Congratulations on reaching this term! It has been go go go all year and the students have really put in the effort when it comes to trying to do their best. We all have our strengths and struggles; however all students are growing and making steady progress.

This term we will visit Star of the Sea on three occasions because of the amazing impact the visits had on the residents last term. Toni from Star of the Sea commented that some of the resident participants in the activities had never participated before and that having the children there was so good.

We have a new member of the class, Makayla, who is  most welcome and settled into her routine. Sadly, we bid Harrison goodbye in week 2 and were very sad to see him leave.

This term we are looking at the OLD TESTAMENT and studying the promises God made to his people by analyzing the stories which mention covenants. It has been interesting  because this unit emphasises the family tree and ancestry of the Bible characters.

We have been concentrating on Maths Mentals each day trying to become more spontaneous with our tables and simple addition and subtraction calculations used to solve addition and subtraction with regrouping.

We continue to introduce mathematical language and vocabulary and practise using this to express our thinking and working.

HASS and WRITING will be assessed together this term with a compare and contrast writing task which will compare Australia with one of it’s neighbouring countries: PNG; Indonesia; New Zealand; Samoa; Timor Leste; The Soloman Islands etc. If you wish to help your child to choose a country to study in detail and take time to find out many interesting facts about that country, they can then use what you discuss in a writing task which compares culture, climate, natural and manmade features, population; religion; interesting facts and how they interact and influence Australia.

AFL with Keiran has been a lot of fun and the extra activity each week in sport has brought many smiles to the students’ faces.

Speaking groups continue this term, with the added task of impromtu speeches, Book Reviews, Poetry reading and Persuading. Thank you all for your support. This has been and continues to be a worthwhile activity. Everyone has their schedule for which activity they are on. Hopefully they have put it on your fridge.

Included in this news is a few of Finlay’s drawings which are very detailed and show great artistic talent. Finlay says he learns from an App called Simply Draw.

We farewelled Miss Chris as our Library Teacher and STEAM teacher and welcome Ms Kelly Dare. Thank you Ms Chris for everything especially with your help in preparing for NAPLAN this year. We will miss you. Thank you parents for your continued support and communication. Here is hoping our T3 is very successful.