in as much celebration this week as possible because, let’s be honest, these preps deserve it!!

We have been reading for enjoyment, looking at the different sounds the digraphs ai, ng and ee make, and practising forming our letters correctly.

Of course we like to sprinkle in a bit of fun, so we:

-thought about the books we enjoy reading and why, before choosing a book to read to the Koalas at The Sanctuary

-used our magic fingers to trace letters on our friend’s backs and build the letters out of concrete materials before having a go at writing them the correct way

-made ‘Easter Bunny tails’ and paraded them around the school (Ms Preece was super impressed when we bypassed her office)

-had a go at creating ‘tree portraits’ seen out in the yard

-followed a guided drawing of a ‘king’

In maths we explored capacity. We identified containers which were either full, empty, nearly full, nearly empty or half full.

We were so surprised when the Easter Bunny made a special trip to help us with our learning of capacity. She left us a letter and some chocolate eggs, which we used to fill different sized containers. We were shocked to see that what looked to be the ‘smallest’ container had the largest capacity as it held ALL the eggs. While the taller, skinnier container held MOST of the eggs. We learned that we need to consider the width as well as the height before predicting which container holds more.

A special shout out to the Easter Bunny for sneaking back into the classroom during our focused learning time, taking back the easter eggs and using them to create an easter egg hunt on the playground for us. The phone call to Mrs.  C announcing this surprise was pretty magical.

We are assuming that as your reading this newsletter, the preps are fast asleep on the couch after an extremely successful day of discoveries at the Sanctuary yesterday. The children were able to tick off 18 out of 20 animals off their checklists! This equates to approx. 11,000 steps! (we checked Miss H’s watch).

Hence the tired preppies! A big thank you to Barb (Miss H’s Mum) Kristy B , Kristy S  and Ashleigh P for helping out over the day.

Just a little reminder for anyone who may notice they’re missing a school jumper over the holidays- we have our (growing) lost property basket outside our classroom.

Have a wonderful Easter and a safe break, Team Prep!

We are so excited to pick up from where we left off in a couple of weeks.

Love Mrs C & Miss H

Dear Grade 1/2 Community,

What a busy and exciting term it has been! We are amazed at the hard work and flexibility our grade 1/2 students have displayed throughout the course of the past couple of weeks transitioning into our new Balit Space. Well Done to all!

This week in Reading, we have been focusing on non-fiction text features. The students had the opportunity to explore their own just fit books and find different text features.

This week in Writing, we have been exploring Information Reports and their features. We have looked at things like headings, facts and labels that we may find in different Information Reports. Students have been working very hard to complete their Family Tree Information Reports in preparation for our big event after school on Thursday.

This week in Maths, we have been learning about Subtraction and how to use visual strategies to help us solve a range of subtraction problems.

Below are some images of our Balit Space and students working beautifully during learning time.

Reminder… Last Day of Term 1 is Friday the 8^th of April and first day of Term Two is Tuesday the 26^th of April!

Have a great holiday and Happy Easter!

The Grade 1/2 Team 😊

CAMP SUNNYSTONES

The 3/4 students enjoyed a fantastic camp last week. It was a busy three days full of adventures and started with an hour and a half hike into the camp. Our kids enjoyed exploring the 7 acres of bushland in activities such the Survival Game and Geocaching. Dave Clingin (our camp guru) shared some fun campfire songs and we even belted out our favourite sea shanty ‘Wellerman’. There were many children whom camp was the first time they had stayed away from home and family. It was wonderful to see their resilience and the care and support from friends who helped them through the two nights. A  huge thank you to our parent volunteers Mark Morris and Matt Hart for coming with us and supporting teachers and students. Here are some personal reflections from some of our students.

What was your highlight from camp?

“I would say..bow and arrow shooting was cool!”

Tasman

“I liked archery a lot because it was my first time shooting an arrow and I got it into the hay.”

Finn

“Being able to sleep in cabins with Finn and my other friends. It was my first time away from my family for that long.”

Flynn

“Survival game because it was just super fun!”

Milo

“I liked hut building cause when it was the end we got to collapse the sticks that were holding up the door.”

Sarah

“I liked the games like survival game. We got to be in teams and hide from other players.”

Emma

“I liked the survival game because you get to run around the bush and get to kill other creatures. I was a human so I had to kill herbivores and carnivores. I couldn’t kill germs.”

Harry

“I liked hut building cause we all got wet.”

Alba

“I really enjoyed canoeing, even Annabelle and I were saying STOP to Evelyn because she was trying to capsize the boat”.

Sanne

“The bush cooking, cos I thought it was cool how you can make things out of scraps in the bush. We made choc orange puddings with the half orange peel and special chocolate pudding mix.”

Mika

“The hut building. It was fun.”
Audrey

We wish all our families a safe and happy Easter break and look forward to seeing you refreshed for term two.

Needing a night out?

Want to try something different?

Come and support the Croydon Wind Symphony’s 50^th anniversary concert on the 9^th of April at 7:30pm at the Alan Ross Centre – Billanook College

Tickets

Adult: $25

Child: $15

Family $75 (2 x adult, 2 x child)

Visit the website:
www.trybooking.com/broqp

Use the code ‘Badger’ for a 15% discount!

If you’re lucky, you might even see Miss Drill playing the Saxophone!