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To our wonderful Andamooka Primary and Preschool community,
It is already Week Four and we are off to a great start. Each class has spent significant time building their relationships and deciding how they will approach their learning goals this school year. Although most of you would be aware already we are utilising a different class structure to last year, with a dedicated Reception to Year 3 class led by Chrystal Stewart, then a Year 3 to 6 class with Fiona Wilson and lastly a standalone Preschool class with Shannon Crowhurst. We plan to celebrate everyone’s learning progress at regular intervals and we hope to be able to invite you all to an assembly in the ‘not too’ distant future.
Acquaintance Night was a wonderful time of connecting with the community and a big thank you to all who came as you certainly made me feel very welcome and accepted into you fabulous town. Special mention needs to go to Scott Groeschel who very kindly cooked our barbeque and then even did the washing up!
Everyone at school is now familiar with our wristbands that help up all identify and work towards the self-management of our own ability to learn and engage. If you would like to understand it further and possibly even apply it at home, please feel free to see me.
Our overall focus remains on helping the students to feel able and ready to develop their reading, writing and numeracy skills as much as possible this year and already we are seeing growth in our students.
Till next time
Bronte, your Principal.
In the Upper Primary classroom, we have been focused on working together as one group. We have learnt how to play a song on the glockenspiel and can play together keeping in time. We are learning how to play a variety of instruments in a very simple way and then will play together as a group.
In our first week all the students designed artwork to cover the old cupboard we have in the room. Together they painted their section of the cupboard and supported each other to complete it in one afternoon.
To decorate our classroom the students handstitched the hems on some cotton squares and then tied them in interesting shapes and dyed them. The different designs look stunning on our back wall and will form a backdrop for displaying our work during the term.
Fiona Wilson
In the junior primary classroom, we have been focusing on establishing routines and building relationships. As a class, we have played many games to build teamwork and social skills. We have enjoyed reading a range of story books and students have been working on showing excellent listening skills. We are learning what it means to be a bucket filler. We started by reading the book ‘Have You Filled a Bucket Today?’ The students then decorated their own ’bucket’ and wrote one nice thing about each person in the class, encouraging kindness and building self-esteem. The students have loved the craft activities over the past two weeks. We have made playdough, experimented with watercolour paints, made wooden spoon puppets and created a jellyfish in a bottle.
Chrystal Stewart
The last few weeks in Kindy we have been developing relationships as we got to know the new students who have joined us and our new teacher. The children have shown an interest in water play, often requesting it on our hot days. We conducted an experiment to see if different objects would sink or float, collecting items from within our play yard to test.
Shannon Crowhurst
Name: Indyanna
Teacher: Mrs Wilson
Crows or Port Power? PORT POWER!!!
Favourite subject at school? Art. I like art because it’s fun and I get to be creative.
Best pizza topping? Definitely MEATLOVERS.
Something interesting you have learned at school? Last year we did a painting like Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, I really like painting in that style.
What do you wonder? Who was the first person on Earth?
Interviewed by Alicia
Name: Alicia
Teacher: Mrs Wilson
Crows or Port Power? Crows
Favourite subject at school? Maths and Science. I like to solve problems and to make experiments. One thing I would like to make is elephant toothpaste.
Best pizza topping? Meatlovers.
Something interesting you have learned at school? How to draw better.
What do you wonder? If I’m ever going to get a dog.
Interviewed by Areanna
Name: Areanna
Teacher: Mrs Wilson
Crows or Port Power? Port Power
Favourite subject at school? Using the computer.
Best pizza topping? FISH (with lots of laughter)
Something interesting you have learned at school? About Cleopatra and how she was pretty and powerful.
What do you wonder? How do they make Sharpies and why do they stay on your skin nearly forever?
Interviewed by Indyanna