13 March 2019

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From the Principal

‘Friendly Respectful Courageous Learners’

It’s that exciting time of year where our school houses of Apsley and Denison are gearing up to our Athletics carnival next Monday 18 March on the oval. Congratulations to all the students who have been training and honing their skills on Monday and Thursday afternoons and thanks to all the adults who having given their time to enable this to occur. The program for the day is detailed in this newsletter and the School Association are preparing their wonderful food and drinks which will be available through our canteen. See you all there with either your Apsley red or Denison blue colours in full flight!

Following on from the GRIP Leadership Conference our Grade 6 students attended, our leaders have been preparing their speeches to present to our students and staff between 2.10 and 2.45 pm this Friday in the Grades 3-6 classroom area. Their speeches will outline what values and qualities they bring to our 2019 Student Leadership Council and also some of their ideas on how they would improve our school. Parents of grade 6 students are welcome to attend.

This Thursday morning we have the pleasure of having principals from St Helens’ and St Marys’ schools, our Middle Years Literacy Assistant Principal coordinator, Shireen Thomas and also Pamela Macklin Managing Director of Zbar Consulting working together to develop our planning around the implementation this program. This is such an exciting learning opportunity for us all in identifying effective strategies focussed on improving literacy outcomes across our schools.

Other exciting happenings in our school are:

• Parks and Wildlife are running a free whale rescue training session 9 am to 3 pm on Sunday 17^th March in the Grade 3-6 class rooms at our school (please refer to the poster in this newsletter for more detail and who to contact to confirm attendance)
• On Friday 15^th March Nick Foster from Launceston Church Grammar School will be running a session with AV googles and a also including a science challenge (he will also be available after school to meet with any parents who are interested in finding out more about Launceston Church Grammar School); and
• Next Thursday 21^st of March at 5 pm the School Association has their Annual General Meeting. This is a great opportunity for all parents to come along and be a voice in our school community around supporting our students and ideas for school improvement.

Our commitment:

With courage we learn, connecting to people and place. Striving for excellence by being curious, creative and resilient.

Have a wonderful week!

Rob Presswell

Grade 1/2

Grade 1/2 have been discovering things about themselves and sharing them with their class. They all wrote a goal for the year and talked about what they would like to do when they were older

My goal for this year is:

Bertrand - to not be distracted by other people
Lilla – to find space when I am writing
Sam – writing more
Sahara – read more books
Elliott – writing
Noah – being a good writer
Jessie – reading and maths
Bon – taking turns with my friends and helping my friends if they get hurt
Nina – do more writing and English
Marcel – making something big with the link cubes
Ruby – spelling
Jamie – being better at listening
Leyla – getting better at running
Bayliss – improve my handwriting
Sofia – to skip better and to skip backwards
Sophie – being better at writing and read more books
Ngami – being better at reading and writing
Finn – to play a game of cricket in PE
Mrs Sliskovic – to read more information books than fiction

When I am older I want to be:

Bertrand – a runner in an Olympics and other challenges
Lilla – a singer or a teacher
Sam – a fisherman or a police officer
Sahara – a shop keeper
Elliott – an astronaut and a football player
Noah – a police officer and a fisherman
Jessie – to be a good photographer and a paramedic
Bon – a police officer and fisherman
Nina – a marine biologist
Marcel - a jeweller
Ruby – an artist and a football player
Jamie – a teacher
Leyla – an artist and a dentist
Bayliss – a dirt bike rider and a football player
Sofia – a cook and a singer
Sophie – a teacher or a vet
gami – an artist
Finn – a sailor and a football player

Taiko Drumming Workshop

What’s happening in our classrooms?

Grade 1/2

In English, we are learning to create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts. The first text type we are learning is recount writing which is retelling an event or an experience.

In Maths:

Grade 1s are learning to:

• tell time to the half-hour
• describe duration using months, weeks, days and hours

Grade 2s are learning to:

• tell time to the quarter-hour, using the language of 'past' and 'to’
• name and order months and seasons
• use a calendar to identify the date and determine the number of days in each month

In Science, we are learning about mixtures.

Grade 5/6

Over the last two weeks Grade 5/6 have been learning about the “us” sound at the end of words such as joyous and notorious. We have been learning about the structural and grammatical features of an exposition, and have been looking at how to make our persuasive writing more sophisticated.

In maths we have been learning to multiply and divide decimal numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 and by multiples of the same (e.g. 20, 200, 2000).

In science we have researched an animal of our choice and have written and information report on the structural and behavioural adaptations of the animal.

Indonesian

Kinder are creating their avatars for the beginning of the ELLA program (Early learning languages Australia).

Prep/1 and 1/2 are learning the Indonesian greetings for different times of the day.

Selamat pagi/ Good morning
Selamat siang/Good day
Selamat sore/ Good afternoon, evening.
Selamat malam/ Good night.

Grades 3 to 6 are discussing the different charities in Indonesia that they could raise money for with guidance from the school association. We are also beginning a digital learning extension program in the 5/6 class and attempting some online learning activities in the 3/4 class.

Sampai jumpa / See you later.

Launching into Learning

Athletics Carnival Program

ENE Athletics Carnival Program

School Association Canteen (Athletics Carnival)

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School Information

Phone: 63751222
Email: bicheno.primary@education.tas.gov.au
Principal: Robert Presswell
School Business Manager: Sandra Silberberg

Teachers

Kinder and LiL: Eliza Spykers
Prep/One: Bronti Cooke and Bron Pierce
Grade 1/2: Bruce Campbell and Jen Sliskovic
Grade 3/4: Sam Kelly
Grade 5/6: Jill Bosua
Support Teacher: Bron Pierce

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