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Dear Families,
Thank you for your support and patience over the past few weeks and as we continue to require your patience over the coming weeks, as our teachers and students learn how to learn online!
Teachers are busily preparing online and offline coursework as I sit here typing. The professional learning conversations have begun as we prepare to modify the way in which we deliver our core business of educating young children. Moving from the face-to-face teaching and learning we are all accustomed to, to using online technologies is a steep learning curve for us all. We are exploring ways of not only producing effective online learning but exactly how we will continue to monitor and provide feedback to our students and families remotely.
The way we teach has completely shifted in a week! If you think about it, asking a profession to completely change the way they do business in such a short timeframe sounds impossible, yet, we are all working harder than ever to try. Quite honestly, this has possibly been our biggest challenge yet. The most vulnerable resource for us all at the moment is time, so, your patience in this space is not only needed but required so thank you.
We are all on this journey together, and although we may be saying "tag - you're it!" for the face to face element, we are here. We will always be here and we, more than ever, are united and committed to continuing to provide high quality education, resources and possibilities for your child.
On Friday 3rd April, there will be a 'Learning at Home' pack for you to collect from the school office if your child is not at school. This will contain classwork, activities and resources for students to complete at home. Any booklets may be marked by parents, but projects or activities that you can communicate back to the class teacher will receive feedback and be marked.
Class blog pages have been set up within SchoolZine, so if you haven’t already signed up to 'SZapp' App or have turned off the notifications, please check you have these working. Teachers will be regularly posting to these blogs as our online learning journey begins.
Keep well,
Kristy Hay
Principal
I hope you enjoy these KP HPE videos as much as me!
The SRC and wider student body were keen to purchase an electronic sports board and count down timer for our Daily Fitness, PE games and outdoor activities. Rikki broke open the box and set it up in no time! The teachers and students are very pleased with thier new toy and competition levels have ramped up!
24th March 2020
To the Prep and Kinder children at Swansea Primary School
Dear Children,
I was in the library this week and saw your beautiful models in the display cabinet.
So I am writing to you all to say how clever, talented and amazingly creative you are. I enjoy seeing all the different displays which are arranged by different children at school. But I found this one to be extra special bringing joy to many of us library visitors.
3 cheers to you all
Hip Hip Hooray
Hip Hip Hooray
Hip Hip Hooray!
regards
Jane
We are excited to announce that we have received a Department Of Education Primary Languages Grant for 2020 in our school. This will mean that all students, K-6 will be learning Auslan for the remainder of the year as part of our 'Languages Other Than English' LOTE program.
The 3456 students have begun already and were thrilled to share their learning with me while on thier lunch break today. It brightened up my day!
Thanks Mrs. Sparshott and welcome back.
Harmony Day was celebrated in our classroom last week.
We discussed the statement that everyone belongs, and what that actually means in Australia.
Students created infographic posters to visually demonstrate their understanding of Harmony Day facts.
Sand and Numbers
A visit to the beach two weeks ago with Mrs. Sparshott and Beth, led to an interest in painting with sand!
This week the Prep students made a number display to help us continue to develop strong connections between number names, numerals and quantities up to 10!
KP Birthday Book and Calendar Inquiry
Felix’s Birthday on Monday led to an inquiry into birthdays and months of the year! Questions we have started to explore include:
- What month is my birthday in?
- What time of the year (season) is my birthday and how do I know?
- How do people in our class celebrate this special event?
Bubbles, Hoops or Circles
In order to stop the spread of germs and stay healthy, last week we introduced hoops to our mat time. We learnt that it is important to stay in our own ‘bubbles’ (the students voted for this word) and not to go into our classmate’s bubbles.
Exploring Measurement
This week our ‘bubbles’ disappeared and we moved onto exploring what sitting 1.5 metres away from each other actually looks like. But before we could do that we explored the following questions:
- What does 1 metre look like and how do we know?
- How many ways can we show what 1 metre can look like?
Next week we hope to introduce the concept of half so that we can add the half to our understanding of 1 metre.
Science Explorations
By Ella and Felix
What is inside our bodies?
Health and Physical Education
Today’s Health Challenge - can we match a fruit or vegetable to each letter of the alphabet?
YES WE CAN!
Happy weekend to everyone, stay safe and thank you for reading what our very clever and capable Kinder/Prep students have been up to.
GRADE 1/2/3 SCIENCE
In Grade 1/2/3 we have been learning about light and how the human eye works.
“I now know that the pupil is a hole, not just a black circle”.
- Chloe
“The coloured bit of your eye is called the iris.”
- Ruby
“The eyebrows stop sweat and dirt coming down into your eyes”.
- Will
“I didn’t know that the coloured band was called the iris”.
- Myra
“When you’re in a dark area your pupil is really big and when it is light, it is very small.”
- Henry
“If you go into a spot with lots of light then you don’t need all of the light around you and you block out some of the light around you. When you’re in a darker space the pupil opens so that you can draw as much light in as you need”.
- Chloe
“We blink to protect our eyes. You blink when you think something is going to hurt your eye.”
- Ben
“The optic nerves cross over”.
- Chloe
“The image comes in upside down and the brain switches it over the right way.”
- Myra
“When you blink is moistens your eyes.”
- Tia
