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Week 3 Term 3

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Week 3 - Term 3 Well here we are - nearly at the end of our third week back!  The team in 1/2K have been working hard in all subject areas and are definitely deserving their weekend breaks to recuperate and coming in each Monday with enthusiasm and raring to go again!  This week we have continued to work on persuasive text writing, learning about the v and ve spelling words and rules, parts of speech and grammar to learn about adjectives, sound swaps in spelling, reading passages and answering comprehension questions with full sentences and not fragment answers, learning about division and sharing and how it relates to what we know about repeated addition and multiplication, weather and day/night changes, natural resources on planet each and in digital technology learning about hardware and software - and this isn't even all of it! Phew! Merit award winner  Congratulations  to Manoa who was the merit award winner for last week. It was lovely to have this award read out for his p

Week 1 Term 3

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Welcome back to term three! Welcome back to Term three! I hope you all had a lovely holiday and the students are feeling refreshed and renewed after their two week break! What's On This Term? This term in writing, we will be continuing with our persuasive writing focus and then moving on to procedure writing which will go hand in hand with our Chemical Science unit. Our Maths focus this term will be skip counting, patterning, multiplication, division and time.   In Science we will be exploring how materials can be used for different purposes and how they can change by either heating or cooling them. Get ready for some super fun experiments this term! In Visual Arts we will be learning about colour (primary colours and how they mix to form secondary colours). We will experiment with some colour mixing and have a go at creating artworks using complementary colours. Homework Homework will be sent home on Monday which includes the homework grid, fluency read

End of Term 2

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Good evening parents, After a very interesting start to the term we are nearly there and ready for our holiday break! Online learning and COVID shutdown feels so long ago - but here we are still standing (just!) I am so proud of how well the students have coped with a term with so many different events and routine changes each week. School Holiday work Some parents have requested some additional work for their child to complete over the holidays. Please note that this is not compulsory and has been shared for anyone else that wants to help their child review concepts that have been taught over the semester. Included in this are spelling lists from Term 2, a maths revision booklet and a writing prompt for each genre studied. Please click on the link below to access these documents. Please Click Here for Holiday Revision Reports - you should have received an email from the school via seqta with instructions how to set up to receive the electronic version of the Semester 1 Repo