5J OLC

 Hi Year Five parents! A big thank you to all of the Year Five parents that managed to come in for a chat about your child's progress this year. Both Miss Lombardi and myself have reflected on the process and some key points to come out of our meetings is to provide you guys with some strategies to best support your child's learning at home. READING: As all children should be reading for a minimum of 20 minutes each day, hopefully a time could be set aside each week to engage with their reading. Below is a list of questions that you could ask your child before, during or after reading, to get the conversation started. It would be great if you could listen to your child read at least once a week, paying close attention to their ability to use the punctuation cues within the text.  MATHEMATICS: As part of our home learning in Year Five, the students will focus on a particular Times Table for the week. They have access to a range of hip new songs that focus on the different multip

   Kaya Team 5J, Happy long weekend everybody! I hope you all enjoyed the hustle and bustle of the sculptures and the fireworks. I had a great weekend! Bought myself a new food dehydrator and made an assortment of chilli flakes and currently my yellow cherry tomatoes are on their way to becoming covered in oil with plenty of herbs and spices. I feel like it has already paid for itself. QUOTE OF THE WEEK IMPORTANT DATES ( more information can be found on the school website) 10th March: General assembly 12th March: Year Six Car Wash 15th March: NAPLAN Online Test Window (15th - 24th March) 18th March: Year Four Family Mass and Eucharist Commitment Mass 23rd March: Interschool Swimming Carnival (4-6) 26th March: Year Four Sacrament of  First Eucharist 27th March: Parent Interview Week PARENT INTERVIEW WEEK I will be conducting parent interviews in Week 9 for those of you that would like to come in and have a chat. Each block is for 15 minutes, however, interviews are approximately 10 - 12