Junior School Update

Year One

In Year One, we have been learning about healthy lifestyles. We have looked at the food pyramid and discussed our favourite vegetables in the class. By drawing a graph, we discovered that our favourite vegetable is carrot!

We participate in a program called GoNoodle. This is a range of movement activities to keep our bodies fit! We were very excited to share this with the whole of the Junior School at our assembly on Tuesday, with our favourite dance “Milkshake”. We were very groovy and sang so well. 

We have been using our creative thinking to begin planning a short story about “Once upon a time”. With the help of Book Creator, we have planned our story and are ready to start writing. We can’t wait to see all the different stories in the class!

“When looking at different foods, we experimented with spaghetti and marshmallows. We were to build a tower with our small group, and make it stand all by itself.”  

Miss Sibbald

Year One Teacher

Pre-Primary C

In an effort, to show the children the diversity of our class population we have been inviting the students’ family and friends who live outside the community (in another state or abroad) to send us a postcard from their place of origin. We have pinned them onto our world map. The children have loved receiving mail! With this visual, it is exciting to see the places on Earth from which the school community has come. It has been most interesting to review families from other states as well as other countries. The postcards themselves tell a story with their iconic pictures on the front, the handwritten message on the back, and even the stamps needed for postage. 

We also had a visitor from Qantas come and share the features of an airplane with the children, i.e. the wings, engines, cabins, cargo hold and cockpit. He showed the children: different aircraft; their internal layout; and how they fly, including the role of the pilot and first officer, the Air Traffic Control and instruments needed to fly the plane. Afterwards, he kindly left the children with an entertainment pack provided to all young passengers on Qantas overseas flights. Inspired by the many pictures of aircraft the children drew their own aeroplanes with pleasing results!

Mrs Sheppard

Pre-Primary C Teacher